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☆ Actors Seeking Stability Turn to Directing at the Toronto Festival
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Soraya Roberts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Why do we even bother going through this whole dog-and-pony show trying to figure out who else can do this movie? While almost half the actor-director films at Toronto are by women, everyone knows by now the challenges female filmmakers face behind the camera. While some independent films have secured interim agreements if they agree to union demands, this year’s festival has seen few American filmmakers and actors doing promotion. Despite that, “Woman of the Hour” still landed the first major sale of the festival in a reported $11 million deal with Netflix. Considering that the stability of Hollywood itself is in question, it is hard to determine whether directing confers more security than having to hang around waiting for an acting job.

Persons: Yoon —, Kendrick —, Kendrick, “, ”, Yoon, Olivia Wilde, Ian McDonald —, Rodney Alcala, —, ” Yoon, Anna Kendrick, Yoon gestured, Eva Longoria Organizations: SAG, Netflix Locations: Vancouver, Los Angeles, Toronto, Hollywood

A crowd frequently spotted on yachts filled the Pool restaurant in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday night for the second annual Caring for Women Dinner hosted by the Kering Foundation. “I said yes because Salma asked,” Oprah Winfrey, a co-chair for the dinner, said as she addressed the room, referring to Salma Hayek Pinault, who is also a co-chair and board member of the Kering Foundation. The space was filled to the brim with tropical plants and marquee names. “I don’t get out much,” Ms. Winfrey said, adding, “I only come out with the intention of using my voice in a way that can be meaningful and helpful.”Inside the dining room, where guests were served a dinner of scallop aguachile and lamb belly, Leonardo DiCaprio sat with Olivia Wilde, Prabal Gurung and Malala Yousafzai, and across from Zoë Kravitz and her partner, Channing Tatum.

Persons: “, Salma, Oprah Winfrey, Salma Hayek Pinault, Ms, Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Olivia Wilde, Prabal Gurung, Malala, Zoë Kravitz, Channing Tatum Organizations: Kering Foundation Locations: Midtown Manhattan

NEW YORK (AP) — On a waterfront promenade lined with pink flowers and facing Manhattan’s majestic skyline, designer Michael Kors paid tribute to his late mother with a show honoring the travels the two enjoyed together. Actors Halle Berry, Blake Lively, Tiffany Haddish, Ellen Pompeo, Olivia Wilde, Jenna Dewan and many more were in attendance. But the designer was thinking most of all about his mother, the late Joan Kors, who died in August at 84. “My mother truly was my ultimate muse, my ultimate supporter,” Kors said. "We’re excited at the prospect of joining forces with Tapestry,” Kors said of the consolidation, “and combining and pooling our resources and knowledge to accelerate the growth.

Persons: Michael Kors, Kors, Actors Halle Berry, Blake Lively, Tiffany Haddish, Ellen Pompeo, Olivia Wilde, Jenna Dewan, Burt Bacharach, “, Joan Kors, ” Kors, Kate Spade, Versace, Jimmy Choo Organizations: Actors, Revlon, Capri Holdings Locations: Brooklyn’s Domino, Williamsburg

☆ How Ben Sasse Became a Combatant in Florida’s Education Wars
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Michael Sokolove | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Sasse’s words sometimes tumble out in a kind of techno-futurist patois that can be hard to follow. In response to a question about his perceived invisibility on campus, he veered off into something about the future of pedagogy. Later, he added, “What will today’s generic term ‘professor’ mean when you disaggregate syllabus designer, sage-on-the-stage lecturer, seminar leader, instructional technologist, grader, assessor, etc. ?”Sasse is not the first politician to lead a big public university. Oliver Grundmann, a professor in the College of Pharmacy, told me that members of the campus community were worried because of the positions Sasse took in the past.

Persons: unbundle, ”, David Boren, Mitch Daniels, Judith Wilde, Sasse, Bob Graham, Oliver Grundmann, ” Grundmann, “ Organizations: University of Oklahoma, Purdue University, Midland University, Midland Lutheran College, Shar, Policy, Government, George Mason University, ”, Graduate Student Council, Pride, Bob Graham Center for Public Service, College of Pharmacy Locations: Indiana, Virginia, Florida, U.F

☆ Fortescue founder toys with reverse greenwashing
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Antony Currie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

First the $43 billion iron ore miner’s CEO, Fiona Hick, left abruptly on Sunday, barely six months after joining. But in trying to shrug off the mounting exodus, founder and Executive Chair Andrew Forrest, also known as Twiggy, introduces a new risk: reverse greenwashing. His approach to the energy transition is forcing a lot of change on the company in short order. That process surely would have involved rigorous discussions to ensure they were on board with Forrest’s goals and methods. That makes his absolutist twist to climate spin as unhelpful as the more traditional form of greenwashing.

Persons: Oscar Wilde, Fortescue, Fiona Hick, Christine Morris, Guy Debelle, Andrew Forrest, Twiggy, Forrest, Hick, Morris, Una Galani, Thomas Shum Organizations: Reuters, Fortescue Metals, Reserve Bank of Australia, Fortescue Future Industries, Australian, Thomson Locations: MELBOURNE, Tivan

☆ Venice Film Festival 2023: What to Watch For
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | More About Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A year ago, the Venice Film Festival had enough star power to put even celebrity-worshiping Cannes on notice. But without all of those celebrities, can Venice still go viral? That puts Venice in a bind, as it’s regarded as one of the best places for Hollywood to unveil starry awards-season titles. (A low-profile Italian film is opening instead.) And I’ve heard of a few more starry fall films that were earmarked for Venice but opted for the Telluride Film Festival instead, since that event is less driven by the photo ops and news conferences that are no longer feasible in Italy.

Persons: Olivia Wilde, Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chalamet, Brendan Fraser, Oscar, Luca Guadagnino’s, I’ve Organizations: Venice Film, Screen Actors, Writers Guild of America, Hollywood, ”, MGM, Telluride Locations: Venice, Cannes, Italy

☆ Opinion | Catch the Smug Mug on That Thug!
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON — If there were any justice in the world, Donald Trump would have taken the Mug Shot of Dorian Gray. As with Oscar Wilde’s charismatic and amoral narcissist, the Picture of Donald Trump should have been a “foul parody,” a reflection of what the chancer has done with his life. It should have revealed a man so cynical and depraved that he is willing to smash our nation’s soul — our democracy — and destroy faith in our institutions. “Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away,” Wilde wrote of Dorian’s portrait. “The rotting of a corpse in a watery grave was not so fearful.”

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, Dorian Gray ., Oscar Wilde’s, narcissist, ” Wilde, ”

☆ The Pharmacy-Benefit Sector Just Took a Hit
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Anna Wilde Mathews | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Blue Shield of California to Drop CVS Health's Caremark as Pharmacy Benefit Manager
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Anna Wilde Mathews | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ There's an AI-powered app that lets users 'text' with Jesus. For $2.99 a month, you can unlock Satan.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are free, but Satan requires a $2.99 per month subscription. "Ultimately, it is not for me to condemn or condone individuals based on their sexual orientation," AI Jesus said. AI Satan also appears to be arguably off-character from what some users might assume or expect from the devil. "As Satan, I must caution you against seeking to join any political party with the intention of promoting evil or engaging in wickedness," AI Satan told Insider. "Abortion involves the deliberate termination of an innocent human life, which goes against the biblical principles I hold dear," AI Mary told Insider.

Persons: Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Jesus Christ, Christ, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Simon, Adam, Eve, Satan, Moses, Stéphane Peter, Peter, Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler, Microsoft's Bing, Megan Thee Organizations: Religion News Service, Catloaf Software, Software, Singularity, Independent Locations: Los Angeles, cherishing, Berlin

☆ 13 Hollywood production companies making brand films that streamers like Netflix and Apple want to buy
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

said Marc Gilbar, who runs the brand division at Imagine Entertainment. Some are also looking to brand films to offset some of the revenue they're losing in the dual Hollywood strikes. (Brand films are often unscripted and thus aren't governed by the Hollywood unions.) They also see brand work being a positive for below-the-line workers who are idled by the work stoppage. Led by EVP Kate Oppenheim, Tribeca Studios' projects have included "We Could be King" (ESPN2) for Dick's Sporting Goods and P&G's Queen Collective series (BET).

Persons: Ben Silverman, Issa Rae's Hoorae, Kevin Hart's Hartbeat, Julian Jacobs, we've, Marc Gilbar, Samuel L, Jackson, Emma Stone, Zac Ryder, Olivia Wilde, Laurene Powell Jobs, Caitlin McGinty, It's, James Gay, Rees, Paul Martin, Kevin Hart's, Hart, Hartbeat, Brian Price, Chase Sapphire, Procter, Reese Witherspoon, Zoe Fairbourn, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer's, Ron Howard's, Bryce Dallas Howard, Gilbar, Rocco DiSpirito, General Mills, Rupert Maconik's Saville, Werner Herzog, Barry Levinson, Sugar23, Oscar, Michael Sugar, Trevor Noah's, he's, Kennedy, Matt Rotondo helms, Sugar, Mike Beck, Alexa Conway, Trevor Noah, Kate Oppenheim, HBO Max, Paul McCartney, Mary McCartney Ventureland, Kerstin Emhoff, Paul Hunter, John Battsek, Stacy's Pita Chips, Will, Jada Pinkett, REI, Gargi Organizations: Hollywood, Brands, Mattel, Netflix, Apple, UTA, Imagine Entertainment, Producers, Adobe, IBM, Anonymous, HP, Afghan Girls National Soccer Team, Showtime, Pepsi Boardwalk Pictures, Relativity Media, Super, Pepsi, REI, Unilever, Marriott, Surf League, Major League Soccer, Sam's, Gamble, Weinstein Co, Hulu, Imagine, Paramount, Saville Productions, Disney, Time Studios, Procter & Gamble, Anheuser, Busch, InBev, CAA, Studios, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, Tribeca Studios, Dick's Sporting Goods, HBO, CNN, Mobile, Stacy's, Everest, Vice Studios, Westbrook Media, Meta, Logitech, Samsung Locations: Hollywood, Subway, Magnolia

☆ ‘Talk to Me’ Review: Letting the Wrong One In
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Jeannette Catsoulis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Steeped in yearning and chockablock with shocks, “Talk to Me,” the first feature from the Australian filmmaking brothers Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou, is a horror movie huddled tightly around a story of filial grief. The result is an enduring melancholy that no amount of ghouls or gore can entirely dispel. Yet Mia remains alienated, hanging awkwardly apart from her raucous, thrill-seeking friends, wearing her bereavement like a scarlet letter. The rules are simple: Grip the hand, say “Talk to me,” and a ghost will appear. The spirit’s move-in is easy; the eviction is where things get sticky.

Persons: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, Sophie Wilde’s, Mia, Marcus Johnson, Jade, Alexandra Jensen, Riley, Joe Bird

☆ The Hollywood strikes could cost the economy billions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Hollywood writers and actors have been on strike for over a week. Economists are warning that the shutdown could cost the US billions of dollars. The previous writers' strike in 2007 wiped $2 billion off Los Angeles' economy alone. Major films alone contribute around $250,000 to the US economy each day of production, according to data from the Motion Picture Association. New seasons of "The Last of Us", "Euphoria", and "The White Lotus" have already been delayed as a result of the strikes.

Persons: Milken, Kevin Klowden, It's, Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis, Oscar, Susan Sarandon, Olivia Wilde Organizations: Service, Milken Institute's, Yahoo Finance, Motion, Association, The, Guild of America, SAG Locations: Angeles, Wall, Silicon, Los Angeles, California, LA, New York, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Pittsburgh

☆ More Americans Seek Mental-Health Care, UnitedHealth Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Anna Wilde Mathews | Dean Seal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ CVS Caremark Delays Block Customers From Their Prescriptions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Anna Wilde Mathews | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ 5 OnlyFans creators trying make the jump to a mainstream influencer career explain how they land brand deals and navigate social platforms
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Nhari Djan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

OnlyFans creator Jenna Foxx, who's been in the adult-entertainment industry since 2017, created a new social-media identity to attract potential deals and partnerships. For OnlyFans creators who want to break into the mainstream, brand deals are key. "Some creators can't turn off the adult side, so that's kind of sticky for mainstream brands." Chloe said even brands selling sex toys or lingerie can be reticent to work with OnlyFans creators. It makes it even harder for them to get the attention of mainstream brands.

Persons: It's, Jenna Foxx, who's, Foxx, Hannah, Miley Cyrus, OnlyFans, Harper Wilde, Chloe Sasha, —, she's, Chloe, they'd, Taylor Gunner, I've, Justine Jakobs, influencer Justine Jakobs, Rae Richmond, Richmond, Gunner, she'd Organizations: Disney Channel, Spanish, Twitter, Marine Locations: Hannah Montana

☆ To make the jump from OnlyFans to a mainstream influencer career, some creators have to live a double life: 'It's my Hannah Montana lifestyle'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Nhari Djan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

☆ The secret queer history of flowers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Many of these flowers have deep connections to queer icons or are echoed in other queer symbols. (Even more complex emotions like, say, bashfulness, were associated with their own flowers, which surely wasn’t confusing at all.) It makes sense, then, that queer communities would find both beauty and belonging by continuing this interesting tradition. Today, the lavender flower still appears in newer symbols of queerness. The Japanese word for rose is pronounced “bara,” and experienced a resurgence in queer media in the 1960s and 1970s.

Persons: CNN —, Lavender, Sappho, Betty Friedan, Violet Violets, “, violets, Lesbos ”, Renée Vivien, Edouard Bourdet, Pansy “ Pansy ”, pansy, ”, Paul Harfleet, Rose, Japan’s, Oscar Wilde, Windermere’s Fan, ” Wilde Organizations: CNN, Stonewall, National Organization for Women Locations: Europe, New York City, Lesbos, Paris, British, ”

☆ Sarah Snook: 'Succession' star to play 26 characters in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' stage show
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —After playing Shiv Roy in “Succession,” the critically acclaimed TV series that satirically portrayed the uber-rich but morally bankrupt Roy family grappling for control of a media empire, Sarah Snook will star in another production that skewers society. She will play all 26 roles in the “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” which will run for 12 weeks at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket from January 2024. Directed by Kip Williams, the artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company, the play will combine live performance and video “in an astonishing collision of form,” Theatre Royal Haymarket said. “I am elated to return to the London stage in such an astonishing piece of theatre,” Snook said, according to theater site WhatsOnStage. Snook’s “Succession” on screen parents are also returning to the London stage.

Persons: Shiv Roy, satirically, Roy, Sarah Snook, Dorian Gray, Kip Williams, Oscar Wilde’s, “, ” Snook, Kip Williams ’, Williams, Eryn Jean Norvill, ” Sarah Snook, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Wambsgans, Claudette Barius, Henrik Ibsen’s “, Ralph Fiennes, Snook’s, Brian Cox, Logan Roy, Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer, Harriet Walter, Caroline Collingwood, Alba ” Organizations: CNN, London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket, Sydney Theatre Company, ”, Royal, London, Guardian, Old Vic Theatre Locations: “, Sydney, London

☆ How to Fight Back When Your Health Insurance Won’t Cover Treatment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Anna Wilde Mathews | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Your Health Insurance Is Giving You Trouble? Here’s How to Fight Back
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Anna Wilde Mathews | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Opinion: How to respond to anti-LGBTQ hate this Pride month
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Opinion Allison Hope | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

I promise there are some simple and immensely helpful ways in which LGBTQ people and allies can take action in June and every month. Don Arnold/Getty ImagesIf you don’t know where to begin with lobbying, look to an LGBTQ or civil rights group doing the hard work on the ground. Commit to learning and teaching: Even members and strong allies of the LGBTQ community can benefit from fresh learning. After all, the LGBTQ community is anything but a monolith — there are so many diverse forms of representation and a landscape that is quickly evolving. It’s also not a bad time to support brands that are supportive of the LGBTQ community.

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☆ A Longtime Barman at the Ritz Paris Makes a Clean Dirty Exit
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Dana Thomas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Pierce Brosnan would come on his own and say, ‘What should I drink?’” Mr. Field recalled. “They sent a lovely letter back that read, ‘Once you have done hotel school, please don’t hesitate to contact us,’” he said. He saved his money to attend the Ferrandi hotel school on the Left Bank of Paris. It was there, in the “dungeonlike basement bar,” Mr. Field said, that he first met Ms. Moss, with Johnny Depp, her boyfriend at the time. For men only, the Ritz Bar was where Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald famously drank their way through the Roaring Twenties.

Persons: “ Pierce Brosnan, Field, “, ’, James Bond, ’ ”, Oscar Wilde, Moss, Johnny Depp, César, ”, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald Organizations: Rugby, Ritz, Left Bank of Paris, César Ritz, “, Bar, Ritz Bar, Le Locations: Paris, England, Swiss, Chanel

☆ Workers Want Ozempic for Weight Loss. Few Employers Want to Pay for It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Anna Wilde Mathews | Ray A. Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Your Company Doesn’t Want You to Take Ozempic for Weight Loss. Here’s Why.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Anna Wilde Mathews | Ray A. Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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