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1. While talks of an Addams Family movie had been going on for decades, producer Scott Rudin really decided to take on the project are unexpectedly hearing the theme song from an unlikely source when a studio executive's son started singing it during a car ride "and suddenly everyone in the van was singing the theme, letter perfect, note for note," he told The Los Angeles Times. The next day, he went in to pitch the idea. Read More...
On March 9, LGBTQ employees and allies at Pixar Animation Studios sent a joint statement to Walt Disney Company leadership claiming that Disney executives had actively censored “overtly gay affection” in its feature films. The stunning allegation — made as part of a larger protest over the company’s lack of public response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill — did not include which Pixar films had weathered the censorship, nor which specific creative decisions were cut or altered. Read More...
The ObserverTheatreReviewTheatre by the Lake, Keswick
The opening is great, but with characters as thin as the air at high altitude, Carmen Nasr’s new mountaineering drama is downhill from there
The location is perfect. If, on a clear day, you stand just beyond the Theatre by the Lake’s front door and let your eyes skim south-westwards, across Derwentwater, in the blue distance you might glimpse England’s highest peak, Scafell Pike. Charlie, one of the title’s eponymous climbers, was taken to Scafell on a school trip, aged 16. Read More...