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Cara Buckley

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Uganda New York Times entertainment
4 Nov 2019
WASHINGTON — The night before Jane Fonda was arrested here again last week, a member of her social media team asked whether she would consider writing a letter from jail. “With what?” Fonda replied. “I’ll be without my phone.” She paused a beat, “Or adult diapers.” Also, Fonda continued, musing out loud, it was one thing for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to write a letter from jail. But her? The plan was nixed.
Jane Fonda at 81, Proudly Protesting and Going to Jail
Uganda New York Times entertainment
1 Nov 2019
Matthew Rhys won an Emmy last year for playing an undercover KGB agent in Season 6 of “The Americans” but he still doesn’t know why.
Mister Rogers Meets a Skeptic
Uganda New York Times entertainment
17 Oct 2019
Sam Smith, the British crooner with a voice often described as heaven sent, announced in September that “my pronouns are they/them.” Days later, the Brit Awards, which had nominated Smith for top male artist earlier in the year, said the categories would be reconsidered for 2021.
Why the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys Are Not Ready for They and Them
Uganda New York Times entertainment
19 Jul 2019
At a recent conference outside Los Angeles, a national women’s rights lawyer stood before a select group of Hollywood heavyweights to issue a demand and a plea. With a woman’s right to choose in jeopardy, the lawyer, Fatima Goss Graves, said, more abortions should be portrayed in narratives on screen. “The stories on abortion do not match our reality,” she said.
Uganda New York Times entertainment
26 Jun 2019
They see themselves in Rue when she coughs and flushes the toilet so her mom won’t hear her rummaging through the medicine cabinet for Xanax. They see themselves when Rue cops clean urine from a high school friend to pass a drug test.
Watching 'Euphoria,' Two Young Recovering Addicts Saw Themselves
Uganda New York Times entertainment
20 Jun 2019
The term “inclusion rider” took Hollywood by storm after Frances McDormand introduced it in her 2018 Oscar acceptance speech.
An Idea for Hollywood Has Few Adopters
Uganda New York Times entertainment
29 May 2019
Streaming giant Netflix has become the first major Hollywood studio to publicly weigh in on Georgia’s restrictive abortion law, with Ted Sarandos, its chief content officer, saying the company would “rethink our entire investment in Georgia” should the law go into effect.
Georgia's anti-abortion law gives Netflix pause
Uganda New York Times entertainment
24 May 2019
Time did not soften this Thompsonian resolve, or so it seemed. This year, after learning that John Lasseter, who lost his top job at Pixar and Disney for unwanted touching, was named head of the studio producing a film she was working on, Thompson publicly quit and flamed the studio, and Lasseter, in a scathing open letter.
Emma Thompson Gets a Shock at 60
Uganda New York Times entertainment
2 May 2019
When filmmakers Joe Carnahan and his best friend, Ben Hernandez Bray, began showing around their script for a new superhero movie in early 2017, they said, studio honchos and moneymen lavished it with praise. The movie, “El Chicano,” offered an origin story with a fresh take: a Mexican-American cop who lost a brother to gang violence adopts the mantle of a masked avenger to take on a cartel.
All-Latino film script finally gets its mask on
Uganda New York Times entertainment
12 Apr 2019
A recent report hardly painted a rosy picture of the gender balance in Hollywood: Just 4% of the top 1,200 movies from the past 12 years had been directed by women. Deep in the report, another jarring figure leapt out at me. Looking at the most lucrative films from 2016 to 2018, researchers found that just four of the 276 key grips working on those films were women.
In a World of Boy Grips, Four Women
Uganda New York Times entertainment
14 Mar 2019
“Captain Marvel” had not even been released yet — its opening day was a month away — but that did not stop negative remarks from piling up against the film and Larson.
When she became a target, the rules changed
Uganda New York Times entertainment
13 Mar 2019
One audience reviewer deemed the movie “a complete disaster.” Another was “tired of all this SJW nonsense,” using the abbreviation for “social justice warrior,” a pejorative term for progressives. Yet another groused that Brie Larson, the movie’s star, “says I shouldn’t see the movie anyway.”
Uganda New York Times entertainment
22 Feb 2019
Lisa Borders, chief executive of Time’s Up, the Hollywood-led organization fighting workplace sexual harassment, abruptly resigned from her position earlier this week because of sexual misconduct allegations made against her 36-year-old son. The resignation was announced Monday, but at the time only a family issue was cited as the reason.
Time's Up Chief Quit Over Sexual Misconduct Accusations Against Her Son