Just after the new movie’s British release, Sony UK tweeted a promo making the film look like a heterosexual teen romance. (After a proper roasting on social media, it was deleted.) “The tweet served as a reminder of an awkwardness that lingers in mainstream spaces. In trying to position the film as a romance intended for a wide audience, Sony believed that fooling straight viewers was the way to go.” And this was hardly the first time.
Tag: 11.08.17
Lin Manuel Miranda To Return To His “Hamilton” Role
“Bringing [Hamilton] to Puerto Rico is a dream that I’ve had since we first opened at The Public Theater in 2015,” said Miranda in a statement. “When I last visited the island, a few weeks before Hurricane Maria, I had made a commitment to not only bring the show to Puerto Rico, but also return again to the title role. In the aftermath of Maria we decided to expedite the announcement of the project to send a bold message that Puerto Rico will recover and be back in business, stronger than ever.”
Boston Globe: Berklee School Of Music Tolerated Culture Of Sexual Harassment
“A Globe investigation has uncovered a culture of blatant sexual harassment at Berklee with at least three male professors… allowed to quietly leave since 2008, after students reported being assaulted, groped, or pressured into sex with their teachers, according to court documents and interviews with more than a dozen people. Administrators at the renowned music school tolerated lecherous behavior, former Berklee students and employees said, and often silenced the accusers through financial settlements with gag orders attached.”
Director Of New York’s Armory Show Ousted After Complaints By Eight Women
“In interviews, a total of eight who had worked with him at the Armory Show, Artnet and Louise Blouin Media said he made sexually inappropriate comments to them, and an additional 11 people said they had observed or knew about Mr. Genocchio making these comments, often in the workplace.”
Watch David Hallberg Teach A Tech Guy To Dance
The ABT star shows a butch, slightly stiff video producer how to do an assured waltz and a gracious stage bow – and even gets him doing a changement. (video with transcript)
A Manifesto For The Arts In Difficult Times
Rip Rapson, president of the Kresge Foundation: I choose “to view this moment as an inflection point, not a new stasis. It is a call to reassessment … recalibration … recommitment. The nonprofit and philanthropic sectors have spent decades trying to create and assemble the building blocks of opportunity and justice. That architecture is woefully incomplete to be sure. But it is an architecture at once complex, dynamic, and resilient. Our charge is to continue fitting together those building blocks in a coherent, inclusive, impactful way.”
The TV Show That Ate Times Square
A brief history of Total Request Live, which saved MTV, midwifed the boom in boy bands, and filled the busiest crossroads in New York with screaming teenage girls.
Taking Ballet Class With Misty Copeland In Harlem
“What started as a technique class – focused on turnout of the legs, placement of the arms, straightness of the back – became a larger kind of learning experience, when Ms. Copeland, 35, was joined for an after-class discussion by a trailblazing African-American dancer of another generation, the 86-year-old Carmen de Lavallade. The two spoke about breaking down barriers for black ballet dancers and honoring those who had done so before them.”
Kevin Spacey Is Being Edited Out Of His Newest Movie
In light of Spacey’s ongoing abuse scandal, Sony decided that it couldn’t promote Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World – a biopic about the kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III and the refusal of his billionaire grandfather to pay ransom for him – with Spacey in the role of the senior Getty. (Still less could they promote the film for Oscars, and it had been expected to be a contender.) So they’re re-shooting all of Spacey’s scenes with the actor Scott originally wanted for the role anyway – Christopher Plummer.
Smuckers Give $15 Million To Cleveland Orchestra
Just a couple weeks after the jam company gave $1.1 million to the Akron (Ohio) Art Museum, the company’s executive chairman and his wife have pledged the second largest donation in the Cleveland Orchestra’s history. That executive, Richard Smucker, is the new chairman of the ensemble’s board of directors.