Indeed, it can help trauma victims and survivors start to heal. – BBC
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Sue Lyon, Who Starred In ‘Lolita’ When She Was 14, Has Died At 73
Lyon went on acting until 1980, but – as is the case with many child stars – “she receded from acting and turned away from public life in her later years.” – Los Angeles Times
The Old-Fashioned Theatrical Magic Of The Harry Potter Plays
The designers didn’t want an audience probably well-steeped in the Harry Potter movies to be either disappointed or blasé. In the two-part play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, “the result is a spectacle that relies much more on human-powered magic than special effects trickery.” – NPR
Arthur L. Singer, Who Helped Set The Stage For Public Television, Has Died At 90
Singer, behind the scenes, was “instrumental in galvanizing federal officials, philanthropies and academics to seed the public airwaves with quality programming and to finance future development.” – The New York Times
The Quiet Death Of A Legendary Paris Bookstore (And The Rising Rents That Are To Blame)
Inside the last days of Le Pont Traversé – and the economics of a flashy Paris encroaching on the heart of the literary city. The shop is especially known for its poetry. “A few months ago, a gang of young women came in looking for female poets like Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Yanette Delétang-Tardif—considerably lesser known than their male contemporaries, but now revived thanks to French bloggers writing on poetry ‘Their enthusiasm is extraordinary,’ marveled Josée. ‘I feel that when young people fall in love with writers today, they fall hard.'” – Literary Hub
That Time Hallmark Rejected Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards
Real surprise here, but his designs were, mostly, uh, “too avant-garde” for the company. – Open Culture
Barack Obama Releases The List Of His Favorite Books Of 2019
As usual, it’s “an eclectic mix of fiction and nonfiction,” and the former president included the collected works of Toni Morrison, who died in August. – Los Angeles Times
How Are Two Small Canadian Films Making A Splash In Hollywood?
Partly it’s by letting Canada be Canada. “While movies and TV series are shot across the country, the Canadian locations rarely stand in for themselves. Toronto might be New York. Or Vancouver is meant to be L.A. It’s less common to have uniquely Canadian stories — and cities — stand on their own.” – CBC
Broadway Remembers Jerry Herman
Everyone from Harvey Fierstein to Chita Rivera has something to say about the man who deeply understood his craft. Betty Buckley, who played Dolly Levi in the 2018-19 national revival tour of Hello, Dolly!, said, “The lesson for me in doing the show — and I owe him a debt of appreciation — was that joy is a choice. It’s not something you wait to happen to you. You choose it, and you work really hard to sustain that commitment.” – The New York Times
Vampires Are ‘So Over’ Right Now, But Their Return May Be Imminent
They’re so early 2010s, basically. But culture is cyclical, or so it appears in tastemakers’ plans, and – according to a vampire literature scholar – “updated versions of these monsters cycle in when we don’t know how to confront something as a society or when we need to find a metaphor to help us understand a situation.” – HuffPost