Oct 30, 2020 · You could create a drama about one of the actual black people in Tudor England, R169, and investigate the role of race in the period. If you make a prominent historical person black and then NO-ONE AROUND HER MENTIONS IT, what are you actually saying about the 16th century? That it was a wondrous haven of diversity?

Feb 17, 2020 · “We’ve continued to have a friendship and, well, I recently sort of re-engaged with Joni, and that’s been wonderful. She came to a show of mine recently, at the Hollywood Bowl, which was an unusual thing for her to do.” Mitchell has been recovering from a period of ill health after a brain aneurysm in 2015.

Aug 17, 2023 · The Hollywood Reporter critic called this “trauma porn” but I’m going to be a little more nuanced and call it a relic of the age of “feel-bad homosexuality”, of the literary period between Stonewall and AIDS. And the audience for this is going to be very, very small.