Classic Hollywood movies are getting spitshined and put out again, so why not video games as well? "'Nostalgia is the major driving force for the success of a remake,' said Doug Clinton, man…
In China, some areas of the country can require movie theatres to give an intermission in the middle of movies that are more than two hours long. Hurray for bathroom breaks? "There is not ye…
Rosenfeld, "through the simple act of creating a line on a street in Chile, mounted an important artistic and political intervention against an oppressive government." " ARTNews
If you're Los Angeles artist Michael Gittes, you paint 1800 small pieces of work, one for each worker, and deliver them to Brooklyn. The artist: "I decided to paint flowers because even thou…
Whoops, not an eight-episode season; a seven-episode season. That standalone can come later, if at all. " BBC
Especially, it seems, the bookshelves of celebrities. Take Regina King: "Tupac Shakur Legacy, by Jamal Joseph: Curated by a family friend, this "interactive biography" of the rapper inclu…
The Broadway star " the only performer to win six Tonys, in all four available categories " says it's her job to create more space for other African American actors, and call for institution…
The actor, who died yesterday, went up against an entrenched system, and won. Her successful 1943 lawsuit against Warner Bros. "destroyed the indentured servitude that was the studio system,…
Victor Sen Yung started in Hollywood as a "Chinese peasant boy" in The Good Earth, and his last role was 43 years later, in The Man With Bogart's Face. He was credited as Sen Yung, Sen Young…
The mystery and TV writer says maybe we'll be better at responding to dangerous events in the future " or at least some of us will be. " LitHub
Martha Gonzalez sings with the band Quetzal and has a new memoir out as well. When the band was nominated for (and won) a Grammy, "Quetzal never showed up to the pre-Grammy gala. Instead, th…
With fresh spikes in the virus in the U.S., studios delay releases again, and "hopes for a speedy substantial resurgence at the global box office were dashed." " The Guardian (UK)
The volunteer's lawyer: "He bitterly regrets his actions … My client is consumed with remorse," after admitting he set three small fires that destroyed the organ and stained glass dating b…
Hands convey meaning, and they have for eons, but they're not our primary means of communicating to each other. "People gesture, but their gesture is clearly a secondary supplement. People a…
The argument to Congress: "We are over 675,000 small businesses and organizations in every town, city, and state, employing 5.1 million hard-working Americans who are now desperately struggl…
Just as some of the Boomers and Gen-Xers first encountered opera on Tom and Jerry, and just as some Millennials first found memorized U.S. presidents or learned the nations of the world from…
What does she think of how the British government is doing? What's she doing during the pandemic? How will the arts recover? And so much more (including the fact that yes, of course she coul…
This isn't a new issue at the library, but protests and action finally got the staff some of what it's been asking for for a very long time. "Workers have raised concerns about racial discri…
No, seriously: Can we? Landscape architects say yes. " Fast Company
The BBC isn't mincing words about the money: "The amount available for grassroots music, worth 1/700th of the total relief package, will go to venues at 'severe risk of insolvency' and can b…
Since quarantine, a lot of us have been doing a lot more walking in our neighborhoods or wherever we can find to go outside without a bunch of people nearby. Austen would understand. "A spec…
A huge number of Britain's theatres are in serious trouble:"Julian Bird, chief executive of UK Theatre and the Society of London Theatre, said 70 percent of theatres and production companies…
You can take one of two paths through the 20-year-old museum as it reopens, and nothing is comforting " not that that's new. "Tate Modern has never been a relaxing place to visit. But we've …
Philbin hosted everything from Regis and Kathie to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but was far more than that. "He also wrote five books, appeared in movies, made records as a singer, gave co…
The Avatar sequels are delayed " again. That's the seventh delay, in case you're counting. Will they ever happen? And what's going on with James Cameron? " Vulture