The New York Times is being taken to the woodshed on social media for using the term “overrepresented” in an article on Asians in figure skating.
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The segment is based on George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue” and features characters designed to look like the caricatures of famed artist Al Hirschfeld (who was a consultant on the “Rhapsody in Blue” segment in “Fantasia 2000”), many of whom dance, drum and ice skate to the rhythms of Gershwin’s jazz-infused classical score as they follow their dreams in Depression-era New York. Parrish tells TheWrap that he regularly invoked “Rhapsody In Blue” as a comparison when pitching his vision of “Us Again” to his colleagues at Disney.
“I wanted this story to be in a world of dance and for that dance and the music to be the dialogue of the story, very similar to ‘Fantasia,'” he said. “‘Rhapsody In Blue’ was always the specific example that I brought up.
I connected to it the most with its style of music, the caricature design of the characters, the way the music became the sound effects for the story, and it just felt fitting when we were making ‘Us Again’ to have ‘Rhapsody In Blue’ on the screen as they dance through the drive-in.” Of course, while “Fantasia 2000” had an iconic classical score to work from, “Us Again” would have to make the music that would serve as its narrative backbone from scratch. In collaborating with Turkish-American composer Pinar Toprak, Parrish had a back-and-forth process where he would outline the main beats of the story to Toprak, who came back with a five-minute temp score that would slowly get expanded as Parrish established more points in the story.
The New York Times is being taken to the woodshed on social media for using the term “overrepresented” in an article on Asians in figure skating.
Manori Ravindran International EditorAmélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier’s documentary “Dreaming Walls,” about the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York and its controversial renovation, has unveiled a trailer.The film world premieres in the Panorama section of the Berlinale on Saturday.The Chelsea Hotel, an icon of 1960s counterculture, was a haven for famous artists and intellectuals including Patti Smith, Janis Joplin and the superstars of Warhol’s Factory. However, the building’s lengthy renovation into a luxury hotel, which has spanned more than 10 years, has been a source of ongoing frustration for its tenants, as dozens of them, many in their later years, still live amid scaffolding and constant construction.
Matt Groening’s classic animated comedy about a pizza delivery guy being sent a thousand years into the future is returning to TV screens for the third time.
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has taken North American rights to A Taste of Whale, a documentary by Vincent Kelner on the annual slaughter of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands. The ancient practice, which has met with modern resistance from Sea Shepherd and other animal rights groups, involves herding hundreds of the large dolphins into coves, inlets or fjords where they can be easily killed and butchered.
EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Peretti, the comedian, actress and writer best known for her role as Gina Linetti on the hit comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, has signed with CAA for representation.
Danai Gurira, the actress most widely known for her roles in Marvel’s Avengers franchise and AMC’s The Walking Dead, will play one of the stage’s great villains this summer when she takes the title character of Richard III for New York’s Free Shakespeare in the Park.
Ellise Shafer The New York Times has purchased Wordle, the daily word game that has recently taken the internet by storm.The publication announced the acquisition in a press release on Monday, writing: “As The Times looks to entertain more solvers with puzzles every day — especially during these anxious times — we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve acquired Wordle, the stimulating and wildly popular daily word game that has become a cultural phenomenon. Wordle, which gives players six tries to guess a five-letter mystery word, will join New York Times Games’s portfolio of original, engaging puzzle games that delight and challenge solvers every day.”The press release also states that Wordle was purchased for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.” The game was created by Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn-based software engineer, and released to the public in October 2021.
shortlist.Turner’s “Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day” looks back at the history of lynching in America through the ways they’ve been documented on souvenir postcards from 1880 to 1968.Turner described how photographers would take pictures of the lynchings and create postcards of the imagery that people would then send to their friends and family. She says that while the imagery was “graphic,” she tried to focus viewers’ eyes on the amount of people attending the lynchings and the fact that families were there, rather than the lynching itself, to properly contextualize the point in time.“We’re going beyond the brutality of the body itself, but that is also part of what I want viewers to confront,” she said.
Glass Animals have become the first UK band to reach the top of Spotify‘s global singles chart.The Oxford four-piece have hit the heights through the continued success of their 2020 single ‘Heat Waves’, which originally featured on their third studio album ‘Dreamland’.The track, which has been streamed over 1.1billion times on Spotify, has now hit the top of Spotify’s Global Top 50 Chart, making Glass Animals the first British band to reach the top spot.‘Heat Waves’, which is solely credited to Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley, is currently amassing over 4.26million streams a day on Spotify.The song has been nominated for a BRIT Award for ‘Song Of The Year’, while Glass Animals are up for both Best Band In The World and Best Band From The UK: Supported by Pizza Express at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.‘Heat Waves’, which was re-released in March 2021 featuring a new verse by Iann Dior, helped Glass Animals make US chart history back in November.The song reached number 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 for the first time that month, having already spent 42 weeks on the chart.It was the longest climb to the top 10 in US chart history: beating American Idol winner Carrie Underwood, whose 2006 single ‘Before He Cheats’ took 38 weeks to reach the same position.
Kim Kardashian met up with Chelsea and Hillary Clinton this past Monday. The three visited Hot & Cool Cafe, in Los Angeles, to discuss the Clintons’ new TV series, which will feature Kim as a guest.Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS will outfit the female members of Team USA for the Beijing 2022 Winter OlympicsKim Kardashian, Demi Moore and Madonna honor Thierry Mugler with emotional tributesFor the coffee date, Kim wore a long black coat, dark sunglasses, and bright green high boots.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“Spoiler Alert,” a new feature led by Jim Parsons from Focus Features, has added four stars to its ensemble cast.Antoni Porowski of Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” Tony award winner Nikki M. James (“The Book of Mormon”), Jeffery Self (“Search Party”) and Bill Irwin (“Rachel Getting Married”) have all joined the project directed by Michael Showalter.Having just wrapped principal photography in New York, the film is based on Michael Ausiello’s bestselling memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words.” It charts the emotionally turbulent 11-month journey of Ausiello’s former partner Kit, from his diagnosis with terminal cancer to his death.
It’s not all that often that Lee Daniels directs a film. Before the release of 2020’s “The United States vs.
Deadline.Daniels wrote the film with David Coggeshall and Elijah Bynum, and though no title or plot details have officially been revealed, it’s said to be a true horror story. Deadline also reported that the film will star Day as an Indiana mother whose children supposedly became possessed by a demonic presence and that the story is rooted in a real case.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNetflix has emerged victorious in a bidding war for director Lee Daniels’ next movie.Several Hollywood players, including MGM and Miramax, were vying for rights to the Oscar-nominated director’s upcoming project. Netflix’s $65 million price tag — a hefty sum covering the film’s production budget and buyouts — secured the sale, according to Deadline Hollywood, who broke the news.The movie reunites Daniels and Andra Day, who recently worked together on Hulu’s musical biographical drama “The United States vs.
EXCLUSIVE: The devil got into Hollywood this weekend as seven bidders waged a head-spinning auction battle for a star-studded exorcism movie package that was won late last night by Netflix.
EXCLUSIVE: The devil got into Hollywood this weekend, with seven bidders waging a head-spinning auction battle for a star-studded exorcism movie package was won late last night by Netflix. Lee Daniels will direct, reuniting with his Oscar-nominated The United States Vs Billie Holiday star Aundra Day, who’ll star with Octavia Spencer, Glenn Close, Rob Morgan, Caleb McLaughlin and Aunjanue Ellis. Day will play the mother of an Indiana family whose children purportedly became demonically possessed in a thriller inspired by an actual case. Sources tell Deadline that the package closed upwards of $65 million, covering the film’s budget and buyouts. Daniels and Tucker Tooley are producing. It is fast tracked to begin production by the middle of this year.
EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American and UK rights to Hector Barron’s horror-thriller In the Forest, along with U.S. rights to Alice Blehart’s animated film Little Sorcerer. Both titles are slated for a day-and-date theatrical release, with the former from Disrupting Influence to hit screens on January 28, and the latter from Chinese independent animation studio Gold Valley Films to debut on May 6.