Demi Lovato opens up about Dancing With the Devil, sexual assault and more
After a near-fatal overdose, Demi Lovato is opening up about her sobriety, her queerness and her journey to living her truth. “I’m ready to feel like myself,” she said. https://t.co/gA8iagzjOo New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) March 16, 2021
In a new interview with Caryn Ganz for the New York Times, accompanied by photos by Ryan Pfluger,
Demi Lovato opened up about her sobriety, her queerness and her journey to living her truth.
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Dancing With the Devil, Lovato s upcoming YouTube docuseries which recently premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, is filled with fresh admissions that betray previous obfuscations. Her overdose came after six years of sobriety. It caused three strokes, a heart attack and organ failure. She had pneumonia from asphyxiating on her vomit; she suffered brain damage from the strokes, and has lasting vision problems. (She can no longer drive and described th
The subject shines, even when the storytelling gets clunky.
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Lily Hevesh, a domino toppler with 3+ million followers, is at the center of this documentary directed by Jeremy Workman and executive produced by Kelly Marie Tran.
Midway through Jeremy Workman s SXSW-premiering documentary
Lily Topples the World, there s a scene of premature topplation unlikely to be supplanted among the year s most tragic cinematic moments.
It doesn t matter that I ve warned you to expect it, because in the world of professional domino toppling, the line between a meticulously constructed piece of art waiting for a perfectly timed nudge and that same piece of art rushing toward its inevitable doom ahead of schedule can be razor-thin. And Workman, using 20-something YouTuber Lily Hevesh as an avatar, has capably established both artistry and stakes. Even despite that dominos tragedy, there s a smile that takes up early residency on a viewer s face while watching
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In The Spine of Night, Lucy Lawless plays a swamp witch fighting the forces of darkness, Richard E. Grant guards a mystical power source for generations and Patton Oswalt reigns over a medieval wasteland as a tyrant lord. It s one of the most star-studded movies in this year s South by Southwest Film Festival program. You ll never see those actor s faces in this gruesome fantasy epic, though.
This year s fest is all-virtual, dubbed SXSW Online and running March 16-20, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Normally, Austin packs in the celebrities every March, as big names pound the red carpet to promote studio flicks at the Paramount Theatre. There aren t any press lines at SXSW Online, obviously, and this year s slate is packed with fewer Hollywood tentpoles, but just as much exciting indie fare.
Nicholas Bruckman follows ALS-struck activist Ady Barkan on what could be his final political campaign.
A stirring tale of activism shaped by personal suffering, Nicholas Bruckman s
Not Going Quietly follows a health care-advocacy campaign whose leader, Ady Barkan, knew he might be spending his final days of life as he knew it for the cause. Known to many for videos in which the ALS patient put lawmakers on the spot asking them not to cut the benefits that could keep him alive Barkan proves a highly engaging man, impassioned but funnier than a terminally ill man should be. Intimate scenes with his young family are essential to the appeal of a film whose big issues remain as pressing now as they were during filming in 2018.
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