![]() ![]() If only Emancipation actually had a memorable message. In an apology, he wrote, “I hope my actions don’t distract from the film’s message.” McFarland showed the photo off like an accessory, a moment that drew criticism for his oddly casual presentation. ![]() (Smith has since apologized for slapping Chris Rock during the ceremony and accepted the Academy’s decision to ban him from the awards for 10 years.) But Smith hasn’t been the only one to cause controversy: At the premiere of Emancipation, a producer, Joey McFarland, brought an original 19th-century photograph of “Whipped Peter”-the real-life enslaved man whose story inspired the movie-to the red carpet. In light of his outburst at the Oscars earlier this year, Smith has conceded that he would “ understand” if people aren’t ready to see him back on-screen, an admission that prompted a fresh wave of media discourse over whether he was penalized appropriately. That’s perhaps unsurprising, considering the film marks the return of Will Smith to the public eye. ![]() But the press tour for Emancipation, which starts streaming today on Apple TV+, has instead looked more like an apology tour. The filmmakers behind Emancipation probably wanted a standard Hollywood publicity circuit, with its stars offering amusing anecdotes about production and talking up the importance of the Training Day director Antoine Fuqua’s slavery-era drama. ![]()
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![]() The super-powered simian is well-known across Asia like Batman or Spider-Man, according to Yu. The character first appeared in the epic 16th century Chinese novel, “Journey to the West.” The tome has been adapted several times including a memorable 1980s TV series created by China Central Television (CCTV). It won several accolades and was a National Book Awards finalist.įor many young Chinese American readers, it was the first time they had seen themselves and the Monkey King - a legend they likely heard about from their parents - in that genre. Reviews lauded it as a fresh take on adolescence, bi-cultural identity and racism. The graphic novel was landmark literature for Asian American millennials. We’ll take all that sort of education for an audience to get used to faces like ours and we’ll embrace it and move forward.” all the way up to ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ and shows like ‘Never Have I Ever,’” Yu said. “We’re standing on the shoulders of those kinds of things, going back to ‘Joy Luck Club’. The fourth and final season of “Never Have I Ever,” about an Indian American high schooler, drops in June. American Born Chinese, his first graphic novel from First Second Books, was a National Book Award finalist, as well as the winner of the Printz Award and an. Jenny Han’s two book series, “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” and “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” have been hits for Netflix and Amazon Prime, respectively. Marvel” featuring a Muslim American female superhero. The television adaptation comes in the wake of other teen shows with an Asian American lens. ![]() I just feel like it’s someone who looks like me, which is double weird. ![]() “It’s very surreal and strange,” Wang said. ![]() ![]() And more often than not, new ones will show up in their place.” ![]() You’re still going to wake up every morning, and your problems will still be there unless you figure out a way to make them go away. “ I think this is a common misconception about fame, or any kind of marker of “success” in life, be it landing your dream job, getting married, or having a kid: people think that you achieve these goals, you check off certain boxes, and all of a sudden life’s perfect and you don’t have any problems. “ As frustrating as it is not to get what you want right away, success is a lot sweeter when it’s a slow build.” In fact, I think it’s the opposite: the more imperfect your life has been, the prouder you should be, because it means you’ve come that much further, and also probably had a lot more fun along the way.” ![]() “ Your life doesn’t have to be perfect for you to be proud. ![]() The late Naya Rivera was a brilliant woman who had her own perspective about so many things in life, and it’s clearly proven through the following quotes of her book: You can read my review about the book here. This post features some of the most memorable and inspirational quotes from Naya Rivera’s memoir, Sorry Not Sorry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the book went out on submission, I was hopeful writing it had been very joyful, and I felt prouder of it than anything else I had written. I added more of Cate’s internal thoughts to make it clear she wasn’t just trying to boss her sisters around out of spite. I cut the first chapter because my agent worried it was too slow a start (and then put it back in later at my editor’s request. Pre-contract, my revisions were pretty minimal. Even if it means giving up my life – and my true love.īecause if the Brothers discover our secret, we’re destined for the asylum, or prison…or death.Ĭould you describe both your pre-and-post contract revision process? What did you learn along the way? How did you feel at each stage? What advice do you have for other writers on the subject of revision? So I will do everything in my power to protect myself and my sisters. Women who can do magic – they’re either mad or wicked. According to the Brothers, it’s devil-sent. Our mother was a witch, too, but she hid it better. Jessica Spotswood is the first-time author of Born Wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicals, Book One)(Putnam, 2012). ![]() ![]() The object of persecution is persecution. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Not only the ideas of ‘thought crime’ and ‘thought police’, but even the terms themselves, predate Orwell’s use of them: they were first recorded in a 1934 book about Japan. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. The moustachioed figure of Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four recalls nobody so much as Josef Stalin himself. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are not interested in the good of others we are interested solely in power, pure power. ![]() The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her heroes come alive on the page, with genuine emotions and concerns. ?A wonderful debut novel?hooks the reader with vividly drawn characters and draws us into an exotic, dangerous, and beautifully crafted world. All it would take is guidance from one such as Seyonne once was? But time is short, for demons have also noticed Aleksander?and what they cannot control they will destroy. But within Aleksander, the seeds of greatness wait. His new master is cold, and heedlessly cruel. And to him, death is all that is left?until he finds hope in a most unlikely place? Sold once again, Seyonne is bought by Aleksander, the heir to the Derzhi Empire. Now, years of degradation and misery have blurred Seyonne?s memory, and sapped his strength. Carol slowly builds the character of Seyonne. The story is told from the Seyonne’s point of view. ![]() I had also read a couple duologies by the author earlier this year and I would now rank them among my all-time favorite books. Transformation is a fantasy novel about the relationship between a contemptuous and overbearing prince, Aleksander, on his way to becoming emperor, and his slave, Seyonne. ![]() I’d read the series in print five and a half years ago and really loved it. ![]() Once his people were the guardians of magic such as the land had never seen, protectors and defenders. This book, Transformation, is the first book in Carol Berg’s Rai-Kirah series. The first novel in national bestselling author Carol Berg's Rai Kirah saga follows one man's journey from slave to savior.Seyonne was not always a slave. ![]() ![]() Her career in America faltered after she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1950 during the era of McCarthyism. In 1950, she became the first black American to host her own TV show, The Hazel Scott Show. She was active as a jazz singer throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In her teens, she performed at Café Society while still at school. Scott was a child musical prodigy, receiving scholarships to study at the Juilliard School when she was eight. īorn in Port of Spain, Scott moved to New York City with her mother at the age of four. She used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film. She was an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation. ![]() ![]() Hazel Dorothy Scott (J– October 2, 1981) was a Trinidad-born American jazz and classical pianist and singer. The first black American to host her own TV show, The Hazel Scott Show ![]() ![]() ![]() Because, as it turns out, Sheriff Nick Corey is not nearly as dumb as he seems. Because the one thing Nick does know is that he will do anything to stay sheriff. Are they a little too close for a brother and a sister? With an election coming up, Nick needs to fix his problems and fast. And then, theres his wife and her brother Lenny who wont stop troubling Nicks already stressed mind. His girlfriend Rose is being terrorized by her husband. Two local pimps have been sassing him, ruining his already tattered reputation. Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. ![]() He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and sleeping with all the eligible women. He doesnt solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. Book Synopsis Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. About the Book Originally published: New York: Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1964. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of my favourite episodes of series one and I’m so happy they made the novelisation. ![]() Of course I picked the book as soon as it was out. In 2008 his short story project for BBC7, The Chain Gang, won him a Sony Award, and he provided a second series for them in 2009. ![]() One of the stories from it was selected by the National Library Board of Singapore as part of the annual Read! Singapore campaign. It won the World Fantasy Award for best collection, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. His first collection of short stories, Tiny Deaths, was published by Comma Press in 2007. However, he is probably best known as a writer for Doctor Who, reintroducing the Daleks for its BAFTA winning first series, in an episode nominated for a Hugo Award. ![]() His plays have been regularly produced by Alan Ayckbourn, and on BBC Radio by Martin Jarvis. He was appointed resident dramatist at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter and has received several international awards for his theatrical work, including the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, the World Drama Trust Award and the Guinness Award for Ingenuity in association with the Royal National Theatre. Robert Shearman has worked as a writer for television, radio and the stage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grayling may find a particular philosopher less than satisfactory, but he never fails to point out what is worth considering in each person’s work. Boethius has his turn, as does William of Ockham, and later, Spinoza, Locke, and Hume. While the book is long - 600 pages, not including notes - philosophy itself is even longer, so the thinkers speed by. Grayling makes pre-Socratic philosophers such as Anaximander, Parmenides, and Anaxagoras feel unexpectedly relevant, and he concisely covers the Greek trinity of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, each of whom receives his own chapter. Grayling is in his new book, The History of Philosophy. It’s surprisingly fun to immerse oneself in the tradition of Western philosophy, especially when the guide proves to be as thoughtful and clear-sighted as Oxford professor A. ![]() |