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Play It Again, Charles Burnett
[ad_1] One of Burnett’s earliest cinematographic efforts is the silent short “69 Pickup,” written and directed by Penick. Two Black men pick up a white woman hitchhiking on the boulevard....
Reëxamining Victimhood in Guatemala
[ad_1] While Corzo was working on the book, he learned that Walter Barahona, the brother of one of the gang’s leaders, José Luis Barahona, was being held in a prison...
Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
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“Materialists” Is a Feast of Talking Pictures
[ad_1] Words are actions, as anyone who’s ever been told “I do” or “You’re fired” knows. Yet, after nearly a century of talking pictures, most directors fail to depict talk...
Do Androids Dream of Anything at All?
[ad_1] Although the literature of automatism has existed in one mold or another since the late Middle Ages—with sixteenth-century folktales about a golem made of clay and summoned to life,...
Jean Smart and John Krasinski Go It Alone, on Broadway and Off
[ad_1] This has been the season of the star. For months now, possibly because the film and television industries spent 2024 in disarray, New York theatre has been a kind...
What Trump Missed at the Kennedy Center Production of “Les Mis”
[ad_1] On Wednesday evening, when the new Czar of All the Arts, Donald Trump, went to see “Les Misérables”—which is, we are told, along with “Cats,” and “Evita,” a favored...
Creating Silver Linings: Why We Should Build Opportunity From Adversity
[ad_1] In life’s most challenging moments, we often hear well-meaning advice to “look for the silver lining.” While finding positive aspects under challenging situations has merit, I’ve discovered there’s something...
Grocery Shopping with My Dead Dad
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Sly Stone’s Political and Musical Awakening
[ad_1] In May of 1971, Marvin Gaye released what many consider to be his masterwork, “What’s Going On?” A song cycle told from the point of view of a Vietnam...
