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Monday, February 5, 2018 at 6:00PM 
• Anna Biller would like you to stop calling old movies "feminist" because that has specific meaning. It does not just mean 'has great female characters' which many old movies do
• Deadline Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust) is working on a biopic about the early life of Rosa Parks
• AV Club Ian McKellen: Playing the Part, is a new documentary out later this year. Apparently it made a festival appearance last year and is planning a unique release of some kind.
• Vulture an interview with the legendary Bernadette Peters. She sounds like a tough woman to interview but somehow her constant reticence about the question and obvious withholding sounds charming rather than nightmarish
• Pride Sasha Lane (American Honey) comes out as gay
• Show-Score I wrote this piece (experimenting with the human interest profile format) about two women who travelled together inspired by the Broadway musical Come From Away. Hope you like.
Reader Comments (8)
whoever that interviewer is in the BP piece is crazy. why would he ask such rude questions, about things like her husband's death, her inability to "succeed" in hollywood, the weird playboy mention, and expect her to play along? she did well and handled it. she's been doing this for 64 years.
charles -- no that you mention it yeah, they were kind of invasive... though I think he was just grasping at straws since she doesn't like being interviewed (it's clear)
Sasha Lane didn't come out then. She has already been open about being bisexual.
Beautiful Come From Away piece Nathaniel. Been reading your site for years (even said hi to you at TIFF one year ) and I too am a Newfoundlander.
Does Bernadette Peters have a reputation for being reticent in Interviews? She seemed intelligent and thoughtful to me, always returning the focus back to the art itself.
Beautiful piece on those two women and their love of Come From Away. That is such a special musical and I'm really happy it's being developed into a movie so more people can see it and be inspired/touched by it.
That Bernadette Peters interview is the best one I have read in a while.
I'm with Peggy Sue - what a great interview. Fascinating and deeply personal (although yes, it's clear she is less comfortable with interviews than most celebrities are).