As Netflix’s ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Hits Season Six, Its Double Emmy Winner Explains How She Found Her Voice

Uzo Aduba, who plays the character “Crazy Eyes,” explains how she created the character. “I found her voice Season 1 in one of the stage directions. They had described her as being innocent like a child, except children aren’t scary. And I had a flash in my mind of a woman holding a sledgehammer in one hand and sucking on a pacifier. “

Sleeping Like A Sloth Is 100 Percent Good For Your Brain, So Get Some Damn Sleep

It’s one of those seven deadly sins, “but is slothfulness actually wrong? If slothfulness means avoiding responsibility and failing to accomplish important, meaningful goals, then most likely yes. However, if slothfulness means getting more than seven hours’ sleep a night to improve health and increase productivity, then surely there’s nothing wrong with that.”

A Literary Agent Wants You To Know That You Really Do Not ‘Have A Book In You’

Ouch, but also, too real: “Every story is not a book. A story may be things that happened, embellished for interest, but that’s not a book. Many stories don’t get good until the end. Some stories — true ones even — are hard to believe. Other stories are just too short, don’t have enough tension, or frankly aren’t that interesting. The stories we tell that enrapture our friends and families may be extraordinarily boring to those who don’t know us. Those stories are not a book.”

‘Brainy’ Books Are All The Rage In Nonfiction Suddenly, And Here’s Why

Basically, blame our ‘interesting’ times: “We’re living in a world that suddenly seems less certain than it did even two years ago, and the natural reaction is for people to try and find out as much about it as possible. … People have a hunger both for information and facts, and for nuanced exploration of issues, of a sort that books are in a prime position to provide.”

This Director Plans To Subvert Audience Expectations, Please A Repressive Government, And Bring Some Avant Garde Theatre To Beijing

That’s the goal in Chen Shi-Zheng’s adaptation of The Orphan of Zhao, anyway. “Despite the familiarity of this 13th-century play to spectators in Mr. Chen’s homeland, they might have trouble understanding all the lines. The principal actors Mr. Chen has cast for this staging in China are almost all Americans, and they will speak in English. In fact, very little about the production will signal the story’s Chinese origins.”

Accused Concertmaster Resigns From Professor Post At Cleveland Institute Of Music

William Preucil, who was suspended by the Cleveland Orchestra (where he was concertmaster) after an investigative story about sexual assault in the classical music world came out in the Washington Post, has resigned as Distinguished Professor of Violin at CIM. “In a letter to the school’s students, faculty, and trustees on Saturday, [CIM President Paul W.] Hogle announced that Preucil had tendered his resignation effective immediately.”