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A Los Angeles Theatre Review: 'The Skin Of Our Teeth'

Launching the new 2024-25 “True Grit” season at A Noise Within, co-artistic directors Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott co-direct The Skin of Our Teeth, the 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning, time-bending comic romp by Thornton Wilder. With a fantastic ensemble cast and inspired colorful direction, there is so much that works for this production…with the exception of this aging nonsensical…

[shobanarayan]

Can AI write your next wine review?

Can AI write your next wine review?

[jewish-microwave-laser]

And here is the most devastating fact of Frank's posthumous success, which leaves her real experience forever hidden: we know what she would have said, because other people have said it, and we don't want to hear it.

The line most often quoted from Frank's diary are her famous words, "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." These words are "inspiring," by which we mean that they flatter us. They make us feel forgiven for those lapses of our civilization that allow for piles of murdered girls—and if those words came from a murdered girl, well, then, we must be absolved, because they must be true. That gift of grace and absolution from a murdered Jew (exactly the gift that lies at the heart of Christianity) is what millions of people are so eager to find in Frank's hiding place, in her writings, in her "legacy." It is far more gratifying to believe that an innocent dead girl has offered us grace than to recognize the obvious: Frank wrote about people being "truly good at heart" before meeting people who weren't. Three weeks after writing those words, she met people who weren't.

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them. This fact bears repeating, as it does not come up at all in Anne Frank's writings. Readers of her diary are aware that the author was murdered in a genocide, but this does not mean that her diary is a work about genocide. If it were, it is unlikely that it would have been anywhere near as universally embraced.

We know this, because there is no shortage of writings from victims and survivors who chronicled this fact in vivid detail, and none of those documents have achieved anything like Frank's diary's fame. Those that have come close have only done so by observing those same rules of hiding, the ones that insist on polite victims who don't insult their persecutors The work that came closest to achieving Frank's international fame might be Elie Wiesel's Night, a memoir that could be thought of as a continuation of Frank's diary, recounting the tortures of a fifteen-year-old imprisoned in Auschwitz. As the scholar Naomi Seidman has discussed, Wiesel first published his memoir in Yiddish, under the title And the World Was Silent. The Yiddish book told the same story told in Night, but it exploded with rage against his family's murderers and, as the title implies, the entire world whose indifference (or active hatred) made those murders possible. With the help of the French Catholic Nobel laureate François Mauriac, Wiesel later published a French version under the new title La Nuit—a work that repositioned the young survivor's rage into theological angst. After all, what reader would want to hear about how this society had failed, how he was guilty? Better to blame G[-]d. This approach earned Wiesel a Nobel Peace Prize, as well as, years later, selection for Oprah's Book Club, the American epitome of grace. It did not, however, make teenage girls read his book in Japan, the way they read Frank's. For that he would have had to hide much, much more.

from "Everyone's (Second) Favorite Dead Jew" in People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn, pp 9–10

[starkdirewolflove]

“What’s that?”

The greatest use of a Spice Girls song ever.

[oldbookshop]

DOCTOR WHO, THE STAR BEAST

[phyla-vells]

You're gonna be someone else. It doesn't matter who. 'Cause every single one of you is fantastic.

[diioonysus]

art + hair pieces

[old-deerstalker-hat]

Stills from "The Giggle"

[whatsfourteenupto]

Fourteen follows Donna to work one day, “Not to do any world-saving, just to look around! Check out the archives, see how Kate’s getting on, the like!” It lasts until about 11:00, at which point he’s become such a distraction that Kate calls Shirley and tells her that her schedule for the rest of the day has been cleared, and to “For the love of God take him down to the lab, show them the projects, goof off for all I care, just don’t cause any structural damage and get him out of my hair.”

[reeveskryze]

Donna and Shirley friendship crumbs

[mywingsareonwheels]

The right-wing media: everything is the fault of trans people (esp. trans women), disabled people, and refugees. Also more widely, all LGBT+ people and every POC who isn't a Tory party cabinet member. Oh, and also Scottish people.

Russell T Davies: here is a young trans woman of colour, a disabled scientist who's an ambulatory wheelchair user and has rockets and stun-darts in her wheelchair, and a glorious new Doctor who's played by a gay refugee originally from Rwanda. They are all unbelievably awesome and are in various ways saving the world. Any questions?

Also RTD: oh and also this other Doctor (who is played by a vocally left-wing Scottish man who's very supportive to his trans kid and is generally an LGBT+ ally) is going to demonstrate that sometimes mentally ill people need to rest rather than being constantly told that working is the cure for everything. Just so you know.

[thenerdsofcolor]

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: 'The Winter's Tale’

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: 'The Winter's Tale’ at Antaeus Theatre Company

I’m not exactly the biggest fan of Shakespeare so for me to go out of my way to review a Shakespeare play absolutely requires that it has a meaningful diverse cast with global majority actors in significant parts (with the director preferably being global majority as well). It JUST happens to be that this is 2 for 2 that I’ve seen the Antaeus Theatre Company deliver another winner with their…

[galaxymagitech]

Okay, but. Mavity. Mavity. Mavity.

I pity physics students in the Doctor Who universe. The universal gravitational constant? M. The acceleration due to gravity on earth? m. A big mass? M. A small mass? m.

And you get this *lovely* equation:

mm = MmM/r^2

Are we talking about millimeters? Candy? Trying to form bizarre emoticons?

But they’re different ms and Ms. So you resort to subscripts and it takes forever to type and you always forget them on exams. And you curse Isaac Newton because, like, couldn’t he have chosen a better letter to start it with? Zavity? Nah, the z-axis…Gravity. Gravity’s nice. And g and G aren’t taken! Why couldn’t he have named it gravity?

And when Shirley Anne Bingham discovers that this torture she suffered throughout uni, her PhD, while doing scientific equations necessary for the preservation of human life under immense time pressure…was the Doctor and Donna’s fault? Well, it’s a good thing she wasn’t ever big on hero worship, because the duo have made her mathematical life hell.

[nkp1981]

Doctor Who Stars Attended The Premiere Of "The Star Beast", 2023

[chaoticreader139]

Love how the Spice Up Your Life scene is simultaneously hilarious and weird for the audience and just straight up terrifying for the characters.

[cbartonscoffee]

The role representation is playing in these specials is absolutely wonderful. Not only gender, pronouns, sexuality but also disability. And all of it is staring at you right in the face, you can't miss it, you can't ignore it, you can't forget about it.