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"content": "\u003cp>Ingrid Bergman was a so-so typist. Katharine Hepburn’s signature was indecipherable. Marlene Dietrich signed her letter to Ernest Hemingway as “Your Kraut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A collection of letters, memos, telegrams and other written communiques from the golden age of Hollywood are collected in a new book. \u003cem>Letters from Hollywood\u003c/em>, edited and compiled by Barbara Hall and Rocky Lang, is a delicious peek into very famous people’s private lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Audrey Hepburn. 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Hepburn asks for the designer’s sketches of her shoes so that her private bootmaker in Paris can cobble them for the movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>One is an awful lot on ones feet when working—and since my days in the ballet I have had “trouble with me feet” unless properly “shoed.” … It does make all the difference.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s the kind of thing that it’s great to learn about an actress,” co-author and film historian Barbara Hall says. “We think of them—sort of put them on a pedestal, but really, she was a regular person, and obviously a very charming one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, she was a great star who knew what she needed to do her best work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bette Davis was also like that. A winner of two Oscars, she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPPJdOGshUM\">famous for the immortal line\u003c/a> from \u003cem>All About Eve\u003c/em>: “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years before \u003cem>Eve\u003c/em>, Bette Davis was exhausted, overworked. Hollywood studios controlled their actors in those days, and there was little rest for Warner Brothers’ biggest star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just kept putting her in more and more films,” Hall says. “And she felt like she needed more time between projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis wanted to make fewer pictures every year—more time off between movies. So she wrote (again, by hand) to studio head Jack Warner, protesting her contract. She ended her very firm letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Would appreciate your not communicating with me—it upsets me very much. I must be allowed to completely forget business. … Also arguing with me is no use—nor do I want to come back until it is settled—\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867163\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13867163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9781419738098_vert-7bbdaba24c3e706b9c2cd6742b89d419a9554094-s600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"‘Letters from Hollywood’ by Rocky Lang, Barbara Hall and Peter Bogdanovich.\" width=\"400\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9781419738098_vert-7bbdaba24c3e706b9c2cd6742b89d419a9554094-s600-c85.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9781419738098_vert-7bbdaba24c3e706b9c2cd6742b89d419a9554094-s600-c85-160x219.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Letters from Hollywood’ by Rocky Lang, Barbara Hall and Peter Bogdanovich. \u003ccite>(Harry N. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, she was a great star who knew what she needed to do her best work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bette Davis was also like that. A winner of two Oscars, she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPPJdOGshUM\">famous for the immortal line\u003c/a> from \u003cem>All About Eve\u003c/em>: “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years before \u003cem>Eve\u003c/em>, Bette Davis was exhausted, overworked. Hollywood studios controlled their actors in those days, and there was little rest for Warner Brothers’ biggest star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just kept putting her in more and more films,” Hall says. “And she felt like she needed more time between projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis wanted to make fewer pictures every year—more time off between movies. So she wrote (again, by hand) to studio head Jack Warner, protesting her contract. She ended her very firm letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Would appreciate your not communicating with me—it upsets me very much. I must be allowed to completely forget business. … Also arguing with me is no use—nor do I want to come back until it is settled—\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867163\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13867163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9781419738098_vert-7bbdaba24c3e706b9c2cd6742b89d419a9554094-s600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"‘Letters from Hollywood’ by Rocky Lang, Barbara Hall and Peter Bogdanovich.\" width=\"400\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9781419738098_vert-7bbdaba24c3e706b9c2cd6742b89d419a9554094-s600-c85.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9781419738098_vert-7bbdaba24c3e706b9c2cd6742b89d419a9554094-s600-c85-160x219.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Letters from Hollywood’ by Rocky Lang, Barbara Hall and Peter Bogdanovich. \u003ccite>(Harry N. 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The protests had a bitter result for the Oscar-winner: Hattie McDaniel found that she was getting fewer and fewer roles in the immediate postwar years, because they weren’t being written.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 137 items in this book is a telegram to director William Wyler, sent in 1937 by an extremely precocious star-to-be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I ADMIRE YOUR PICTURES AND WOULD LIKE TO WORK FOR YOU I AM EIGHTEEN MINUTES OLD BLONDE HAIR BLUE EYES WEIGHT EIGHT POUNDS, AND I HAVE BEEN CALLED BEAUTIFUL MY FATHER WAS AN ACTOR=\u003cbr>\nJAYNE SEYMOUR FONDA.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The real author of the telegram was Henry Fonda—Jane Fonda’s father. So in his reply to the new baby, Wyler wrote that he wanted to make a screen test of her as soon as possible. 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That reality underpins Fredrik Gertten’s quietly inspiring and quietly damning opening night film, \u003cem>Push\u003c/em>, which tracks UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farah’s efforts to defend the international right to housing against—she discovers—The Blackstone Group and similar real estate vulture capitalists. Farah and Gertten are expected to attend. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Leilani_Valparaiso.Photo_Janice_dAvila_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Fredrik Gertten's 'Push' with Leilani Farah. \" width=\"1200\" height=\"633\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866951\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Leilani_Valparaiso.Photo_Janice_dAvila_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Leilani_Valparaiso.Photo_Janice_dAvila_1200-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Leilani_Valparaiso.Photo_Janice_dAvila_1200-800x422.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Leilani_Valparaiso.Photo_Janice_dAvila_1200-768x405.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Leilani_Valparaiso.Photo_Janice_dAvila_1200-1020x538.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Fredrik Gertten’s ‘Push’ with Leilani Farah. \u003ccite>(Image courtesy of Green Film Fest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Push\u003c/em> exposes something much more calculated and nefarious than creeping gentrification, but we can’t ignore the tech boom’s effects on the Bay Area landscape. Local filmmaker Dan Goldes’ generous and revelatory documentary, \u003cem>Five Blocks\u003c/em>, which receives its world premiere Sunday, Sept. 29 at 1pm the Roxie, gives voice to almost every conceivable stakeholder in the planning and redevelopment of mid-Market over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There aren’t any villains in \u003cem>Five Blocks\u003c/em>—curses, foiled again!—but rather an appreciation for messy, complicated urban planning. For example, the construction of BART under Market St. in the ’60s had the side effect of destroying a shopping corridor and pushing businesses out. A terrible thing, but there was no place else in San Francisco that was wide enough to accommodate the tunnel. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Meryl-Iconic-Heroic-Legendary/dp/0316485276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is not a book of particularly stirring revelations. Rather, author Erin Carlson has lifted details about Streep from a huge number of magazine articles, online pieces, books, television appearances and radio shows and strung them together to sum up her life, as succinctly as possible. For the most part, it’s all pretty straightforward stuff—except, that is, when it comes to the details in Chapter 2 regarding Dustin Hoffman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866521\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 331px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/51JalseWxhL.jpg\" alt=\"'Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep' by Erin Carlson.\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/51JalseWxhL.jpg 331w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/51JalseWxhL-160x242.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep’ by Erin Carlson. \u003ccite>(Hachette Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible to read about all the ways Dustin Hoffman has apparently abused Streep over the years, condensed into a few pages, without developing an intense dislike for Hoffman and a new level of respect for Streep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book reports that when Streep was still a student at Yale, during an audition for a Broadway play directed by Hoffman, \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/meryl-streep-responds-to-claims-dustin-hoffman-groped-her-a8043276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he groped her\u003c/a> breast the moment they met. Though Streep originally revealed this information in a 1979 issue of \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>, a representative for Streep told \u003ca href=\"https://www.eonline.com/news/892012/meryl-streep-says-she-s-accepted-dustin-hoffman-s-apology-for-1970s-groping-offense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>E! News\u003c/em> \u003c/a>in 2017 that the groping story was “not an accurate rendering of that meeting,” while also conceding that, “there was an offense and it is something for which Dustin apologized. And Meryl accepted that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the torrent of other offenses that Hoffman reportedly unleashed during the filming of 1979’s \u003cem>Kramer vs. Kramer\u003c/em>, however, that truly paints a dark picture of his behavior on set. As previously reported in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/movies/meryl-streep-tom-hanks-the-post-metoo.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the movie was only two days into filming when Hoffman, during a fraught scene of their on-screen marriage breaking down, slapped Streep across the face so hard that it left, according to \u003cem>Queen Meryl\u003c/em>, “enormous red finger marks.” The book reports that the moment rendered writer/director Robert Benton “in shock.” Still, Streep managed to finish the scene. (The slap did not make it into the final cut of the movie.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, in the course of filming that same sequence, Hoffman \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/meryl-streep-kramer-vs-kramer-oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tried to provoke\u003c/a> Streep by flinging barbs at her about her recently deceased boyfriend, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cazale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Cazale\u003c/a>, who had died of lung cancer just months prior. “Such was his warped approach to get under Meryl’s skin and elicit the performance that \u003cem>he\u003c/em> wanted,” \u003cem>Queen Meryl\u003c/em> notes. (Hoffman is also said to have whispered Cazale’s name to Streep right before an emotional courtroom scene.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book also quotes Hoffman (from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/12/17/scenes-from-the-battle-of-the-sexes/25d67e7d-4ee7-4830-9253-219686a688b9/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1982 interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>) being almost proud of the fact that he resented script changes Streep made (and that Benton supported), and acted out because of it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I finally yelled at her, ‘Meryl, why don’t you stop carrying the flag for feminism and just act the scene!’ She got furious. That’s the scene where I throw the glass of wine against the wall and it shatters. That wasn’t in the script, I just threw it at her. Then she got furious again. ‘I’ve got pieces of glass in my hair!’ and so on.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>All that considered, it’s remarkable to read how gracious Streep was to Hoffman when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Joanna Kramer. Hoffman was the first person she thanked in her acceptance speech, she gave him a kiss on the cheek on her way to the podium and, during her speech, she referred to the making of the film as a “very, very delightful experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84DpXtxtyNg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years since, as her own career has developed, Streep has not held back in the same way she once did. Delightfully, \u003cem>Queen Meryl\u003c/em> includes a panel titled: “SOME SHIT MERYL SAID ABOUT DUSTIN HOFFMAN.” One of the funniest quotes is as follows: “What Dustin really wants to do, you know, is give birth. But he’s still glad he’s got a penis.” That same section of the book also includes a hilarious description of what Streep said during a game of “Shag, Marry, Kill” on a 2012 episode of \u003cem>Watch What Happens Live—\u003c/em>which, handily, you can see below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vuyZrZxn9Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades after \u003cem>Kramer vs. Kramer\u003c/em> was released, new stories about Hoffman’s boorish behavior on set began to trickle out from other sources. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/meryl-streep-kramer-vs-kramer-oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 \u003cem>Vanity Fair\u003c/em> article\u003c/a>, actress Gail Strickland was fired from \u003cem>Kramer vs. Kramer\u003c/em> after Hoffman intimidated her until she couldn’t stop stuttering on camera. Her replacement, Jane Alexander, later recalled Hoffman calling her a “f-cking fool.” Not even 7-year-old Justin Henry, who played the Kramers’ son, was spared: Hoffman would reportedly force Henry to cry by making the boy think of upsetting scenarios regarding his friends and pet dog, after which Henry would sob when the scenes were over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though \u003cem>Queen Meryl\u003c/em> doesn’t talk about it, the book serves as an indirect reminder of the slew of #MeToo allegations about Hoffman that emerged in 2017. Those allegations include sexually assaulting \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/women-who-have-accused-dustin-hoffman-of-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12#pauline-said-hoffman-exposed-himself-to-her-when-she-was-15-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two of his \u003cem>Ishtar\u003c/em> co-stars\u003c/a>; flashing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/women-who-have-accused-dustin-hoffman-of-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12#cori-thomas-said-that-hoffman-exposed-himself-to-her-when-she-was-16-years-old-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">16-year-old friend\u003c/a> of his daughter; masturbating in front of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/five-dustin-hoffman-accusers-tell-harrowing-stories-sexually-predatory-behavior-1055544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15-year-old\u003c/a> department store employee; sexually harassing and groping a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/dustin-hoffman-sexually-harassed-me-i-was-17-guest-column-1053466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">17-year-old production assistant;\u003c/a> sexually harassing and repeatedly groping \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-dustin-hoffman-accuser-claims-harassment-physical-violation-broadway-guest-column-1062349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">co-star Kathryn Rossetter\u003c/a> (an experience she called “horrific, demoralizing and abusive”); groping \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/watch-john-oliver-press-dustin-hoffman-on-sexual-misconduct-allegations-116883/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katharine Ross\u003c/a> during a screen test for \u003cem>The Graduate\u003c/em>; refusing to let a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/five-dustin-hoffman-accusers-tell-harrowing-stories-sexually-predatory-behavior-1055544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">21-year-old tour guide\u003c/a> leave his hotel room until she granted him sexual contact; and propositioning writer \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2017/film/news/dustin-hoffman-sexual-harassment-1202604822/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wendy Riss\u003c/a> during a business meeting. Hoffman has \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/watch-john-oliver-press-dustin-hoffman-on-sexual-misconduct-allegations-116883/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly denied\u003c/a> the accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All things considered, it remains a testament to Meryl Streep that, even at age 29, she was able to thrive in her \u003cem>Kramer vs. Kramer\u003c/em> role, despite Hoffman’s outbursts, unpleasantries and aggressions. “This picture started out belonging to Ted Kramer, and by the end it belonged to both of them,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/meryl-streep-kramer-vs-kramer-oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Benton told\u003c/a> \u003cem>Vanity Fair\u003c/em>. “And there was no way Dustin could shake her. No way he could do anything to shake her. She was just there, and she was an incredible force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Queen Meryl\u003c/em> goes on sale Sept. 24.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Meryl-Iconic-Heroic-Legendary/dp/0316485276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is not a book of particularly stirring revelations. Rather, author Erin Carlson has lifted details about Streep from a huge number of magazine articles, online pieces, books, television appearances and radio shows and strung them together to sum up her life, as succinctly as possible. For the most part, it’s all pretty straightforward stuff—except, that is, when it comes to the details in Chapter 2 regarding Dustin Hoffman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866521\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 331px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/51JalseWxhL.jpg\" alt=\"'Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep' by Erin Carlson.\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/51JalseWxhL.jpg 331w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/51JalseWxhL-160x242.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep’ by Erin Carlson. \u003ccite>(Hachette Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible to read about all the ways Dustin Hoffman has apparently abused Streep over the years, condensed into a few pages, without developing an intense dislike for Hoffman and a new level of respect for Streep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book reports that when Streep was still a student at Yale, during an audition for a Broadway play directed by Hoffman, \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/meryl-streep-responds-to-claims-dustin-hoffman-groped-her-a8043276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he groped her\u003c/a> breast the moment they met. Though Streep originally revealed this information in a 1979 issue of \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>, a representative for Streep told \u003ca href=\"https://www.eonline.com/news/892012/meryl-streep-says-she-s-accepted-dustin-hoffman-s-apology-for-1970s-groping-offense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>E! News\u003c/em> \u003c/a>in 2017 that the groping story was “not an accurate rendering of that meeting,” while also conceding that, “there was an offense and it is something for which Dustin apologized. And Meryl accepted that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the torrent of other offenses that Hoffman reportedly unleashed during the filming of 1979’s \u003cem>Kramer vs. Kramer\u003c/em>, however, that truly paints a dark picture of his behavior on set. As previously reported in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/movies/meryl-streep-tom-hanks-the-post-metoo.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the movie was only two days into filming when Hoffman, during a fraught scene of their on-screen marriage breaking down, slapped Streep across the face so hard that it left, according to \u003cem>Queen Meryl\u003c/em>, “enormous red finger marks.” The book reports that the moment rendered writer/director Robert Benton “in shock.” Still, Streep managed to finish the scene. (The slap did not make it into the final cut of the movie.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, in the course of filming that same sequence, Hoffman \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/meryl-streep-kramer-vs-kramer-oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tried to provoke\u003c/a> Streep by flinging barbs at her about her recently deceased boyfriend, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cazale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Cazale\u003c/a>, who had died of lung cancer just months prior. “Such was his warped approach to get under Meryl’s skin and elicit the performance that \u003cem>he\u003c/em> wanted,” \u003cem>Queen Meryl\u003c/em> notes. (Hoffman is also said to have whispered Cazale’s name to Streep right before an emotional courtroom scene.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book also quotes Hoffman (from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/12/17/scenes-from-the-battle-of-the-sexes/25d67e7d-4ee7-4830-9253-219686a688b9/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1982 interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>) being almost proud of the fact that he resented script changes Streep made (and that Benton supported), and acted out because of it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I finally yelled at her, ‘Meryl, why don’t you stop carrying the flag for feminism and just act the scene!’ She got furious. That’s the scene where I throw the glass of wine against the wall and it shatters. That wasn’t in the script, I just threw it at her. Then she got furious again. ‘I’ve got pieces of glass in my hair!’ and so on.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>All that considered, it’s remarkable to read how gracious Streep was to Hoffman when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Joanna Kramer. Hoffman was the first person she thanked in her acceptance speech, she gave him a kiss on the cheek on her way to the podium and, during her speech, she referred to the making of the film as a “very, very delightful experience.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/84DpXtxtyNg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/84DpXtxtyNg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In the years since, as her own career has developed, Streep has not held back in the same way she once did. Delightfully, \u003cem>Queen Meryl\u003c/em> includes a panel titled: “SOME SHIT MERYL SAID ABOUT DUSTIN HOFFMAN.” One of the funniest quotes is as follows: “What Dustin really wants to do, you know, is give birth. But he’s still glad he’s got a penis.” That same section of the book also includes a hilarious description of what Streep said during a game of “Shag, Marry, Kill” on a 2012 episode of \u003cem>Watch What Happens Live—\u003c/em>which, handily, you can see below.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-vuyZrZxn9Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-vuyZrZxn9Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Decades after \u003cem>Kramer vs. Kramer\u003c/em> was released, new stories about Hoffman’s boorish behavior on set began to trickle out from other sources. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/meryl-streep-kramer-vs-kramer-oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 \u003cem>Vanity Fair\u003c/em> article\u003c/a>, actress Gail Strickland was fired from \u003cem>Kramer vs. Kramer\u003c/em> after Hoffman intimidated her until she couldn’t stop stuttering on camera. Her replacement, Jane Alexander, later recalled Hoffman calling her a “f-cking fool.” Not even 7-year-old Justin Henry, who played the Kramers’ son, was spared: Hoffman would reportedly force Henry to cry by making the boy think of upsetting scenarios regarding his friends and pet dog, after which Henry would sob when the scenes were over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though \u003cem>Queen Meryl\u003c/em> doesn’t talk about it, the book serves as an indirect reminder of the slew of #MeToo allegations about Hoffman that emerged in 2017. Those allegations include sexually assaulting \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/women-who-have-accused-dustin-hoffman-of-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12#pauline-said-hoffman-exposed-himself-to-her-when-she-was-15-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two of his \u003cem>Ishtar\u003c/em> co-stars\u003c/a>; flashing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/women-who-have-accused-dustin-hoffman-of-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12#cori-thomas-said-that-hoffman-exposed-himself-to-her-when-she-was-16-years-old-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">16-year-old friend\u003c/a> of his daughter; masturbating in front of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/five-dustin-hoffman-accusers-tell-harrowing-stories-sexually-predatory-behavior-1055544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15-year-old\u003c/a> department store employee; sexually harassing and groping a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/dustin-hoffman-sexually-harassed-me-i-was-17-guest-column-1053466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">17-year-old production assistant;\u003c/a> sexually harassing and repeatedly groping \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-dustin-hoffman-accuser-claims-harassment-physical-violation-broadway-guest-column-1062349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">co-star Kathryn Rossetter\u003c/a> (an experience she called “horrific, demoralizing and abusive”); groping \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/watch-john-oliver-press-dustin-hoffman-on-sexual-misconduct-allegations-116883/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katharine Ross\u003c/a> during a screen test for \u003cem>The Graduate\u003c/em>; refusing to let a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/five-dustin-hoffman-accusers-tell-harrowing-stories-sexually-predatory-behavior-1055544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">21-year-old tour guide\u003c/a> leave his hotel room until she granted him sexual contact; and propositioning writer \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2017/film/news/dustin-hoffman-sexual-harassment-1202604822/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wendy Riss\u003c/a> during a business meeting. Hoffman has \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/watch-john-oliver-press-dustin-hoffman-on-sexual-misconduct-allegations-116883/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly denied\u003c/a> the accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All things considered, it remains a testament to Meryl Streep that, even at age 29, she was able to thrive in her \u003cem>Kramer vs. Kramer\u003c/em> role, despite Hoffman’s outbursts, unpleasantries and aggressions. “This picture started out belonging to Ted Kramer, and by the end it belonged to both of them,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/meryl-streep-kramer-vs-kramer-oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Benton told\u003c/a> \u003cem>Vanity Fair\u003c/em>. “And there was no way Dustin could shake her. No way he could do anything to shake her. She was just there, and she was an incredible force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Over its 16-hour run time, Ken Burns’ documentary \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Country Music\u003c/em>\u003c/a> lends dignity and credibility to a genre often denigrated. And just as importantly, it elevates lesser-known figures, delving into a deeper history of country beyond its household names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what will surely have people talking is the way the documentary treats race in country music. Specifically, its genesis as a cross-cultural collaboration across racial lines. Within the first five minutes of the debut episode, the documentary credits both enslaved people and those living in border barrios as sources of country music, and emphasizes that the banjo—a key instrument in the genre—came to the southern United States from Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like we discovered that there’s deep roots that include black music that are part of country,” said Dayton Duncan, Burns’ writer and co-producer on the film, when I met with him and Burns in San Francisco. “It’s just there, in plain sight. But the common stereotype of country music is that it is only white music for white people. It’s become so encrusted. And I hope our film will show us that’s just as much of an unfair stereotype as any other unfair stereotype.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, from the start of \u003cem>Country Music\u003c/em>, there’s a power imbalance. We learn that one of the music’s biggest stars, Fiddlin’ John Carson, performed at Ku Klux Klan rallies. When record producer Ralph Peer went to Atlanta after the success of Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” to record more black artists, he instead was encouraged to record Carson, a white man, singing “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane,” a song romanticizing slave life. Meanwhile, Stephen Foster wrote songs for minstrel shows with blackface performers that sold a sentimental version of the antebellum South. Emmett Miller, a blackface performer, recorded the first version of Hank Williams’ hit “Lovesick Blues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13862150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13862150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/KenBurns.GabeMeline-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns backstage at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, July 24, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/KenBurns.GabeMeline-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/KenBurns.GabeMeline-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/KenBurns.GabeMeline-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/KenBurns.GabeMeline-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/KenBurns.GabeMeline-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/KenBurns.GabeMeline.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns backstage at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, July 24, 2019. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What to do with all of this? For Ken Burns, it means asking a handful of black artists to comment about it on camera: Charley Pride, Rihannon Giddens, Darius Rucker, Wynton Marsalis. Much of what they say in the film is about the uniting power of music, and not about the dividing nature of systemic racism in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met with Burns and Duncan, I wanted to know, especially after watching the documentary’s first episode: \u003cem>What happened?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country music is an almost entirely white genre now. The number of high-charting black country artists can be counted on one hand, and some of them, most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854359/old-town-road-lil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Nas X\u003c/a>, have faced overt resistance from the country music establishment. How did the African American influence in the music, and its help in creating its coalesced sound, give way so easily to overwhelmingly white country stars?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, not fully explored in the remaining 14 hours of \u003cem>Country Music\u003c/em>, falls mostly to marketing, according to Duncan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once music became commercialized, it was easier to say, ‘Oh, here are the race records,’ which meant this is music made by African Americans for an African-American audience, and ‘here is the hillbilly music,’ and that’s made by white artists for white people. On those two styles of music in particular, it was bifurcated really early,” Duncan said. “The truth is that it was more for commerce and convenience. We create certain categories, and we try to organize it a certain way. And some of that is necessary, some of it is good, and some of it can be distorting and bad, and even evil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burns has first-person experience with those categories, having worked in an Ann Arbor record store when he was younger, filing albums into different genre sections dictated in part by race. But he clearly did not want to make the scourge of racism a greater issue in the film than the salve of music’s back-and-forth conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know the history of the United States has not been exemplary with regard to race. So I don’t think we need to be too shocked anytime you find that African-American influence isn’t acknowledged,” said Burns. “Saying that race is an issue in America is not a banner headline. To me, the banner headline—which has run through all our work—is that for a population that hovers around 13 or 14 percent, it has had a disproportionate effect on our arts, particularly our music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s no surprise to learn, given Burns’ non-cynical nature, that he wants to focus on the better parts of humanity. The viewer sees it in the quotes he chooses. “You have a lot of opposites that create this richness,” comments Marsalis. Giddens is shown adding to this viewpoint: “It starts going back and forth,” she says, “and becomes this beautiful mix of cultures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866447\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/UncleDaveMacon-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Uncle Dave Macon, the first star of the Grand Ol' Opry, performed songs and stage moves from the black tradition.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/UncleDaveMacon.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/UncleDaveMacon-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/UncleDaveMacon-768x558.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncle Dave Macon, the first star of the Grand Ol’ Opry, performed songs and stage moves from the black tradition. \u003ccite>(Wiki Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, the film’s first episode is titled “The Rub,” named for the commingling of black and white in the South that gave birth to country music. Over the course of the subsequent seven episodes, we learn about the many black figures behind the scenes, helping white stars become famous. Gus Cannon for Johnny Cash. Rufus “Tee Tot” Payne for Hank Williams. Lesley Riddle for A.B. Carter. Arnold Shultz for Bill Monroe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is this true cross-pollination, or is it a siphoning? We learn about the banjo player Uncle Dave Macon, descended from Confederate soldiers, becoming a celebrity by taking songs and stage moves from the black tradition. We learn about Jimmie Rodgers picking up field hollers from black crews in the railroad yards where he worked as a water boy, and then performing in blackface for medicine shows before becoming the wealthiest country singer of his time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again: isn’t this theft? Not just theft of cultural production, but—when royalties are involved—actual money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say we \u003cem>stole\u003c/em> it—that’s a pretty strong word. But I will say that we adapted it,” says Nashville studio guitarist Harold Bradley at one point in the first episode. He’s talking about lifting melodies from the British Isles, but his comment resonates with the overall charitable approach that Burns takes in \u003cem>Country Music\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end Wynton says, ‘Art tells the tale of us coming together,’” said Burns. “We’ve categorized music, forgetting that for the artist, there’s no border. It’s a wonderful two-way street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a nice thought, the two-way street. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Over its 16-hour run time, Ken Burns’ documentary \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Country Music\u003c/em>\u003c/a> lends dignity and credibility to a genre often denigrated. And just as importantly, it elevates lesser-known figures, delving into a deeper history of country beyond its household names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what will surely have people talking is the way the documentary treats race in country music. Specifically, its genesis as a cross-cultural collaboration across racial lines. Within the first five minutes of the debut episode, the documentary credits both enslaved people and those living in border barrios as sources of country music, and emphasizes that the banjo—a key instrument in the genre—came to the southern United States from Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like we discovered that there’s deep roots that include black music that are part of country,” said Dayton Duncan, Burns’ writer and co-producer on the film, when I met with him and Burns in San Francisco. “It’s just there, in plain sight. But the common stereotype of country music is that it is only white music for white people. It’s become so encrusted. And I hope our film will show us that’s just as much of an unfair stereotype as any other unfair stereotype.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, from the start of \u003cem>Country Music\u003c/em>, there’s a power imbalance. We learn that one of the music’s biggest stars, Fiddlin’ John Carson, performed at Ku Klux Klan rallies. 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That, coupled with engaging acting, provoked my frustration as I wrapped my mind around the injustices playing out on screen. And I finished the film, one that, given the subject matter, I’d usually turn away from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another heavy topic, the oppression of African Americans, was a central theme in Froi Cuesta’s film \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ayZyGMc8Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unalienable Rights\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>an animated tale that looks back at the confrontation between the MOVE Organization and the Philadelphia Police Department in 1978. That event served as a precursor to another incident in 1985, in which authorities dropped a bomb on a house where members of MOVE were barricaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Lozano’s film, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10028182/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Father Belize\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>was too much for me. Not because of the heavy subject matter, but because it was a heavy-handed approach to telling a story about ending the cycle of fathers stepping out on their kids. The overall message was cool, but the delivery wasn’t believable. Too many plot twists in too short a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13865970\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13865970 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/0-2-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/0-2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/0-2-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/0-2-768x489.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from the film ‘Decade of Fire’ (directed by Gretchen Hildebran and Vivian Vazquez), which screens at the Oakland International Film Festival\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 css-bfa6kz r-jwli3a r-1qd0xha r-1vr29t4 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-3s2u2q r-qvutc0\">\u003cspan class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Lucas Guilkey’s\u003c/span>\u003c/span> documentary \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=467879927385650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>What\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=467879927385650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Happened to Dujuan Armstrong?\u003c/a> \u003c/i>hit me the hardest. I’ve been following Armstrong’s story for some time: he was a young man from Oakland who was found dead in Santa Rita jail in June of last year. I even did \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13860615/rightnowish-urban-peace-movements-effort-to-combat-injustices-in-alameda-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a radio piece\u003c/a> a few months ago focused on a group of young people working to bring attention to his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I knew a bit about how Armstrong had arrived at Santa Rita: he was looking to serve a weekend and ended up dead before Sunday. I knew the coroner ruled that\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/santa-rita-inmate-suffocated-from-restraints-used-by-deputies/Content?oid=26891586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> asphyxiation was the cause of death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also knew that Armstrong was just one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-most-dangerous-place-in-alameda-county/Content?oid=26245173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">35-plus inmates\u003c/a> who’ve died in custody at an Alameda County jail in the past five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a lot I didn’t know, like the fact \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedacountysheriff.org/dc_srj.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rita is the 5th largest jail\u003c/a> in the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>Wherever you get your podcasts, there’s no shortage of movie shows. But\u003ca href=\"http://www.paulscheer.com/\"> Paul Scheer\u003c/a> may be the only man with one podcast dedicated to the very worst movies, and \u003cem>another\u003c/em> exploring the very best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a 20-year career in front of the camera in a variety of roles, comic Paul Scheer—who’s also a writer and director—has become a familiar face in film and TV, with roles in \u003cem>The League\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Fresh Off the Boat\u003c/em> and most recently Amazon’s \u003cem>Black Monday\u003c/em>. In the podcast world however, he’s best known not just as the host of the cult comedy show \u003ca href=\"https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/\">\u003cem>How Did This Get Made?\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—now in its ninth year, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hdtgminfo.com/index/#tour\">bringing its live tour to Berkeley\u003c/a> this week—but also for \u003ca href=\"https://www.earwolf.com/show/unspooled/\">\u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, his podcast examining whether the classics still deserve their acclaim in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A show which Scheer says is “based on an energy of \u003cem>loving\u003c/em> movies” despite their dubious quality, \u003cem>How Did This Get Made\u003c/em> (\u003cem>HDTGM\u003c/em>) has dissected the very worst of Hollywood’s output for comic effect since 2011. Hosted by Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas, what started as an exploration of how movies as dreadful as \u003cem>Battlefield Earth\u003c/em> or\u003cem> Speed 2: Cruise Control\u003c/em> actually get produced evolved into a hybrid of comedic conversation and affectionate criticism of the enjoyably ludicrous, with special guests like Charlize Theron and raucous sold-out live shows. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Since the show’s early days, for example, \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em> actor Adam Scott has returned for every single \u003cem>Fast and the Furious\u003c/em> live taping, a recurring role that increasingly styles him as a kind of sincere Professor Emeritus of Vin Diesel movies.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Mantzoukas, June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer host the podcast 'How Did This Get Made.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Mantzoukas, June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer host the podcast ‘How Did This Get Made.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Earwolf)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laughing that it’s “a very lofty answer,” Scheer attributes part of the popularity of the \u003cem>HDGTM\u003c/em> live shows to how they physically connect thousands of fans around one (terrible) movie. “We’re in a world where everything kind of goes so quickly, and you’re so isolated by your own opinions,” says Scheer. “It feels like this kind of electric moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s true: In a landscape where fans are more likely to congregate over something good, an \u003cem>HDTGM\u003c/em> live show will be the first and only time thousands of people have gathered to marvel at how a movie like \u003cem>Drop Dead Fred\u003c/em> ever got made. (The chosen movie for the \u003ca href=\"https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/1C0056BDF09E915E\">sold-out Berkeley show\u003c/a>, by the way: 1986’s \u003cem>Friday the 13th Part VI\u003c/em>. “My dream,” Scheer says, “would be to come out to that audience that night and see everybody in hockey masks.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>HDTGM\u003c/em> began by warmly skewering legitimately atrocious movies (Jennifer Lopez’s \u003cem>Gigli\u003c/em>, Nic Cage’s \u003cem>Wicker Man\u003c/em> remake), but soon transitioned to encompass enjoyably overblown blockbusters like \u003cem>The Meg\u003c/em>. Scheer’s reasoning for this is that genuinely bad movies are often no actual fun to watch. As franchises like the \u003cem>Fast and the Furious\u003c/em> strain for increasingly crazy heights in an effort to outdo themselves with each passing year, ridiculously enjoyable blockbusters can start to feel like ridiculously bad movies in how they elicit the same kind of giddy “confusion and confoundment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the soup of an internet culture where lowbrow rubs along with highbrow, and semi-ironic veneration of a bad movie is just as likely to hit your feed as praise for something genuinely acclaimed, no wonder the lines get blurred!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the central jokes of \u003cem>HDGTM\u003c/em> is how the show lavishes the same attention to detail on gloriously bad movies that you’d normally reserve for the very best ones. This, of course, is where Scheer’s other movie podcast \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em> comes in, birthed in 2018 out of another impulse that unites many film fans: The Canon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Scheer and film critic Amy Nicholson take on the AFI's Top 100 list on the podcast 'Unspooled.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200-1020x1020.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Scheer and film critic Amy Nicholson take on the AFI’s Top 100 list on the podcast ‘Unspooled.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Earwolf)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Movie fans are notorious list-makers, especially when it comes to the idea of The Canon, and it was Scheer’s own realization that he’d never seen many of the films on \u003ca href=\"https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies-10th-anniversary-edition/\">the American Film Institute (AFI)’s Top 100 Movies list\u003c/a> that spurred him to invite film critic \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheAmyNicholson\">Amy Nicholson\u003c/a> to get together and take them on in podcast form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Scheer sees it, “I’m basically hosting this book club where we’re watching movies once a week.” He casts himself as the audience representative—even film fans feel like they haven’t seen enough of the so-called classics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coupled with Nicholson’s unpretentious critical style, the fact that \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em> stemmed from Scheer’s own desire to address the gaps in his knowledge lends the show its tone of warm, enthusiastic inclusiveness. He says he wants \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em> to feel like “fun film school”—and in contrast to his other podcast’s veneration of the so-bad-it’s-good guilty pleasure popcorn experience, \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em>’s clear-eyed take on the classics can act as a balm for those who might feel like ‘bad’ film fans for sometimes preferring to watch \u003cem>Commando\u003c/em> on a Saturday night over \u003cem>Citizen Kane\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003cem>HDTGM\u003c/em> is where bad movies go to get the affectionate ribbing they deserve, \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em> is where film’s sacred cows receive the critical re-appraisal they may well need. Elements in these movies that are difficult, troubling or problematic by today’s standards—\u003cem>The Deer Hunter\u003c/em>’s racial politics, transphobia in \u003cem>The Silence of the Lambs\u003c/em>—aren’t glossed over, but instead unraveled thoughtfully and expertly, thanks in large part of Nicholson’s deep knowledge of her field. (“I just love the way her mind thinks,” says Scheer of his cohost.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether knowingly or not, film fans can often strain for ‘insider status’ when discussing the movie business, in the industry jargon we adopt or that illusory accessibility we feel toward our favorite filmmakers makers and stars. Yet Scheer occupies the rare position of being a movie commentator who actually is an industry insider himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an actor, writer and director, he’s frequently bracingly honest about the rigors of the business on both his podcasts—not least when mentioning in asides the movies he unsuccessfully auditioned for. And in a head-spinningly meta piece of casting, Scheer and \u003cem>HDGTM\u003c/em> co-hosts Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael all appeared in \u003cem>The Disaster Artist\u003c/em>, James Franco’s 2018 movie about the making of Tommy Wiseau’s cult film \u003cem>The Room\u003c/em>—frequently “hailed” as one of the worst movies ever made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a guy who now hosts two movie podcasts, Scheer says he never saw himself becoming a de facto film critic. He started his comedy career in the world of improvisation—inspired in part, he says, by a childhood love of talk radio. In contrast to the acting, writing and editing he does elsewhere, Scheer says he’s parlaying some of improv’s freeing ephemerality into his podcasting. Taping conversational podcasts like \u003cem>HDTGM\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em>, he says, is “the closest I can get to doing improv—without doing improv.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fittingly for the host of one hit show about badly-received movies, and another based on re-evaluating a critical canon, Scheer’s a believer in the value of not pleasing everyone, especially in a podcast industry where “there’s always going to be someone out there doing what you’re doing.” He paraphrases a recent conversation he had with filmmaker Nicholas Winding Refn: “If everyone likes it, there’s a problem with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the only thing a creator really has control over, Scheer says, “is your own voice… and not everyone’s going to like it.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Wherever you get your podcasts, there’s no shortage of movie shows. But\u003ca href=\"http://www.paulscheer.com/\"> Paul Scheer\u003c/a> may be the only man with one podcast dedicated to the very worst movies, and \u003cem>another\u003c/em> exploring the very best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a 20-year career in front of the camera in a variety of roles, comic Paul Scheer—who’s also a writer and director—has become a familiar face in film and TV, with roles in \u003cem>The League\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Fresh Off the Boat\u003c/em> and most recently Amazon’s \u003cem>Black Monday\u003c/em>. In the podcast world however, he’s best known not just as the host of the cult comedy show \u003ca href=\"https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/\">\u003cem>How Did This Get Made?\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—now in its ninth year, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hdtgminfo.com/index/#tour\">bringing its live tour to Berkeley\u003c/a> this week—but also for \u003ca href=\"https://www.earwolf.com/show/unspooled/\">\u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, his podcast examining whether the classics still deserve their acclaim in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A show which Scheer says is “based on an energy of \u003cem>loving\u003c/em> movies” despite their dubious quality, \u003cem>How Did This Get Made\u003c/em> (\u003cem>HDTGM\u003c/em>) has dissected the very worst of Hollywood’s output for comic effect since 2011. Hosted by Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas, what started as an exploration of how movies as dreadful as \u003cem>Battlefield Earth\u003c/em> or\u003cem> Speed 2: Cruise Control\u003c/em> actually get produced evolved into a hybrid of comedic conversation and affectionate criticism of the enjoyably ludicrous, with special guests like Charlize Theron and raucous sold-out live shows. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Since the show’s early days, for example, \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em> actor Adam Scott has returned for every single \u003cem>Fast and the Furious\u003c/em> live taping, a recurring role that increasingly styles him as a kind of sincere Professor Emeritus of Vin Diesel movies.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Mantzoukas, June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer host the podcast 'How Did This Get Made.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/HDTGM_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Mantzoukas, June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer host the podcast ‘How Did This Get Made.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Earwolf)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laughing that it’s “a very lofty answer,” Scheer attributes part of the popularity of the \u003cem>HDGTM\u003c/em> live shows to how they physically connect thousands of fans around one (terrible) movie. “We’re in a world where everything kind of goes so quickly, and you’re so isolated by your own opinions,” says Scheer. “It feels like this kind of electric moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Scheer’s reasoning for this is that genuinely bad movies are often no actual fun to watch. As franchises like the \u003cem>Fast and the Furious\u003c/em> strain for increasingly crazy heights in an effort to outdo themselves with each passing year, ridiculously enjoyable blockbusters can start to feel like ridiculously bad movies in how they elicit the same kind of giddy “confusion and confoundment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the soup of an internet culture where lowbrow rubs along with highbrow, and semi-ironic veneration of a bad movie is just as likely to hit your feed as praise for something genuinely acclaimed, no wonder the lines get blurred!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the central jokes of \u003cem>HDGTM\u003c/em> is how the show lavishes the same attention to detail on gloriously bad movies that you’d normally reserve for the very best ones. This, of course, is where Scheer’s other movie podcast \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em> comes in, birthed in 2018 out of another impulse that unites many film fans: The Canon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Scheer and film critic Amy Nicholson take on the AFI's Top 100 list on the podcast 'Unspooled.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Unspooled_1200-1020x1020.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Scheer and film critic Amy Nicholson take on the AFI’s Top 100 list on the podcast ‘Unspooled.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Earwolf)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Movie fans are notorious list-makers, especially when it comes to the idea of The Canon, and it was Scheer’s own realization that he’d never seen many of the films on \u003ca href=\"https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies-10th-anniversary-edition/\">the American Film Institute (AFI)’s Top 100 Movies list\u003c/a> that spurred him to invite film critic \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheAmyNicholson\">Amy Nicholson\u003c/a> to get together and take them on in podcast form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Scheer sees it, “I’m basically hosting this book club where we’re watching movies once a week.” He casts himself as the audience representative—even film fans feel like they haven’t seen enough of the so-called classics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coupled with Nicholson’s unpretentious critical style, the fact that \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em> stemmed from Scheer’s own desire to address the gaps in his knowledge lends the show its tone of warm, enthusiastic inclusiveness. He says he wants \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em> to feel like “fun film school”—and in contrast to his other podcast’s veneration of the so-bad-it’s-good guilty pleasure popcorn experience, \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em>’s clear-eyed take on the classics can act as a balm for those who might feel like ‘bad’ film fans for sometimes preferring to watch \u003cem>Commando\u003c/em> on a Saturday night over \u003cem>Citizen Kane\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003cem>HDTGM\u003c/em> is where bad movies go to get the affectionate ribbing they deserve, \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em> is where film’s sacred cows receive the critical re-appraisal they may well need. Elements in these movies that are difficult, troubling or problematic by today’s standards—\u003cem>The Deer Hunter\u003c/em>’s racial politics, transphobia in \u003cem>The Silence of the Lambs\u003c/em>—aren’t glossed over, but instead unraveled thoughtfully and expertly, thanks in large part of Nicholson’s deep knowledge of her field. (“I just love the way her mind thinks,” says Scheer of his cohost.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether knowingly or not, film fans can often strain for ‘insider status’ when discussing the movie business, in the industry jargon we adopt or that illusory accessibility we feel toward our favorite filmmakers makers and stars. Yet Scheer occupies the rare position of being a movie commentator who actually is an industry insider himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an actor, writer and director, he’s frequently bracingly honest about the rigors of the business on both his podcasts—not least when mentioning in asides the movies he unsuccessfully auditioned for. And in a head-spinningly meta piece of casting, Scheer and \u003cem>HDGTM\u003c/em> co-hosts Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael all appeared in \u003cem>The Disaster Artist\u003c/em>, James Franco’s 2018 movie about the making of Tommy Wiseau’s cult film \u003cem>The Room\u003c/em>—frequently “hailed” as one of the worst movies ever made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a guy who now hosts two movie podcasts, Scheer says he never saw himself becoming a de facto film critic. He started his comedy career in the world of improvisation—inspired in part, he says, by a childhood love of talk radio. In contrast to the acting, writing and editing he does elsewhere, Scheer says he’s parlaying some of improv’s freeing ephemerality into his podcasting. Taping conversational podcasts like \u003cem>HDTGM\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Unspooled\u003c/em>, he says, is “the closest I can get to doing improv—without doing improv.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fittingly for the host of one hit show about badly-received movies, and another based on re-evaluating a critical canon, Scheer’s a believer in the value of not pleasing everyone, especially in a podcast industry where “there’s always going to be someone out there doing what you’re doing.” He paraphrases a recent conversation he had with filmmaker Nicholas Winding Refn: “If everyone likes it, there’s a problem with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the ground floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, tucked away in the Phyllis Wattis Theater, middle and high school groups are watching laser light shows. No, the museum is not hosting raves, nor are they playing Pink Floyd’s \u003ci>The Wall\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those lasers are part of Southern California artist \u003ca href=\"http://koenigandclinton.com/artists/nicole-miller/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicole Miller\u003c/a>’s \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/event/series/nicole-miller-commission/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To the Stars\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, an hour-long piece commissioned by SFMOMA with their junior-high audiences in mind. Her non-narrative video combines clips of exceptionally talented people of color (mezzo-soprano \u003ca href=\"https://jnaibridgesmezzo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J’Nai Bridges\u003c/a>, NASA astronaut \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Cagle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Yvonne Cagle\u003c/a>, violinist \u003ca href=\"https://www.jessicamcjunkins.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica McJunkins\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://linesballet.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alonzo King\u003c/a> and his dancers) alongside interviews with San Francisco middle school students. Intermittent sequences of laser animations and synth-heavy sound create breaks between the often gut-wrenching stories told by the participating kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Miller, this piece is all about potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distance between the students and these accomplished adults is years of support, opportunity and practice. Seeing how much is possible, Miller’s piece argues, why shouldn’t those children achieve such heights? Why do we have such a hard time seeing young people—specifically young people of color—as full of potential?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fittingly, much of \u003ci>To the Stars\u003c/i>’ hour is given over to mesmerizing shots of Alonzo King LINES Ballet members working on \u003ci>SUTRA\u003c/i>, a spring 2018 performance set to the music of composer Zakir Hussain. Their bodies move in ways most of us only wish we could; they bend the laws of gravity. In the studio, King provides advice and commentary to his dancers (less rigid, more fluid), translating ideas about birth, connection and movement into words and gestures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Bridges_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Miller, 'To the Stars' (still of opera singer J’Nai Bridges), 2019.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Bridges_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Bridges_1200-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Bridges_1200-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Bridges_1200-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Bridges_1200-1020x510.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Miller, ‘To the Stars’ (still of opera singer J’Nai Bridges), 2019. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Showing people in rehearsals, discussing creative problems and hashing out artistic impulses, Miller says, makes such levels of performance seem more attainable. Bridges sings three pieces in \u003ci>To the Stars\u003c/i>: a cradle song to a black child, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13860265/jnai-bridges-shines-as-carmen-at-san-francisco-opera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the “Habanera” aria\u003c/a> from \u003ci>Carmen\u003c/i> and the black spiritual “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.” But before and after those beautiful renditions, she jokes with her piano accompanist and cops to making mistakes. Beneath the polished virtuoso we see on the stage, she’s human, relatable—and it looks like she’s having a great time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Cagle’s eloquent monologues about space travel, the human body and her dreams for the future show her standing before historical displays of space travel and defunct machinery. Technology hasn’t always matched our aspirations, but visionaries like Cagle push us towards further advancements and discoveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to the adults’ smooth, assured delivery, the middle school students in \u003ci>To the Stars\u003c/i> are learning how to communicate in fits and starts. “They just told me what they wanted to tell me,” Miller explains. The participating students watched her 2016 piece \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://caamuseum.org/exhibitions/2018/nicole-miller-athens-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Athens, California\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, which captures the lives of high school students from Athens, an unincorporated community in southern Los Angeles County. They’re all students at Washington Prep High School—teenagers deeply affected by racial segregation and gang violence. After the screening, Miller talked with the San Francisco students about what it means to tell others stories from your own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ci>To the Stars\u003c/i> progresses, the camera stays with the students and their stories for longer and longer stretches of time. In one clip, a girl breaks down talking about the discrimination she’s faced for being mixed race and how hard it is to see her older brother’s struggles with depression. Another girl talks about caring for her baby brother when her father went to jail, her mother couldn’t be counted on and her grandmother was working long hours to support the family. She was only 10 at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Dance_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Miller, 'To the Stars' (still of Alonzo King LINES ballet dancers), 2019. \" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Dance_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Dance_1200-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Dance_1200-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Dance_1200-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Dance_1200-1020x510.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Miller, ‘To the Stars’ (still of Alonzo King LINES ballet dancers), 2019. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, Miller strings together clips of the students simply announcing their ages. One girl is a head taller than her companion—both are 12. One girl, nervous, says she’s “11, no 12, no 13!” and bursts into giggles. These are very young people, many of them the same age as the school groups who will view \u003ci>To the Stars\u003c/i>, and they’re just starting to figure out how to arrange their faces, process their emotions and tell their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Periodically throughout the piece, a dappling of rainbow hues resembling an aurora waves across the screen, giving everything a magical tinge. The lasers pulse in spirographic undulations and spell out, in various fonts and colors, “ad astra” (Latin for “to the stars”), “prelude” and ultimately, “the end.” There’s a fairly simple technology behind these dazzling effects: an analog synthesizer, mirrors and five-watt lasers. But Miller points out it’s the closest we can get to a synesthetic experience. They’re light shaped by sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lasers, too, are full of potential: to transport audiences beyond the theater setting and the expectation of a “straight” documentary experience; to morph into whatever shape sound waves will allow; to wow. It’s hard to know how \u003ci>To the Stars\u003c/i>’ target audience will appreciate or react to the piece. I caught myself thinking about preteen attention spans during some of the extended dance sequences. 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