Critic’s Notebook: A Flat Nate Bargatze and a Lame Time-Saving Gag Upstage Worthy Winners at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards

Critic’s Notebook: A Flat Nate Bargatze and a Lame Time-Saving Gag Upstage Worthy Winners at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards

Given that I live in Los Angeles and work for an entertainment industry trade publication, I’m not supposed to admit this, but much of the country — not “most” but probably more than “some” — has a particular perception about Hollywood. Writers and directors and producers and movie stars, you sometimes hear, live in a…

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Mark Ronson’s Latest High Note

Mark Ronson’s Latest High Note

Mark Ronson built up one of the most impressive music careers over the past two decades, from producing Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and releasing one of the best-selling songs of all time with “Uptown Funk” to soundtracking one of the biggest cultural moments of the decade with Barbie. This year the superstar producer notched…

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In ‘The Remarkable Life of Iberlin,’ a Disabled Gamer Finds Accessibility and Influence He Couldn’t in the Real World

In ‘The Remarkable Life of Iberlin,’ a Disabled Gamer Finds Accessibility and Influence He Couldn’t in the Real World

In the recesses of the internet, where reality can feel increasingly fuzzy, one young Norwegian man lacking offline mobility built a world of his own. Mats Steen, the subject of the poignant Netflix documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, formed a digital community that transcended the severe muscular dystrophy he’d developed as a child. While…

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