Category: media

“Celebrity profiles are infamous, at this point, for their distinctive combination of erudition and ennui. Their adjective-happy explorations of hot-lady celebrities … treat their subjects like ‘irreducible mysteries, floating so high above the mortal (male) writers that they can only be described in terms of their effects.’ … Celebritized food profiles – celebrations of, among other things, actual rump roasts – treat their own subjects with a similar mingling of mysticism and frustrated desire.”

“The drop follows a 28% decline in feature film activity in the fourth quarter of last year and reflects the dwindling availability of state incentives intended to keep movies in Southern California.”

“It’s a small thing, perhaps — a silly bit of semantics — but words matter. When we say that something was “leaked,” we disclaim responsibility. Not only the responsibility of the person who stole the images, mind you, but also the responsibility of those of us who chose to enjoy the ill-gotten fruit.”

A challenge is that companies can implement “the highest level of sophistication as far as firewalls and technology and compliance … but no matter how good it is there is always a people component. It is the people part of this whole situation that is very difficult. Everyone in the company has to participate in the solution.”

Edie Falco, who plays Nurse Jackie: “The story of addiction is that they are often highly lovable individuals — charismatic, charming, and easy to love. … They systematically go about destroying all those feelings of attachment to the people around them.”

“Rae’s series featured a cast of fully developed people of color. Links to her web series were passed from young Black woman to young Black woman across social media platforms, like lifelines to a different, better world. She was speaking to an ever-growing circle of women, the series amassing more than 20 million views.”

“A single show with a woman who is the victim of violence for ‘entertainment’ isn’t the problem. However, with show after show employing victimization of women as a plot device it just doesn’t reflect the wide range of actual women’s experience. Instead, it reinforces the narrative of woman as victim in real life. It reinforces that women are to be abused and avenged.”

“If it seems like we’ve been discussing this $35 million boondoggle for forever, it’s because, well, we have.”

“The rapidly shifting film school landscape has led to what a business professor might refer to as marketplace confusion. Never have the film school options been so many, and never has there been greater bewilderment about where to go — or whether to go at all.”