Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last Saturday, Susan Sarandon appeared at the SAG Awards in a plunging white blazer and black bra that made appreciators of breasts and Susan Sarandon alike all stop in their tracks and say, “DAMN, MAMA LOOKS GOOD.” Media chode Piers Morgan, however, took a more prudish and ZZZZZ-worthy line of thought. Morgan’s issue, it seems,…
It came as little surprise that Samantha Bee’s new show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, has one of the most diverse writers rooms in television. A recent New York profile of Bee revealed that she and showrunner Jo Miller cast a wider hiring net for the specific purpose of finding diverse talent; the result is…
When the popular YouTubers known as the Fine Brothers speak about their work — specifically, a series of online videos where people of various age groups “react” to pop culture and Internet phenomena — they often speak in terms of creating “time capsules” for future generations to watch and understand how we viewed the world…
Angoulême has really jumped the shark this year. Not content with showing a medieval level knowledge of art and comics history by claiming that there were no significant women in the history of comics, the Festival has outraged everyone with what, from Google translate and the flood of legit outrage on my social media, was…
It wiped out all three of the original X-Men films. Guess we know how Fox is going to reboot X-Men. This was probably inevitable, since the X-Men prequels were lurching closer and closer to when the 2000 movie took place. After the 80s-based Apocalypse they either had the choice to ditch the “one movie per…
Deadpool fans are already getting a movie that can encapsulate the gory wildness of Wade Wilson in all is splendor, considering the film carries an R-rating. But are you in the market for even more curses, bodily viscera, and nudity in your superhero movies? Well, you might just be getting your wish. At a recent…
If you want to make a YouTube video of someone reacting to something, you’ll have to go through the Fine Bros. Variety reports that Rafi and Benny Fine, who’ve built a YouTube empire on interviewing kids, teens, and old folks about various pop-cultural phenomena, have set up a new venture called React World….
LOS ANGELES — Now it’s The Fine Brothers who are having to react. The duo behind the hugely popular “React” videos is licensing the brand to other creators, and #TeamInternet is divided. Or maybe just a little confused about what the deal actually means for them. The YouTube duo’s five-year-old Entertainment’s REACT channel, which has…
One morning last August I visited Williams College in Massachusetts to teach a workshop on “building a life in the arts” with a group of racially, geographically, and economically diverse young people working at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Later that night I attended a show at the theater, where I saw these idealistic apprentices taking…
WALL STREET: Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in the hugely popular original film [] THIS Wednesday a new film is released, one of the most hotly anticipated openings in years. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the sequel to one of the most famous and best movies of the Eighties, the film that…