Cinema News: An LGBTQ pioneer returns to Netflix amid Chappelle controversy

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November 3, 2021

As outcry over Chappelle continues, an LGBTQ pioneer returns to Netflix

"Ridley Jones," with the first nonbinary character for preschoolers, returns at a fraught time. But it's more in step with TV trends than "The Closer."

Alec Baldwin doubles down on defending 'Rust' working conditions

Alec Baldwin has taken to Instagram, sharing what appear to be comments by a "Rust" costume designer defending the film's embattled producers.

Review: Culture Clash revives its visually haunting 'Chavez Ravine' for the digital stage

Now streaming on Center Theatre Group's website, this cinematic reimagining of the troupe's play offers a history lesson to a too-forgetful Los Angeles.

Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a Hollywood animal trainer

Ever wondered how they get a dog to smile on camera? That's the job of the animal trainers working behind the scenes.

Natashia Deón: Virginia's 'Beloved' controversy shows there can be no healing without pain

Deón, an L.A. defense attorney, psychology student and author of the novel "The Perishing," weighs in on the politicized drive to erase the past.

Gary Shteyngart's cozy, dystopian, soap-operatic immigrant COVID paradise

Over lunch and cocktails, the satirical and melancholy novelist unpacks his raucous new Hudson Valley pandemic-era novel, "Our Country Friends."

Review: A woman battles the exploitative gaze of her late mother in 'Carry the Dog'

In Stephanie Gangi's second novel, a woman on the verge of 60 confronts the legacy of her mother's art: nude child photos of her and her brothers.

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