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• In The Early Days Of Lockdown, We Were All Going To Read Proust Or Something

  12-12-2021 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  That’s not exactly what happened (perhaps not a surprise, what with global trauma and death?). – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• West Side Story, Reviewed Rapturously, Isn’t Performing Well In Theatres

  12-12-2021 22:00 via variety.com
  
  And no, that’s not because “Gen Z doesn’t like musicals” or something like that. Instead, it’s a Spielberg problem. “Over the last 20 years, he has worked, numerous times now, in a self-styled obsessive genre that I would call the Metaphorical Topical Statement.” – Variety
  
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• The Engineer Who Became A Dance-Battle Musician

  12-12-2021 21:30 via npr.org
  Jlin: “Math is my first love, not music, though they’re both one and the same.” – NPR
  
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• Remember When Warner Bros Decided To Put 2021’s New Movies On Streaming?

  12-12-2021 21:00 via wired.com
  
  Turns out that much complained about and, to Hollywood, highly disruptive move was a winner for its streamer, HBO Max. Through day-and-date movie releases including Dune, “HBO Max may have found a way to hack the streaming wars.” – Wired
  
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• The Monkees’ Michael Nesmith Said He Wasn’t The Made-For-TV Group’s Only Real Musician

  12-12-2021 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Nesmith was called “the quiet Monkee” by the marketers behind the TV show, but “he was musician enough to have a modest solo career after Monkee mania faded at the end of the 1960s, and that led him into a role in music-television history.” – The New York Times
  
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• Expelled Member Of Golden Globes Sues Organization

  12-12-2021 20:00 via bbc.com
  
  The lawsuit claims that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association expelled Magnus Sundholm to get back at his partner, who had been a whistleblower against the group. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Casting a Net for Dance

  12-12-2021 19:31 via artsjournal.com
  What is Indra’s Net?  To begin with, it’s the name of Meredith Monk’s newest work. Yes, but what is it?  In Buddhism, it alludes to the interconnectedness of everything in the universe and…
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• The Best Literary Descriptions Of Snow

  12-12-2021 19:30 via lithub.com
  
  Sometimes it’s better to read than to experience. “I think I like winter weather best when it’s on the page and not the thing standing between me and the closest bar or the corner bodega when I’m out of popcorn.” – LitHub
  
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• We’ve Fallen Out Of Love With Method Acting

  12-12-2021 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Or at least some of us have, according to the reaction to a New Yorker profile of actor Jeremy Strong. There’s “a sense that the emperor’s method nudity has finally been exposed for what it is: pretentious, performative, narcissistic nonsense.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Two Seattle Artists Have Been Charged With Faking Native American Ancestry And Art

  12-12-2021 18:30 via npr.org
  “By flooding the market with counterfeit Native American art and craftwork, these crimes cheat the consumer, undermine the economic livelihood of Native American artists, and impair Indian culture,” said a law enforcement official. – NPR (AP)
  
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• Author Anne Rice Has Died At 80

  12-12-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Rice, whose Interview with the Vampire was a huge hit, died from complications of a stroke, her son reported. Rice’s Gothic novels and massive popularity meant her book signings were “shows attracting dancers and fans in costume.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Frosty Vision

  12-12-2021 17:39 via artsjournal.com
  Toby PondMIRAGEWalking solo
  in frigid weather
  through familiar woods
  past rolling hills
  and fields now turned
  to chill of winter,I saw on Toby Pond
  a raft of mallards
  floating therelike peace on water —
  a kind of mirage.
  Then darkness camein the waning light,
  and I walked on. — JH
  
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• The Secret History Of Sesame Street

  12-12-2021 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Photos shot as part of Cold War propaganda in 1970 show the utopian ideals – including Jim Henson’s love of creativity and everyone’s experimentation to reach kids with the least money and hope, and show them a world of possibility. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Barry Harris Was A Jazz Pianist Who Embodied The Spirit Of Bebop

  12-12-2021 17:00 via washingtonpost.com
  The 91-year-old musician and teacher may have contracted COVID-19 at one final performance where he received the Jazz Master award from the NEA. – Washington Post
  
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• What Is West Side Story – A Musical? A Film? Why Not An Opera?

  12-12-2021 16:30 via latimes.com
  
  Even as the new movie is playing in theatres, “everything about how West Side Story has unfolded suggests opera might be an ideal form to move the needle.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Rare Footage Of The Early Years Of An Independent Ireland

  12-12-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The stories a grandfather on the Dingle Peninsula told his grandson of a visiting American, a scholar who took video with a hand-crank camera, led to the discovery in Chicago of hours of silent film reels from 1925 and 1926. – The New York Times
  
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• Broadway’s Return Is Earning A D-Minus In Gender And Sexual Orientation

  12-12-2021 15:30 via americantheatre.org
  
  Honestly, Broadway, Mrs. Doubtfire? (But that musical, filled with outright transphobic tropes, isn’t alone in its missteps.) – American Theatre
  
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• The Depths Of Art, And Lies

  12-12-2021 15:00 via lithub.com
  
  “Nonfiction writers make mistakes, too, of course. But not on the first page. As soon as I discovered my falsehood, I vowed to turn my back on nonfiction forever and write nothing but poetry, a genre in which you’re encouraged to lie.” – LitHub
  
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• Is Spider-Man’s Tom Holland Ready To Go The Way of Garbo?

  12-12-2021 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The actor, in the middle of yet another Marvel publicity tour, says he’s about ready to quit acting and return to his first love, dancing. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Poems Of Locked Down Paris Poets

  12-12-2021 14:00 via npr.org
  One poet sped home from a teaching gig in Lebanon; another was diagnosed with breast cancer as the pandemic burst forth. “In many ways, their poems also convey just how different their lives were, even though they were living just 5 miles from each other.” – NPR
  
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• Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything review – radical in every thought and gesture

  12-12-2021 14:00
  
  British Museum, London
  Gods, elephants, the elements – the whole world bursts into life in the great Japanese artist’s rediscovered sketches for an encylopedia, drawn for a nation in lockdown and now on show for the first timeOver the course of his long career – he was a master draughtsman at 12 – the Japanese genius Hokusai (1760-1849) was so prolific it seems absurd that the west knows him mainly for a single work, The Great Wave. His many thousands of images were treas
  
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• Catholic Protesters Shut Down This Singer’s Concerts In Paris, So She Held A Secret Gig

  12-12-2021 13:30 via bbc.com
  
  Why? “Protesters accused Anna von Hausswolff of playing the ‘devil’s music.’ But the priest who cancelled her planned Paris show said that was wrong.” What year is this again? – BBC
  
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• Can Peleton Sue Over That Appearance In Sex And The City?

  12-12-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Maybe! No spoilers (in this summary; the article contains a lot of spoilers), but “Peloton could reasonably consider litigation, especially if HBO did not disclose the story line involving the product.” – The New York Times
  
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