Divamensch

My brother Howard alerted to me the death of movie producer Jeremy Thomas, age 77. He has an impressive and adventurous list of credits - - he produced Sexy Beast, the debut film of Jonathan Glazer, who went on to direct three "feel bad movies," Birth, Under the Skin, and The Zone of Interest (thanks to John Waters for the term "feel bad movie"). He produced a movie that I love more every time I think about it, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, the sweetest, tenderest va

I saw The Ford/Hil Project at BAM on Sept 10 2026. It's a play by Lee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel. They took the transcript from Anita Hill's testimony at Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearing, the transcript from Christine Blasey Ford's testimony at Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing, and various other bits and assembled them into a play for four actors. It was directed Lee Sunday Evans. The cast was a Black actress (Gabby Beans), a Black actor (Teagle F. Bougere)