Entertainment
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The agony of asking
Remind me, next time I decide to produce a show, about the very real threats of “rejection.” I knew going into The Ferment there would be a lot of hard… Read more.
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Why not Protopia?
Alicia talks about all that and The Ferment on her recent appearance on Troubadours and Raconteurs with E.W. Conundrum Demure. Read more.
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don’t let someone else define beauty for you
“Beauty is not important,” she said. “You have to be interesting, someone who is different to other people. Otherwise you just turn up and look beautiful, and there’s nothing more… Read more.
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there’s room for everyone in hip hop?
I’m not defending Miley, her choices look like desperation to me and it’s sad she can’t find a more productive way to challenge audiences if that’s what she’s aiming for.… Read more.
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gender representation in mass media: it does matter
“What were in effect doing is training children to see that women and girls are less important than men and boys. Were training them to perceive that women take up… Read more.
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Wanda in Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers
Reno describes the 3 am movie. (It is Barbara Loden’s Wanda): A baby crying in the arms of a woman whose face was puffy from sleep. Her hair matted and… Read more.
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behind the candelabra!
Steven Soderbergh film starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon based on the book by Scott Thorson premieres on HBO Sunday, May 26. This 11:45 min. behind the making of video… Read more.
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“You’ve Been Steampunked” in American Theatre
The iconography favored by steampunkers—aeronaut goggles, stylized corsets, clockwork gears, mad-scientist laboratories cluttered with Industrial Revolution sprockets and pipes—has found its way into a number of recent stage productions. When… Read more.
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so that’s who he looks like!
Every time I watch Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva (hey, it’s one show Francie and I can agree on, don’t make fun) the back of my head is preoccupied trying to… Read more.
Gregarious Expressions 