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• Screenwriter Accuses Alexander Payne Of Plagiarizing Script Of The Holdovers

  10-03-2024 21:00 via variety.com
  
  Luca screenwriter Simon Stephenson wrote that “the evidence The Holdovers screenplay has been plagiarised line-by-line from Frisco is genuinely overwhelming – anybody who looks at even the briefest sample pretty much invariably uses the word ‘brazen.’” – Variety
  
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• Why Are Oscar Voters About To Award The Wrong Song From Barbie?

  10-03-2024 20:30 via slate.com
  
  “Only one song from Barbie was a cultural sensation, a TikTok masterpiece, a showstopping earworm—and it’s the other nominated song, the one that’s probably going to lose on Oscar night: ‘I’m Just Ken.’” Why are Oscars voters intent on making bad choices? – Slate
  
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• After The Activision Blizzard’s Merger With Microsoft, Workers Form Gaming’s Largest-Yet Union

  10-03-2024 20:00 via theverge.com
  
  Quality assurance workers for Activision, who play games constantly to find and report bugs, or problems, say they’re often the lowest-paid workers in the company even while “our work is integral to the success of the companies we work for and the titles we make.” – The Verge
  
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• In Florida, Two Young Boys Are Arrested For Creating Deepfake Nudes Of Classmates

  10-03-2024 19:30 via wired.com
  
  To blame? AI (and some very poor teenage decision-making). “As AI image-making tools have become more widely available, there have been several high-profile incidents in which minors allegedly created AI-generated nude images of classmates and shared them without consent.” – Wired
  
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• The ‘Invisible’ Art Of Film Editing, And The Women Who Have Long Ruled That World

  10-03-2024 19:00 via npr.org
  
  In the early days of Hollywood, “because many people saw film editing – or cutting, as it was called then – as unglamorous, secretarial work, it proved to be an easier entry point for women in the industry. And it gave them a lot of creative control.” – NPR
  
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• Akira Toriyama, Creator Of The Hugely Popular Comic And Anime Dragon Ball, Has Died At 68

  10-03-2024 18:30 via bbc.com
  
  Dragon Ball got its start in 1984, and “to many fans, Son Goku’s journey from a kid who fumbles his martial arts training to a high-flying hero who can shoot bolts of electricity from his hands mirrors their own struggles against self-doubt as they grew into adulthood.” – BBC
  
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• Artist Ricky Sencion Celebrates The Pink Sheep Of Los Angeles

  10-03-2024 18:00 via latimes.com
  
  Sencion “posted his first sheep on the streets of L.A. in March 2013. [Now], the artist has amassed an inventory of thousands of his signature pink sheep, from palm-sized stickers slapped on lamp posts on Melrose Avenue to wheat pastings on walls along Hollywood Boulevard.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Performance Space New York Goes With A Triple-Leader Model

  10-03-2024 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  In a performance arts space, why not have three women with an equal vote making major decisions – and figuring out how to fund performance art in a challenging time? – The New York Times
  
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• The Year In Movies Was Surprising, Tough, And Unpredictable; Long May That Last

  10-03-2024 17:00 via washingtonpost.com
  However … “The movie industry is notorious for learning precisely the wrong lesson from its successes, not to mention failures.” – Washington Post
  
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• Radio Hosts Are Another Profession On The Brink

  10-03-2024 16:30 via cbc.ca
  
  As if radio work isn’t troubled enough, here comes artificial intelligence. – CBC
  
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• Writers Stuck In A Rut Should Go Pick Up Some A Camera

  10-03-2024 16:00 via lithub.com
  
  What kind of camera doesn’t matter, but thinking about everything from framing devices to length of exposure surely can kick the writing gears back into motion. – LitHub
  
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• Writers Stuck In A Rut Should Go Pick Up A Camera

  10-03-2024 16:00 via lithub.com
  
  What kind of camera doesn’t matter, but thinking about everything from framing devices to length of exposure surely can kick the writing gears back into motion. – LitHub
  
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• The Oscars Weren’t Always About Fashion

  10-03-2024 15:30 via theconversation.com
  
  As a matter of fact, the whole fashion discussion was cooked up by Hollywood’s PR people to get television on board – and hiring Edith Head, Hollywood’s most famous costume designer, didn’t hurt. – The Conversation
  
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• Is there such a thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ art?

  10-03-2024 15:01
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsIs there such a thing as “good” or “bad” art? Ultimately, isn’t it in the eye of the beholder? Karen Halliday, DublinPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to [email protected]. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• The Frida Kahlo Corporation Has Sued Amazon Kahlo Kitsch Sellers

  10-03-2024 15:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Apparently, third-party sellers have sold everything “including prints, cosmetics, beverages, smoking accessories, toys, accessories, cooking ware, cameras, and face masks. These objects reportedly depicted trademarked visuals of Kahlo featuring watermelons, a green ring, palm fronds, and pink and blue flowers. “ – Hyperallergic
  
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• Da’Vine Joy Randolph On Getting Her Day At The Oscars

  10-03-2024 14:30 via washingtonpost.com
  “Randolph doesn’t really speak Awards Season — not like the shiny glittery things who seem to have it down. Ask her how she fee-eels and the 37-year-old Oscar nominee will answer for real.” – Washington Post
  
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• Petra Mathers, Author And Illustrator Of Many Children’s Books, Has Died At 78

  10-03-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mathers’s stories — whose subjects included a soulful museum guard (an alligator) who falls in love with the subject in a painting (another alligator) and a warmhearted chicken named Lottie and her best friend, Herbie, a duck — were … imbued with sly humor and wit.” – The New York Times
  
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• Did Online Trolls From Saudi Arabia Manipulate Opinions About Amber Heard?

  10-03-2024 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Pretty much, yes – and that may have implications for elections in the U.S. and other democracies. – CBC
  
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• The Woman Who Brought Libraries Online

  10-03-2024 13:30 via npr.org
  
  The internet was hard to use in 1992 – there was no web browser, for instance – so “the service was mediated by local librarians, who would help library-goers take their baby steps online.” – NPR
  
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• Juliette Binoche On Turning Spielberg Down Multiple Times, And That Oscar

  10-03-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “My mind wasn’t working when I went up to receive my Oscar [Binoche won the Best Supporting Actress award for The English Patient]. You’re in a space of awe, in this surprising state of not really knowing why it’s happening. … It was the surprise of my life.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Theatre For A Complex, Multivocal Street In The Nation’s Capital City

  10-03-2024 12:30 via americantheatre.org
  
  “To be able to participate in this project is to not only get to learn more about history, but also to have an outlet for the grief that I feel.” – American Theatre
  
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• New York Times Culture Writers Are Still Mad At These Oscar Snubs

  10-03-2024 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Many, many readers are also angry. A few things marinate on and on: Brokeback Mountain’s lack of wins, Shakespeare in Love’s wins, and some seemingly personal blows to filmlovers’ egos. – The New York Times
  
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• He was wrongfully imprisoned for 40 years. Now he’s an award-winning artist: ‘I turned my past into something good’

  10-03-2024 12:00
  
  Gary Tyler was drawn to quilting during his time in Angola prison. This month, LA’s Frieze fair celebrated his deeply personal workIn a tucked-away corner of the Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles, among the frenzied crowds of the international art market’s trading room floor, lies a quiet respite where one booth seems to operate outside the fray. Its spare hanging of five quilted tapestries quietly asserts its place among the humming blue-chip gallery booths.It is here that Gary Tyler,
  
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• ‘Inclusivity shouldn’t be controversial’: will a radical art rehang give Cambridge an unwanted ‘woke’ row?

  10-03-2024 11:00
  
  Fitzwilliam Museum keen to avoid kind of criticism that has hit Tate and National Portrait Gallery with shake-up of displaysIn a room called “identity”, 18th-century portraits by William Hogarth of a wealthy me­rchant family are going back on display. But now they will share space at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge with a subversive contemporary portrait by Black British artist Joy Labinjo, that imagines 18th-century African abolitionist Olaudah Equiano and his mixed-race fam
  
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• Pop art pioneer Peter Blake: ‘I wasn’t really a swinger. I never did any drugs’

  10-03-2024 10:30
  
  The artist, 91, on not being taken seriously, his first solo sculpture show, and why his Beatles’ Sgt Pepper cover has been a mixed blessingPeter Blake was born in Dartford, Kent in 1932 and went to art school at Gravesend Technical College. Leaving at the age of 15, he did national service and then trained at the Royal College of Art. His early works were critical to the definition of British pop art. In 1967, famously, he designed the cover for the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonel
  
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• Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time review – an extraordinarily beautiful search for home

  10-03-2024 10:00
  
  Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One), Edinburgh
  Is home a building, a place or a feeling, asks the Korean artist in an amazingly varied show of works on paper, film and those you can just drift through…A man runs along the bottom of a drawing, trailing hundreds of rainbow-coloured threads behind him. Somehow they are embedded in the paper. All connect upwards to a small wooden house with a pagoda roof that drifts in the air like a parachute behind him. Is it slowing him do
  
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