"Queen Sugar": A TV landmark for women directors
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In its seven seasons, the TV series "Queen Sugar" has explored modern flashpoints, from #MeToo and race relations to police brutality. But at heart, it's a drama about three Black siblings struggling to hold on to their late father's Louisiana sugar farm. Director Aurora Guerrero (Instagram)
The show's creator, executive producer Ava DuVernay, said, "I've been trying to communicate a core idea, and the core idea is that family in American television should not only mean White families. 'The Sopranos,' 'Little House on the Prairie,' 'The Waltons,' 'Thirtysomething,' 'Friday Night Lights' – this is a family who plays football, this is a family that's in the mob, this is a family who owns a funeral home. Like, it goes on and on, but what are none of them? Black."
DuVernay has long fought to add diversity to Hollywood, directing socially-conscious works like "Selma" and "When They See Us." With "A Wrinkle in Time," she became the first Black woman to direct a live-action film with a budget of more than $100 million.
On April 15, 1874 – 150 years ago – the first Impressionist exhibition opened on Rue du Capucines in Paris, featuring works by 30 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Hosted by the "Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc.," it was founded in response to the Paris Salon, the annual, government-sponsored exhibition that would frequently reject the works of the rising artists.
Alec Baldwin had "no control" over his emotions on the set of a film where the cinematographer was shot dead, according to the prosecutor who has charged him with manslaughter. The Hollywood star was holding a Colt .45 during the preparation for a scene in the budget Western "Rust" when the gun went off, killing Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.