It was a crowning moment for Netflix, and not just for the jeweled one on Queen Elizabeth’s head. The streaming service, which dominated the Globe nominations overall, edged out HBO to win the most TV nods on Monday. Netflix got 17 TV nods, to go with its 17 on the movie side. HBO was a close successor at 15. – Washington Post
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This Year’s Golden Globe Nominations – Some Surprises
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Killing Eve received nominations this chilly L.A. morning, as did the apparent final season of Amazon’s Emmy-winning Fleabag and the first season of the star-studded The Morning Show on AppleTV+. – Deadline
How Dance Therapy Works On Parkinson’s
Unlike mainstream talk therapies, Dance Movement Therapy uses the entire body to approach the client primarily on a non-verbal and creative level. The body in motion is both the medium and the message. DMT recognizes the moving body as the centre of the human experience, and that body and mind are in constant reciprocal interaction. – The Conversation
Who Was Thomas Edison? A Genius, Of Course, But Beyond That…
“On a single day, when he was 40 and full of innovative fire, he had jotted down 112 ideas for ‘new things,’ among them a mechanical cotton picker, a snow compressor, an electrical piano, artificial silk, a platinum-wire ice slicer, a system of penetrative photography (presaging radiology by 12 years), and a product unlikely to occur to anyone else, except perhaps Lewis Carroll: ‘Ink for the Blind.’ ” – Washington Post
The Impossible Body Standards Of The Modern Superhero
Superman was “too chubby” to play James Bond, Kevin Hart (The Rock’s “non-ripped” co-star) starts at the gym at 5 every morning, and movie men are partnering, i.e. getting sweet but addicting brand money from, a variety of “fitness” products, companies, and routines. “It is a worrying state of affairs when the measure of an actor is how hard they work on their bodies rather than how good they are at, you know, acting.” (Uh, yes, the women in these movies probably have a thing or two to say about that as well.) – The Guardian (UK)
Here’s Something For Our Era: A ‘Digital Dance Company’ In North Texas
There’s dance, but then there are podcasts, and then there’s the international dance film festival as well. – Dallas Morning News
Parasite Racks Up Another Best Picture Win, This One At The Los Angeles Film Critics Awards
Justin Chang is prepared for the inevitable backlash over some of the choices the LAFCA made. Prepared, but not pleased: “I’ve always been struck by the recurring phenomenon of LAFCA and other critics’ groups getting attacked online for the elitist snobbery of their allegedly out-of-the-box choices. To accuse us of snobbery, I think, gets the situation exactly wrong; championing work that falls outside the usual awards-season conversation, informed by the fact that we spend 52 weeks a year watching and writing about new movies from all over the world, strikes me as a pretty good definition of egalitarianism in action.” – Los Angeles Times
Lucette Destouches, Widow Of Paul Céline, Has Died At 107
Destouches defended the French writer, and their anti-Semitic and intensely pro-Nazi stance, for decades. “‘She followed him into the depths of hell with a love, an admiration and an affection that was absolute,’ Frédéric Vitoux, one of Céline’s biographers, wrote of Ms. Destouches.” – Washington Post
How Can Theatre Commit To ‘Radical Parent Inclusion’ And Still Function?
That’s not about radical parents or radical kids – it’s about changing theatre at its roots to reflect the reality of working parents in the industry. Not surprisingly, parents have some ideas, some practice, and some means-tested ways to get theatre much more integrated into the lives of parents and kids (and vice versa). – HowlRound
The Blogosphere Is Shrinking Again
And not just any blog is closing, but Feministing, one of the only remaining feminist blogs from the heyday of the 2000s. One of the site’s former editors says, “It was unclear how we could have such a ferocious audience and not be onto something. … Many of us involved in the feminist blogosphere are now in mainstream media, and that’s exciting. That said, we need independent media because they’re an important check.” – The New York Times