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When our Great Americans go, we know how to mourn them. But there’s a Great American subset — where the adventure rocks the infrastructure and the life leaves a gash. In some other realm, the football career and its showbiz afterlife, pitching rental cars and enlivening spoofery, would have warranted the plain-old Great American treatment. Are we still in Great American territory? In a place some call “La La Land,” no less.
Persons: Simpson, What’d, spoofery, O.J, Folks, LeVar Burton, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ronald Goldman, beckoning, Organizations: Great Locations: O.J, Africa, La
The group raises a glass and toasts your hospitality — well, everybody except you know who. Susie, who is married to Jeff and clearly finds Larry as much of an irritant as you’ve begun to, asks, “You can’t clink, Larry?” Why should he? “Because it’s a custom that people do, which is friendly and nice.” Larry takes a sip of water and asks the most peculiar question: “What is this, tap?” It is. “Surprised you don’t have a filter.” Do you A. serve him your coldest glance and witheringly reply, “You have no filter,” or B. ask him to leave your home? If you’re Marilyn, you do both.
Persons: Marilyn, you’ve, Larry David, Susie, Jeff, Larry,
There’s nostalgic art. Then there’s art that seems like somebody thawed it after 30 frozen years. They’re by the Indigo Girls. Many of them are songs the Indigo Girls made a certain kind of popular during the years of that very bonanza. Both “Barbie” and the final sequence of a particularly exhilarating episode of “Transparent” use the same Indigo Girls hit (“Closer to Fine”) in a way that proves the power of this music to gather together, win over, wear down, wind up.
Persons: , Patience ”, “ Claire, Tom Waits’s, Emily Saliers, Amy Ray’s, Barbie ”, Lydia Polgreen Organizations: Indigo Locations: Philadelphia
J. Lo and Behold: Is She for Real?
  + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Nobody who winds up at a “what’s the strangest moment in this new J. Lo thingy” contest should worry. None of these people appears to have been on the set at the same time. The only performers persuasively sharing the screen are Jenifer Lewis and Jenifer Lewis, and that’s only because she’s doing Gemini. A number about a quickie wedding is called “Midnight Trip to Vegas,” but the groom has already hand-delivered Lopez’s invitation.
Persons: Lo thingy, Joe, Melfi, Jennifer Lopez’s Tony Soprano bewilder, Jane Fonda, Trevor Noah, Keke Palmer, Post Malone, Kim Petras, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jenifer Lewis, It’s Locations: Vegas
Best Attempt to Change Hearts and MindsAunjanue Ellis-Taylor, “Origin"There is a kind of acting that falls outside technique. Maybe you need training to achieve it — but technical soundness is not what you leave a movie theater thinking about. This is heart acting, by folks who manage to get right inside your chest. I struggled with the cogency of Wilkerson’s theory but not with the passion that Ellis-Taylor musters in acting its development. Now I’m following her into ideas I don’t fully believe for one reason: because she does.
Persons: Aunjanue Ellis, Taylor, Sally Field, Hilary Swank, Ellis, Isabel Wilkerson, , we’ve, what’s, Taylor’s, Taylor musters, I’ve Locations: India, South Los Angeles
It’s too desperate, too confused, too pleased with its petty shocks to rile anything you’d recognize as genuine excitement. This thing was written and directed by Emerald Fennell, whose previous movie was “Promising Young Woman,” a horror flick about rape that was also a revenge comedy. These two meet, in earnest, when Oliver loans Felix his bike, a moment Oliver’s been waiting for. When Oliver tells Felix his father’s just died, Felix extends his Saltburn invitation out of sincere compassion. He’s the one nonwhite major character in “Saltburn,” a fact the movie considers doing something intriguing with but abandons.
Persons: , you’ll, It’s, Emerald Fennell, Fennell’s, Hitchcock, Patricia Highsmith, Oliver Quick he’s, We’re, Oxford — bookish Oliver, Barry Keoghan, rakish Felix, Jacob Elordi, , Bernard, Oliver, Felix, — John Hughes, Fennell, father’s, Felix’s, Elspeth, Rosamund Pike, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Felix who’s, Farleigh Organizations: Oxford, HBO Locations: Saltburn
This year’s memoirs have kept ravenous consumers of celebrity culture well fed. Now, Barbra Streisand joins their ranks with “My Name Is Barbra,” a memoir released on Tuesday. At almost 1,000 pages, “it’s not a book you inhale,” the Times critic at large, Wesley Morris, writes. “Streisand is poring over, pouring out, her life.”Her childhood, in a Brooklyn housing project, was emotionally fraught. Her father died when she was just over a year old; her mother was emotionally unavailable, and her stepfather was distant.
Persons: Prince Harry plumbed, Britney Spears, Elliot Page, Patrick Stewart, Henry Winkler, Kerry Washington, Pamela Anderson, Barbra Streisand, , , “ it’s, Wesley Morris, Streisand, Fanny Brice, Marlon Brando, Pierre Trudeau Organizations: Paris Hilton, Greenwich Village, Canadian Locations: Brooklyn
Barbra Streisand’s long-awaited memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” is nearly a thousand pages of soul-baring and score-settling — with plenty of Yiddish thrown in. Wesley Morris and Alexandra Jacobs discuss the book’s most surprising revelations. Plus, we get a glimpse of Wesley’s visit with the living legend at her Malibu home. On today’s episode
Persons: Barbra Streisand’s, , baring, Wesley Morris, Alexandra Jacobs Locations: Malibu
Rick Kot, an executive editor at Viking who oversaw production on the book, told me, “Publishing books in two volumes is difficult just as a commercial venture. Nor does it inspire the “five takeaways” treatment that juicy new memoirs by Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith have. These are my thoughts.” She also considered those other Streisand titles, the ones by other people. Sydney Chaplin (one of Charlie’s kids) played the original Nick Arnstein during her “Funny Girl” Broadway run; they shared a flirtation that Chaplin wanted to consummate and that Streisand wanted to keep professional. It’s that Barbra Streisand endured a parade of harsh workplaces yet never stopped trying to make the best work.
Persons: Rick Kot, , She’s, you’ve, Britney Spears, Jada Pinkett Smith, Streisand, Christine Pittel, hemming, hawing, , there’s, Sydney Chaplin, Nick Arnstein, Chaplin, Elliott Gould, Dolly, Walter Matthau, Gene Kelly, Matthau, she’s, Brando, Pierre Trudeau, Jon Peters, It’s, Barbra Streisand Organizations: Viking, “ Publishing
They set little traps for Hunham’s arrogance and sic their daddies on the administrators, who then bear down on him. It’s a ritzy, laugh-out-loud Christmas miracle that whisks away four of the boys at the end of the first act. But one of them, an almost cool only-child named Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa), can’t go because nobody can reach his parents. He directed this movie — from a script David Hemingson wrote — and moody, quarrelsome people are his specialty. This is his eighth feature-length movie — “Citizen Ruth,” “Election,” “Sideways,” “About Schmidt,” “The Descendants,” “Nebraska” and “Downsizing” precede this one.
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We could talk, I suppose, about all Taylor Swift’s done for the economy, friendship bracelets, seismology and Travis Kelce. Nor is her show — produced as discrete segments devoted to nine of Swift’s 10 albums — the cultural gymnasium Madonna requires. Swift plays to her enhanced strengths: candied pitch, arresting stature, toothsome songwriting, winking, the very idea of play. Rapt in a movie theater, I felt the song’s heart-wrung pique in a new way. Some of that comes from watching Swift’s face register the ache, tsking recrimination.
Persons: Taylor Swift’s, Travis Kelce, , Sally Field, “ Taylor Swift, it’s, Swift, SoFi, zing, She’s, Jackson, Streisand, Carey, Dion, Knowles, Carter, winking, we’ve, Lionel Richie Organizations: SoFi, MetLife Locations: Los Angeles, East Rutherford, N.J
The new york times magazineHow Hip-Hop Conquered the WorldTrace the art form from its South Bronx origins to its all-encompassing triumph. By Wesley MorrisListen to the story. If you haven’t already, download the New York Times Audio app to hear these stories. The app features exclusive shows, narrated articles and much more, and is available for news subscribers on iOS.
Persons: Wesley Morris Organizations: New York Times
How Hip-Hop Conquered the World
  + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Wesley Morris | More About Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
“La di da di, we like to party” alongside “I never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti.” Hip-hop arose from want. Hip-hop is Julia Roberts after being written off in “Pretty Woman” by that snooty sales lady: Big mistake. There’s almost nowhere hip-hop hasn’t been: the White House, the Pulitzers, the Oscars, the sitcom, the Louvre, syllabi, country radio, fashion week, Sesame Street. Even when its practitioners aren’t Black, maybe especially when they’re white, hip-hop incriminates the country that drove its people to dream it up in the first place. Hip-hop is what this country gets.
Persons: , Gotti, , Julia Roberts, Gucci Mane, Bey, it’s, Eminem, Nicki Minaj, Kendrick Lamar, we’re Organizations: Black America, , bohemians Locations: America
One recent Friday afternoon, I found myself walking a few feet behind a fellow who turned out to be Rodgers. We were both on our ways somewhere in SoHo, and I went out of mine to stick with him for a few extra blocks. At some point, on Grand, a street that doubles as a parking lot at that time of day, a gentleman with taxi-livery plates leaned out of his window and somehow audibly mouthed, “You’re walking behind Aaron Rodgers.” He could have yelled at Rodgers himself. They know that we know and are maybe grateful that we’re letting them be. That’s a question that’s dogged him all over the city, especially at the Tonys: You lost?
Persons: Rodgers, , Aaron Rodgers, We’ve, he’s Organizations: Jets, FedEx, Super Locations: SoHo, York, Green Bay, Soho
‘Wham!’ Review: They Made It Big, Then Broke Up
  + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The new documentary about George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley and the music they made as Wham! — it’s just called “Wham!” — found me in a moment of need for a nostalgic, fantastical elixir, something short, sweet and tangential to my feeling of national blues. For one thing, Wham!, the duo, made soul music that popped. And the movie dances past all of the thorny moral and ethical questions of white people making Black stuff. The disembodied voices of Michael and Ridgeley guide the whole thing — rumination and memory as narration.
Persons: George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley, , George, Barry Manilow, Freddie Mercury, Billy Joel, Oates, Chris Smith, Michael’s, , Ridgeley’s misapprehended, “ Son, Albert, Michael, Ridgeley, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, Richard Simmons Organizations: BBC Locations: England, scrapbooks
This is a 90-minute movie that doesn’t have the bonkers ideas, imagery or attitude to justify the five-plus hours it asks us to pay. But you know, that first episode seemed like it was really up to and onto something. We’re taken inside the hothouse of American celebrity to watch as it wilts beneath the California sun. An important joke is that the horror filmmaker Eli Roth is here, jittering in a small, pretty decent part. And dramaturgically speaking — to quote Jeremy Strong, an actor I’d rather be watching on Sunday nights — “The Idol” is curiously inert.
Persons: WESLEY MORRIS I’m, Jim, it’s, Eli Roth, Tedros Tedros, Lolita ”, Jocelyn, LINDSAY ZOLADZ, I’m, Jeremy Strong, I’d, can’t, Rachel Sennott, Marnie Michaels, plopped, Joy Randolph Organizations: wilts
But reading “The Lottery” as a connect-the-dots political commentary misses the primary source of the story’s power: its ambiguity. Today, readers across the political spectrum seem to be losing their appetite for literary discomfort. I was reminded again of that quality in 2017 by a different story in The New Yorker. Just as the #MeToo movement was getting underway, “Cat Person,” a short story by Kristen Roupenian, went viral for very similar reasons. The reaction was not unlike the reaction to “The Lottery.” “People get angry when they can’t figure out what something means,” Ms. Roupenian told me.
Persons: Jackson, McCarthy, Elizabeth Gilbert, Wesley Morris, we’re, it’s, Kristen Roupenian, Ms, Roupenian Organizations: Yorker, Trump, The Locations: Soviet, Ukraine, Russia, New
Tina Turner, a Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll Covers
  + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones got the treatment, too, and so did “Louie Louie,” with a sultry, little-known rendition which — I’m not even making this up — louielouie.net (“The blog for all things Louie Louie”) called “one of the essential Louie Louie recordings!” with some all-caps emphasis. Tina Turner was a seismic, once-in-a-lifetime musical force, but I don’t need to tell you that; I’ll let this playlist do the talking. And I’ll let my colleague Wesley Morris, who wrote an appraisal worthy of the queen, do some of it too: “They’re saying she was 83? It shot from her — from her feet, thighs, hands, arms, shoulders, out of her hair, out of her mouth.”Listen along on Spotify as you read. “Gimme, gimme, gimme a honky tonk man.” (Listen on YouTube)
“You Hurt My Feelings” sums up the Nicole Holofcener experience: funny in its wounded bluntness. Her characters — comfortable New Yorkers and Angelenos — tend to lash out; their preferred approach to honesty is brazenness. But Holofcener is drawn more to the process of healing than she is to the wielding of hurt. By that point the movie’s already shown us what Beth’s and Don’s lives are like, together and apart. One thing that’s probably kept the marriage firm has been saying “I love this” and “it’s great,” when it’s not.
The title of this new documentary about the artist David Hammons is a mouthful: “The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons.” It’s playing at Film Forum, and I don’t envy whoever has to make it fit the marquee. But they should figure that out because the title feels crucial to the aim of this movie, a sly, toasty, piquant consideration of Hammons’s conceptual art, the way it mocks and eludes easy ownership. Which is to say: the way his art is aware of — the way it’s often about — the stakes for Black people navigating the straits of the market. That piece is like a lot of Hammons’s work: tragicomic. It would have been enough to behold the assortment of thrilling footage of Hammons at work, in conversation and, in one contentious encounter, under interrogation by a group of students.
Harry Belafonte, Folk Hero
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
And rather than simply translate his hot-ticket cabaret act for American living rooms, Belafonte imagined something stranger and more alluring. “The bleaker my acting prospects looked,” Belafonte wrote, in “My Song,” his memoir from 2011, “the more I threw myself into political organizing.” That organizing took familiar forms — marches, protests, rallies. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with Coretta Scott King as the beneficiary, because Dr. King didn’t believe he could afford it. (“Martin began drafting his antiwar speech in my apartment.”) So, yes, Belafonte was near the psychic core and administrative center of the movement. But those bleak Hollywood prospects — some incalculable combination of racism and too-raw talent — kept Belafonte uniquely earthbound, doing a kind of cultural organizing.
Miss Honey!” And it’s as close to the B-52’s as a Beyoncé song might ever come. The album’s embrace of house and not, say, trap unambiguously aligns Beyoncé with queer Black folks. On “Blow,” Beyoncé wondered how it felt for her partner when he made love to her. The album’s final song is “Summer Renaissance,” and it opens with the thrum of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love.” It’s not the first time she’s quoted La Donna. It’s in the album’s rich middle, which includes that sofa song and “Virgo’s Groove,” maybe the most luscious track Beyoncé’s ever recorded.
Persons: pop’s, , Moi Renee bellowing, Honey, Kate, Fred, Keith, Beyoncé, It’s, ” Beyoncé, Donna Summer’s “, ” It’s, she’s, Donna, you’ve
Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times Talk Jerrod Carmichael Was Scared of Coming Out. Anything other than “I’m gay” was me dodging. Everything was actually “I’m gay.” But it’s still dodged. The working title of “Rothaniel” was “I’m Gay.” There are certain phrases that have no substitute. Like “I’m gay” or telling someone “I’m sorry.” But people can live in cognitive dissonance.
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Publicaţiile The New York Times, The Atlantic şi Star Tribune, precum şi agenţia de ştiri Reuters s-au numărat vineri printre câştigătorii premiilor Pulitzer, cele mai prestigioase distincţii din jurnalismul american. Au fost premiate articole despre pandemia de COVID-19 și despre inechităţi rasiale în acţiunile forţelor de ordine din Statele Unite, subiecte care au dominat ceremonia desfășurată online, scrie digi24.roPremiile Pulitzer, cele mai prestigioase distincţii din jurnalismul american, au fost create de ziaristul american de origine maghiara Joseph Pulitzer şi se acordă începând cu anul 1917. Câştigătorul fiecărei categorii primeşte 15 000 de dolari, cu excepţia laureatului pentru Public Service, care primeşte o medalie de aur. Pulitzer se acordă în 21 de categorii, dintre care 14 sunt dedicate jurnalismului, iar şapte recompensează realizări deosebite în domeniul artelor. Literatură, dramaturgie, muzică
Persons: precum, ştiri, câştigătorii premiilor, COVID, maghiara Joseph Pulitzer şi, Câştigătorul, aur, Pulitzer, Lista, investigaţie, Matt Rocheleau, Vernal, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen şi Brendan McCarthy de la, explicativ, Ed Yong de, Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Dowdell, Jackie Botts de, Kathleen McGrory şi Neil Bedi de, Rajagopalan, Alison Killing şi Christo Buschek de, creativ, Nadja Drost, şi Mitchell, Jackson, Comentariu – Michael Paul Williams de, Cronică – Wesley Morris de, – Robert Greene de, Fotoreportaj – Emilio Morenatti de, Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, Graham Smith şi Robert Little, muzică Organizations: New York Times, Atlantic şi Star Tribune, ştiri Reuters, Public Service, The New York Times, Redacţia Star Tribune, Evan Allen şi Brendan McCarthy de la The Boston Globe, Reuters, Tampa Bay Times, Institute, California Sunday, Comentariu – Michael Paul Williams de la Richmond Times, – Robert Greene de la Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, National Public Locations: Minneapolis, Jurnalism, Vernal Coleman, Birmingham, IndyStar, Indianapolis, Chicago, Alison Killing şi Christo Buschek de la, New York, California
Aceştia au împărţit premiul pentru „Jurnalism explicativ” cu Ed Yong, de la The Atlantic, care a fost apreciat de comitetul Pulitzer pentru „o serie de articole lucide şi definitorii despre pandemia de Covid-19”. În categoria „Serviciu public”, a fost recompensată publicaţia The New York Times pentru relatarea „profetică şi extinsă” a pandemiei de coronavirus. Dineul dedicat câştigătorilor, care în mod tradiţional are loc imediat după ceremonia de decernare, şi este găzduit de Universitatea Columbia, a fost amânat pentru toamnă. Premiile Pulitzer, cele mai prestigioase distincţii din jurnalismul american, au fost create de ziaristul american de origine maghiara Joseph Pulitzer şi se acordă începând cu anul 1917. Pulitzer se acordă în 21 de categorii, dintre care 14 sunt dedicate jurnalismului, iar şapte recompensează realizări deosebite în domeniul artelor.
Persons: George Floyd, Reuters, Yong, Marques, Robert Greene, scriitoarei Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer, Joseph Pulitzer, Matt Rocheleau, Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen, Brendan McCarthy, Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jackie Botts, Kathleen McGrory, Neil Bedi, Alison, Mitchell S . Jackson, Michael Paul Williams, Wesley Morris, Morenatti, Hagen, Chris Haxel, Graham Smith, Robert Little Organizations: Star, The, Associated Press, Comitetul, New York, Boston Globe, Universitatea Columbia, Public, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Tampa Bay Times, Marshall, Chicago Jurnalism, News, Magazine, Richmond Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated, National Public Locations: Atlantic, Agerpres, Los Angeles Times, New, New York Times, american, The New York, Minneapolis Jurnalism, Tampa, AL.com, Birmingham, IndyStar, Indianapolis, Chicago, New York, California, Los Angeles
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