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☆ With Hollywood Change Stagnating, a Call to ‘Burn It Down’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

BURN IT DOWN: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, by Maureen RyanAs I typed this, striking Writers Guild of America members were skipping the picket lines in New York City because of poor air quality, after smoke drifted down from wildfires in Canada. It was a grimly perfect backdrop to read “Burn It Down,” a new book about the pervasive moral shortcomings of Hollywood by the longtime entertainment reporter and critic Maureen Ryan. For the industry Ryan covers is suffering its own kind of climate crisis. Television seasons are shorter — that’s if it’s even relevant to call a collection of episodes that can be binged anytime a “season” anymore. official and private investigator.”Ryan also alludes briefly here, as she has in Variety, to having been the victim of sexual assault by an unnamed television executive.

Persons: Maureen Ryan, Ryan, Don, George Floyd, gingerly, ”, H.R, ” Ryan, Howard Beale Organizations: Guild of America, Television, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Variety Locations: Hollywood, New York City, Canada

☆ Lecher Actress Victim Spy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

LUCKY DOGS, by Helen SchulmanThat Harvey Weinstein hired a private international spy agency called Black Cube to help squash stories about his sex crimes always seemed stranger than fiction. In an author’s note, Helen Schulman states explicitly that her seventh novel, “Lucky Dogs,” was inspired by two players in this globe-spanning chapter of the Weinstein saga. “How could one woman do this to another woman?” Schulman had wondered, reading ragefully about the case. The question might sound naïve: Has she not seen the foundational Hollywood text “All About Eve”? But her imagined answer, in the form of this book, is deeply knowing, properly indignant and — maybe the best revenge — very funny.

Persons: Helen Schulman, Harvey Weinstein, ”, Weinstein, Rose McGowan, Stella Penn Pechanac, McGowan, ” Schulman, Eve ”, Schulman, refashioned McGowan, Meredith “ Merry ”, who’s Organizations: Twitter Locations: Meredith “ Merry ” Montgomery, Paris

☆ Even After Debunking, ‘Sybil’ Hasn’t Gone Away
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Schreiber, who aspired to a literary career and at one time was romantically involved with the playwright Eugene O’Neill’s oldest son, wrote celebrity profiles and pop psychology pieces for outlets such as Cosmopolitan. And Wilbur, who had treated the actor Roddy McDowall — Case 129 in a book she co-authored about the causes and “treatment” of male homosexuality — craved the kind of broad audience that magazines then attracted. Rather than telekinetic powers, she develops a preternatural ability to assume different personas. Wilbur by any modern metric crossed the line from transference to enmeshment. She crept into her patient’s bed to administer electroshock treatment with an outdated device, doled out Pentothal (a barbiturate then wrongly thought to act as a truth serum) to the point of addiction, and took her on creepy road trips.

Persons: Schreiber, Eugene O’Neill’s, Wilbur, Roddy McDowall —, —, ’, Sybil ”, Dora, Truman Capote’s “, ”, “ Sybil Dorsett ”, Stephen King’s, Carrie, ” Sybil, dissociating, “, Peggy, Mike ”, Sid ”

☆ Nice Guy Meets Iron Man in the First Novel by Tom Hanks
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

THE MAKING OF ANOTHER MAJOR MOTION PICTURE MASTERPIECE, by Tom Hanks. Sidelined by the pandemic, some actors fired up ceramics or sang fragments of “Imagine.” Tom Hanks, one of the most prominent to contract an early case of Covid, bounced back by making a run at the Great American Novel. Alas, it is more Forrest Gump trotting from coast to coast than Sully landing on the Hudson. Titled “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece,” the book arrives at a crossroads for Hollywood. The novel also acknowledges a fading time when leading actors, even avatars of Everyman decency like the author, were royalty: their work shown not in living rooms but red-velvet-swagged “palaces.”

☆ She Wrote Frankly About Divorce, and Suffered the Consequences
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The “young single woman in the city” genre feels almost as old as cities. Probably someone was wandering around ancient Athens in a fetching tunic with a papyrus scroll detailing how Hermes got handsy. But modern New York is where the genre has reached its apotheosis, from Edith Wharton to Beyoncé and beyond. In this mostly upward and exuberant history, the writer Ursula Parrott has been largely (and sadly) omitted. Their divorce would inspire “Ex-Wife,” the most successful of her 20 books.

☆ Face to Face With Culture’s ‘Monsters’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The stoops of brownstone Brooklyn, on which residents routinely leave freebies for passers-by, are a reliable metric of current literary tastes — and distastes. Nearby, someone had huffily discarded a copy of Mario Batali’s “Molto Italiano.” My shelf of scandal was getting more stuffed than one of his delectable vongole origanate. And she nonetheless wants to find a way to reconcile her appreciation of great art with the real-life misdeeds of its creators. Expanding on a popular essay published in The Paris Review a month after the exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation, “Monsters” sustains an essayistic, sometimes aphoristic tone throughout 250-odd pages. Dotted with details of her particular milieu — the ferryboat, the crepe shop, the rock show that leaves glitter in the eyelashes — “Monsters” is part memoir, part treatise and all treat.

Brands will account for 70% of that spend, with most of the rest coming from so-called collectives, alumni groups that funnel money to athletes, according to Opendorse. Female athletes and meme starsGiven the wide-open field, brands’ strategies with NIL deals vary widely. Jill Cress, chief marketing and experience officer of H&R Block in a 2018 picture. Favorability ratings from both Gen Z consumers and parents of college students rose after the campaign, according to Ms. Cress. Bigger deals aheadNIL deals will likely evolve to often include intellectual property agreements with the schools in question, said Mr. Schwab.

☆ Prince Harry’s memoir opens at a record-setting sales pace
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK — No, the public has not tired of hearing about Prince Harry. Sales for “Spare” have placed the Duke of Sussex in some rarefied company. The sales figures for “Spare” include hardcover, audiobook and e-book editions sold in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. Angela Weiss / AFP - Getty ImagesOne of the most highly anticipated memoirs in recent times, “Spare” is Harry’s highly personal and intimate account of his life in the royal family and his relationship with the American actor Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex. Michelle Obama’s memoir has since sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, its sales holding up over time in part because of highly favorable reviews.

☆ EU rules would stop practices seen at crypto exchange FTX, says European Commission
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

LONDON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The "questionable practices" at now collapsed crypto exchange FTX would not have been allowed to happen under European Union rules now being finalised, a senior European Commission official said on Wednesday. "All these failures are very serious. We don't see them as failures of blockchain or crypto assets per se," added Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, deputy director general at the Commission's financial services unit told a hearing in the European Parliament. Reporting by Huw Jones; editing by David EvansOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Bătrânii noștri, lăsați de izbeliște de către stat, au cel puțin o pâine pe masă datorită moldovenilor din diasporă
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-12 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +7 min

Sursa foto: jurnal.mdBătrânii noștri, lăsați de izbeliște de către stat, au cel puțin o pâine pe masă datorită moldovenilor din diasporăSatele Moldovei îmbătrânesc, iar imediat cum ajung la pensie mulți vârstnici ajung să fie „prizonierii” propriilor case. A trecut la viața ei prin mai multe traume, iar în prezent cea mai mică mișcare îi provoacă dureri insuportabile. Tânjește după o simplă companie, o conversație, o vorbă bună și o îmbrățișare. O pâine primită o dată pe săptămână, prin ajutorul oferit de organizația „Adoptă un bătrân”, inițiată de Tatiana Rusu, o moldoveancă stabilită în Germania. Să spunem despre bătrânii noștri că se bucură de o pâine este o sintagmă dramatică.

Persons: Irina Morărescu, Ileana, ., Alexandra Jerenco, Alexandra, Alexandra ., Liuba Țebernii, Tatiana Rusu, Tatiana, moldoveanca Organizations: Facebook, Republica, Statistică Locations: Moldovei, Izbiște, Germania, Moldova, Republica Moldova

☆ Pe banii noștri: Șah la președintele... PSRM — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-21 | by ( Ștefan Grigorița | Georgeta Carasiucenco | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +9 min

L-am mâncat cu grisine și a fost delicios. Cina de joi a fost una cât se poate de reușită, fără prea mult efort, așa cum îmi place mie”. Tortilla cu de toateMihaela Cimbriciuc, colega responsabilă de rețelele sociale a fost tentată să gătească tortilla cu de toate. Ea povestește că experiența a fost interesantă și provocarea serii în care a gătit a fost să plieze părțile de tortilla în așa fel încât să nu curgă ingredientele. Topești mozzarela și o pui în forma pentru gogoși ca să o modelezi încă cât e moale.

Persons: . Brânză, Ana Gherciu, Tatiana Beghiu, El Salvador, Alexandra Johnsson, Anastasia Condruc Organizations: Camembertul, El, Facebook, Gogoșile Locations: provence, tortilla, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Italia, Imperiului Roman, Voila

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