Although the Hollywood screenwriters’ strike has been put to an end, the sector remains paralyzed by the strike of the performers, who demand fairer conditions from the studios in the streaming scene, and the situation is also difficult for the specialized media. in film and television, and on a rebound for the media that usually cover events and red carpets, which have experienced a drought of content during these months. The Twitter account (okay, “The Big Bang Theory” premiered. The two major industry publications, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, are obviously very involved in following the negotiations minute by minute, but they also use imaginative content, inflating news as they can. For example, this THR headline from a few days ago: “Why Kristen Stewart’s Stylist Stopped Shopping for Three Months.” The digital media that usually cover premieres and star junkets, such as Tom and Lorenzo and The Fug Girls, already had training from the pandemic, when all festive activity stopped, and have dedicated themselves, among other things, to resurrecting the fashion of galas. yesteryear. In addition to analyzing how celebrities accessorize the union t-shirt when they go to the picket lines.
WANTED WASTE LAND
The driest and hottest summer in history has just ended and the anonymous artistic collective Luzinterruptus wants to mark the terrible anniversary by re-editing and expanding the installation Drawing the Drought, which they made in the La Jarosa reservoir, near Madrid in 2019. Now they are looking for a larger dry and cracked area – unfortunately, it will not be difficult to find it – to repeat that idea, which consisted of placing LED light sticks inside the cracks so that the problem becomes evident. The group, which has been working, always anonymously, since 2008, is responsible for some very famous ephemeral installations, such as when they covered the Buenos Aires Obelisk with illuminated plastic waste in May of this year, or when they created a labyrinth in Shanghai with 90,000 plastic bottles, many of them rescued from beaches by groups of volunteers.
THE LAST WORD OF JOHN LE CARRÉ
Perhaps because someone who has been a spy prefers to obtain information rather than give it away, John Le Carré (1931-2020) hated giving interviews and granted very few throughout his long career as an author. Even so, when he already knew that he had little to live, he agreed to speak with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris because he had been especially impressed by his film The Fog of War, about former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The author of books like Smiley’s People wanted to use that meeting to finish sculpting his image, according to what his children have said, who have also served as producers of The Pigeon Tunnel, the documentary about that last interview, which will premiere on Apple TV in mid October. A curiosity about Morris’s method is that he always wants his interviewees to be able to see his face while he talks to them, and not just look at a camera or a red light. To make it possible, he invented the Interretron, a kind of telepromter that he uses to film all of his interlocutors.
HIS BODY WAS HIS WORK
In one of her most famous photographs, Lisa Lyon poses with a young, hairy Arnold Scharzenegger, perched on her shoulders, on top of a gym weight. Lyon, who died last week at the age of 70, achieved celebrity in the late 1970s and posed on countless occasions for Robert Mapplethorpe, who dedicated an entire book to her (Lady: Lisa Lyon, 1983) and with which He maintained an artistic collaboration that went far beyond that between a photographer and a model. Trained in Anthropology, Lyon began hanging out at the famous Gold Gym on Venice Beach in Los Angeles and wanted to shape her body to generate a new code of femininity, far from the model of Marilyn Monroe, but also from that of Twiggy. Considered a performance artist, she also collaborated with Helmut Newton and sculptor Barry Flanagan.
MARESME KNOWLEDGE
Are the Farelo sisters the Catalan Knowles? Beyoncé and Solange have collaborated on some occasions but they have not sung together on the same song since 2001 and, although they respect and admire each other, it is assumed that each one carries out their artistic project separately, the model that Bad Gyal (or that is, Alba Farelo) and Mushkaa (Irma Farelo), who gave one of the most popular concerts of the festivals of the
Mercè. The actor Eduard Farelo and his partner, Eva Solé i Almarja, have three others and one of them, Greta, Irma’s twin, is also part of his sister’s band and hosts the Chapeo podcast. A few months ago, the actor talked about the fame of his daughters and joked that in his house they are a bit like “the Flores family” from Maresme.
