Television industry This article is more than 16 years oldRoll up the red carpetThis article is more than 16 years oldAwards ceremonies are big business for everyone from media owners to flower arrangers. So what happens when the stars don't come out?The American writers' strike has already dealt a blow to those starlets who were keen to show off their dress-wearing talents at last week's Golden Globes awards ceremony. How much of a blow will its cancellation - and possibly that of the showbusiness event of the year, the Oscars - deal to an increasingly celebrity-obsessed media industry? Read More...
World libraryGlobal developmentReviewOur literary tour of Chile explores political repression under Pinochet through fact and fantasy, and magic realism’s merging of the two The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda BoginAllende’s classic, hugely successful family saga is a masterwork of magic-realism. Fusing the personal with the political and fact with fantasy, it tells Chile’s recent history through several generations of the Trueba family, ending with a savage military coup that leads to the death of a president. Read More...
Maybe Colin Jost’s unexplainable villain status is just a simple misunderstanding built over years and years of pranks. Because it turns out making Jost seem like a total sociopath in front of guests was one of the many super-fun and not-at-all-nightmarish pranks Fred Armisen used to play on his co-workers at SNL. Bill Hader and Seth Meyers reminisced about these fun, awesome pranks, that are, of course, hilarious now. Read More...