1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (413+ words) Born to middle-class parents, Gal Gadot parlayed success in beauty pageants into military service as a combat fitness instructor. Then came a modeling career and, eventually, Hollywood stardom. Yet, because she is Israeli, Gadot’s mere existence seems to invite a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (314+ words) One transgender Hollywood actor does not appear to have any roles lined up despite success in major movies, including The Odyssey. Elliot Page, whose acting career began as Ellen Page, played major roles, including Kitty Pryde in the X-Men franchise,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (625+ words) For months, Hollywood activists have insisted that their campaign to stop the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. is about something noble and decidedly nonpartisan: protecting competition, preserving jobs, and saving American culture from corporate consolidation. An open letter signed…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (329+ words) Which brings us to the 800th entry in Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introduction series, Elijah Wald’s Rock ’n’ Roll: A Very Short Introduction. This slim volume is your father’s rock ’n’ roll experience in book form, assuming your father was American…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (183+ words) I am an efficient but unspectacular cook. I have a sense of how long to sear a New York strip steak before putting it in the oven, and on a recent, unseasonably cool August evening, I capably executed a pot…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (849+ words) Skip the summer’s woke dinosaur movie, ‘The End of Oak Street’ Washington Examiner The End of Oak Street may seem like a harmless, companionable, feel-good potpourri made up of parts from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), and Jumanji (1995), but…...