December, 2020 -

Cameron Dennis on Editing ’69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez’ AKA Tekashi69

December 17, 2020

“It was complicated because of Tekashi69’s strained personal relationships and the fact that there were pending legal proceedings, and sentencing hadn’t played out yet.”

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Even When the Music Returns, Pandemic Pay Cuts May Linger

December 17, 2020

Nowhere is the tension between labor and management more acute than at the Metropolitan Opera, the largest performing arts organization in the nation. Its artists and other workers, many of whom have been furloughed without pay

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L.A. Times’ Top Ten List for 2020: The Year’s Best Movies, TV, Music and More

December 17, 2020

Movie theaters closed. Broadway went dark. Concert venues fell silent. But 2020 still led to some special projects in entertainment and arts. Here are some of our picks for the best of the year. There are 12 stories.

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Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen in “Badlands.”

How Terence Malick’s ‘Badlands’ Reinvented Moviegoing

December 16, 2020

It was the summer of 1974, and for my sister and me, there was a gross injustice in the world. I could tell you that the injustice involved saving the whales or impeaching Nixon—but we were entitled teenagers who lived near the beach and equated tanning with personal fulfillment; our outrage was over the fog being in all day.

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WGA, CAA Reach a Deal that Will Bring Writers Back into the Agency Fold

December 16, 2020

Deadline hears that the WGA and CAA have reached an agreement that will bring writers back into the agency fold. “CAA and the WGA have concluded and signed a franchise agreement confirming CAA can resume representing

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Deadline: 10 Hollywood Icons We Lost in 2020

December 16, 2020

There are many reasons 2020 has been hard: the pandemic, political animosity, economic collapse. Amidst all that, the passings of prominent figures have cut deeper. And the list of those we’ve lost in the past 12 months seems to include a disproportionate number of greats, people this world needs

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‘I’ve Never Been So Afraid of Christmas,’ Says California Health Official

December 16, 2020

County Supervisor Doug Chaffee said he received a text message from a medical professional at St. Jude Medical Center last night that indicated the hospital is at “99% capacity.” The hospital’s 301 beds are full with 138 COVID-19

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Sundance Goes (Mostly) Online for 2021 Edition

December 16, 2020

As Sundance director Tabitha Jackson’s reign at the indie film festival gets well underway, the marquee indie US film showcase has gone mostly online with a pandemic-era discovery lineup filled with work by women and BIPOC

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Anita Hill: Hollywood has Reduced Sexual Harassment and Bias, but Can Do Better

December 15, 2020

Anita Hill, chair of The Hollywood Commission, is praising the entertainment industry for embracing its role as a “world influencer” in advancing diversity and inclusion, but says that Hollywood can and must do better. “To its credit, the

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Binelli: What if the Great American Novelist Doesn’t Write Novels?

December 15, 2020

“The fact that Wiseman’s half-century-long project is a series of cinéma-vérité documentaries about American institutions,” writes Mark Binelli in The New York Times, “their titles often reading like generic brand labels — High School, Hospital

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