“He said his work on recent fantasy Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie, which was CGI-heavy, could have been done ‘in a garage’ and suggested studios are increasingly looking to use technology to replace handcrafted work.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Subsidizing Internet Service For The Poor Makes Good Sense For Everyone
“When you introduce the subsidy to people living in poverty, you’re letting the private sector take a look at a whole new market that isn’t currently using their services. … The market will adapt to this new source of customers.”
Meet The First Black Woman To Play Yitzhak In ‘Hedwig’ On Broadway
“A lot of the verbally abusive stuff that Hedwig slings at Yitzhak has become, for lack of a better word — or perhaps it’s the best word to use — darker. It feels close to home in this sad but appropriate way.”
Kill The Term ‘Chick Lit’ With Fire, Please
“This is very much a patriarchal society. And I think one way of keeping women less well paid and having to do more work is to mock them and anything they love.”
An Artist, Retire? No Way
“Most of the famous painters she knew and admired as a young woman — Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others — are long gone. ‘I’m still here,’ she said wryly.”
The Popular Artist Who Painted ‘The Singing Butler’ Injured His Shoulder And May Quit Painting
“The artist, who grew up in Methil, Fife, first found fame in 1989 when two of his canvases submitted to the Royal Scottish Academy sold on the first day. His work has since featured in exhibitions in Edinburgh, London and New York. He was made an OBE in 2003.”
A New York City Ballet Pair Gets Married, Then The Performance World Keeps Them Apart
“Before we married, we had the perfect scenario — we did everything together. We could just look at one another across the room in ballet class, and that was enough to check in.’
Judy Blume’s New Novel Might Be Her Final Book
“Blume’s career spans more than 40 years of writing groundbreaking YA novels that delved deep into the minds of women, tackling intimate subjects such as teenage sex, menstruation and masturbation. But with her new novel, In the Unlikely Event, Blume has tackled a new frontier – this is her first crack at historical fiction.”
Reese Witherspoon And The Quest To Make Movies Starring And About Adult Women
“‘Women make up 50 percent of the population, so we should make up 50 percent of the [roles and stories] in movies,’ she added. ‘It’s not a crazy thought, it’s just a representation of reality.'”
Chicago Residents Have Mixed Feelings About Spike Lee And ‘Chiraq’
“The film, Mr. Lee has said, is focused on gun violence on the South Side; some reports, unconfirmed by Mr. Lee, offer the intriguing possibility that the film is a comedic reimagining of ‘Lysistrata,’ the ancient Greek tale by Aristophanes in which women withhold sex to force the men to end the Peloponnesian War.”