American novelist, Professor of English at UCLA, and Writer in Residence at Bard College; author of Casebook and My Hollywood
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The Meaning of the Blues
Hollywood"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" stars Viola Davis as the great blues singer of the title and Chadwick Boseman, brilliant in his final performance as the cornetist in a quartet that…
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ArtsThis week’s picks include an artist who creates playful and graphic airbrushed paintings with darker undertones; women who are depicted pumping breast milk while listing their fears;…
2020 mega banter, ranking the streamers
HollywoodThe pandemic pummeled production. WarnerMedia started a war with its windows-shattering sneak attack. And Quibi, we hardly knew you.
Santa Claus comes virtually this COVID Christmas
CoronavirusJolly Old St. Nick is still coming to town this pandemic Christmas — straight to living rooms via Zoom, Skype, etc.
Female protagonists and villains center in an artist’s imagined Western
ArtsThis week’s picks include an artist who reinvents Westerns to feature female leads; an iconic artist from The Hairy Who who exhibits three decades of drawings; and geometric…
WarnerMedia shatters windows, Kamilah Forbes on ‘Between the World and Me’
HollywoodWarnerMedia announced it will put Warner Bros.’ entire 2021 movie slate on HBO Max the same day those films open in theaters. The move will change theater-going as we know it.
Society as a rooster coop
HollywoodThat's how the hero of "The White Tiger" views his native India. The way you'll view the film is with rapt attention and great delight. It's really terrific.
What Aaron Sorkin Got Wrong in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
ArtsHistorian Jon Wiener, who wrote “Conspiracy in the Streets” on the subject of the Netflix film, sets the record straight on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”
Bryan Fogel and Tom Ortenberg on ‘The Dissident’
HollywoodBryan Fogel won Netflix its first feature documentary Oscar with his Russian doping exposé “Icarus.”