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Replacing actors on set with A.I. means you’re replacing
a hairstylist, a makeup artist, a costumer, a script supervisor, a stuntman, a driver, a stand in, smaller skeleton crews, etc. Cause the studios will say there’s no need for these other jobs cause no actors.
Oppenheimer is 600 pounds of 70mm IMAX film, and it wouldn’t work so well on-screen if it weren’t for a 21-year-old PDA.
Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work
https://www.theverge.com/23801118/imax-movie-palm-pilot-oppenheimer
Who is Shelby White?
Cops seize stolen artifacts worth $69M from Met trustee emeritus’s home
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/who-is-shelby-white-cops-seize-stolen-artifacts-worth-69m-from-met-trustee-emeritus-s-home/ar-AA1e4rIX
cops recovered numerous stolen artifacts from her house. According to reports, the confiscated items are worth $69 million and were collected by Shelby White and her late husband Leon Levy over several years.
89 artifacts have reportedly been removed from White’s possession by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Special Antiquities Trafficking Unit in the last two years. An April statement by Manhattan DA Alvin L Bragg, Jr said, “Our investigation into the collector Shelby White has allowed dozens of antiquities that were ripped from their countries of origin to finally return home.”
Treasures worth tens of millions of dollars ‘ripped from their countries of origin’ found at Manhattan flat of philanthropist
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/20/more-than-70-looted-artefacts-seized-from-met-trustees-home/
At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities.
Shelby White has given the museum generous gifts and 33 years of service as a trustee. But investigators recently seized many of her ancient artifacts, including 17 that were on loan to the https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/arts/design/shelby-white-the-met-antiquities-investigation.html
“Just weeks ago, when the Met announced its new, stricter initiative on antiquities, [Shelby] White was appointed to a 12-member task force of trustees that will offer ‘their experience and counsel’ to help shape the museum’s collecting practices”: How do you buy $69 million in stolen antiquities and not face criminal charges? @ManhattanDA seized 71 looted antiquities from her — and another 17 that she had loaned to the @metmuseum
Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger
Shelby White is the villain of the piece (literally). But there is enough in it to make me sympathetic to her. P.S. A veteran journalist told me 30 years ago: A journalist’s personal view is encapsulated in the last quotation he uses — his ending quote.
Investigators were also allowed to search for evidence that Shelby White was part of a criminal conspiracy related to the looted antiquities she and her husband collected.
https://twitter.com/ChasingAphrodit/status/1681710527515590656/photo/1
Indeed, antiquities were not the only thing seized from Shelby White‘s Sutton Place apartment.
Interesting thread on the Shelby White investigation.
What hasn’t gotten as much attention is that she’s also a patron of the Israel Antiquities Authority, which is in charge of enforcing the country’s anti-antiquities trafficking law.
Antiquities are often seized under civil forfeiture law, which allows the government to grab things if there is a preponderance of evidence that they were stolen.
The Shelby White case was not that. It was criminal. Her collecting practices do not fit the model of how a museum should be pursuing knowledge and preserving the historical record.”
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-profoundly-generous-supporter-of-met.html
An April ’22 search warrant allowed @ManhattanDA to seize a huge volume of evidence relating to how the targeted antiquities were acquired.