After 148 days of striking, Hollywood writers are going back to work
After 148 days, television and movie writers are headed back to work. Many say they're happy the strike has ended for the Writers Guild of America.
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Howard University receives a replacement for Hattie McDaniel's missing Oscar
Hattie McDaniel's Oscar went missing from Howard University decades ago. Howard celebrated McDaniel's legacy Sunday as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences replaced the missing plaque.
'Carterland' puts a positive spin on an oft-disparaged presidency
Carterland depicts the one-term presidency of Jimmy Carter as an expansive and largely successful exercise in problem-solving.
The Hollywood writers strike is over, but the actors strike could drag on. Here's why
The actors union, SAG-AFTRA, is hoping to cut as good a deal with the studios as the writers union, WGA, did last week. But the negotiations, starting Monday, could be more complicated.
Looks like we picked the wrong week to quit quoting 'Airplane!'
A new book about the 1980's film "Airplane!" from David Zucker, Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker, the writing and directing team responsible for one of the most transformative film comedies in history.
Academy replaces Hattie McDaniel's Oscar that's been missing for 50 years
Hattie McDaniel's 1939 Oscar for her supporting role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind is finally replaced at Howard University. McDaniel was the first Black person to be nominated for and win an Oscar.
He wrote this film before AI was a hot topic. Now it's all the rage.
The new film THE CREATOR takes place in a future war raging between humans and AI. Director Gareth Edwards says he wrote the film when technology was viewed in a much more positive light.
Did AI write this film? 'The Creator' offers a muddled plea for human-robot harmony
This sci-fi drama about an ex-special-forces operative who teams up with a humanoid robot excels at world-building — but ultimately fails to create characters that take on lives of their own.
New book examines the making of the 1980 comedy movie classic 'Airplane!'
NPR's A Martinez talks to David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, the trio who wrote and directed Airplane!, about their new book Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
The Academy is replacing Hattie McDaniel's Oscar that has been missing for 50 years
McDaniel, the first Black person to win an Academy Award, donated her Oscar to Howard University before her death. But the plaque mysteriously went missing, likely sometime around the 1960s or 1970s.