Sandy Powell’s Signed Oscars Suit Is Up for Auction for an Artistic Cause (Guest Column)

We love movies about women in peril. From “Gaslight” to “King Kong” to Jennifer Lopez with a ridiculous haircut in “Enough,” audiences will almost always pay to watch a woman stare helplessly as a doorknob slowly turns, or hold her breath as a shadow looms next to where she is hiding.

As a female cinematographer, I am constantly asked how to find work or break into the system. Shooting the pilot for “Unbelievable” showed me that being a woman in this business isn’t about finding just any job — it’s about finding the right job with the right story and collaborators.

The dream of my writing life is to have a play on Broadway. During the second week of rehearsal for my first play on Broadway,Birthday Candles,the street itself closed for the longest period in its history.

If you talk to any artist, they will tell you their influences and inspirations are many and varied. I can easily say the same thing. When I think of a pivotal person who influenced me and my career, I can only think of one person, Wynn Thomas.

The media and entertainment business was thriving as we entered the new decade in 2020 B.C. (“Before Coronavirus”).

Hollywood, we need your help.

Radio, I’ve just about had enough of you and your abandonment of your defining purpose as broadcasters. With the coronavirus pandemic now ravaging everyday life and suspending every reliable comfort from work routines to sports and entertainment or actual human contact, we’re looking for steadiness somewhere — an echo of the familiar, a kindred connection.  Anything to tether us to something recognizable. A service the radio dial used to provide.

Although I never realized this reality until recently, most of my adult life has been invested in training for the coronavirus pandemic. As a cardiac surgeon, my highlight reel never included media, but after opening one too many chests with a band saw became overwhelmingly disheartening (figuratively and literally) I realized many of the indications for surgery could have been prevented through lifestyle changes.

AUSTIN, Texas — One week after the city of Austin declared a local disaster and canceled South by Southwest for the first time in the festival’s 34-year history, a sense of unease and uncertainty about how this year’s non-event will play out feels palpable around town. When Mayor Steve Adler held that previously unthinkable press

Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein receiving a 23-year jail sentence was the fairy tale Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ending that I was hoping for. Weinstein’s incarceration proves justice can be grossly delayed, but eventually delivered.

Ten years ago, when I was with a star, I was never the star — ever. But today, I don't believe that holds true for stylists.

For years now there has been a pervasive feeling among the American people that our political system is just not working the way it should. Time and again, we have seen politicians fail to take action on policies with broad popular support.

March is International Women’s Month, in which we recognize women everywhere and the advancements that have been made for female rights and representation. However, equity and balance in gender representation has a ways to go in both music and society at large.

On Tuesday, Jenna Dewan shared a sweet selfie of herself breastfeeding her newborn son Callum Michael Rebel. “So.

On Tuesday, Jenna Dewan shared a sweet selfie of herself breastfeeding her newborn son Callum Michael Rebel. “So.

On Tuesday, Jenna Dewan shared a sweet selfie of herself breastfeeding her newborn son Callum Michael Rebel. “So.

On Tuesday, Jenna Dewan shared a sweet selfie of herself breastfeeding her newborn son Callum Michael Rebel. “So.

The cancellation of SXSW last week matters for many reasons. It matters because the City of Austin depends on the money the conference brings with it — over $350 million by 2019’s count. It matters because SXSW is a vital part of our music culture — whether the general music-consuming public realizes it or not.

Without losing perspective, the city in the U.S. that may have been hit hardest thus far by the spread of the coronavirus may be one that has not yet seen a single case of the illness: Austin, Texas, where the annual South by Southwest conference, which brings dozens of thousands of people and hundreds of millions of dollars to the city every year, was cancelled on Friday.