The director of #Persuasion, Dakota Johnson's Jane Austen movie, explains the Netflix adaptation: "We have simplified some of the lines, and taken away some of the fuss of period trimmings, to make the characters & the worlds feel more alive & accessible." latimes.com/entertainment-…
Screenwriter Ron Bass on Johnson’s character breaking the fourth wall: “What happens in prose is what happens within people. What happens in film, unfortunately, is what happens between people.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
“We wanted to capture [Jane Austen’s] spirit of play,” screenwriter Alice Winslow explains of the film’s meme-ready Gen Z speak. “It was a way of capturing her sensibility in a new way while also bringing modern audiences in a little more.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
The screenwriters also modernized some of the descriptive cues in the script. For the Elliot family home, the script noted that a particular wall “looks like Justin Bieber’s Instagram account if it were 1812 and the Regency oil painting filter were on.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
“I wanted the widest possible audience to see themselves in this film,” director Carrie Cracknell says of the casting. “I wanted a really diverse group of people to be able to access this story and feel drawn into it.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
While the screenwriters wanted to evolve some of the language and the story’s delivery, there were certain aspects of Austen’s work they didn’t mess with.
Learn more about how the filmmakers behind #Persuasion updated the Jane Austen classic for the new Dakota Johnson adaptation. latimes.com/entertainment-…
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For decades, starting when the team first moved to L.A., it was another medium that forged a bond between broadcaster and baseball fans. latimes.com/sports/dodgers…
@TheVinScully The transistor radio went mainstream around the time the @Dodgers arrived in L.A., timing so fortuitous that Vin Scully called it “one of the biggest breaks” the team and its broadcasters could get.
It’s hard for people who didn’t live through it to understand how polarizing the Vietnam War was, or how large Robert McNamara loomed as the face of it.
Robert McNamara was the polarizing secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. His actions prosecuting the Vietnam War had hung over his son Craig's entire life.
Will Rogers, Craig McNamara’s lifelong friend and the former head of the Trust for Public Land, said his friend “really struggled with what his father had done.”
Skin Laundry’s Signature Laser facial goes deep, focusing on the second layer of the skin — the epidermis — to confront acne, melasma, hyperpigmentation, and rosacea.
The Los Angeles Animal Services largely relies on unpaid volunteers, rather than city employees, to walk and exercise dogs. The animal confinement is the result of longstanding practices at the department, critics say.
The longer dogs are confined and isolated is detrimental to their emotional and mental well-being according to Former Animal Services supervisor Thomas Kalinowski.
Ken Calvert has held on to his seat in Congress in part by opposing gay rights.
But now that he’s running against a gay rival in a district that includes one of the largest concentrations of LGBTQ voters in America, Calvert says his views have changed. latimes.com/politics/story…
Despite his previous opposition, Calvert says he believes the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage should not be overturned.
“It wasn’t always my position,” he said. “It’s a different country than it was 30 years ago.” latimes.com/politics/story…
Whether it’s principle or opportunism, Calvert’s change of heart seems a necessary shift in a race that has grown far more competitive as a result of the redrawing of California’s congressional boundaries.