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Sharp Stick (2022) Lena Dunham

February 17th 2024

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Film after film: Sharp Stick (dir. Lena Dunham, 2022)

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THE TOURNAMENT IS OVER! Eartha Kitt lounges in her deck chair in the sun, dipping her toes in the pool with Toshiro Mifune and sipping a brightly colored fruity something with an umbrella in it.

Far below in the shadow realm, however, the fallen hotties dance in the dark—let's take a minute to look back at them under the cut.

PRELIM PRETTIES:

Claude Gensac, Silvia Pinal, Ewa Aulin, Rita Tushingham, Annette Funicello, Norma Bengell, Catherine Spaak, Brigitte Auber, Micheline Presle, Nanette Fabray, Libertad Lamarque, Vera Miles, Martha Raye, Catherine McLeod, Virginia Mayo, Elizabeth Allan, Belle Bennet, Virginia Cherill, Mary Brian, Ruth Chatterton, Agnes Ayres, Merna Kennedy, Marie Prevost, Corinne Griffith, May Allison, Virginia Brown Faire, Alice Brady, and Jetta Goudal

ROUND ONE WONDERS:

Angie Dickinson, Thelma Ritter, Geraldine Chaplin, Evelyn Preer, Vanessa Brown, Betty Blythe, Susan Hayward, Mae Clarke, Sally Ann Howes, Ossi Oswalda, Adrienne La Russa, Hermione Gingold, Barbara Bouchet, Melina Mercouri, Anna Karina, Edwige Fenech, Charmian Carr, Pina Pellicer, Marlène Jobert, Tsuru Aoki, Alice Roberts, Leila Hyams, Lady Tsen Mei, Geneviève Bujold, Dolores Hart, Anita Berber, Bonita Granville, Vonetta McGee, Claire Windsor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Tuesday Weld, Grace Darmond, Carol Channing, Deanna Durbin, Laraine Day, Mariette Hartey, Wendy Hiller, Candy Darling, Hermione Baddely, Valeria Creti, Ella Raines, Ann Miller, Dana Wynter, Dalida, Martine Beswick, Gale Storm, Simone Signoret, Cristina Gaioni, Mabel Normand, Stéphane Audran, Ruth Weyher, Anna Wiazemsky, Ann Sheridan, Sandhya Shantaram, Alice White, Anne Francis, Gena Rowlands, Lyda Borelli, May Whitty, Cathleen Nesbitt, Jessica Walter, Virna Lisi, Barbara Shelley, Iris Hall, Heather Angel, Anne Shirley, Joanna Pettet, Virginia O'Brien, Joan Collins, Greer Garson, Gracie Allen, Peggy Ryan, Frances Dee, Shirley Maclaine, Geraldine Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Margaret Hamilton, Eva Gabor, Francesca Bertini, Julie Adams, Olga Baclanova, Misa Uehara, Yvette Vickers, Milena Dravić, Jenny Jugo, Madeleine Carroll, Benita Hume, Olive Borden, Shirley Jones, Miyoshi Umeki, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard, Mary Anderson, Charlotte Greenwood, Sybil Seely, Mona Barrie, Kathryn Grayson, Katharine Ross, Madge Bellamy, Rhonda Fleming, Sally Gray, Jana Brejchová, Debra Paget, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Evelyn Brent, Zelma O'Neal, Marie Laforêt, Türkan Şoray, Beatriz Costa, Irene Zazians, Eleanor Powell, Susan Luckey, Patsy Kelly, Lil Dagover, Norma Talmadge, Dorothy Mackaill, Madge Evans, Virginia McKenna, Amália Rodrigues, Mamie Van Doren, Valerie Hobson, Isabel Jeans, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Claire Luce, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Nieves Navarro Garcia, Janet Leigh, Carmen Miranda, Jean Harlow, Aud Egedge-Nissen, Nina Foch, Jean Simmons, Piper Laurie, Katy Jurado, Jayne Mansfield, Anita Garvin, Frances Farmer, Lizabeth Scott, Joan Greenwood, Una Merkel, Arlene Francis, Ethel Merman, Doris Day, Suzanne Pleshette, Ruta Lee, Carolyn Jones, June Richmond, Eva Nil, Diana Dors, Anna Chang, Colleen Moore, Alexis Smith, Yvette Mimieux, Ruby Keeler, Viola Dana, Dolores Grey, Marie Windsor, Danielle Darieux, Jean Parker, Julie Christie, Acquanetta, Leatrice Joy, Ghita Nørby, Julie Newmar, Joanne Woodward, Sandra Dee, Eva Marie Saint, Simone Simon, Katherine Dunham, Birgitte Price, Lee Grant, Anita Page, Flora Robson, Martha Sleeper, Elsie Ames, Isabel "Coca" Sarli, Glenda Farrell, Kathleen Burke, Linden Travers, Diane Baker, Joan Davis, Joan Leslie, Sylvia Sidney, Marie Dressler, June Lockhart, Emmanuelle Riva, Libertad Leblanc, Susannah Foster, Susan Fleming, Dolores Costello, Ann Smyrner, Luise Rainer, Anna Massey, Evelyn Ankers, Ruth Gordon, Eva Dahlbeck, Ansa Ikonen, Diana Wynyard, Patricia Neal, Etta Lee, Gloria Stuart, Arletty, Dorothy McGuire, Mitzi Gaynor, Gwen Verdon, Maria Schell, Lili Damita, Ethel Moses, Gloria Holden, Kay Thompson, Jeanne Crain, Edna May Oliver, Lili Liliana, Ruth Chatterton, Giulietta Masina, Claire Bloom, Dinah Sheridan, Carroll Baker, Brenda de Banzie, Milú, Hertha Thiele, Hanka Ordonówna, Lillian Roth, Jane Powell, Carol Ohmart, Betty Garrett, Kalina Jędrusik, Edana Romney, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Kay Kendall, Ruth Hussey, Véra Clouzot, Jadwiga Smosarska, Marge Champion, Mary Astor, Ann Harding, María Casares, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mildred Natwick, Michèle Morgan, Romy Schneider, Elisabeth Bergner, Celeste Holm, Betty Hutton, Susan Peters, Mehtab, Leslie Caron, Anna Sten, Janet Munro, Nataša Gollová, Eve Arden, Ida Lupino, Regina Linnanheimo, Sonja Henie, and Terry (what a good girl)

ROUND TWO BEAUTIES:

Evelyn Nesbit, Thelma Todd, Tura Satana, Helen Gibson, Maureen O'Hara, Rocío Dúrcal, Mary Nolan, Lois Maxwell, Maggie Smith, Zulma Faiad, Ursula Andress, Musidora, Delphine Seyrig, Marian Marsh, Leatrice Joy, Sharon Tate, Pina Menichelli, Teresa Wright, Shelley Winters, Lee Remick, Jane Wyman, Martita Hunt, Barbara Bates, Susan Strasberg, Marie Bryant, Diana Rigg, Jane Birkin, Rosalind Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Brigitte Helm, Gloria Grahame, Rosemary Clooney, Bebe Daniels, Constance Bennett, Lilian Bond, Ann Dvorak, Jeanette Macdonald, Pouri Banayi, Raquel Welch, Vilma Bánky, Dorothy Malone, Olive Thomas, Celia Johnson, Moira Shearer, Priscilla Lane, Dolores del Río, Ann Sothern, Françoise Rosay, June Allyson, Carole Lombard, Jeni Le Gon, Takako Irie, Barbara Steele, Claudette Colbert, Lalita Pawar, Asta Nielsen, Sandra Milo, Maria Montez, Mae West, Alma Rose Aguirre, Bibi Andersson, Joan Blondell, Anne Bancroft, Elsa Lanchester, Nita Naldi, Suchitra Sen, Dorothy Van Engle, Elisabeth Welch, Esther Williams, Loretta Young, Margueritte De La Motte, Ita Rina, Constance Talmadge, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Bedford, Josette Day, Stefania Sandrelli, Jane Russell, Doris Dowling, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Donna Reed, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Billie Burke, Kyōko Kagawa, Françoise Dorléac, Hend Rostom, Monica Vitti, Lilian Harvey, Marjorie Main, Jeanne Moreau, Lola Flores, Ann Blyth, Janet Gaynor, Jennifer Jones, Margaret Sullavan, Sadhana, Ruby Myers, Lotus Long, Honor Blackman, Marsha Hunt, Debbie Reynolds, Michèle Mercier, Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur, Judy Holliday, Tippi Hedren, Susse Wold, Vera-Ellen, Carmelita González, Nargis Dutt, Purnima, Harriet Andersson, Yvonne De Carlo, Miroslava Stern, Sheila Guyse, Helen, Margaret Dumont, Betty Grable, Joan Bennett, Jane Greer, Judith Anderson, Liv Ullman, Vera Zorina, Joan Fontaine, Silvana Mangano, and Lee Ya-Ching

ROUND THREE ELECTRIFIERS:

Jean Hagen, Sumiko Mizukubo, Mary Philbin, Ann-Margret, Margaret Rutherford, Claudia Cardinale, Eleanor Parker, Jessie Matthews, Theresa Harris, Brigitte Bardot, Alla Nazimova, Faye Dunaway, Marion Davies, Anna Magnani, Theda Bara, Myrna Loy, Kay Francis, Fay Wray, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Hideko Takamine, France Nuyen, Claudine Auger, Miriam Hopkins, Maylia Fong, Samia Gamal, Maude Fealy, Machiko Kyō, Sharmila Tagore, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, Juanita Moore, Anna Fougez, Waheeda Rehman, Ruan Lingyu, Nina Mae McKinney, Ethel Waters, Nadira, Olivia de Havilland, Abbey Lincoln, Louise Beavers, Agnes Moorehead, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer, Maria Falconetti, Reiko Sato, Marie Doro, Clara Bow, Margaret Lindsay, Catherine Denueve, Madhabi Mukherjee, Rosaura Revueltas, Hu Die, Mary Pickford, Fredi Washington, Louise Brooks, Leonor Maia, Merle Oberon, Paulette Goddard, Vivien Leigh, Francine Everett, Savitri, Tita Merello, and Meena Kumari

ROUND FOUR STUNNERS:

Judy Garland, Dorothy Dandridge, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Papas, Lupe Vélez, Pola Negri, Gene Tierney, Barbara Stanwyck, Gina Lollobrigida, Lena Horne, Nutan, Jean Seberg, Kim Novak, Gladys Cooper, Tallulah Bankhead, Linda Darnell, Julie Andrews, Carmen Sevilla, Gloria Swanson, Glynis Johns, Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Anita Ekberg, Toshia Mori, Deborah Kerr, Hazel Scott, Chelo Alonso, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Kwan, Devika Rani, Shima Iwashita, and Anouk Aimée

ROUND FIVE SMOKESHOWS:

Setsuko Hara, Pearl Bailey, Joan Crawford, Madhubala, Marpessa Dawn, Keiko Awaji, Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, Ava Gardner, Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, Xia Meng, Suraiya, Natalie Wood, María Félix, and Mbissine Thérèse Diop

ROUND SIX SEXY LADIES:

Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Vyjyanthimala, Jane Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ingrid Bergman

QUARTER FINALIST GLAMAZONS:

Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Lauren Bacall

SEMIFINALIST ICONS:

Rita Moreno, Diahann Carroll

FINALIST FABULOSITY:

Hedy Lamarr

ULTIMATE CHAMPION OF THE HOT & VINTAGE MOVIE WOMAN TOURNAMENT:

Eartha Kitt

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Simone Leigh, Dunham, 2017,  Farzad Owrang/Luhring Augustine

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February 2023 Media Breakdown

Movies:

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) - Martin McDonagh

Catherine Called Birdy (2022) - Lena Dunham

The Princess Diaries (2001) - Garry Marshall

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) - Garry Marshall

Barbarian (2022) - Zach Cregger

TÁR (2022) - Todd Field

Mangrove (2020) - Steve McQueen

Fresh Dressed (2015) - Sacha Jenkins

Buckjumping (2018) - Lily Keber

Paris is Burning (1990) - Jennie Livingston

The Girl from Chicago (1932) - Oscar Micheaux

Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang

Marnie (1964) - Alfred Hitchcock

It Happened One Night (1934) - Frank Capra

Titanic (1997) - James Cameron

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (2021) - John Maggio

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997) - Robert Iscove

A View to a Kill (1985) - John Glen

Black Is… Black Ain’t (1994) - Marlon Riggs

The Birds (1963) - Alfred Hitchcock

Knock at the Cabin (2023) - M. Night Shyamalan

La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) (1928) - Carl Theodore Dreyer

Castle in the Sky (1986) - Hayao Miyazaki

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) - Shaka King

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Rian Johnson

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) - Yoshiaki Kawajiri

TV Shows:

The Last of Us - Season 1, Episodes 4-7 (2023)

Books: Completed

The Lord of Opium (2009) - Nancy Farmer

A Darker Shade of Magic (2015) - V.E. Schwab

Ariadne (2021) - Jennifer Saint

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022) - Gabrielle Zevin

If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) - James Baldwin

Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley

Fire & Blood: A History of the Targaryen Kings from Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III (2018) - George R.R. Martin

A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015) - Sarah J. Maas

The Bluest Eye (1970) - Toni Morrison

Borne (2017) - Jeff VanderMeer

Books: In Progress

Bitterblue (2012) - Kristin Cashore | 18%

Six of Crows (2015) - Leigh Bardugo | 5%

Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky | 18%

Top 3 Albums:

Live At The Cafe Rouge (2010) - Artie Shaw | jazz

Kick in the Teeth (2023) - Hippo Campus | indie rock

flounder (2023) - quinnie | indie rock/alternative

Crafts:

Made so much plarn and crocheted 4 plarn tote bags from it

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Sharp Stick (dir. Lena Dunham) x Fantasia 2022.

[The] Girls creator [...] returns to independent cinema by crafting another provocative portrait of a young female desire in coming to terms with a sexual awakening through a detour of youthfully misguided self-destructive behaviour. Sharp Stick feels like both a slightly tamer or innocent but clearly more blunt narrative alternative to her acclaimed HBO series refocused on a singular protagonist.

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Poster And Red-Band Trailer For Lena Dunham's SHARP STICK Starring Kristine Froseth

Poster And Red-Band Trailer For Lena Dunham’s SHARP STICK Starring Kristine Froseth

Utopia has released these poster and trailer for writer/director Lena Dunham’s new film SHARP STICK. Starring Kristine Froseth, Jon Bernthal, Scott Speedman, Luka Sabbat, Lena Dunham, Taylour Paige and Jennifer Jason Leigh Opens Friday July 29th in New York and Los Angeles, Expands to theaters nationwide on Friday August 5th. Available on Digital platforms August 16th Synopsis Sarah Jo (Kristine…

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Fun Mom Dinner

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Lena Dunham’s “Sharp Stick” Is a Hothouse of Delayed Sexual Awakening

Lena Dunham’s “Sharp Stick” Is a Hothouse of Delayed Sexual Awakening

Lena Dunham was all of twenty-three when “Tiny Furniture” premièred, to apt acclaim, at South by Southwest in 2010. It’s a first-person comedy centered on the moral price of the artistic ambition of its protagonist (played by Dunham). She knew. Rather than moving stepwise into her next feature, Dunham created and starred in “Girls” and thereby moved into the forefront of the culture and even…

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Today's terrible darkling fancast - Jeff Dunham

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the star analyses...so far

the actors

ira aldridge

eddie “rochester” anderson

fatty arbuckle

humphrey bogart

marlon brando

charlie chaplin

montgomery clift

gary cooper  

sammy davis, jr.

james dean

errol flynn  

clark gable

cary grant

william haines 

juano hernández

rock hudson

rex ingram

canada lee

harold lloyd

robert mitchum  

tom neal

ramón novarro

laurence olivier

gregory peck

lincoln perry

sidney poitier

anthony quinn 

paul robeson

frank sinatra 

rudolph valentino

john wayne

orson welles

the actresses

lauren bacall

josephine baker

theda bara

brigitte bardot

ingrid bergman  

clara bow

louise brooks

diahann carroll

joan crawford

dorothy dandridge

bette davis

doris day

dolores del río

marlene dietrich

peg entwistle

maría félix

greta garbo

ava gardner

lillian gish 

gloria grahame

jean harlow

susan hayward  

rita hayworth

audrey hepburn 

lena horne

grace kelly

eartha kitt

veronica lake

hedy lamarr

carole landis

vivien leigh

carole lombard

jayne mansfield

hattie mcdaniel

marilyn monroe

mabel normand

merle oberon

barbara payton  

gail russell

norma shearer

barbara stanwyck

olive thomas  

gene tierney

lupe vélez

fredi washington

natalie wood 

loretta young     

the couples

annabella + tyrone power

bogie + bacall

frank + ava

frida kahlo + diego rivera  

gable + lombard 

john + yoko

oj + nicole brown simpson

viv + larry

the rivalries

bette davis vs. joan crawford

inspirations + muses

joyce bryant

gia carangi

coco chanel  

beloved public figures

jacqueline kennedy onassis

john f. kennedy  

princess diana

the notable + infamous

david bacon

susan cabot

shauna grant

dorothy hale

hugh hefner

athalia pondsell lindsley

donyale luna

anjette lyles

marquis de sade

niccolo machiavelli

evelyn mchale

evelyn nesbit

adam clayton powell, jr.

philippa schuyler   

literary figures

jack kerouac

musicians + artists

louis armstrong

syd barrett

maria callas

katherine dunham

duke ellington

ella fitzgerald

marvin gaye

jimi hendrix

billie holiday

whitney houston

frida kahlo

john lennon

keith moon

edith piaf  

hazel scott

selena

tupac shakur

tammi terrell 

yoko ono 

special analyses

cancer men and suicide

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Before it's too late, the best books I read in 2020

My favorites

Followers by Megan Angelo

Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

How Do I Look? by Sennah Yee

Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

the earthquake room by Davey Davis

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

We Wish You Luck by Caroline Zancan

Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

Scott Pilgrim the Complete Series by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Homie by Danez Smith

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe

Temporary by Hilary Leichter

The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s by Andy Greene

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

Honorable mentions

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

The Witches are Coming by Lindy West

Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes

In the Land of Men by Adrienne Miller

Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza

A Year Without a Name by Cyrus Grace Dunham

Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin

A Burning by Megha Mujumdar

Luster by Raven Leilani

How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

Evolving Vegan by Mena Massoud

The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada

Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 by Natasha Stagg

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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From The High Line’s information page on this work-

Simone Leigh presents Brick House, a 16-foot-tall bronze bust of a Black woman with a torso that combines the forms of a skirt and a clay house. The sculpture’s head is crowned with an afro framed by cornrow braids, each ending in a cowrie shell. Brick House is the inaugural commission for the High Line Plinth, a new landmark destination for major public artworks in New York City. This is the first monumental sculpture in Leigh’s Anatomy of Architecture series, an ongoing body of work in which the artist combines architectural forms from regions as varied as West Africa and the Southern United States with the human body. The title comes from the term for a strong Black woman who stands with the strength, endurance, and integrity of a house made of bricks.

Brick House references numerous architectural styles: Batammaliba architecture from Benin and Togo, the teleuk dwellings of the Mousgoum people of Cameroon and Chad, and the restaurant Mammy’s Cupboard in Natchez, Mississippi. The sculpture contrasts sharply against the landscape it inhabits, where glass-and-steel towers shoot up from among older industrial-era brick buildings, and where architectural and human scales are in constant negotiation. Resolutely facing down 10th Avenue, Leigh’s powerful Black female figure challenges us to consider the architecture around us, and how it reflects customs, values, priorities, and society as a whole.

Leigh works across sculpture, video, installation, and social practice, stitching together references from different historical periods and distant geographical locations. As a sculptor, Leigh works predominantly in ceramics—a medium that she mastered early in her career—continually pushing the boundaries of her chosen material by working in new methods and larger scales. In her intersectional practice, Leigh focuses on how the body, society, and architecture inform and reveal one another. She examines the construction of Black female subjectivity, both through specific historical figures such as Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham, and more generally through overlapping historical lineages across Europe, Africa, the US, and the Caribbean.

The High Line’s website also has some excellent videos and additional information on the making of the sculpture well worth checking out.  This work was on view until May of 2021.

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https://www.indiewire.com/2021/03/lena-dunham-filmed-secret-movie-1234620650/

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Y’all: “she’s been cancelled! Fuck cancel culture!”

Lena: