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How Did Netflix Become A Comedy Powerhouse?

It’s because of Lisa Nishimura, basically, the vice president of original documentary and comedy programming who convinced Dave Chapelle to return to stand-up specials for the company. And she bet big on a lot more comedy as well. “Now, 50 percent of its 130 million [U.S.] subscribers have watched a special in the last year, and a third of those viewers have watched three such shows.”

Movie Star Olivia Munn Gets Shunned By Her Male Co-Stars And Her Director After She Gets A Sex Offender Cut From A Movie

Way to go, (most) men of Predator. The director, Shane Black (whose friend was the abuser that he put in a scene with Munn), hasn’t bothered to apologize to Munn, and the cast members who were scheduled to appear with her at the Toronto Independent Film Festival backed out. Munn: “It’s honestly disheartening to have to fight for something so hard that is just so obvious to me. … It’s a very lonely feeling to be sitting here by myself when I should be sitting here with the rest of the cast.”

Bristol’s Old Vic Theatre Gets A New Door, And A New Acknowledgement Of The Theatre’s Place In Britain’s Slave Trade

Many of the theatre’s founding investors in 1766 made that money directly from the city’s slave trade. The Old Vic’s artistic director: “The theatre is undeniably a part of the slave trade legacy in Bristol. … The building came out of that economic boom and I don’t think it is enough anymore to just assume that people then did not know the trade was wrong.”

Terry Crews’ Accused Abuser Is Finally Gone – And Crews Wants Hollywood To Listen Up About Sexual Assault

After Crews wrote tweets about being groped by an agent, he thought he’d be the one facing serious, possibly career-ending consequences. “‘The first thing I did when I came home after tweeting those tweets, I told my wife, ‘Hollywood is over. I think we may have to leave.’ That was the reality,’ the actor said. Still, he felt it was his duty to speak out. ‘Hopefully, me coming forward with my story will deter a predator and encourage someone who feels hopeless,’ he wrote at the time.”

Tito Capobianco, Longtime Director Of The Pittsburgh Opera, Has Died At 87

Capobianco was with the opera from 1983 to 2000. In that time, he “brought the company from an operating budget of $900,000 to $5 million, added an endowment of $6 million and founded the training program for young singers now known as the Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artists Program. He saw the move from Heinz Hall to the more spacious stage accommodations of Benedum Center. He introduced the use of supertitles by the company, and created the Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra, to replace the awkward scheduling required by the previous use of the Pittsburgh Symphony.”

What’s It Like To Be A Screenwriter In The Superhero Biz?

That depends: Are you a woman? Then you’re one of a very few. Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who wrote the third Tomb Raider and has written the 2019 Captain Marvel, says that can be an issue. “I’ve had male directors tell me, ‘I just want her to be a normal girl,’ for their hero. … And that’s really depressing because what’s a normal girl? Have you met a normal girl?”