Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:
6 body language tips for your next interview
www.fastcompany.com: Body language provides a key to succeeding in job interviews. Non-verbal cues make up 60 to 80% of face-to-face communication. Even more than your words, your physical presence shows your strengths (or shortcomings) as a candidate.Age-Blind Casting Reinforces Male Privilege
Ms. Magazine: Sir Ian McKellen is ushering in post-COVID theatre with a new interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Theatre Royal Windsor in London. McKellen, 82, is playing the young Danish prince. Yes, he’s playing Hamlet in what is being advertised as “age-blind casting.” McKellen is one of my favorite actors. But, let’s call the “age-blind” casting what it is—a gimmick that reinforces male privilege.Light Show Goes Wrong When Drones Start Plummeting Out of the Sky
futurism.com: In an eerie bit of imagery, drones literally started raining from the sky in Zhengzhou, a city of 10 million people in the Chinese province of Henan. Videos shared on social media show a constellation of drones starting to quickly lose altitude before clattering down on the ground. Onlookers can be seen jumping out of the way to avoid getting struck by the small drones.Opinion | Don’t Let Amazon Eat the Film Industry
The New York Times: In the 1930s and ’40s, five major Hollywood studios dominated the film industry and tried to lock up distribution and exhibition channels as well by taking over movie theaters across the country. Courts and regulators saw that allowing studios so much power up and down the film supply chain posed grave threats to the integrity of the industry and to viewer choice.No Time to Die: the problem with Bond villains having facial disfigurements
theconversation.com: As the 25th James Bond film No Time to Die hits the cinemas, we are once again reminded of the way that disability is depicted negatively in Hollywood films. The new James Bond film features three villains, all of who have facial disfigurements (Blofeld, Safin and Primo). If you take a closer look at James Bond villains throughout history, the majority have facial disfigurements or physical impairments. This is in sharp contrast to the other characters, including James Bond, who are able-bodied and presented with no physical bodily differences.
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