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☆ Brian Eno Reveals the Hidden Purpose of All Art
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +19 min

I think I’m still answering it. I’m absolutely fascinated by this question, because I think I have an answer, and I don’t think it has ever been well answered. Since we’re talking about how things work: How do you want your new album to work for people? You have to take that on board as being one of the things that’s happening in culture and quite different from the story that we’re generally hearing. I don’t think many people take that as seriously as I do.

☆ Bono Is Still Trying to Figure Out U2 and Himself
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +28 min

Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times Talk Bono Is Still Trying to Figure Out U2 and HimselfThere are different Bonos to different people, including the man himself. You say, “But you’re U2 — you don’t need that.” What’s interesting is that we want that. But I also wrote the book to try to figure out what was going on with U2. They sound like U2 songs. Do they sound like U2 songs?

☆ Mayor Michelle Wu Wants to Change Boston. But Can Boston Change?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times Talk Mayor Michelle Wu Wants to Change Boston. “I was sworn in and immediately was trying to navigate Boston through the Omicron surge,” says Wu, who is 37. So the question is: How do we ensure that we can be a green and growing city that’s healthy and affordable for everyone? Does that rethinking involve abolishing the Boston Planning and Development Agency? For example, if you take the school system, there are a lot of structural challenges that our Boston public schools have been facing.

☆ Julio Torres Thinks Most Comedy Is Too Easy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times Talk Julio Torres Thinks Most Comedy Is Too Easy“I think with me,” Julio Torres says, “it’s like I have some things that I want to show people that are incidentally funny. That’s if, as Torres suggests, comedy is even what he’s doing. I don’t think of comedians as always the most self-assured people. Torres with Cassandra Ciangherotti in “Los Espookys.” Pablo Arellano Spataro/HBOA lot of your comedy pivots on characters having an epiphany. But I feel it behooves me to learn more about the way things are made, the systems, the hierarchies, the business part of show business.

☆ Elizabeth Banks Thinks This Interview Is Dangerous for Her
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +21 min

I don’t know where, but people are seeing it. I don’t know what they thought that movie was meant to be marketing-wise, but it was a little gem for us. He basically said, Pay me or I’m going to tell your wife. Let’s do another one.” Ray said, “OK, what do you want me to do differently?” The director said: “I don’t know. I don’t know that there’s any way to communicate that to you.

☆ Jerrod Carmichael Was Scared of Coming Out. He Still Is.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-11 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +19 min

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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☆ Yo-Yo Ma and the Meaning of Life
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-23 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +20 min

“People need each other for support beyond the immediate staples of life,” Ma says. “They need music.”Do you think music is fundamentally good? Think about language, think about agriculture, think about navigation, think about engineering. I’m using culture.” It doesn’t need to be defined as “I’m going to play for you this piece of music.” It’s not that. I’m going to figure out what I can do with the cello.” He says, “I’m going to learn everything about the instrument.” He writes the first suite, second, third suites.

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☆ Nicole Kidman Leans Into the Pain
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-05 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

Illustration by Bráulio Amado Talk Nicole Kidman Leans Into the PainIn HBO’s mini-series “The Undoing,” a psychological thriller that premieres Oct. 25, Nicole Kidman plays Grace Fraser, a Manhattan therapist whose impeccably ordered life is suddenly shattered by violence and lust. I don’t know. If there was a choice, I don’t know I would be an actor. But you go, As long as I surrender to what this is, I’m going to have an incredible time. It interests me how the latest role you’ve played is usually the way in which you’re going to be perceived.

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☆ Wanda Sykes on Ignoring Michelle Obama and Leaving ‘Roseanne’
▼ + stars: | 2019-05-20 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Though she has never quite achieved superstar status, Wanda Sykes has, over the last 25 years, steadfastly built one of comedy’s most impressive careers. But I’m not going to argue and go, “I don’t know why I can’t use that word!” No. She was like: “I don’t know. I can’t just be silent.” That’s why I said I wouldn’t be going back.13Do you think Roseanne is a racist? But I don’t know.

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