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Muslim Stars Are Rising On American Stages and Screens
“I don’t want to provide answers. I just want the show to be thought-provoking.
Muslim actors, singers, directors and comedians are representing their experiences more authentically in the entertainment industry, from Broadway to Hollywood.
In the United States, Islam is the third largest religious demographic and, according to the Pew Research Center, is set to become the second largest by 2040, making it important that Muslim Americans see themselves reflected in movies, television and on stage.
James Croot17:50, May 01 2021
Nurses begins streaming on TVNZ OnDemand at midday on April 30.
REVIEW: Just when you thought there was no more room for North American medical dramas, Canada gets in on the act. We’ve already had the Ontario hospital system thoroughly examined by Syrian refugee Dr Bashir “Bash” Hamed (Hamza Haq) in the entertaining
Transplant and now joining it (as well as old south-of-the-border favourites
Grey’s Anatomy and
Nurses. As the title helpfully suggests, it follows the trials and tribulations of a group of frontline caregivers at the fictional St Jude’s Hospital. In typical medical soap fashion, we initially meet our central quintet on their first day. After the predictable jibes from ER veterans about them being “fresh meat”, our nervous five are given a pep talk by charge nurse Sinead O’Rourke (Cathy White), which is both inspiring and sobering. Comparing them to the “rock star” interns starting on the same day, she say
My Salinger Year movie review (2021) rogerebert.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rogerebert.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“My Salinger Year” is a lovely, captivating film based on the memoir by Joanna Rakoff about her brief time working at the venerable Madison Avenue literary agency that represented iconic author J.D. Salinger.
Margaret Qualley (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” TV’s “Fosse/Verdon”) plays the endearingly driven Rakoff circa 1995 as she leaves graduate school and her boyfriend and moves east to the Big Apple (Montreal effectively doubles here) to become a writer, inspired by having sold two poems to the Paris Review.
The financial realities of living in pricey New York leads Joanna to find a job as the assistant to old school lit agent Margaret (Sigourney Weaver), a brusque, humorless sort who consigns her new hire to such mundane tasks as typing dictation and answering Salinger’s passionate fan mail with dismissive form letters.
Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver star in 'My Salinger Year,' Philippe Falardeau's adaptation of Joanna Rakoff's novel set in the 1990s New York literary world.