Author: ssidi16
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Amy Schumer: More than Just Comedy’s Current It-Girl
By Samantha Sidi ‘16, Arts and Entertainment Editor Amy Schumer uses her level of influence to intelligently and hilariously discuss important issues, which is not an everyday occurrence among Hollywood celebrities. She satirically comments on cultural issues through tackling sexism with her raunchy, overtly sexual comedy. Amy’s show, Inside Amy Schumer, along with her stand-up comedy…
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My Musical Summer at Berklee College of Music
By Tyler Friedman ’17, Arts and Entertainment Staff Writer During this past summer, I spent five weeks at Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, where I attended the Five-Week Summer Performance Program. The college offers a wide variety of summer programs, but the Five-Week Summer Performance Program, commonly referred to as Five-Week, is the most…
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Viola Davis’ Historic Emmy Acceptance Speech
By Samantha Sidi ’16, Arts and Entertainment Editor “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.” This powerful line, spoken by Viola Davis in her Emmys acceptance speech, was impactful in more ways than one. Viola Davis’ speech centers on the systematic discrimination against women of color in the entertainment industry. As…
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An Otello of a Different Color at The Met
By Emma Hoffman ’16, Staff Writer Back in September, the Metropolitan Opera’s general manger Peter Gelb announced that the company would be abandoning its use of blackface in its new production of Verdi’s Otello, prompting both praise from the theatrical community at large and condemnation from some opera…
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Inclusion of Minority Characters’ Narratives in Television
By Samantha Sidi ‘16, Arts and Entertainment Editor The changing dynamics of television today stem from the rise in diverse protagonists, with non-white people finally being portrayed as three-dimensional characters. People of color, a phrase that encompasses people who identify as African-American, Latino/Hispanic, East Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, and multiracial, have frequently served to support the main…
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You Get A Remake! And You Get A Remake!
Emma Hoffman ‘16, Arts and Entertainment Staff Writer In 1990, TriStar Pictures released Total Recall, a typical 80’s action movie laced with camp and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Austrian brogue. The movie’s special effects were revolutionary at the time and today it is regarded as a classic of the science fiction genre. Twenty-two years later, Columbia released…
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The Importance of Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman”
Samantha Sidi ’16 Arts and Entertainment Editor After a 55-year hiatus from the literary world, Harper Lee has announced the publication of her rediscovered original novel, Go Set a Watchman. The book, which observers have described as similar to a sequel to her infamous novel To Kill a Mockingbird, takes place 20 years after…
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Top 10 Most Memorable Entertainment Events of 2014
By Samantha Sidi ’16, Arts and Entertainment Editor 1. Ray Rice Incident: Exposing the Flaws in Victim-Blaming The Ray Rice incident of May 2014 sparked a debate over the way our society views victims, along with the very real setback the incident caused the feminist movement. The Ray Rice situation has prompted people to examine the…
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The Spotlight Series: Urinetown the Musical
By Emma Hoffman ’16, Arts and Entertainment Staff Writer Last year, students involved in the Newark Academy drama department were shocked to hear that Mr. Jacoby would not be directing the 2015 spring musical. Instead, the duo of Megan Ferentinos, director and choreographer, and Mr. Viraj Lal, musical director and assistant director—both of whom had worked…
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Breaking the Internet
By Morgin Goldberg ‘15, Guest Writer Kim Kardashian has been the object of our intrigue for years now: we have questioned her as a mother, (perhaps grudgingly) acknowledged her success as a business woman, criticized her as a celebrity (“what is she famous for, again?”), celebrated her as a sex symbol, heralded her as a…