When you’re the sister of and a criminal defense lawyer for a major Dutch crime boss, and you secretly record everything and decide to turn it over to the state, sometimes you don’t live for long – though long enough to see your book get published in English and become a mini-series.
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What This Country Needs Is The First National Comedy Center
And we’ve got it: In Jamestown, NY, “the city is hoping to expand its reputation for humor with the opening this week of the National Comedy Center, a museum devoted to, as its website says, ‘telling the vital story of comedy in America.'”
Why Read Horror When The World Is So Horrifying On Its Own?
The world is horrible, but horror books and horror movies give us examples of people who fight back against the horror, and sometimes win: “The banal evils of the world — children shot, neighbors exiled, selves reframed in an instant as inhuman threats — these are horrible, but they aren’t horror. Horror promises that the plot arc will fall after it rises. Horror spins everyday evil to show its fantastical face, literalizing its corroded heart into something more dramatic, something easier to imagine facing down. Horror helps us name the original sins out of which horrible things are born.”
Something New On Screen: Strong, Flawed Women As The Focal Point Of Movies
Women are still massively underrepresented in movies, and no, that hasn’t statistically changed at all, sadly.”What is harder to define, but does seem like a genuinely positive trend, is a shift in the narratives of female-led biopics, a change in the kind of stories that get told. Previously, the main criterion for biopic treatment seemed to be a set of male genitalia, and failing that, royal blood or a singing career. The Hollywood approach suggested that women’s stories were more valuable if youth and beauty were key plot points. And for some reason, doomed and tragic tended to be an easier sell to financiers than difficult and complex. Now, bad behaviour is not just permitted, it’s positively encouraged.”
Dictionaries Are Hot On Twitter, But They’re Losing Their Meaning In A Non-Print Focused World
“We now live in a culture in which there are no clear distinctions between highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow culture. It stands to reason that in a society in which speaking in a recognizably ‘highbrow’ way confers no benefits, dictionaries will likely matter less.” There’s an exception, though: When the current U.S. president and his administration try to bend words to mean something they do not, dictionaries are striking back.
Building A Modern Dance Company Around Moves Like A Twerk, Or ‘The Mosquito’
“A modern-dance choreographer sometimes needs a vocabulary as inventive as her steps.”
The Oldest Photographs In The World Are ‘Salted Paper,’ A Technique That Began In 1839 [VIDEO\
The images still look “fresh,” says a curator, and actually, salt prints are a lot more like photography today than the daguerrotypes that became more popular.
Peak TV, Says One Exec, Is Far From Over
Scripted series are still on the rise, up five percent over the same time period last year – and that’s because of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and other streaming services. And that trend isn’t about to stop.
What You Should, And Should Definitely Not, Do At Your Local Library
Recataloging a book is a bad plan: “One time a guy did this with an InterLibrary Loan book he’d checked out. He sent an email to me about it and also one to the lending library. In that email he included a picture of the new ‘tag’ he’d applied to the spine, in which he’d written the call number with a fine-point sharpie. Don’t fucking do this. We went to school for it; you didn’t.”
On Long Island, Jackson Pollock And Lee Krasner’s Home Had So Many Visitors That Neighbors Complained, Asking For Limits
“The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, which is operated by the Stony Brook Foundation, the nonprofit fundraising agency of Stony Brook University, attracted hundreds of visitors per day to the Springs Fireplace Road site. A record 350 people visited the home one day last year, center director Helen Harrison said.” Now, after complaints, the visitors are limited to three tours of 12 people, three days a week.