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From ‘The Sympathizer’ to ‘Past Lives,’ American Audiences Warm to Subtitles
The sequence is emblematic of a significant shift in how Asian languages are featured in American film and TV.Just a few years ago, when his Korean dark comedy “Parasite” won the 2020 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the!-->!-->!-->…
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Private Thought and Public Speech
The past decade has witnessed a notable rise in the deployment of outrageous speech and censorship: opposite tendencies, on the face of things, which actually strengthen each other’s claim. My aim in this…
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Postcards and laundromat visits: The Texas Tribune audience team experiments with IRL distribution
When The Texas Tribune began reaching out to residents in the Cloverleaf neighborhood, near Houston, its reporters knew many community members were not regular readers. In fact, most in the primarily Spanish-speaking area hadn’t heard…
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AMC Theatres Survives Bankruptcy Thanks to Taylor Swift, Dune Bucket
Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Theatres, gives me a choice.
We’re supposed to have a 20-minute interview in Las Vegas at CinemaCon, a four-day gathering of movie theater owners and Hollywood studios designed to breathlessly hype the…
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The Algorithmic Radicalization of Taylor Swift
Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.It is nighttime in Paris. We are more than a year into Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and tonight, her fans are once again trying to figure out what her…
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Observers rate male dance groups higher in coalition quality
A recent study has shed light on the significance of coordinated body movements, especially collective dances, in conveying coalition quality (the perceived effectiveness, formidability, and social bonding strength of a group). The…
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Hollywood Should ‘Embrace the Change’ Spurred by New Tech
New technology is friend not foe to Hollywood’s creative community. That was the message delivered Thursday morning by Disney CEO Bob Iger during his keynote conversation at the Canva Create showcase event held at SoFi Stadium and…
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Accessing Jaap van Zweden’s Tenure At The New York Philharmonic
The ensemble’s playing, across all instrumental choirs, sounds richer and more flexible than it did before his tenure. So what Mr. Dudamel stands to inherit largely bears Mr. van Zweden’s stamp. – The Wall Street Journal
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Graceland: Tennessee attorney general looking into attempt to sell
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s attorney general said Thursday that his office is looking into a company’s attempt to sell Elvis Presley’s home Graceland at a foreclosure auction, a move that…
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$100 Million Box Office Openers Vanish This Year
No one could blame the box office for needing an imaginary friend right now. For the first time in more than a decade — excluding the worst period of the COVID-19 crisis — no movie opening during the first six months of the…
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