Tracy McArdle Brady is a published novelist, essayist and communications executive from Carlisle, Massachusetts.
She is the 2020 recipient of
She has worked on marketing campaigns for a variety of brands including Volkswagen, Hershey’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Bank of America and Partnership for Drug Free Kids. She also spent several years in New York and L.A. as a movie and television publicist with Turner Broadcasting, Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures.
Her writing has appeared in
Fortune, Adweek, The Boston Globe Magazine, Muse by Clio and more.
She is a mother of two boys and the author of two “widely unread, critically unacclaimed and financially disastrous novels” (
Jurassic Park and, of course,
Groundhog Day. We would laugh because it is not that it cannot be defined by a genre. It just has so many, says producer Becky Sloviter, who at the time was running Party Over Here, the production shingle from Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone (the comedy trio is also known as The Lonely Island). The filmmakers did not want to blunt the script s inherent strangeness, and worried that execs would try to jam
Palm Springs into a traditional commercial mold. You can almost hear the terrible development notes from studios, jokes Sloviter. I had come up [and] worked in the studio world. I have a ton of love for that, but for this movie, I wanted to be protective of it. We had a small bull s-eye to hit. And while skipping studio partners allowed them to maintain their creative freedom and preserve what many of the cast and crew describe as a creative cocoon, it did present its own challenges namely, money.
The biggest news is that the latest James Bond movie
No Time to Die has been pushed back yet again. It had been scheduled to go last year, and then was pushed back to this April, but now MGM has pushed it back again to a fall release, on Oct. 8, 2021. This is the right decision.
No Time to Die was not going to make good money with an April release, but it should do a much better gross in the fall when things ought to be back to normal for real this time, we hope. I don’t expect James Bond to be moved again. This release date should stick, given what we have heard about how everyone should be able to get a vaccine by the end of this summer.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Nomadland Lead Nominations at 2021 Independent Spirit Awards
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The drama about teen pregnancy receives the most nods with a total of seven while Oscar favorite Nomadland follows behind with six along with Ma Rainey s Black Bottom . Jan 27, 2021
First Cow will also compete for the top honour at the celebration of independent movies.
Teen pregnancy drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always leads all nominees with seven, including Best Director for
Eliza Hittman and Best Female Lead for
Sidney Flanigan while Minari , about a Korean-American family settling into life on a farm in Arkansas, follows with six nods.
“Do you think we’ll ever use unpaid interns?” a friend once asked while we were being used as unpaid interns. It was 2011, in the thick of the long slog of the Great Recession, and we were both working for no pay at different book publishers in one of the most expensive cities in the United States. A few months later, an encampment started in Manhattan’s financial district to protest runaway economic inequality, student debt, and the unfettered greed of Wall Street; sometimes we joined the marches or went to reading groups where we struggled through the first volume of