Maria Balshaw “delivers her radical intent with a certain breeziness, casually mentioning she is aiming for total gender parity. ‘I don’t strive for shows 50 per cent by women because that’s a feminist gesture, but because we want to refer to the world we live in,’ she explains.”
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The News Station That Was Home To Millions Of Immigrants In L.A. Has Flipped To English
The station provided coverage of the Seoul Olympics in Korean, covered the 1992 L.A. riots in a variety of languages, and in general, “offered content in 14 Asian languages, including Japanese, Vietnamese and Tagalog, along with Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Hebrew, French, German, Hungarian, Italian and Russian.” Why the switch to English? The internet.
How A ‘Hamilton’ Superfan Became A ‘Hamilton’ Cast Member (No, Don’t Take This As Encouragement, Most Of America!)
A guy from a small town in Texas gets a break in a Richard Linklater film, and through a lot of memorization of lyrics and timing, he’s suddenly on Broadway as Hercules Mulligan – and James Madison. But other than the route to the theater, he knows little about New York, honestly: “I never really planned to live in New York, I had never even thought about it.”