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Diary Of A Fugue Year Can a lifetime of close listening prepare a person for a year like 2020? I. Short Circuiting On the first day of December in the year of our collective dread 2020, my editor called me to have the annual conversation. How, Jacob wanted to know, do you plan to write about this year in music? Our back-and-forth fluctuated between the general — NPR Music was about to publish its lists of 2020s best songs and albums — and the personal. He talked about listening to sad disc...

Reviewing Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, a collection of films, for The New Yorker, the masterful cultural critic Doreen St Félix writes: “One way to measure a filmmaker’s commitment to his subject is to look at the not so minor details, such as costumes, wigs, and food. If the paraphernalia of a people doesn’t feel forged but, rather, appears to have been lifted unmolested from observation or memory, or both, then the effect is immersion – the melding of reality with the world of the ...

"We spent the better part of the last year in an exhaustive search for an actress who could embody Whitney Houston," Meghie said. "Naomi Ackie impressed us at every stage of the process. I was moved by her ability to capture the stage presence of a global icon while bringing humanity to her interior life." Houston, who passed away in 2012, was one of the best-known and most successful recording artists of all time. She sold over 200 million records with hits such as I Will Always Love You, So E...

Whitney Houston in the forthcoming Clive Davis/Sony biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” The film follows Houston’s life and rise to fame. The legendary singer passed away in 2012. Davis previously said that the project wll be a “no holds barred” portrait of the artist, and he won’t sugar-coat anything.  Speaking to Variety, Davis, who signed Whitney to her record contract and was her mentor, said, “I have a mission here. I have a mission to make sure that for all time that the...

Naomi Ackie is currently in the final negotiations to play the role of Whitney Houston, according to Variety. Small Axe, The End of the F**king World, and  Star Wars: The Rise of the Skywalker. The movie is called  It is directed by Stella Meghie and the script is from Anthony McCarten. In a statement, Stella Meghie says, “we spent the better part of the last year in an exhaustive search for an actress who could embody Whitney Houston. Naomi Ackie impressed us at every stage of the proces...

Posted on Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 by Ethan Anderton Whitney Houston was an incomparable, chart-topping singer with a powerful voice and a vivacious presence. So finding someone to play the singer/actress required a worldwide search to find the perfect actress to bring her to life in the upcoming biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody. But rather than finding an unknown star, it’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker co-star Naomi Ackie who has landed the lead role in the Sony/TriStar produc...

Ella Kemp , December 16th, 2020 10:41 I do not know how many moments feature on this list. I know roughly the number of films, but I do not know which one is objectively the best. We could have tried to order them, to celebrate one film a little more than the others, to crown a winner of the race. But I didnt really want to do that this year. I am not going to explain how ludicrous this year was, or try to make sense of it. All I can do is welcome you to what I hope is one of the final lists y...

In the last days of November, a debate raged over Twitter about a movie hardly anyone was talking about just days before, and whether one of its characters deserved the happy ending she got. In Happiest Season, Harper (Mackenzie Davis) asks her girlfriend Abby (Kristen Stewart) to hide the nature of their relationship while visiting Harper’s old-fashioned, politically ambitious family for Christmas. Harper then spends much of the film leaning into the lie, frequently sidelining Abby while sp...

Renee Klahr / NPR / Armon Dauphin / Getty Images I. Short Circuiting On the first day of December in the year of our collective dread 2020, my editor called me to have the annual conversation. How, Jacob wanted to know, do you plan to write about this year in music? Our back-and-forth fluctuated between the general — NPR Music was about to publish its lists of 2020s best songs and albums — and the personal. He talked about listening to sad disco while taking long summer runs in...

Features The Penguin Podcast: Alex Wheatle on the book that changed his life The Cane Warriors author speaks to Nihal Arthanayake about Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films, The Black Jacobins and growing up in Brixton 16 December 2020 Alex Wheatle. Image: Simone Padovani/Awakening /Contributor/Getty In the latest episode of The Penguin Podcast, guest Alex Wheatle gives an insightful and poignant interview about seeing his life brought to the small screen and the book –...