This is when networks usually spend millions of dollars for a live show to gain billions of dollars in advertising for the upcoming year. “Advertising has long served as a media-industry lifeline. This year, with the pandemic forcing the closure of the big media companies’ other lines of business – it will be even more critical.” But no one knows how it will work. – Variety
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Satish Gujral, Indian Painter, Sculptor, And Architect, 94
Gujral studied with Diego Rivera and David Siquieros, recorded the pain of 1947’s Partition, and designed the Belgian Embassy in New Delhi – among his many, many, many other accomplishments. – The New York Times
Starring The Mothers Of Movies In A 14-Hour Showpiece
The herstory is real: “This is not about slamming the patriarchy, but a joyous trip through women’s work on screen, puckishly curated into 40 chapters on different themes including openings, interiority, meet cutes, sci-fi, tone, love, death, editing and musicals. The clips cover six continents, 13 decades and 183 directors.” – The Guardian (UK)
With No Live-Action Filming, Animated Production Continues During Lockdown
Animation studios, like the one that produces (all parents and grandparents may now groan) Paw Patrol, are still going full force – from home studios. It’s not always simple: “the biggest challenge has been keeping the sense of collaboration that’s critical to the art of cartooning alive.” – CBC
Just Read. In Quantity. Any Book.
Seriously, the lists stopped mattering around the second, or was it third, or fourth? week of quarantine. “Our rapid shift from laser-focused self-improvement to read-all-the-things omnivorousness is a welcome reminder of something that’s long been true of modern civilization: All reading is quarantine reading.” – The Washington Post
The Theatre Is Empty, But On Its Abandoned Set, A New Show Is Going On
An art installation called Caretaker will run on the Royal Court’s stage until the theatre reopens. The show “is a livestream of the theatre’s uninhabited main stage, with intermittently broadcast ‘witty, playful and supportive audio messages’ accompanying the Shoe Lady set.” – The Guardian (UK)
The Ballerinas Raising Money For Other Dancers
The video, conceived of by Misty Copeland and another ABT dancer, stars 32 ballerinas from 14 different countries and is meant to raise money for dancers who depend on performance income to cover basic necessities like rent and food, and are now struggling financially as dance companies close their doors because of the pandemic.” – CNN
Golden Globes Make More Temporary Changes To Accommodate The Worldwide Lockdown
The new changes are for the foreign language motion picture category to match similar changes for all other categories – making pictures eligible that would have been released in their home country if the virus hadn’t gotten in the way; and making sure that the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have to arrange for official screeners instead of seeing films in theatres. – Variety
Chinese Cinemas May Now Truly Reopen, If They Follow Distancing And Other Guidelines
“‘Finally, there’s a glimmer of hope!’ wrote one enthusiastic cinephile.” – Variety
Living In Fear Of Dying With A Book Unfinished
Australian writer Mem Fox knows what it’s like to worry about being well enough, surviving long enough, to finish a book. “She feels the terror in her body – something like cold sweats and slight panic attacks. She wonders sometimes whether she will survive the coming winter. But within that terror – and boredom, as she lay in her hospital bed unable even to queue up podcasts – she began to write a story in her head.” – The Guardian (UK)