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Should Every Day Be ‘Baby Day’ At The Theatre?

Perhaps. Check out Belfast’s Young at Art theatre festival to see what it could be like instead of what theatre often is like. “Parenthood can leave even the most ardent theatregoers feeling unwelcome as theatres seldom court families, often seeing prams and young children as a burden not a blessing. Too often theatres present themselves as grownup spaces, cut off from everyday life.”

There Is No Frigate Like A Book, Especially In Times Of Fear Of Immigrants And Refugees

Books are part of the resistance to any repressive regime. “How many times, and in ways that did not seem to require my consent, have I suddenly and in my own bed found myself to be Russian or French or Japanese? How many times have I been a peasant or an aristocrat? How many times have I been a woman? I have been free and without liberty, gay, disabled, old, loved and loathed.”

How Do We React To Movies And TV Shows? These Sensors Will Tell Us

Creepy/cool: “Right now, Dolby has about 40 trained subjects it rotates in and out of its labs (some from within the company, and some outside participants), who are all willing to inform the algorithms: What scene in a movie makes their hearts beat faster? What makes them sweat, or causes their cheeks to flush? What makes them fall asleep?”

The Dancer Who Broke Through Ballet’s Imposed ‘Height Ceiling’

Gloria Govrin was 5’10”, and Balanchine tried to discourage her at first – before realizing he could build solos around her.

What To Do About The Subterranean Knowledge Of Harassment And Exploitation In The Literary World?

An essay in “Tin House” from a few weeks ago opened the floodgates. But still, no names are out there. For instance: “A former visiting professor was still the stuff of legend for, in the words of one woman, ‘trying to fuck everyone.’ Years later, that man had a regular NPR slot and every time I heard his voice I thought, ‘The guy who tried to fuck everyone is telling America what books to read.'”

Want To Binge On Classic Movies? There Are Apps For That

Seriously: FilmStruck and Warner Archive Instant will make certain you never leave your house again, if you like classics.

Jimmy Breslin, Legendary Newspaper Columnist, Has Died At 88

“Love or loathe him, none could deny Mr. Breslin’s enduring impact on the craft of narrative nonfiction. He often explained that he merely applied a sportswriter’s visual sensibility to news columns. Avoid the media scrum gathered around the winner, he would advise, and go directly to the loser’s locker.” (You can read some of his writing, older and more recent, at The Daily Beast.)

Big Book Data Charts The Fall And Rise Of The Physical Book (It’s Pretty Good News)

But the numbers for print books are not due to e-books gaining or waning in popularity. Instead, they’re due to events beyond booksellers’ control – like Brexit, the U.S. election (and its result), and, in Ireland, the popularity of 2016 titles marking 100 years since the Easter Rising.

Disney’s Live-Action Movies Are Very, Very Successful – Including For Their Actors

The studio may be cheap with its actors about some things (stories abound), but “with such past box-office winners in its fold including Cinderella ($544 million) and Jungle Book ($967 million), stars are clamoring to sign on for the studio’s live-action offerings.” This weekend’s huge take for the live-action “Beauty and the Beast” may only accelerate that trend.

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