entertainment

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• SOURCE: Polygon
  4/27/2023
  

  Vince McMahon's Control of Pro Wrestling's History Key to Controlling its Present

  by Abraham Josephine Reisman

  As politicians seek to control the teaching of history, Vince McMahon's reign at the top of pro wrestling offers a cautionary tale for a nation that can't face its past. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  10/21/2022
  

  Steve Waksman on the History of Live Music in America

  Waksman's new book explains how a live performance depends on the confluence of art and business. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/3/2022
  

  How Josephine Baker Challenged Racism in Las Vegas

  by Claytee White

  Josephine Baker's brief stand in 1952 didn't forever break the color line in the city's casinos and clubs, but it did help Black Las Vegans push for enduring change. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  4/26/2022
  

  How Dennis Hopper Ran the Wildest Party House in Hollywood

  The house of the actor and his wife Brooke Hayward was a gathering place of fertile movements in film, arts and music that made the 1960s. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  11/30/2021
  

  Mel Brooks Delivers 500 Pages on His Favorite Subject – Himself

  "The stuff that hasn’t been public, or at least is tough to find, makes the book worthwhile."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/30/2021
  

  Josephine Baker First American, Black Woman, and Performer Inducted to French Pantheon

  "in 1963, Baker addressed the crowd at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. She wore her French Resistance uniform with the string of medals across her breast."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/13/2021
  

  "Negotiated Authenticity" and the Precarious Position of Black Creators in Television History

  "Since its invention, television has shaped this country’s self-image. To the extent that we share notions of “normal,” “acceptable,” “funny,” “wrong,” and even “American,” television has helped define them. For decades, Black writers were shut out of the rooms in which those notions were scripted."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/16/2020
  

  Academy Museum Gives Debbie Reynolds Her Due as a Costume Conservator

  For reasons likely including institiutionalized sexism, costumes have been a neglected part of the preservation of cinematic history. The new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures hopes to work with the late Debbie Reynolds's son to change that.