Yes, Ryan Seacrest has been accused of sexual harassment, which makes E!’s chances of getting good red carpet time at the Oscars slightly less good than they were before (actors appear to be planning not to talk to him, though we’ll see), but also? “A female producer is claiming employment discrimination after getting fired, she said, for letting a clip critical of the network air during the Golden Globes.” (And THAT clip was critical of the network for paying a woman co-host about half – half! – of what they paid her male counterpart.)
Author: ArtsJournal2
Gender Divisions May Be (Slightly) Loosening In Opera, Opening The Way For Women Tenors
Yes, women have often sung tenor in church choirs or amateur operas, but now “female singers in professional companies, as well as in amateur operatic societies and choirs, are taking advantage of the end of traditional boundaries to call for women to have the opportunity of lengthening their performing careers.”
Olivia De Havilland’s Lawsuit Is Not Just Her, But Perhaps The, Last Stand For Truth On The Screen
Her last lawsuit against Hollywood made case law, establishing protection for workers in personal services contracts – and helped break the studio system. Now, if this lawsuit against FX and Ryan Murphy goes anywhere, it will also be huge: “That upends the film industry, the TV industry, the video game industry. Anyone who is trying to make stories based on true events with real people are not going to be able to do so without permission.”
Why Is This The Very First Year A Woman Is Nominated For Cinematography?
The numbers are, to put it mildly, shite. “That gives us 85 percent male at our most conservative estimate and around 91 percent looking at our two more probabilistic estimates. That would make professional cinematography and its related fields more male than barbers, civil engineers, police officers, taxi drivers and clergy, according to Department of Labor statistics.”
Where Did A24, The Movie Studio That Funds Arthouse Hit After Arthouse Hit, Come From?
The studio, which funded last year’s Best Picture winner Moonlight and this year’s Florida Project … and Lady Bird as well. But “how has the company so quickly created such a strong consumer identity, with analysts saying that fans are starting to buy tickets simply because they see A24’s retro logo on a trailer?” It’s a mystery (deliberately so).
John Williams May Finally Be Finished With ‘Star Wars’ Movies
He is so very finished with this nonsense (this nonsense that has utterly permeated popular culture). “‘We know J.J. Abrams is preparing one now that I will hopefully do next year for him,’ Williams told a radio interviewer this week. ‘I look forward to it. It will round out a series of nine, that will be quite enough for me.'”
Barbara Lekberg, Who Wielded A Blowtorch For Her Art, Has Died At 92
Lekberg found her medium when she learned to weld. “‘The old struggle with plaster and coat hangers ended when I began to weld steel,’ she said, referring to her early efforts to make sculpture. ‘Steel held its own when projected into space and seemed to do everything I needed. This is a primal joy in sculpture: that a mineral from the earth can be a vehicle for expressing one’s innermost thoughts.'”
It’s Been Fifty Years Since ‘The Graduate’ Won Best Picture
How does it hold up? Hm; the Gen-Xers who discuss it here are mostly bemused. “I don’t quite understand how young audiences would have seen Benjamin’s stupefaction in the face of a future beyond his control as righteous—or even particularly rebellious. There’s really nothing countercultural about running off with the pretty girl next door.”
Marrakesh Has Put Itself On The Contemporary Art World Map
There’s a new museum of contemporary art, and the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which now has fairs in London, New York, and Marrakesh. “Tunji Akintokun, an I.T. executive based in London, described African contemporary art as ‘underestimated and undervalued.’ He flew to Marrakesh for the fair, attracted by its North African emphasis.”
Can Spotify Possibly Be Worth Twenty Billion Dollars?
Or, in other words, can it be a force in music that disrupts labels the way Netflix disrupted … well, what exactly did Netflix disrupt? Movie rental stores. Meanwhile, Apple Music might have fewer subscribers, but it doesn’t need to make a profit; and let’s not even talk about how many places Amazon Music might be in a customer’s home. But Spotify’s going on the New York Stock Exchange anyway.