After I wrote my last post about the dearth of innovation in film, I happened to read Anthony Lane’s New Yorker piece on Pixar, “The Fun Factory”. It made me slap my forehead in an “of course!” way. Lane starts out as a skeptic, ready to debunk the myth of Pixar as the den of [...]
Snuck away from the reading to watch a few choice entertainment-y morsels. So, while I am still *fishing*, thought I’d spread the awesomeness. Credit for originally posting this goes to Maria Popova of Brain Pickings, who curates the best stuff online and shares it with the world. The work is by Egor Zhgun, a popular [...]
There’s been a lot of chatter over the last month about Disney chief Bob Iger’s ruthless housecleaning over at Disney. Big executive shakeups like Iger’s seem more unusual in Hollywood than perhaps in many other businesses because Hollywood for the most part is a business of predictability, stability and sameness. Ironic, given that they are [...]
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