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A Jerry Pickney Saturday
Jerry Pinkney (1939-2021) was a multi-award-winning American illustrator and children’s book author. His numerous awards include a Caldecott Medal (2010); five Caldecott Honor Book awards; five Coretta Scott King Book Awards (the most for any illustrator); five Coretta Scott King Honor Awards; the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award (2016); the 2016 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award; four Gold medals, four Silver medals, and the 2016 Original Art Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators; and he was nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, considered the Nobel Prize for children's literature, among many other awards and recognitions.
The images shown here are Pickney’s pencil, color pencil, and watercolor illustrations for children’s book author Alan Schroeder’s 1996 fictional biography, Minty, A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, published in New York by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book won Pickney the 1997 Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustrator, and the book was a Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice for 1996.
Schroeder writes that “While Minty is a fictional account of Harriet Tubman’s childhood, and some scenes have been invented for narrative purposes, the basic facts are true.” Of illustrating this book, Pinkney writes:
The challenge that Minty initially posed for me came from not having a clear picture of Harriet Tubman’s early childhood. However, I was able to imagine the spirited eight-year-old Minty, using Alan Schroeder’s strong text and Harriet Tubman’s biography, The Moses of Her People, as springboards. The National Park Service was also helpful . . . as was the Banneker-Douglas Museum in Maryland, where extensive research uncovered the style of plantations around Maryland during Minty’s childhood and authentic details regarding backgrounds, dress, food, and living conditions of the enslaved as well as the slave owners. My interest was to give some sense of Minty’s noble spirit and open a window to understanding the day-to-day, sunup to sundown life of the slave, by individualizing the hardships in overwhelming circumstances.
In 1978 I was privileged to create the first Harriet Tubman commemorative stamp for the U.S. Postal Service. This book, then, brings me full circle with Harriet’s life and courage.
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Little House on the Prairie continues to entertain viewers 50 years after its premiere, and there’s a very good reason for that, according to its star Melissa Gilbert.
The actress, 59, shared her theory with PEOPLE at the Little House on the Prairie 50th Anniversary Cast Reunion and Festival last weekend, pointing to the show’s universal themes.
“It's a reflection of all the things that people crave in life: family, community, love, faith, and hope,” she says. “It's all the good juicy things that make human beings so wonderful and different from animals. I mean, that connection. And Little House is a reminder of that.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the show found new viewers, offering them a “reminder of where we used to be," says Gilbert. Fans quoted relevant episodes like “Plague” from Little House on the Prairie’s first season and “Quarantine” from season 3, which revolved around outbreaks in the town of Walnut Grove.
“At that time, I would look at numbers going up and reading things on social media and think, ‘Okay, well okay,’ and then it just started to blow up,” Gilbert recalls. “Then the Black Lives Matter movement happened, and then they're talking about episodes like ‘The Wisdom of Solomon.’ All of a sudden, people are realizing that there's a Little House on the Prairie [episode] for everything we're going through.”
“It wasn't just that cozy family show,” she continues. “We dealt with the issues of 1974, the recession, that's coming home from Vietnam, chauvinism, equal rights for women, equal rights for people of color, antisemitism. We dealt with all of that, but we didn't do it in an exploitive way.”
Based on author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s series of books about growing up in the Midwest during the late 19th century, Little House on the Prairie aired for nine seasons from 1974 to 1983, becoming a part of the cultural zeitgeist and catapulting Gilbert, who was 9-years-old when the series debuted, to fame.
The feel-good show was nominated for 16 Emmy Awards during its run and won four, including outstanding cinematography for a series and outstanding music composition for a series in 1979.
Many castmembers, including Gilbert, Alison Arngrim and Dean Butler, attended the Little House on the Prairie 50th Anniversary Cast Reunion and Festival and reminisced about their time on the show.
“We were telling stories at the time, which sadly are still our stories,” Gilbert says. “We're still fighting for so many things in this country, and I think Little House is sort of a bastion of what can be.”
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Virginia Esther Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an African-American children's book author. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the US National Book Award in the category of Children's Books and the Newbery Medal in 1975. Her lifetime achievements include the international Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing children's literature in 1992 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her contributions to American children's literature in 1995. Her family encouraged her to read and write widely. She received a full scholarship to Antioch College but later transferred to Ohio State University. In 1967, Zeely published, the first of more than 40 books. Zeely was named an American Library Association Notable Book and won the Nancy Bloch Award. She published The Planet of Junior Brown, which was named a Newbery Honor Book, and won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1971. M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974) won the Newbery Medal, making her the first African American author to receive the medal. The book won the National Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and The New York Times Outstanding Children's Book of the Year.#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenshistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CpsDdjYuC3m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Episode 187 - Favourite Reads of 2023
This episode we’re discussing our Favourite Reads of 2023! We talk about our favourite fiction and non-fiction books we read this year! Plus: Our favourite comics, video games, documentaries, podcasts, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Favourite Fiction
For the podcast
Anna
The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao (Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers)
Jam
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Episode 184 - Horror)
Matthew
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, vol. 3 by Eiji Otsuka and by Housui Yamazaki (Episode 184 - Horror)
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha (Episode 186 - Suspense Fiction)
Meghan
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (Episode 176 - Fantasy)
Not for the podcast
Jam
Heaven’s Design Team by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, & Tarako
Naked mole rats do not die of old age
Owls’ ears are at asymmetrical heights
Tarsiers have two tongues
Accidental Elephant (YouTube)
Matthew
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (Wikipedia)
Meghan
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Anna
Daisy and the Duke by Elizabeth Cole (The Wallflowers of Wildwood)
Favourite Non-Fiction
For the podcast
Matthew
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara (Episode 174 - Economics)
Meghan
Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith (Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry)
Anna
They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles (Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs)
Jam
Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson (Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies)
Not for the podcast
Meghan
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
Anna
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and what we can do about it by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Jam
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney (also discussed in Episode 181)
Matthew
Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey by James Montague
Other Favourite Things of 2023
Anna
If Books Could Kill
The Meme Stock Cult (patron episode) & two parter on Nudge
Folding Ideas - This is Financial Advice (YouTube)
Two Point Hospital / Campus
Oxygen Not Included
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
Jam
Nimona (film)
Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki
Matthew
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Nier: Automata (Wikipedia)
Meghan
Ten Candles
Le Plonguer - Stéphane Larue
Runner-Ups
Jam
Games
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)
Baldur’s Gate 3 (Wikipedia)
Redactle
Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore (Episode 176 - Fantasy)
Boy Island by Leo Fox (comic released via 133 installments on Instagram; link is installment #1)
Changing my name (legal procedure)
Best Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (cookies)
Moon (celestial body)
Matthew
Comics
Box of Light, vol. 1 by Seiko Erisawa
Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Deluxe Edition, vol. 1 by Nagabe
Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden
Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni
Steeple, vols. 1-3 by John Allison, Sarah Stern, and Jim Campbell
Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Leiber
Books
Boss Fight: Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi
Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano
Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr. Kit Heyam
The Caped Crusader: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Games
Hitman: World of Assassination Trilogy
Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia)
Tetris Effect
Bayonetta (Wikipedia)
Video Essays
The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse - Folding Ideas
Panzer Dragoon Series Retrospective - A Complete History and Review - I Finished A Video Game
Meghan
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic by Toni Onley
Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden by VitaSackville-West and Sarah Raven
Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Benjamin Lorr
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold and Charles W. Schwartz
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism by Daphné B.
Witch King by Martha Wells
Bad Fruit by Ella King
Other Media We Mentioned
Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh
Theme Hospital (Wikipedia)
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New Original Podcast “Wilder” Debuts At 2023 Tribeca Film Festival
iHeartPodcasts has announced that Wilder, a new original podcast exploring the life and legacy of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, will premiere at Tribeca Film Festival as part of the 2023 audio storytelling lineup.
Named one of Vulture’s “Top Podcasts We Can’t Wait to Listen to This Summer,” Wilder centers on the life and legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the great American storyteller. Since the first Little House on The Prairie book was published in 1932, generations of readers have flocked to Wilder’s cozy stories of the Ingalls’ family settling the Western frontier. The series inspired a TV show, (Little House on The Prairie) pageants and entire fashion lines. Behind this franchise is a woman who experienced almost a full century of American history.
Wilder made her first trips in a covered wagon and later flew on a jet plane. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life and legacy remain as powerful, mesmerizing, controversial and violent as the America she represents. In a country currently at odds with itself and its history could there be a better time for an exploration of this woman?
The podcast host is Glynnis MacNicol, who is a writer, speaker, digital media consultant and podcast editor who lives in New York City. Her memoir, No One Tells You This, was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Esquire, the Financial Times and was a 2019 New York Times 'Paperback Row' pick.
Of course, a famous person's legacy is almost always a complicated affair. Even the legacy of Mother Theresa has undergone scrutiny.
In 2018, a division of the American Library Association voted to strip Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from a major children’s literature award over concerns about how the author referred to Native Americans and blacks. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was renamed as the Children’s Literature Legacy Award.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association released a statement defending Wilder’s work, saying that while her writing included “the perspectives of racism that were representative of her time and place,” it also made “positive contributions to children’s literature.”
While the controversy appears to have subsided, in some instances, racist passages in the “Little House” series were amended in newer editions by booksellers.
Wilder was released on June 8, 2023, with new episodes launching every Thursday.
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Eric Carle (June 25, 1929 – May 23, 2021) was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. His career as an illustrator and children's book author took off after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. He illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.
In 2003, the American Library Association awarded Carle the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award), a prize for writers or illustrators of children's books published in the U.S. who have made lasting contributions to the field. Carle was also a U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010.
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A wonderful and eloquent response to the drummed-up controversy over the change of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. As someone who grew up loving these books, I recognized even as a child that Wilder held unfair and racist views of Native Americans. The fact that some adults can’t hold both ideas in their minds even now is ridiculous.
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Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary has passed away, just a few weeks short of her 105th birthday.
Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; April 12, 1916 – March 25, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. One of America's most successful authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of Cleary's best known characters are Ramona Quimby and Beezus Quimby, Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, and Ralph S. Mouse.
The majority of Cleary's books are set where she grew up, in the Grant Park neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. She has been credited as one of the first authors of children's books to figure emotional realism in the narratives of her characters, often children in middle-class families.
She won the 1981 National Book Award for Ramona and Her Mother and the 1984 Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw. For her lifetime contributions to American literature, Cleary received the National Medal of Arts, recognition as a Library of Congress Living Legend, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the Association for Library Service to Children. The Beverly Cleary School, a public school in Portland, was named after her, and several statues of her most famous characters were erected in Grant Park in 1995.
Cleary was an only child and lived on a farm until she was six years old, when her family moved to Portland. The adjustment from living in the country to the city was hard for her, and she found school challenging; in first grade, her teacher placed her in a group for struggling readers. Cleary said, "The first grade was separated into three reading groups—Bluebirds, Redbirds, and Blackbirds. I was a Blackbird. To be a Blackbird was to be disgraced. I wanted to read, but somehow could not." With the help of a school librarian who introduced her to books she enjoyed, Cleary caught up by third grade and started to spend a lot of time reading and at the library. By sixth grade, a teacher suggested that Cleary should become a children's writer based on essays she had written for class assignments.
After high school, Cleary went on to the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1938. She also met her future husband, Clarence Cleary, during her time at Cal. The couple eloped and were married in 1940. During World War II, she got a job as a librarian at the U.S. Army Hospital in nearby Oakland. Working with children, Cleary empathized with her young patrons, who had difficulty finding books with characters they could identify with. After a few years of making recommendations and performing live storytelling in her role as librarian, Cleary decided to start writing children's books herself, and in 1942, she became a full-time writer.
#Beverly Cleary#RIP#author#Ramona Quimby#Portland#Oregon#Beezus and Ramona#library#Dear Mr. Henshaw#Grant Park#Henry Huggins#UC Berkeley#Ramona Quimby Age 8#librarian#Ribsy#Ralph S. Mouse#Beezus Quimby
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ASHLEY BRYAN (1923-Died February 4th 2022,at 98). American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African-American experience. He was U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009. His picture book Freedom Over Me was short-listed for the 2016 Kirkus Prize and received a Newbery Honour.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Bryan
#Ashley Bryan#American Childrens Writers#American Novelists#Children's Writers#Notable Deaths in 2022#Novelists#Notable Deaths in February 2022
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Virginia Esther Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was a children’s book author. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the US National Book Award in the category of Children’s Books and the Newbery Medal in 1975.
Her lifetime achievements include the international Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing children’s literature in 1992 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her contributions to American children’s literature in 1995.
Her family encouraged her to read and write. She received a full scholarship to Antioch College but later transferred to Ohio State University.
In 1967, Zeely was published, the first of more than 40 books. Zeely was named an American Library Association Notable Book and won the Nancy Bloch Award. She published The Planet of Junior Brown, which was named a Newbery Honor Book, and won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1971. M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974) won the Newbery Medal, making her the first African American author to receive the medal. The book won the National Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and The New York Times Outstanding Children’s Book of the Year.#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenshistorymonth
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A bit of June 23rd history...
930 - World’s oldest parliament, the Icelandic Althing, is established
1960 - 1st contraceptive pill is made available for purchase in the US (pictured)
1961 - The Antarctic Treaty, ensuring that Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes, is made
1972 - Hurricane Agnes becomes America’s costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states and $3 billion in damages
1974 - 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space
1993 - Lorena Bobbitt amputates husband John Bobbitt’s penis
2016 - Brexit referendum: United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union
2018 - Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name removed from book award by US Association for Library Service to Children, because of authors racist views and language
#history#anthropology#parliament#contraceptive#antarctic treaty#hurricane agnes#et message#bobbits#brexit#laura ingalls wilder
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Beverly Cleary (b. 1916) is one of the most successful living authors in the United States. She has written over 40 children’s books which have sold almost 100 million copies worldwide.
She worked as a children’s librarian before becoming an author, and published her first book in 1950. Her works have enjoyed great success with the public and critics alike, and her honours include the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and being named a Library of Congress Living Legend.
#born on this day#amazing women#beverly cleary#writer#author#literature#women in literature#feminist#feminism
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Virginia Esther Hamilton was born on March 12, 1936. She was an African-American children's books author. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974), for which she won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books and the Newbery Medal in 1975.
Hamilton's lifetime achievements include the international Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing children's literature in 1992 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her contributions to American children's literature in 1995.
Hamilton was the youngest of five children born to Kenneth James and Etta Belle Perry Hamilton. She lived in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Her family had lived there since the 1850s, when her grandfather, Levi Perry, was brought into the state as an infant via the Underground Railroad. Hamilton's family encouraged her to read and write widely. She received a full scholarship to Antioch College but later transferred to Ohio State University.
She met poet Arnold Adoff while living in New York City, and married him in 1960. The two later returned with their children to live on the farm where Hamilton was raised. Adoff supported the family by working as a teacher, so Hamilton spent her time writing and had two children.
In 1967, ''Zeely'' was published, the first of more than 40 books. Zeely was named an American Library Association Notable Book and won the Nancy Bloch Award. Hamilton published The Planet of Junior Brown, which was named a Newbery Honor Book and also won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1971. M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974) won the Newbery Medal, making Hamilton the first Black author to receive the medal. The book also won the National Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and The New York Times Outstanding Children's Book of the Year.
In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Hamilton's name and picture.
The Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth has been held at Kent State University each year since 1984.
The American Library Association established in 2010 the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award:
To recognize an African American author, illustrator, or author/illustrator for a body of his or her published books for children and/or young adults who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution. The Award pays tribute to the late Virginia Hamilton and the quality and magnitude of her exemplary contributions through her literature and advocacy for children and youth, especially in her focus on African American life, history and consciousness.
Her novel The Planet of Junior Brown was adapted for the 1997 film The Planet of Junior Brown, directed by Clement Virgo.
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Entertainment Weekly, December
Cover: Wandavision -- Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany as Vision
Page 1: Contents, Melissa Gilbert on the Little House on the Prairie Set in 1977
Page 3: Sound Bites -- special holiday edition
Page 4: Editor’s Note
Page 6: The Must List -- Between the World and Me
Page 8: The Orchard by David Hopen, Freaky
Page 9: Chris Stapleton -- Starting Over
Page 11: A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir, Let Them All Talk
Page 12: Batman/Catwoman
Page 13: Nomadland
Page 14: Soul, December Games -- Marvel’s Spider-man: Miles Morales, Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, Immortals Fenyx Rising
Page 16: My Must List -- Kenan Thompson
Page 19: First Take -- Bob Odenkirk in Nobody -- the Better Call Saul star plays an unlikely action here complete with a bloody good makeover in this thriller about a family man who decides to seek revenge after a break-in
Page 21: Pedro Pascal and Christian Slater -- We Can Be Heroes
Page 22: Cover Story -- Wandavision a wonderfully weird send-up of sitcoms of the past is Marvel’s key to the future
Page 30: Untold Stories: Holiday Movies Edition -- an oral history of The Family Stone -- Thomas Bezucha, Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Dermot Mulroney, Tyrone Giordano, Brian White, Craig T. Nelson, Claire Danes
Page 36: Making the Scene -- The Muppet Christmas Carol -- fans of the Muppets’ 1992 take on Scrooge know a key scene is missing from the DVD version and it’s now the most beloved number ever left on the cutting-room floor, Closet Confidential -- Bridget Jones’ Diary -- Colin Firth and director Sharon Maguire reveal the secrets behind Darcy’s ugly sweater
Page 37: The Merriest Movies Years Ever -- Jeremy Arnold the author of the TCM book Christmas in the Movies: 30 Classics to Celebrate the Season reveals why 1947 and 2003 were prime years for yuletide films
Page 38: Role Call -- Mary Steenburgen -- the Oscar winner is a holiday movie MVP and here we look back at the roles that put the Mary in Christmas
Page 39: Behind the Music -- The Preacher’s Wife -- Whitney Houston’s rousing 1996 film boasts one of the all-time great Christmas movie soundtracks and producer Mervyn Warren tells how it came together
Page 40: Investigation: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? It’s the debate that won’t die: does Bruce Willis’ 1988 action classic also qualify as a Christmas classic? With the help of some Die Hard alums we’re ready to settle this once and for all -- Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Dermot Mulroney, Zooey Deschanel, Mean Girls -- Christmas got a bit risque in the teen film’s memorial Jingle Bell Rock talent-show performance
Page 41: 4 Things You Didn’t Know About Love Actually -- we actually unearthed some new tidbits from writer-director Richard Curtis about the much-discussed much-beloved Christmas rom-com
Page 43: 3 secrets from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer -- it’s aired every year since 1964 but there are still some things you don’t know about the stop-motion Christmas special, 5-minute oral history -- Elf -- you’d better scurry for the story behind the film’s Baby It’s Cold Outside shower scene by Zooey Deschanel
Page 44: Shondaland makes its Netflix debut December 25 with the swoony Bridgerton a Regency-era drama inspired by a series of romance novels
Page 48: The Kane maker -- David Fincher and an all-star cast inhabit Old Hollywood for Netflix’s Manx the riveting behind-the-scenes story of Citizen Kane
Page 52: In an era of rampant reboots it’s been awfully quiet on the Prairie so EW investigates why it’s taken so long for Hollywood to return to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved town on Walnut Grove in Little House on the Prairie
Page 57: 2020 Gift Guide
Page 66: News + Reviews -- It has spurred sales and served as a balm for concert-starved fans but the best by-product of Verzuz is its celebration of Black excellence
Page 70: Movies -- from modernized classics to fresh newcomers the Hollywood musical is back in style with a new inclusive look
Page 73: Indie’s New Queen -- with another major and wild big-screen performance in Black Bear Aubrey Plaza is emerging as an art-house icon
Page 74: Meet Your Maker -- Alan Ball -- the Oscar and Emmy winner behind American Beauty and Six Feet Under and True Blood brings his most personal project to the screen: the road movie Uncle Frank and here Ball shares his iconic cinematic and literary inspirations
Page 76: Comedy of My Life: Melissa McCarthy -- the Oscar nominee and Emmy winner flaunts some Superintelligence in her fourth movie directed by husband Ben Falcone
Page 78: The Shot -- Silver Linings Playbook -- inside the creation of a classic scene
Page 80: TV -- after years as the grounding force on The Big Bang Theory Kaley Cuoco is now flying high as The Flight Attendant at the center of a juicy murder mystery
Page 82: Class is back in session on Peacock where Saved By the Bell revival debuts
Page 83: The Crown
Page 84: Small Axe
Page 85: Q+A with Bryan Cranston -- in the limited series Your Honor the Emmy winner is breaking bad again starring as a judge whose son is involved in a hit-and-run
Page 86: Unwrapping Christmas TV movies -- wisdom gleaned from a flurry of winters in Tinseltown
Page 87: Role Call -- William H. Macy -- as he heads into the 11th and final season of Shameless he looks back on his most iconic projects, epic sci-fi series The Expanse is back with more cosmic chaos in season 5
Page 89: What to Watch
Page 96: Music -- Angus Young and Brian Johnson explain how AC/DC are back on track with a new album that honors late bandmate and brother Malcolm Young
Page 98: Sam Smith
Page 99: Q+A with legendary P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins sheds light on his new album and his enormous collection of top hats
Page 101: The Playback -- Joni Mitchell Archives: Vol. 1: The Early Years -- before she became an icon Mitchell was performing at local radio stations and recording homemade demos
Page 102: A Band You Need to Know -- Sault -- the mysterious U.K. group has dropped two timely album-of-the-year contenders, Stupid Questions with Josh Groban -- the multiplatinum-selling golden-voiced baritone returns with Harmony but can he sing his way out of this comedic jam
Page 103: Epitaph -- Eddie Van Halen
Page 104: Books -- Ernest Cline returns with Ready Player Two the sequel to his 2011 blockbuster and 2020′s most secretive novel
Page 106: Comedians Rachel Bloom and Michelle Buteau have new memoirs but first they chat about bullying and Dick Jones and how Julia Roberts likes her eggs
Page 107: High Anxiety with Cazzie David -- the writer and daughter of OG angster Larry David broadcasts her own neuroses in the essay collection No One Asked for This and here shares her deepest fears
Page 108: The weirdest year in publishing history wraps up with an all-virtual literary awards season and here we break down the titles with their eyes on the prize
Page 110: Screenwriter and director ad novelist John Ridley offers an alternative perspective in The Other History of the DC Universe
Page 112: The Bullseye
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