Month: June 2023

A Barbie production designer said “the world ran out of pink” because of how much paint the movie set needed. It had apparently been in short supply to begin with.

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One of them shape-shifts into a wolf and howls for justice.

Brandon Taylor deftly explores the idea of youth’s possibilities and the constraints of time, space, class and wealth disparities through the intersecting lives university students and townspeople.

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Was Kendall going to jump into the river? Why did we keep seeing Logan in the bathroom? Creator Jesse Armstrong and executive producer Frank Rich answer all in this wide-ranging interview.

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The Addams Family, Clue and Frozen JR were among the most popular shows, according to a new survey. But the report also showed that drama teachers are nervous about censorship.

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They cleaned out the entire global stock of one paint supplier’s pink. A spokesperson for the Rosco brand says supply chain issues made it hard to keep up.

Shouts & Murmurs by Teddy Wayne: FRANKLIN is foiled by his battle-axe mother-in-law. (Studio audience gives standing ovation for the show’s brave pro-management stance.)

NPR’s Leila Fadel talks to Mohamed Kordofani about his film Goodbye Julia. It’s about two very different Sudanese women who form a friendship against the backdrop of a civil war.

The narrow scope of the action in The Idol‘s debut reveals a story stuck in a claustrophobic bubble, offering bursts of nudity and sex to distract from how little is actually happening onscreen.

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Immigrants have long been the backbone of restaurant kitchens. Now they’re dominating the industry’s top awards for chefs, with a majority of nominations going to immigrants or children of immigrants.

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