Margaret

Nothing Special Nicole Flattery Inside Warhol's Factory Nothing Special is set in the grubby avant garde of Andy Warhol’s Factory studio, which, in 1966, when the story kicks off, was establishing itself as an artistic and cultural force to be reckoned with. Seventeen-year-old school drop-out Mae and her new friend, fellow Factory worker Shelley, are cut from precisely the same cloth as the jaded, affectless women who populated Flattery’s short stories:…

‘In the dark times / Will there also be singing?” muses Brecht in the Svendborg Poems. “Yes, there will also be singing / About the dark times.” The impulse for lamentation in a crisis is instinctive and, perhaps, socially useful. But how we voice a response to catastrophe can be contentious, not least with the recent Covid pandemic. And while it may be too early to judge the overall effect of the crisis on the written word, we seem to have come out of it with more of a feeling of discord than harmony, and a sense that…

When she was growing up, Margaret Qualley — the actress known best for Maid and, most recently, Poor Things — was the type of kid who would break into little dances to entertain her family during TV commercial breaks. Now that she’s grown up, she still does it — just with a more selective audience. “I wouldn’t do it in front of everybody, but with ? Sure,” she tells Rolling Stone, laughing. “I’m like, ‘What do you think of this?’ — like a precocious child.” That feeling of comfort and the need to move inspired…

Lana Del Rey and Margaret Qualley make cameos in latest visual for Bleachers Bleachers have paired their new single “Alma Mater” — the latest single off their upcoming self-titled LP — with a new video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwgWo9dn3LY The Alex Lockett-directed video finds Jack Antonoff taking an evening drive through his native New Jersey, encountering the creatures of the night, including a saxophone-playing construction worker and a religious zealot with a “Kill Your Idols”…

Are you there God? It’s Me MargaretU/A: Coming of ageDir: Kelly Fremon CraigCast: Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Benny Safdie, Elle Graham, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Amari Price, Landon S. Baxter, Aidan Wojtak-Hissong, Isol YoungRating: 3/5 Kelly Fremon Craig’s fairly faithful adaptation of Judy Blume’s landmark young adult novel “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” about 11-year-old Margaret reluctantly having to navigate new friends, feelings, and the beginning…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press A high school gym teacher grappling with her sexual identity is challenged on both a micro and macro level in 1988 England in ” Blue Jean,” a quietly complex portrait of compartmentalization and self-actualization. In October 1987, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave a speech in which she bemoaned the state of education and said that “Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.” This was just…

Margaret Atwood was “the only person who benefited from the election of Donald Trump”, her agent told her soon after the US presidential election in November 2016.The television drama version of The Handmaid’s Tale had begun filming in the run-up to Trump’s divisive win. “We woke up the morning after and there was Donald Trump, and we all said to ourselves, ‘we are now a different show’,” Atwood told an audience at the Hay literary festival.“Nothing about it had changed but the frame around it had changed. It was going…

Margaret Cho isn’t the only comedy legend to hail from the Bay, but she might be the angriest. She grew up in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, and began her comedy career doing sets at a local club across from the bookstore her family owned on Polk and California streets. After a few years in stand-up, Cho got her big break as the star of “All-American Girl,” a 1994 ABC sitcom based on her comedy routine. While the show was canceled after a short run, and some disruptions to her career ensued, Cho is a…

Spanning nearly 20 years of writing, from 2004 onwards, Burning Questions is Margaret Atwood’s third book of essays and miscellaneous writing, all of which, she notes in the introduction, have been “tightly connected to their own time and place”. Why the title? “Possibly because the questions we’ve been faced with so far in the 21st century are more than urgent. Every age thinks that about its own crises, of course, but surely this era feels different. First, the planet. Is the world itself truly burning up? Is it we…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret always felt a little too precious for the big screen. Judy Blume’s tale of faith and puberty and one girl’s clumsy, earnest attempts to make peace with both was a bestseller in 1970 and one of the most banned books in America for the decades that came after. It was open and candid about things that adults rarely bothered to explain to their…