Did the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why *cause* the spike? Bit of an issue with a recent study that claims it did: “Importantly, the researchers don’t know if the people who died by suicide watched the show or not.” – Vice
Tag: 05.03.19
Finnegan’s Wake Turns 80, And People Are Still Mad At It
But there’s a pretty strong reason to read – or attempt to read, or annotate – difficult works. “So is it an indecipherable ruse or a harbinger of hypertext? Could it even be … therapeutic?” – LitHub
If You Call A Series Of Movies About Fierce Women ‘Playing The Bitch,’ Does That Subvert Anything?
Well, British Film Institute, you wanted to “start a conversation,” and you sure have. – BBC
Latinx People Are A Deeply Reliable Movie Audience, But Where Are The Latinx Movie Stars?
There’s some massive underrepresentation, and certainly underfunding. For the new El Chicano, for instance, the filmmaker says, “It took a bunch of Canadian hockey fans to get behind an all-Latino movie set in East L.A.” He also “remembers one studio note in particular: ‘If you could figure out a Caucasian influence, that will help its prospects.'” – The Hollywood Reporter
The Faces (And Words) Of This Year’s Tony Nominees
Vulture somehow found time to photograph and interview a lot of people on the list: “The nominees spoke about their shows, their collaborators, their group texts, and their reactions to being nominated, before heading off to their Wednesday matinees.” – Vulture
A Transgressive Manifesto from ‘A Void’
The seductive intelligence of a manifesto. – Jan Herman
Property details
At Rosmersholm, “there is a slight problem with damp.” – David Jays
Britain Is On The Hunt For A New Poet Laureate After Being Turned Down By Its First Pick
Poet Imtiaz Dharker had been tipped by several British news sources as the next poet laureate, following Carol Ann Duffy, but she said no: “I had to weigh the privacy I need to write poems against the demands of a public role. The poems won.” – The Guardian (UK)
A Two-Time Olivier Winner Says He’s Prioritizing TV Because Theatre Doesn’t Pay Enough
David Bedella says he has to focus on LA instead of London. “TV offers celebrity and financial security and these things are important in an age where you don’t know where your next job is coming from. I want to be able to make the kind of money to support my family and not worry.” – The Stage (UK)
Another WWII Movie? Yes, And A Necessary One
The movie Where Hands Touch is about a young adult romance – about what happened to the generation of biracial young Germans who were born to white German mothers and French colonial African soldiers during and after WWI. Director Amma Asante (Belle, A United Kingdom) “poured into it her fears that racism and bigotry are flourishing today. ‘We wonder about Nazi Germany and how it got that way. It started with language and scapegoating, and we’re using a lot of [that same]language today,’ she says.” – The Guardian (UK)