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☆ Festival crowd boos at video of conference speakers gushing about how great AI is
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Camilo Fonseca | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Video emerged on social media of the audience loudly booing a conference sizzle reel that featured several industry leaders speaking positively about AI. The sizzle reel played before several film premieres at the festival, including "The Fall Guy" and "Immaculate," Variety reported. In a statement to BI, Carter said her SXSW panel on the future of AI was "a standout event." AdvertisementThe other panelists shown in the sizzle reel did not return requests for comment before publication. The growing impact of AI is a concern felt across the film industry.

Persons: —, Guy, Peter Deng, OpenAI, Sandy Carter, didn't, 46OXfiIk0r — Marcelo, Rony Abovitz, Magic, Abovitz, OpenAI's Peter Deng, Carter, Variety, Ashley Landis, Sora, Tyler Perry, Armour Organizations: Service, SXSW, Business, Sun Locations: South, Southwest

☆ ‘World’s coolest’ streets for 2024 named by Time Out
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

To produce the 2024 lineup, the global listings guide’s network of editors and writers chipped in to make the case for their favorite streets in their respective cities. High Street’s also great for bar hopping, suggests Time Out, highlighting “intimate and exclusive” rooftop bar Gigi Rooftop and buzzing dance spot Francesca’s Bar. Commerical Drive in Vancouver, Canada is number five on Time Out's list of coolest streets. Rua da Boavista in Lisbon, Portugal is number seven on Time Out's list. High Street, Melbourne2.

Persons: company’s, Leah Glynn, Glynn, ” It’s, Gertrude Street, Melbourne’s omnipresence, ”, Street’s, Marco Finanzio, Gigi, ” Finanzio, “, Ben Mathieson, it’s, ” Matheison, Mathieson, Mo Temple, Kenny Dorham’s, Consell, Rua da, Kathy deWitt, Arnaldo Quintela, Consell de Organizations: CNN, Out, Smith, Casa Nata, CNN Travel, Hollywood, Michelin, East Eleventh, Wine Bar, Rua da Boavista, Bikram, Eleventh Locations: Melbourne, Out Melbourne, Australian, Northcote, Thornbury, Preston, Casa, Francesca’s, Vancouver, Canada, Hong Kong, Mo, Austin , Texas, Barcelona, Spain, Lisbon, Portugal, Bikram Yoga, Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Jalan Petaling, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, backstreets, Argentina, Malaysia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Japan

☆ Bananarama hasn't heard Taylor Swift's 'Cruel Summer,' but they wish she'd covered their song with the same name instead
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bananarama members say they haven't heard Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer." "I would have preferred her recording mine, because then I could have made some of her money," Keren Woodward told Billboard. AdvertisementBananarama — who has a song called "Cruel Summer" — says they haven't heard Taylor Swift's hit of the same name. AdvertisementSwift's "Cruel Summer" hit the top of Billboard's Hot 100 chart in October 2023, four years after it was released. "Deja Vu," a song off Rodrigo's debut album "Sour" was embroiled in a copyright controversy after fans noted the similarities between the song and Swift's "Cruel Summer."

Persons: Taylor, Keren Woodward, —, Bananarama —, haven't, Taylor Swift's, Sara Dallin, Dallin, hasn't, Woodward, I've, Swift, It's, Olivia Rodrigo, Rodrigo, Swift —, Jack Antonoff, Anne Clark, Vincent —, Clark, Nigro Organizations: Billboard, Service, British Locations: Irish

☆ Documentary reveals stars including James Marsden and Alan Thicke wrote letters of support for the acting coach charged with sexually abusing a 15-year-old Drake Bell
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The "Growing Pains" star Joanna Kerns told the producers of "Quiet on Set" that her letter was based on misinformation. He appeared in minor roles in the 1980s, '90s, and early aughts, including in the sitcoms "Growing Pains" and "Boy Meets World," the film adaptation of "Holes," and the blockbuster "X-Men." AdvertisementStrong and Friedle discussed their support of Peck on a February episode of "Pod Meets World," the "Boy Meets World" rewatch podcast they cohost with their former costar Danielle Fishel. The "Boy Meets World" actors said on the podcast that Peck acknowledged he was guilty of something involving a minor. They said that when they asked him about the case, Peck "simply replied that 'the problem had been resolved.'"

Persons: Drake Bell, Brian Peck's, Peck, Bell, " Peck, Maxine, James Marsden, Alan Thicke, Friedle, Rider Strong, Taran Killam, — Rich, Beth Correll —, Zack, Cody, Joanna Kerns, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dan Schneider, Drake, Josh, Strong, Danielle Fishel, Forrest Gump, Bell's, Dylan, Cole Sprouse, Rich Correll, Beth Correll, Corrells, Disney, Jason Handy, Kate Taylor, Mary Robertson, Emma Schwartz Organizations: Service, Kids, Maxine Productions, Hollywood, Disney, Nickelodeon, Los Angeles Times, Disney XD, Nickelodeon Studios, Ezell, Sony Pictures, Business Locations: Hollywood

☆ In Russia, There Is Something Putin Can’t Control - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Joy Neumeyer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Today, Bulgakov’s formula is being put to the test once again in Russia, where a new film adaptation of the book has caused a scandal. “The Master and Margarita” captured the surreal atmosphere of dark forces and mysterious disappearances in the 1930s Soviet Union. In the invasion’s wake, President Vladimir Putin has made sweeping attempts to restrict creative expression. Ahead of a presidential election expected to extend his tenure by six more years, Mr. Putin appears politically impregnable. Yet try all he might, he can’t control culture.

Persons: Margarita, ” Mikhail Bulgakov’s, Margarita ”, They’ve, Vladimir Putin, ”, —, Putin Organizations: Ministry of Culture Locations: Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, American, Ukraine

☆ Opinion: Kristen Stewart thriller is also a reminder of what queer kids are up against
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The biggest threat to queer kids is too often their own homophobic parents. Noah Berlatsky Noah BerlatskyRose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding” wrestles with issues of queerness and parental cruelty with unusual and admirable directness. The couple at the center of “Love Lies Bleeding” are Lou (Kristen Stewart), a chain smoking, depressive gym manager and Jackie (Katy O’Brian), a would-be bodybuilding champion. Writer-director Rose Glass and actor Kristen Stewart in discussion on the set of "Love Lies Bleeding." Lou Sr.’s abuse is analogous to homophobic abuse and parallel with homophobic abuse, but it isn’t quite actually homophobic abuse.

Persons: Noah Berlatsky, Noah Berlatsky Noah Berlatsky Rose, doesn’t, Lou, Kristen Stewart, Jackie, Katy O’Brian, Lou Sr, Ed Harris, That’s, Rose Glass, Anna Kooris, It’s, Beth, Jena Malone, JJ, Dave Franco, Jackie’s, David Lynch’s, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert’s, ”, Tofilska Organizations: CNN, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University Locations: Chicago, Jena

☆ Ad insiders are buzzing about industry power broker Michael Kassan's messy split with UTA and what it means for the future of MediaLink
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

After falling out with Kassan, UTA may think twice about buying another agency. The media and ad industry will be watching to see what, if any, leadership changes UTA makes at MediaLink. The end of the ad industry schmoozefest? One industry veteran said they saw Kassan's exit as an opportunity to change how ad industry consultants operate and charge for services. At the center of the dispute between UTA and Kassan is the MediaLink founder's $950,000 annual expense account.

Persons: Michael Kassan, MediaLink, Kassan, Jeremy Zimmer, Kassan wasn't, Vianney Tisseau, headhunting, Jon Miller, Sanford Michelman, Michelman, Robinson, Ethan Miller, Julian Jacobs, David Anderson, WME, Kassan's, Wenda Harris Millard, wasn't, what's, There's, Lou Paskalis, Marc Sternberg's, Lady Gaga, Elton John, Mariah Carey, Tom Brady, Rob Norman, WPP's Organizations: UTA, Cannes Lions, Consumer, Business, Los Angeles Superior Court, Los, Judicial, Mediation Services, Variety Cannes Lions Studio, Integrated Media, Getty, Talent, Accenture, General Motors, Netflix, JUV Consulting, Madison, Endeavor, Writers Guild of America, Zimmer, Western Initiative Media Worldwide, Interpublic Group, Bank of America, AJL, Marc Sternberg's Brand, Kassan, Southwest, NFL Locations: MediaLink, Cannes, France, Madison, Droga5, Hollywood, Kassan, California, South, Austin

☆ Opinion | Gabriel García Márquez Did Not Want His Final Book Published. But Should That Really Be the End of the Story?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Álvaro Santana-Acuña | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before his death, García Márquez asked his sons, Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García Barcha, to destroy the novel. The life of a work of art does not end when its creator dies. Artists too rarely leave clear instructions on what to do with their works, especially unfinished ones, which can lead to messy legal battles. The heirs inherit the responsibility to preserve and promote the artist’s legacy so that it can be appreciated for generations to come. The truth is that if García Márquez’s sons had done as their father asked, they would most likely have been met with criticism, too.

Persons: Gabriel García Márquez, “, ”, who’ve, García Márquez, Rodrigo García, Gonzalo García Barcha, García Organizations: Artists

☆ Jimmy Kimmel Explains His Run-In (Sort of) With Trump at the Oscars
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Trish Bendix | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. OscarworthyFresh from hosting the Oscars on Sunday, Jimmy Kimmel detailed on Monday night how he’d come to poke fun in real time at one viewer: Donald Trump, who posted criticism of Kimmel’s performance during the broadcast. (“Isn’t it past your jail time?” Kimmel asked the ex-president from the stage.) “We were backstage, the show was almost over, and one of our writers was like, ‘Hey, look at this,’ and I was like, well, to quote Al Pacino, ‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in,’ and I had to read it,” Kimmel said.

Persons: Jimmy Kimmel, Donald Trump, ” Kimmel, “, Al Pacino, ‘ Organizations: Netflix Locations: ’

☆ Tech workers reported feeling increasingly dissatisfied with their salaries. Layoffs may be fueling the frustration.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Researchers at the tech job board surveyed 6,166 of the site's registered users and visitors near the end of 2023 to understand how tech workers feel about their salaries. But despite making almost double the amount the typical American does, tech workers surveyed reported feeling increasingly dissatisfied with their salaries. Tech workers early in their careers reported feeling more dissatisfied with how much they make than those with over 15 years of experience. "Now that companies are right-sizing staff and their salaries, they're also limiting bigger increases on salaries that became standard in previous years." Still, challenging economic conditions don't necessarily mean it's impossible for tech workers now to land a highly coveted, well-paying job.

Persons: —, Dice, they're, J.T, O'Donnell, that's Organizations: Service, Business, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Tech, Meta, Google Locations: Silicon Valley

☆ He was once hailed as the pride of China. Now nationalists are coming for this Nobel laureate
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Now, some of China’s most zealous online nationalists have a new target in their crosshairs: the country’s first officially recognized Nobel laureate. Mo Yan receives the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden during an award ceremony on December 10, 2012 in Stockholm. He accused Wu of creating a publicity stunt by “maliciously framing” the Nobel laureate and taking his words out of context. In 2011, he was named the vice chairman of the state-run Chinese Writers Association – an appointment that could not have been made without the blessing of the party. In 2022, Sima Nan, a nationalist pundit known for his inflammatory criticism of the United States, famously accused Mo’s Nobel win of being a Western effort to smear China.

Persons: Hong Kong CNN — They’ve, Mo Yan, Xi Jinping, Xi, Wu Wanzheng, Mao Xinghuo, Wu, Guan Moye, –, Mo, King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, Jonathan Nackstrand, ” Zhang Yongsheng, Hu Xijin, Hu, ”, Murong Xuecun, “ Xi, Mao, Writers Association –, Liu Xiaobo, Liu, caricaturize, “, doesn’t, Sima Nan, Mo’s Nobel, ” Murong Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Communist Party, Communist, Getty, Red Guards, Tongji University, Global Times, Writers Association, Chinese Writers Association Locations: China, Hong Kong, Mo, Weibo, Stockholm, AFP, Shanghai, Beijing, Shandong, United States

☆ Opinion: Oscars highlights from our culture critics
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Cnn Opinion | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

CNN —Five CNN Opinion culture critics share their takeaways from the 96th Academy Awards. Gene Seymour: Hollywood’s next existential questionMost of the big, expensive movies walked away with Oscars Sunday night. Ryan Gosling performs the song "I'm Just Ken" from the movie "Barbie" during the Oscars on Sunday. Rita Moreno delivered a spicy ode to best supporting actress nominee America Ferrera, noting that her monologue from “Barbie” was one of the most memorable film moments. And the winners are... Robert Downey Jr. for best supporting actor in "Oppenheimer; Da'Vine Joy Randolph for best supporting actress in "The Holdovers"; Emma Stone for best actress in "Poor Things" and Cillian Murphy for best actor in "Oppenheimer."

Persons: Gene Seymour, Hollywood’s, Gene Seymour Jeremy Freeman, CNN Cord Jefferson, ” Jefferson, Jefferson, “, ” Cord Jefferson, Kevin Winter, “ Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, “ Barbie, ”, Billie Eilish, O’Connell, “ Barbie ”, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Mark Harris, Sara Stewart, Barbie ”, Sara Stewart Todd Thompson, Ryan Gosling’s, “ I’m, Ken, Finneas O’Connell, Oscar, Eilish –, –, ” Eilish, “ Oppenheimer ”, Greta Gerwig’s, Gerwig, Margot Robbie, Jimmy Kimmel’s, “ Barbie ” snubs, Ryan Gosling, Chris Pizzello, Gosling –, snubs –, Eilish, Rita Moreno, America Ferrera, Jeff Yang, they’ve, Jack Palance, Seth McFarlane, Chris Rock, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, they’d, ” Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jimmy Kimmel, Catherine O’Hara, Michael Keaton, Twinsies Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Dale, Cord Jefferson, Finneas O'Connell, Barbie, Mike Blake, Kimmel, Donald Trump, Al Pacino, Pacino, — “ Oppenheimer, Celine Song, Bruce ”, ” Noah Berlatsky, Lily Gladstone, Noah Berlatsky Noah Berlatsky, Mollie Burkhart, Emma Stone, Cord Jefferson’s, Joy Randolph’s, Justine Triet’s, Randolph, Gladstone, Martin Scorsese’s, Burkhart, Ernest, Leonardo DiCaprio, Scorsese, she’s, DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, Emma Stone’s, Bella, Noah Berlatsky, Holly Thomas, isn’t Robert Downey Jr, It’s, ” Holly Thomas Holly Thomas, Brett Easton Ellis’s, Timothee Chalamet, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Downey Jr, Tony Stark, Downey, Oppenheimer, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Arturo Holmes, Louis Strauss, Katie Couric Organizations: CNN —, CNN, Warner Bros ., Hollywood, New York, The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment, The Washington, Twitter, Abbott, Disney, Reuters, Teamsters, International Alliance, Employees, Globe, The, “, Downey, North, Katie Couric Media Locations: Pennsylvania, La, Asian America, America, Osage Nation of Oklahoma, Chicago, ”, Zendaya, North America, London

☆ Our Favorite Photos From the Oscars Red Carpet
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Sinna Nasseri | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The 96th Academy Awards bowed on Sunday with a return to tradition: The red carpet was, well, red. A year after Hollywood’s stars made their way across a champagne-colored rug, and several months after work stoppages led by actors’ and writers’ unions came to an end, they were greeted once again by the familiar décor. And judging by the bright smiles captured by our photographer, Sinna Nasseri, who was on hand at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, those in attendance were in the mood to celebrate. The starry arrivals included cast and crew of the year’s most-talked-about films, from “Barbie” to “Oppenheimer” (the night’s big winner with seven Oscars) to “Poor Things.” A few of our favorite Oscars snaps are below for your scrolling pleasure. — REBECCA THOMAS

Persons: ’, Sinna Nasseri, “ Barbie ”, “ Oppenheimer ”, REBECCA THOMAS Organizations: Dolby Theater Locations: Los Angeles

☆ William Whitworth, Revered Writer and Editor, Is Dead at 87
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Sam Roberts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

William Whitworth, who wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker giving voice to his idiomatic subjects and polished the prose of some of the nation’s celebrated writers as its associate editor before transplanting that magazine’s painstaking standards to The Atlantic, where he was editor in chief for 20 years, died on Friday in Conway, Ark., near Little Rock. His daughter, Katherine Whitworth Stewart, announced the death. She said he was being treated after several falls and operations in a hospital. As a young college graduate, Mr. Whitworth forsook a promising career as a jazz trumpeter to do a different kind of improvisation as a journalist. He covered breaking news for The Arkansas Gazette and later for The New York Herald Tribune, where his colleagues eventually included some of the most exhilarating voices in American journalism, among them Dick Schaap, Jimmy Breslin and Tom Wolfe.

Persons: William Whitworth, Katherine Whitworth Stewart, Whitworth forsook, Dick Schaap, Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe Organizations: Yorker, The Arkansas Gazette, The New York Herald Tribune Locations: Conway, Little Rock

☆ Cramming for the Oscars
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I’m in competition with no one but myself in trying to view all the major-category nominees for the Oscars before the ceremony tomorrow night. I’m doing well this year, probably because the slate is fairly small: Most of the films with acting and screenplay nominations are also contenders for best picture. The problem with cramming for the Oscars, as I do every year to varying degrees of success, is that it renders one cinematically wearied. If I fail to squeeze in a nominated film before the ceremony, I’ll probably never see that film at all. I love the Oscars, with all their pageantry and pomposity.

Persons: I’ll, Mark Harris, ”, Harris, ’, “ we’d Organizations: Hollywood

☆ The incredible story of how POWs played golf at the ‘Great Escape’ prison camp
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

In comparison to other POW camps under German control, captives at Stalag Luft III received “excellent” treatment for the majority of the war, according to a 1944 US Military Intelligence Service (MIS) report. The rubber from such items would wrap around the core and then be cased within leather stripped from shoes — a process eerily reminiscent of “featheries,” some of the earliest post-wooden golf balls ever made. Immortalized in a book and then a film of the same name, what became known as the “The Great Escape” wasn’t even the first breakout at Stalag Luft III. When three prisoners made a successful escape, suspicious German eyes homed in on the golf course and its sprawling mounds and greens. In 1979, he donated two balls he made while in Stalag Luft III to the USGA Golf Museum, artifacts that headline its exhibit on golf during the Second World War.

Persons: — “, Stalag Luft, —, “, ”, John Strege, Pat Ward, Thomas, Victoria Nenno, ” Nenno, Tee, Sydney Smith, Smith, Ward, John Mummert, Thomas ’, Sagan, Stalag, Roger Bushell’s, Tom, ” “ Dick, Harry ” —, Adolf Hitler Organizations: CNN, Luftwaffe, British Royal Air Force, RAF, United States Army Air Force, Military Intelligence Service, Geneva Convention, USGA Golf, PGA, Stalag Luft, USGA Museum, Ward, Thomas, USGA, RAF Squadron, Guardian, USGA Golf Museum Locations: Nazi Germany, Berlin, Zagan, Poland, Norway, New Zealand, Geneva, Netherlands, New Jersey, Ward, Germany, —, England

☆ To Make ‘The Notebook’ a Musical, She Wove in Memories of Her Parents
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Rob Tannenbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s crowded and overlit, thanks to a high-wattage vanity mirror situated near a 1970s-era mini sink. “Quirky” is a word that turns up in articles about her, and quirky is rarely a mass-market trait. In 2004, it was adapted into a film starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, and its feverishly passionate dialogue (“It wasn’t over. It still isn’t over!” Gosling shouts, in the middle of a rainstorm.) Wielding a double-barreled shotgun in his review for The New York Times, the critic Stephen Holden dismissed Sparks’s book as “treacly” and called the film “a high-toned cinematic greeting card.”

Persons: Gerald Schoenfeld, Ingrid Michaelson, “, ”, “ There’s, Michaelson, Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, Sara Bareilles — Michaelson, Nicholas Sparks’s, Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, ” Gosling, Stephen Holden, Sparks’s Organizations: The New York Times

☆ Even some Republicans panned Sen. Katie Britt's disastrous State of the Union response
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"Katie Britt passionately made the case on the need for a new direction and is being criticized by the liberal media. The State of the Union response is incredibly difficult. No State of the Union response could live up to that. Democrats, in particular, mocked how Britt delivered her lines with the passion of actor in search of an elusive Oscar. Tonight's response will be delivered by Sen. Katie Britt, who is 42. https://t.co/llQgQu8iX9 — Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) March 8, 2024Biden is doing quite well for himself.

Persons: —, Sen, Katie Britt, Joe Biden's, Britt, Katie Boyd Britt, Olivia Perez, Cubas, Nikki Haley's, Alyssa Farah Griffin, I've, Griffin, CNN's Alyssa Farah Griffin, 41Fi6GKAQy, Justin Baragona, Joe Biden, Sean Ross, it's, Ronald Reagan's, Mr, Gorbachev, Heck, Bill Clinton's, Britt wasn't, Oscar, Pete Buttigieg, Britt shouldn't, Biden, Reagan, Grace Segers Organizations: Service, Alabama Republican, Republican Party's, Business, Trump White House, CNN, New York Times, Union, Republican, Daily, White House Locations: Alabama, Joe Biden's State, Washington

☆ Spurned, Slighted, Rejected: 25 Oscar Snubs We’ll Never Get Over
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Every year since the Academy Awards were invented, somebody has been overlooked, ignored, passed over, disregarded or brushed off. You know what they say about beauty and beholders. But perceived Oscar omissions — snubs, as we have come to call them — have grown into a frenzied annual conversation, with people left off the nomination list, or nominated but denied a statuette, sometimes receiving as much attention, or more, as those who win. These are the 25 true snubs and unjust losses that Times film critics, columnists, writers and editors still can’t get over. Read more →‘Do the Right Thing’ for Best Picture (1990)Actual winner: “Driving Miss Daisy”

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☆ What to expect in Friday’s jobs report
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —Don’t be surprised if Friday’s jobs report shows that February’s employment gains were far below those reported for January. In fact, it would continue a history-making stretch of labor market expansion. Friday’s jobs report could very well provide a more reliable read on what’s actually happening in the labor market than the jobs reports of recent months’ past, Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter, told CNN. “And so, February might give us a better understanding of the underlying rate of job growth,” she said. What the other labor market data is showingOther economic data released this week reinforces the idea that the US labor market is cooling but remains on solid footing.

Persons: New York CNN — Don’t, Julia Pollak, autoworkers, what’s, hasn’t, Nixon, ” Ron Hetrick, Gus Faucher, stayers ”, Faucher, ”, ” Nela Richardson, outplacement, ” Andrew Challenger, Lydia Boussour, EY, “ Organizations: New, New York CNN, CNN, of Labor Statistics, PNC Financial Services, BLS, Labor, Boomers, ADP, Challenger, ”, Labor Department Locations: New York, US

Today, Celeste reads a “Modern Love” essay about exactly that bond, a mother trying desperately to reach her child. Why do you think you’re so drawn to tiny things? If you’re going to make something in miniature, you have to spend a lot of time really looking at it. Because, OK, Betsey’s daughter spray paints, “Too many bushes, not enough trees,” and you’re going around putting, honestly, beautiful lines of T.S. So there is something about that language that even if you think you’re rational, it’s getting to you somehow.

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☆ Why Power Eludes the French Left
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Elisabeth Zerofsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As transit walkouts snarled traffic and sanitation strikes caused trash to pile up in the streets, the protests were ridiculed abroad. Why must the French, among the best-protected workers in the Western world, make such a racket over two years of work? But for the demonstrators, this missed the point: It is because French workers put up a fight that they are protected. France has always been a vanguard of leftist politics. How it fares says much about where the left may be headed and the headwinds it faces, not just in France but throughout the West.

Persons: Samira Organizations: Writers Guild of America, United Auto Workers, UPS Teamsters, National Health Service Locations: Teleperformance, France, United States, Britain

Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with the politics writers Joe Klein and Olivia Nuzzi to discuss the state of the likely Biden-Trump race, this week’s State of the Union address and the state of possible third-party threats. Frank Bruni: Olivia, Joe, I’m so psyched to be doing this with two journalists I so hugely admire. What, really, are the chances that something happens today, or tomorrow, or when President Biden delivers his State of the Union remarks on Thursday, that translates into either him or Donald Trump not being on the November ballot? And which of those two would be more likely not to be? Olivia Nuzzi: Aside from biblical intervention, I don’t think anything could possibly happen this week, in the primaries or at the State of the Union address that would dramatically shift the conversation.

Persons: Frank Bruni, Joe Klein, Olivia Nuzzi, Olivia, Joe, —, Biden, Donald Trump Organizations: Biden, Trump, State Locations: week’s State

☆ The Juggernaut promised to revolutionize South Asian news. But insiders say the company's founder misled investors, struggled to raise money, and left workers 'heartbroken.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Katie Warren | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +33 min

They were gathered for the inaugural summit of The Juggernaut, a digital South Asian news startup that launched in 2019. The Juggernaut spokesperson told BI that "multiple employees have equity in the company," but BI was unable to identify any such employees. "Twenty years ago, you might've struggled to mention a South Asian actor that you've seen in a movie," he said. As of January, the site had about 10,500 subscribers, Sur told investors in an email viewed by BI. Some feel that the publication has strayed from its mission of delivering "untold, smart South Asian stories and news you won't find anywhere else."

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☆ Opinion: Why a line of dialogue truly can define a film
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Opinion Arash Azizi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“Frankly, I hate dialogue,” Villeneuve told The Times of London. I don’t remember movies because of a good line, I remember movies because of a strong image. This supposed truism is heard everywhere in the film world and even taught to film writers. Cinema has never been a language of “pure image and sound.”Even in the age of silent films, dialogue rendered as inter-titles was critical to cinema. Charlie Chaplin stars in his 1931 silent film, "City Lights."

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