“When Black women play characters who are selfish, manipulative or morally ambiguous, the reaction often extends beyond the performance itself and into questions about what those portrayals mean for the image of Black women on screen and off”
Via The Guardian
lol they are not!
YOU’VE MADE YOUR POINT, CHICAGO.
Also his media trained pablum about the company being proud to embrace a diversity of opinions ... if any of those opinions are "some people shouldn't have equal rights/be allowed to exist" I don't know why you'd be proud of that!
Someone please tell the CEO of Hasbro that separating the art from the artist doesn’t count when you’re paying the artist (this is about JK Rowling btw)
I wrote about the problematic history of the Oscars recognizing the work of Black directors.
I’m really proud of this one, so please spread it far and wide. It’s an important convo that’s been sadly absent from the Oscars discourse this year.
"work it surfaces" is certainly one way to describe nonconsenually scraping work and using it to train an AI agent to scramble it up, vomit up some wild nonsense, and then attribute it to real professional humans with years of experience in a way that implies they agreed to be used that way.
It really is!
Bleak House serial numbers
hard cover volume of Bleak House
These are the same "book"
Worth forever reiterating that most of the "long" novels of the 19th century were not received as long at the time, but generally as subdivided shorter works, sometimes something we would consider more like a comic book than a terrifying doorstop.
Always weird to me when a set of researchers swoop in to do a study on an area and then disappear in a cloud of smoke while the rest of us just keep chipping away at projects trying to better understand the issue
I find Ryan Murphy’s preoccupations deeply boring. It’s a shame he’s responsible for so much TV getting made right now!
Today's architecture column. "Pride Cleaners is the kind of attention-grabbing roadside modernism found in places like Palm Springs, California, and not often in broad shouldered Chicago. A building like that is bound to fire-up an artist’s imagination."
media deals set a benchmark, and the NFL, which controls the most popular programming on TV, wants its piece. The result will be billions more dollars flowing annually from the entertainment giants to the NFL. "It does not appear that anyone will emerge from the process unscathed" Bernstein analyst Laurent Yoon wrote Feb. 26. The impact will be felt across Hollywood. A senior agency source says that they are preparing for "significant" pullback in entertainment content spend. Stars "will get paid, but the fear is that it will be harder for anyone not already established to break in, and middle-class talent could be hit hardest of all.
I have a lot of issues with football — a league predicated young men getting ruinous brain trauma while a handful of rich people get even richer — but now add in that the NFL is likely gonna result in fewer TV/film projects made, screwing over everyone in Hollywood who isn’t a big name/wealthy star
David Zaslav Gets the Last Laugh: The Warner Bros. mogul’s $111 billion deal with David Ellison reveals the next stage of the business: The rich get richer, the big get bigger and everybody else is left in the dust.
Quits a headline
Via THR
Her image — how she styles herself — is so consistent that this idea that she’s doing something artistically creative with her look each time is very lol!
It’s hard to write something interesting about profoundly uninteresting people. But a good journalist should at least have a point of view!
Roseberry tells me. "I imagine her playing with her beauty like a producer in a recording studio. She's turning the bass up, the treble down, cranking the volume at this part, adding distortion in this moment. But whatever it is, it's drop-dead dialed-in gorgeous. We are watching a woman at play with herself and her own image."
Even by celebrity puff piece standards this profile of Kylie Jenner is pretty incurious and the photos are dull but this quote is actually embarrassing for all involved — Kylie, Roseberry, the writer of this piece …
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
A photo of the Chicago skyline at night with a tangle of bright lighting lignite gap the night sky during a thunderstorm
Boom! Had a great ight show over the skyline tonight. Here’s my first big lightning shot of the season.
This is a 2-frame composite. Best as I can tell, two large, branching bolts struck the eastern antenna mast of the Hancock. #wxsky #ilwx
triptych of multiple lightning photos
Yes! Each one could have stood on their own, but I figured...why post two similar photos next to one another when I can make one haha. Blend is in the middle, hopefully obviously. =
I actually worry about this a little less and worry a little more about the vloggy grifters who have all the conviction of a flatworm, out of a terrific fear of losing access, and how their numbers have polluted the very concept of cinematic expertise online.
Wear masks indoors! They help!!
😂
I think it’s become like that Daniel Craig/SNL clip “Ladies and gentlemen, The Weekend” where people post it every week lol
Every time I see this I ask myself if I’m supposed to know who they are … are they famous-famous, or are they famous for being the cheese-and-crackers-on-a-Tuesday night ladies? 😂
"Did US media fail in Gaza?"
Watch MS Now anchor Ayman Mohyeldin's response to
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social on Western media coverage of Gaza in the latest episode of 'We’re Not Kidding'
zeteo.com/p/ayman-mohy...
It’s always informative to watch how those with most wealth and clout move during times like this
Not a moral compass among ‘em
I think it’s useful, and maybe even crucial, to ask “is this also performance?” When considering statements from artists
Related: THR has an interview from prison with Harvey Weinstein that went up today. Not linking for obvious reasons
I mention it only because media outlets are forever making judgments and decisions about which stories to cover & which people to profile. And I’d argue Puck made the better decision
So some of Ellison's decisions before and since the acquisition of Paramount offer a clue about what may not be his strongest suit: hiring. Ellison has several times marched against conventional personnel wisdom. Jeff Shell, John Lasseter, and screenwriter Max Landis, all previously accused of sexual misconduct, got back to work thanks to Ellison. He also gave Brett Ratner a boost by offering distribution if another Rush Hour sequel comes together. And while I understand Ellison's logic in putting Bari Weiss in charge of CBS News, I would argue that her well-known political positions and lack of reporting and television experience have so far been a completely foreseeable exercise in noisy brand damage. If he gives her control of CNN, expect much more of the same. Another recent Paramount hire-33-year-old partners J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, the founders of low-budget genre production company BoulderLight-made me wonder whether anyone in Hollywood does any due diligence when chasing what they think is a hot property. (Paramount declined to comment on any element of this article.)
