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’Black Swan’ Fox Searchlight has responded to a lawsuit filed by former Black Swan interns Alex Footman and Eric Glatt, who claim that the (mind-numbing) unpaid work they performed on the set of the movie violated U.S. labor laws. The studio, which distributed the film, isn’t trying to argue that brewing coffee for Natalie Portman constitutes valuable industry experience. They’re just saying that director Darren Aronofsky’s production company is responsible for all those hours of wasted youth: “These interns were not even retained by Fox Searchlight and, in fact, were working for the production company that made Black Swan well before Fox Searchlight even acquired its rights in the film. [Read More]

Frank Ocean. Frank Ocean doesn’t do a whole lot of interviews. As he explained in one he did with GQ last fall, conducted by the people who co-host his Apple Music radio show, his worry, unsurprisingly, is that “you could potentially be misrepresented.” However, “social media helps that, ‘cause you’re fully in control and can message that how you want.” (As it happens, he’d just made his Instagram public.) So it’s a rare thing that he did an interview in the new issue of Gayletter, the New York–based, twice-a-year queer cool-kid culture magazine that has made a name for itself with pieces like Susan Sarandon in drag. [Read More]

Fred Savage. A former costume designer has accused actor Fred Savage of physical harassment on the set of the TV show The Grinder. In a press conference on Wednesday, Youngjoo Hwang, speaking alongside her attorney, accused the actor of repeated verbal harassment that turned physical when she tried to remove lint from his costume. “He would routinely curse at me, yell at me, demean me when all I was trying to do was my job,” Hwang said. [Read More]

reasons to love new york Dec. 18, 2015

This One-Man Publishing House May Be the Book World’s Smallest Press ANTIBOOKCLUB, the operation of 33-year-old Gabriel Levinson, releases just one title of literary fiction or nonfiction each year.

By Nick Tabor

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Helen Sloan isn’t as famous a name to Game of Thrones fans as Emilia Clarke or Kit Harington, but the photographer has played as integral a role in the HBO epic as any of its actors. As the series’ principal unit photographer, she has outlasted many on-camera stars (and even preceded some, including Clarke, who took on the role of Daenerys Targaryen after the original pilot was shot). Though she’s gotten help along the way — she can’t be in two locations at once, so HBO employs other photographers too — the most memorable Game of Thrones set images you’ve seen over the past eight seasons have probably been shot from her point of view. [Read More]

Veteran actor Richard E. Grant was working on the film Dom Hemingway when its writer-director Richard Shepard, who directed several episodes of Girls, including “One Man’s Trash,” asked him if he’d heard of Lena Dunham. “My knees buckled,” Grant told Vulture in an interview last week. Dunham had written a role for him and wanted to get in touch. She’d been a fan of his dating back to his first film Withnail and I, and Grant had seen every episode of Girls — more than once thanks to his 25-year-old daughter. [Read More]

last night on late night Jan. 12, 2017

Samantha Bee Takes on the Golden-Showers MatterTime for “comedy Christmas.”

By Karen Brill

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Greenleaf A Time to Heal Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Greenleaf A Time to Heal Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Oprah Winfrey as Mavis, Lynn Whitfield as Mae. Fascination with the black church and black Christian spirituality stretches back to the time of American slavery. [Read More]

Truth be told, Hansel and Gretel has always been one of the creepier fairy tales to come out of the Brothers Grimm, what with all the child abuse, cannibalism, and witchcraft. Osgood Perkins, director of the upcoming Gretel & Hansel, sees your spooky children’s classic and raises you a straight-up horror film. The movie, which stars It’s Sophia Lillis and The OA’s Alice Krige, is a dark, unsettling reimagining of the Grimms’ original story, as evidenced by the new trailer for the movie. [Read More]