It’s almost like there’s a network of harassers. Yes: This is a story about sexual harassers all the way down, including one of the guys tasked with reviewing, and then rejecting, Ronan Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein for NBC.
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Former Hallmark Channel Host Sues, Claiming He Was Fired For Backing Colleagues’ Complaints Of Harassment
Mark Steines says he was fired when he supported women who said they were sexually harassed at the channel. “Steines alleges that the Hallmark Channel allowed [Woody] Fraser, the Home & Family executive producer, to create a ‘vulgar, demeaning and hostile work environment, especially for women.’ He also accuses Fraser of ‘running a fear-based operation’ in which he regularly ‘bullied, verbally abused and harassed cast and crew members.'”
The Strong Literary Lure Of Magical Maps
Consider the map in Treasure Island: “We are now habituated to regard cartography as a science: an endeavour of exacting precision, whose ambition is the elimination of subjectivity from the representation of a given place. But before it was a field science, cartography was – as Stevenson proved – an art.”
France Will Offer Money To Get More Women Into Its Film Industry
Culture Minister Françoise Nyssen announced on Friday that “film productions with anywhere from four to eight women in key positions would be eligible for a higher government subsidy.” She said, “When things don’t change by themselves, or do so too slowly, it’s up to us to bring about change.”
Museum Director Quits Over Museum’s Removal Of Mapplethorpe Photos
João Ribas was the artistic director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, for only eight months before he resigned to protest the museum’s removal of 20 photos from the Mapplethorpe show that he commissioned and curated. “The museum also restricted select rooms of the exhibition to those aged eighteen and older against the wishes of its curator, who told Público he ‘was no longer able to continue to lead the institution.'”
Theatre Takes On All Kinds Of Issues, But What About The Planet?
The Notch Theatre Company’s model of talking about public lands includes plays that are generated from a lot – a lot – of community meetings and input. “The plays also act as an indelible record of the largest loss to public lands our country has ever seen. They document a community’s unique history and culture at a particularly urgent moment in that community’s journey. Because they are based on true stories, the plays are marked by an authenticity of character and voice, and a sometimes-disarming honesty.”
New Research Says Caravaggio Didn’t Die Of Syphilis But Of Sepsis
A lot of docents are going to have to revamp their faintly salacious Baroque art tours – but only slightly, because the researchers found, through analysis of Caravaggio’s teeth, that the sepsis set in from an infected sword wound.
When Two Polymaths Team Up, Photography Becomes Music
Teju Cole is a novelist, essayist, photographer and photography critic – so naturally he’d team up with composer and jazz pianist (and trained physicist) Vijay Iyer. Cole: “It’s a high-wire act. .. It doesn’t have a set text.”
Van Gogh goes to the mall
As part of a Wall Street Journal column, Terry Teachout considers what it means to have 3D reproductions of Van Gogh paintings in the mall.
Kenya Temporarily Lifts Ban On ‘Rafiki’ To Make It Eligible For The Oscars
But that’s only because a judge overruled the country’s film board, which had said that the film – about a lesbian romance – “was an attempt to ‘legitimize lesbianism’ in the East African nation, where homosexuality is illegal.” The ban is lifted for one week only, which will make the film eligible for the Academy Awards.