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Hollywood prop maker turns to fabricating face shields
Rob West usually spends his days building sets and making props. But once the pandemic hit, he started using his skills to devise and manufacture reu…
6 years, 1 month ago
Dahvi Waller’s ‘Mrs. America’
The new series “Mrs. America” is about the 1970s battle over the Equal Rights Amendment. It’s available via FX on Hulu. Dahvi Waller created this ser…
6 years, 1 month ago
Revisiting Bong Joon Ho and ‘Parasite.’ Plus should theaters reopen?
“Parasite” made history as the first foreign language movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars. The movie is now streaming on Hulu, so we’re revisitin…
6 years, 1 month ago
Jeffrey Katzenberg on Quibi and his Hollywood tenure
Jeffrey Katzenberg ran Walt Disney Studios when it made hits like “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King.” He also co-founded DreamWorks. Now he’s l…
6 years, 2 months ago
Samantha Bee and Jason Jones on making ‘Full Frontal’ from the woods
The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered studio productions of every major late- night talk show. Samantha Bee and Jason Jones — her husband, producer …
6 years, 2 months ago
Eliza Hittman’s ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’
Filmmaker Eliza Hittman knew she’d have trouble getting financing for her art house abortion drama, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” She didn’t thin…
6 years, 2 months ago
Jobless Hollywood workers cope with coronavirus
With Hollywood mostly shut down, we check in with people dealing with this difficult time across the industry. We hear from an actor, cinematographer…
6 years, 2 months ago
Netflix’s ‘Crip Camp’
In 1971, when sound designer Jim LeBrecht was 15, he had a summer of love at a camp for disabled kids. It was a place that fostered a spirit of hist…
6 years, 3 months ago
Anti-NDA initiative ‘Lift Our Voices’
In July 2016, more than a year before the #MeToo movement began, Gretchen Carlson made a bold decision to sue Fox News chief Roger Ailes for sexual h…
6 years, 3 months ago
Autumn de Wilde’s ‘Emma’
Autumn de Wilde has more than 20 years of experience photographing rock bands and directing commercials, but she’d never made a feature film. Then ou…
6 years, 3 months ago