It’s a movie about eighth grade (roughly, being 13 or 14 years old, for non-American audiences) that eighth graders can’t see on their own because it’s rated R “because of a few choice four-letter words and some squirm-inducing sex talk. On Wednesday, A24, the company behind the film, rebelled against the rating for one night, holding free all-ages screenings in every state. And teenagers came out in droves.”
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The British Museum Returns Some Recent Looted Artifacts To Iraq
These objects, taken from a dealer and held by the London police for more than a decade, were returned, but there’s quite a lot more looted art out there in the world: “The objects were not stolen in the notorious free-for-all at the National Museum in 2003, an event that Donald H. Rumsfeld, the defense secretary at the time, once brushed off with the words ‘stuff happens.'”
Major Cuts To Leonard Bernstein’s Opera Make It A Chamber Company Work (And, Maybe, A Success)
Check out the numbers for the now 90-minute-long A Quiet Place: “Back in came three arias that had been cut from the final act for the 1986 version. Snips were made throughout. An orchestra of at least 72 players was reduced to an ensemble of 18, creating leaner textures and encouraging a less, well, operatic singing and acting style.”
We Live At Least Half Our Lives Online, But Movies Are Only Now Starting To Show That
Some new movies really get it, at last: “Eighth Grade acknowledges the extent to which our emotions and relationships are now mediated through digital channels without coming across as alarmist. That doesn’t seem like it should be rare, but it is. It’s not that we don’t see people use computers and phones on film and TV. But characters don’t spend nearly as much time on them as we do in real life — unless they’re part of a cautionary tale.”
Anya Krugovoy Silver, Poet Of Mortality, Has Died At 49
Silver received a diagnosis of advanced breast cancer in 2004. She “wrote lyrical verse that gave readers an exquisite, intimate and sometimes angry account of her illness,” and she said that nothing focused her mind like cancer.
Are Helicopters Ruining NY’s Shakespeare In The Park?
Even politicians are getting involved: “Rep. Jerrold Nadler and officials from the Public Theater pleaded Friday for the FAA to divert helicopter traffic from Central Park because the noise keeps interrupting Shakespeare in the Park, which is currently staging Twelfth Night.”
The Lindy Hop Blooms Anew At Dance Camps In Sweden
This camp is where 98-year-old Norma Miller, Queen of Swing and an original Lindy Hop dancer – and an African American woman – can thank white Swedish people for keeping the dance alive. “The camp started as a weeklong summer event for 25 Swedish Lindy Hop lovers in 1982 and has evolved into a five-week dance camp known as the Lindy Hop Mecca. This summer, the camp drew some 5,000 dancers and 100 instructors from more than 60 countries. Ms. Miller described the camp as a place where students ‘come to inherit the soul of black dancing.'”
What’s The Value In Seeing Plays That Are Under Construction?
Should the audience play dramaturg? “It’s certainly true that theatregoers like the bragging rights that come from seeing artists and shows before they become big” – imagine those who saw Hamilton in its workshop process. But what’s the value in seeing rough plays in process?
Chloe Grace Moritz Says It’s Definitely Past Time For Her New Movie – And It’s Never Time For The Movie She Made For Louis CK
Moritz was a child star, so she grew up under a fame microscope – but her siblings helped her, as they went through their own struggles to come out, something that helped her as she starred in the new movie The Miseducation of Cameron Post . “I definitely struggled with, ‘Who am I? And what am I?’ My brothers, being marginalized their entire lives, were the first people to try and help me find my voice and my identity. And that’s the beauty of the L.G.B.T. community.”
SAG-AFTRA Decides To Offer Sexual Harassment Counseling Services
The union, which represents more than 160,000 actors and many others involved in TV and movies, has a president who has been pushing for this and a lot of other reforms since the revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s harassment and abuse came out last October. One SAG-AFTRA official: “This past year has been a reckoning for sexual harassment abuses in our industry. … No SAG-AFTRA performer should ever feel alone or without recourse when it comes to sexual harassment or assault.”