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☆ Why TV news executives are having a brutal year in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

In his place, CBS announced Monday that Wendy McMahon will be chief executive and president of CBS News, the network’s local stations, and CBS Media Ventures. The formidable task is reflective of the extraordinary challenges traditional media outlets are facing amid a period of rapid and existential change to their business models and advertising woes. Increasingly, there is no longer a single powerful media executive tasked with solving for the less-than-ideal set of circumstances. The industry veteran noted that there is less of a focus on making splashy — perhaps at times risky — moves to build for the future among the C-suite ranks. Instead, there is a mounting emphasis on slashing costs to best position the mammoth media companies for the inevitable decline of linear television.

Persons: CNN — It’s, Chris Licht, Noah Oppenheim, Kim Godwin, Bob Iger, Suzanne Scott, Neeraj Khemlani, I’m, Wendy McMahon, Ingrid Ciprian, Matthews, Helming, yesteryear, ”, “ Organizations: CNN, NBC News, ABC, Fox News, Voting, CBS News, CBS, CBS Media Ventures, GOP

☆ Once a Child Star, She Now Leads ‘Murder Tours’ in Hollywood
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Sarah Weinman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Then, not long after she learns that Tawney’s old fiancé Cal, a director, is making a film about her life and still-unsolved murder, Salma discovers the body of a young actress, Ankine Petrosyan, in the pool at the same house where her sister lived, “suspended in the water, twisting gently like a ballerina in a music box.” Ankine’s resemblance to Tawney is so uncanny that Salma believes there must be a link between their deaths. She sets her sights on Cal: She’s always believed he was guilty, and to prove it, she needs to finagle her way onto his movie set. Sutton indicts our culture for its fixation on beautiful young women who died at the hands of others. Salma grimly notes how eager her customers are to “fork over $75 to let tragedy crinkle the edges of their cookie cutter … lives, sprinkling Dead Girls over their Instagram feeds like a game of brunch, brunch murder.”

Persons: Salma, Ankine Petrosyan, “, She’s, Sutton, Salma grimly, ” Organizations: Cal

☆ Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( A.J. Goldmann | More About A.J. Goldmann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“How can I speak of love when I’m dead?” runs a powerful line in “Amour,” a stage adaptation of Michael Haneke’s 2012 film that premiered on Sunday at the Salzburg Festival, in Austria. Love and death are, of course, the two great themes of art, but rarely have they been brought together so hauntingly as in Haneke’s film, a portrait of an elderly couple forced to confront the issue of when life is no longer worth living. Told in Haneke’s characteristically severe style, the film earned the Austrian director both a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar for best foreign language film. Henkel scored a triumph in Salzburg two summers ago with “Richard the Kid and the King,” a sweeping epic of Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty monarch that ran to four hours. The German director’s “Amour” — a co-production with the Münchner Kammerspiele theater, in Munich, where it will run in late October — is as affectingly tender as her earlier Salzburg outing was grimly savage.

Persons: I’m, ”, Michael Haneke’s, Love, Palme, Oscar, Karin Henkel, Henkel, “ Richard the Kid, — Organizations: Salzburg Festival, Cannes Film Locations: “, Austria, Austrian, Salzburg, Munich

☆ Las Vegas Police Search Home in Investigation of Tupac Shakur’s Murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Julia Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Las Vegas police have executed a search warrant in connection with the fatal drive-by shooting of the rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996, the department said Tuesday, reinvigorating the investigation into the unsolved death of a mythic figure in hip-hop. 1 on the charts, was shot as he was leaving a Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon prizefight in Las Vegas when a Cadillac pulled up alongside the BMW he was riding in. He died less than a week later at the age of 25. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that it had served the search warrant in Henderson, Nev., a city outside of Las Vegas, on Monday. Shakur’s “All Eyez on Me” was one of the first double albums in hip-hop.

Persons: Tupac Shakur, Shakur, Mike Tyson, Bruce Seldon prizefight, ”, Janet Jackson, John Singleton’s, Jon Pareles Organizations: Las, BMW, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, The New York Times Locations: Las Vegas, Henderson, Nev

☆ 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

☆ Wildfire Smoke Envelops the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Residents of the western U.S. and Canada have become grimly accustomed to smoke-clogged air from wildfires during the summer months. This week, the problem has spread to the Midwest and the East Coast. New York City was filled with reddish haze yesterday, with its worst air quality on record. A Broadway matinee was interrupted when its star had difficulty breathing, and some nighttime shows were canceled. The immediate cause is a series of wildfires in Quebec and Ontario, which began burning weeks ago.

Organizations: Midwest, Pro, ” Locations: U.S, Canada, East Coast . New York City, New York, Philadelphia, Binghamton, N.Y, Toronto, Quebec, Ontario, West

☆ ‘Happy Valley’ Review: The End of the Hero’s Journey
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Mike Hale | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

She’s a contemporary knight errant, upholding a code of decency against the terrors of modern life. “Happy Valley,” whose final season premieres on Monday (streaming on Acorn TV and AMC+, broadcast on BBC America), is a pocket-size, prosaic saga — a hero’s tale contained in three six-episode seasons and embedded in a family drama. Like all mythical heroes, Cawood has an antagonist, the psychopathic rapist and killer Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton), who is the father of her grandson. In its structure, “Happy Valley” is very much a traditional British crime series, with seemingly unconnected plot strands and investigations that wind themselves together against a backdrop of cop-shop politics. In the new season’s major subplot, a less-than-sympathetic female character is caught between two seemingly more capable men whose weaknesses run deeper than hers.

☆ After Biden Predicted Chaos at the Border, a Quieter Than Expected Weekend
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Michael D. Shear | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two days before officials lifted the Title 42 pandemic restrictions at the southern border, President Biden gave a blunt assessment of his administration’s ability to manage the surge of migrants they expected to arrive last week. “It’s going to be chaotic for a while,” Mr. Biden predicted grimly. When the time came, what Republicans had insisted would be a career-ending moment for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas did not fully turn into the chaos Mr. Biden and others had anticipated. But that was followed by a marked slowdown in migration across the 2,000-mile border with Mexico. “America can manage this moment and we know how to do it in a manner that is both orderly and just, reflecting our values, interests and the rule of law,” said Vanessa Cárdenas, the executive director of America’s Voice, a liberal pro-immigration group in Washington.

☆ Russians are offering up equipment and heavy armored vehicles to Ukraine's surrender hotline, official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An official claimed that Ukraine's surrender hotline had a record number of calls in March. The "I Want to Live" hotline allows Russian soldiers to call up and pre-arrange a surrender. The telephone line is part of a project called "I Want to Live," allowing Russian soldiers to arrange to give themselves up rather than fight. He added that "interesting" Russian heavy armored vehicles are already being used by Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield, according to the outlet. UK intelligence reported on Friday that after months of battle, Russian soldiers have "highly likely" advanced to the center of the city.

☆ Guillermo del Toro wins best animated feature film for 'Pinocchio'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

By Danielle BroadwayLOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) - Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's "Pinocchio" won the Academy Award for best animated feature film on Sunday, the third Oscar of his career. Del Toro, 58, reimagines the classic story of Pinocchio, a wooden puppet who dreams of being a real boy, who is cared for by carver Geppetto. However, the story of the Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) film is set in Fascist Italy during the interwar period and World War Two. "Pinocchio" prevailed over other popular nominees A24's stop-motion film "Marcel the Shell With Shoes On" and the Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) 3D animated film "Turning Red." Del Toro has many accolades, including his 2018 Oscar wins for best picture and best director for "The Shape of Water."

☆ 'The Last of Us' is based on real science: A fungus pandemic is unlikely, but not impossible
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

"The Last of Us" on HBO Max depicts a zombie apocalypse caused by a fungus pandemic. Here's the science fact and fiction behind the show, and the possibility of a fungal pandemic. The new scenario, first realized in the video game that the show is based on, is making viewers wonder whether a fungus pandemic can happen in real life. "A fungal pandemic is definitely possible," Norman Van Rhijn, a mycologist researching fungal infections at the University of Manchester, told Insider in an email. Still, fungal infections are on the rise worldwide, and researchers are concerned that more and more people are at risk.

☆ A fungus pandemic is unlikely, but not impossible. There's real science behind the mushroom zombies in HBO's new series 'The Last of Us.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The new HBO Max series "The Last of Us" depicts a zombie apocalypse caused by a fungus pandemic. Here's the science fact and fiction behind the show, and the possibility of a fungal pandemic. The new scenario, first realized in the video game that the show is based on, is making viewers wonder whether a fungus pandemic can happen in real life. "A fungal pandemic is definitely possible," Norman Van Rhijn, a mycologist researching fungal infections at the University of Manchester, told Insider in an email. Still, fungal infections are on the rise worldwide, and researchers are concerned that more and more people are at risk.

☆ 2022: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

How America Lost One Million People How America Lost One Million People “After working on stories for so many Covid milestones as each 100,000 deaths passed, we knew we had to do something really special to commemorate the one million people who passed away from Covid. Deaths from Covid had begun to feel like just a grimly increasing number without connection to the individuals who were dying. By showing every death as a single dot, we hoped to convey that every death was an important individual tragedy. But as a whole, the losses had affected every part of America and every part of American society. By arranging the dots into data visualizations, we hoped to show that these losses had not affected all parts of the country equally and there were important patterns in who had died.” — Albert Sun

☆ ‘Emily in Paris’ Season 3 Review: Couture Continuation
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The popular “Emily in Paris” is not a fish tank. A fish tank—probably—would not be entering its third season on Netflix with a fourth to come. For those unfamiliar with the show, Lily Collins is its main attraction, her signature eyebrows suggesting an accent aigu and an accent grave as her wide-eyed character, Emily Cooper , makes her rube’s way around Paris. When the show first appeared in 2020, the response in France was negative. That seems as much an insult to Illinois as any slur toward France, whose people are portrayed cartoonishly, if not maliciously.

The stop-motion musical reimagines the classic tale through the unique lens of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. How to watch 'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio'You can watch "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" at home exclusively on Netflix. Is 'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio' worth watching? "Guillermo del Toro's "Pinocchio" has received critical acclaim. What is 'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio' based on?

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