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Will The Success Of ‘Wonder Woman’ And ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Lead To More Women-Centered Films?

Maybe? “This weekend, with $389 million from the domestic market, ‘Wonder Woman’ can add a new accomplishment to its arsenal — the highest-grossing movie of the summer. It’s also the second largest earner of 2017 behind another film centered on a female protagonist, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ ($504 million domestic).”

A Ballerina Explains What It’s Like To Move From Europe To The U.S.

Dores André, a principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet, “loves life in the United States. She considers San Francisco home. But with her Spanish perspective, she says she would like to see the government and US citizens reflect on their collective past more often. ‘By being a pioneer, sometimes you forget to look back and [check] on your own history,’ she points out. ‘I think that learning from its past could be a really good thing.'”

The Women Of The BBC Politely (But Firmly) Request Equal Pay For Equal Work

Yikes, BBC, do better (and faster): “Earlier this week, under new government rules, the BBC was required to publish a list of presenters making over £150,000, or about $200,000. The disclosure showed a glaring pay gap at the company. … In one example, John Humphrys, a male host on the flagship news show Radio 4 Today, earns between £600,000-£649,999. His female co-host, Sarah Montague, earns under £150,000.”

What Hemingway Learned From Miro

It was pretty direct (Miró timed Hemingway’s boxing matches, by the way): “Miró models a visual clarity that the writer, for whom the sun was a central symbol, used in the descriptive passages with which so many of his works begin. With Hemingway’s writing, this is not a passive record of the scene, but the probing vigilance of the hunter, fisherman, and combat veteran.”