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☆ An Actor Channeling the Folklore of His Ancestors
  + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Reggie Ugwu | More About Reggie Ugwu | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Two of Eric Berryman’s favorite things are drinking tea and telling stories, both of which were on the agenda on a recent rainy afternoon in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo. “This first infusion I’m going to do is just to awaken the leaves and open things up,” he said, beginning with the tea. “You could drink it, but it wouldn’t be very flavorful.”Serving an audience of one, in a ramshackle office space and storage room above the Performing Garage theater, Berryman poured hot water from a portable kettle over a pile of loose, Chinese black tea leaves in a small vessel. The water turned a deep amber as the leaves softened and unfurled. After a moment, he poured the liquid away, refilled the vessel and served the tea in two gleaming white cups.
Persons: Eric Berryman’s, ”, Berryman, cocreated Organizations: Wooster, Atlanta, Black Disney Locations: Manhattan, SoHo, sips
☆ The Met Opera Puts On a Malcolm X Marathon
  + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Reggie Ugwu | Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. | More About Reggie Ugwu | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
For 18 hours on a rainy Sunday this Halloween weekend, the Metropolitan Opera House was visited by the ghost of Malcolm X. Words made famous by the Black nationalist leader and civil rights figure in his classic autobiography, dictated to Alex Haley and posthumously published in 1965, could be heard echoing throughout the soaring lobby of the Lincoln Center theater. It was a welcomed haunting, conjured by the Met in conjunction with a new production of Anthony Davis’s opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” which premieres on Friday.
Persons: Malcolm X, Alex Haley, Anthony Davis’s Organizations: Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, Met
☆ The Rock’s Wax Figure Will Get Redo, Museum Says
  + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Reggie Ugwu | More About Reggie Ugwu | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A wax museum in Paris said it would change its recently unveiled statue of Dwayne Johnson, better known as the Rock, after a week of ridicule on social media and a plea from the actor himself. The statue, unveiled last Monday by the Grévin Museum — the French equivalent of Madame Tussauds — depicted the “Fast and the Furious” star and former W.W.E. Critics online quickly mocked several aspects of the likeness, especially the skin tone, which many described as noticeably lighter than Johnson’s. “Who is this because uhhhh … You do know he’s Samoan and Black right lol?” wrote one commenter. An Instagram post about the “melanin deficient” statue on the popular celebrity news account The Shade Room received over 40,000 comments.
Persons: Dwayne Johnson, Madame Tussauds —, ”, Johnson, James Andre Jefferson Jr, ” Johnson Organizations: Grévin Locations: Paris
☆ 8 TikTokers Redefining the Movie Review
  + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Reggie Ugwu | More About Reggie Ugwu | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
The personalities of MovieTok are not critics in the traditional sense. Their upbeat videos earn them contracts with Hollywood studios in addition to the devotion of movie lovers. These accounts offer a sampling of the new breed of movie reviewers.
Organizations: Hollywood
☆ They Review Movies on TikTok, but Don’t Call Them Critics
  + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Reggie Ugwu | More About Reggie Ugwu | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Unlike film departments at major metropolitan newspapers or national magazines, individuals on MovieTok generally don’t aspire to review every noteworthy film. “A lot of us don’t trust critics,” said Lucious, 31. “They watch movies and are just looking for something to critique,” he said. “Fans watch movies looking for entertainment.”MovieTok creators are not the first in the history of film criticism to rebel against their elders. And movie bloggers in the 2000s charged print critics with indifference or hostility to superhero and fantasy films.
Persons: Joe Aragon, Monse Gutierrez, Bryan Lucious, Seth Mullan, ”, Lucious, “, François Truffaut, Jean, Luc Godard, du Cinéma, Pauline Kael, Bosley Crowther, “ There’s, Mattias Frey, Noël Carrol Organizations: du, New Yorker, The New York Times, City University of London
☆ The Personal Back Story Driving ‘They Cloned Tyrone’
  + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Reggie Ugwu | More About Reggie Ugwu | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Where did “Tyrone” start for you? I knew I wanted to do a mystery, like a bootleg Scooby-Doo where the detectives are inadequate but somehow uniquely equipped. He had gotten arrested for something when we were 18 or 19 that ended up changing the course of his life. I started thinking a lot about blame and responsibility and that’s when all the elements of the movie came together. A lot of times it’s a song, or a piece of score and I’ll be trying to recapture how that feels.
Persons: Tyrone ”, Tony, Dion, ”, II ”, Fontaine, I’ll, Bootsy Collins, Mary Jane Girls, Patrice Rushen, Alicia Myers —, Pat, UGK
☆ Actors’ Strike Leaves Celebrity Podcasts in Grey Zone
  + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Reggie Ugwu | More About Reggie Ugwu | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Actors who host podcasts were divided on how or whether to continue their programs this week, as the 8-day-old Hollywood actors’ strike reverberated through an adjacent industry that didn’t exist during the union’s last work stoppage 43 years ago. The official targets of the strike are film and television productions associated with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a group that includes all of the major Hollywood studios and streamers like Netflix, Amazon and Apple. But messaging from the actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA, barring promotion of past or future work for the studios has left some members unsure of whether their podcasts are in violation of union policy. The actors hosting podcasts that recap the TV shows “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “One Tree Hill” and “Bones,” for example, canceled or did special episodes this week.
Persons: ” Organizations: Alliance, Television Producers, Hollywood, Netflix, SAG Locations: Philadelphia
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