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Per The Hollywood Reporter, Azaria, who is white, stated that he participated in several seminars to understand the controversy surrounding the character and offered several anecdotes that helped inform his decision to quit voicing the character. “I was speaking at my son’s school, I was talking to the Indian kids there because I wanted to get their input,” Azaria said. “A 17-year-old […] he’s never even seen ‘The Simpsons’ but knows what Apu means....

With Welles sitting just off-screen, cameraman Gary Graver sticks with Hopper’s bearded face for the duration, and the pair just go at it. The gorgeous black-and-white conversation was one of the many fragments produced for the “Wind” production, much of which takes place over the course of a long party hosted by the Wellesian protagonist and fictional director Jake Hannaford (John Huston). Hopper’s rambling thoughts only made it into a few moments of that posthumous effort, but they take on a new dimension in “Hopper/Welles,” as the camera stays with Hopper while Welles, loosely playing the Huston character off-camera, pushes actor-turned-director to get deep....

Back in the virtual Sundance Film Festival of 2022, the world was in the middle of an Omicron surge when Oscar perennial Searchlight and its streaming partner Hulu acquired Sophie Hyde’s “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.” The film scored raves for Best Actress Oscar-winner Emma Thompson (“Howard’s End”), who plays a widow who hires a sex worker (Daryl McCormack of “Peaky Blinders”) to teach her about sexual pleasure. Intended for smart adults, this movie fits the Searchlight Oscar movie box....

That moment is very much included toward the end of Autumn de Wilde’s thoroughly wonderful adaptation of Austen’s penultimate book, but Emma’s rare episode of self-reflection no longer sneaks up on her with quite the same element of surprise. This Emma, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, already has reason to suspect that the dashing Mr. Knightley might be her soul mate, for the simple reason that he’s played by Johnny Flynn, and a few scenes earlier she got to hear him sing....

Now, with billions of dollars invested in interactive online media and Zuckerberg rebooting Facebook as Meta, the festival can take plenty of credit for showcasing innovation that led to this moment. The pitch for the metaverse — a loosely defined network of digital environments where people can work, socialize, and create online — has the potential to employ many of the tech-savvy creatives in Sundance’s orbit. But some of the stalwarts of that community aren’t exactly thrilled about it....

Perhaps you’re thinking to yourself, “Gee, how can it be winter awards season already? It seems like just yesterday we were hanging up our ‘Emily in Paris’ ornaments, lighting our promotional ‘Flight Attendant’ candles, and donning our ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ cosplay in anticipation for the Primetime Emmy Awards.” If so, you’re not wrong. A mere seven weeks ago the Television Academy presented its prizes for the finest programs the TV industry had to offer during the 2020-2021 season....

The second Senate impeachment trial of Trump is scheduled to begin on February 9, following the U.S. House of Representatives’ successful impeachment of the president earlier in the month. The proceedings in the Senate are expected to be covered live on a number of broadcasters and cable news networks, including PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, C-SPAN, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN — as well as on their official websites. The Senate’s impeachment trial was delayed to allow the chamber to focus on confirming President Joseph R....