favorite story about a legendary TV Director I played some ping pong with once:
While sitting at the monitor, she got a very brash note from one of the network heads seated behind her.
“She’s too shrill. Tell her to tone it down.”
So she gets up and walks over to the actress…
"I'm glad I stayed."
AWARE Executive Director Corinna Lim spoke yesterday at @IPS_sg's Conference, on the panel “Revisiting Pluralism”. Her remarks were made in her personal capacity, but we're reprinting the transcript of her comments in these slides, with edits for clarity.
[THREAD 🧵] It seems to be of popular internet belief that Shelley Duvall was traumatized for life because of Stanley Kubrick/The Shining. Here’s a thread, by me a Shelley connoisseur, explaining why her life and career was NOT ruined.
‘… if you’re a young woman on a set, which is largely peopled by men, the crew will be 90% men and the women won’t be on the set with you, because generally speaking we do not have parity on any level on film sets, it’s all men…’ https://t.co/HWkOoCrciE
Singaporean lawyers, can anyone who's familiar with employment law contact me or RT please?
A friend was terminated after their hospitalisation and ordered pay back a hefty bond signed in 2021 - they were given just a few minutes to read through & sign termination.
Saint Paul's Cathedral
commissioned Joseph Greefs
in 1842 to create a Lucifer
statue.
The result was a
thirst trap, the church thought
it would pervert young
women.
So they asked Joseph's
older brother Guillaume to
create a toned down version
and instead he created Hot
Lucifer.