In the year America gave its first black president a second term, some of Hollywood's most celebrated films, all by white directors, dealt with black-white race relations or revolved around black characters, which is rare.
On Thursday the Heart of England NHS Trust, which runs the Good Hope hospital, released the report flagging up a series of problems with how mortuary staff and funeral directors dealt with the men's bodies.
Josh Thomas and the directors dealt with this plot point in as sensitive, nuanced and complicated way as we've come to expect from the series – and the sight of Thomas curled up in a bed holding his dog and weeping, as the camera panned out above him, is one that I haven't quite been able to shake.
Bill Reeves, one of the film's two supervising technical directors, dealt with the quandary by leading the development of software for autonomous ants.
As a producer, he likens his methodology to that of a film or theatre director, dealing with a constantly changing cast of performers, combining old favourites with new faces.
As an example of how the rates work, Suzanne Douglass, a managing director dealing with terrorism coverage at the Willis Group, another big broker, estimated that $100 million worth of property insurance could cost about $70,000 a year.
An Italian perfectionist, he remains intensely involved running La Scala Opera in Milan and at 62 has scant desire, it would seem, to take on the challenges facing a modern American music director: dealing with conservative orchestra boards, exploring the new generation of American composers, proselytizing for classical music among the public.
I wonder if Moretti might not actually be gender-switching a personal or autobiographical experience: a male director dealing with the death of a mother, and relating to the sister who is the one doing a lot of the hospital visiting.
Scott Metcalfe, Green Mountain's music director, dealt with some of the performance issues in program notes, subscribing, for one thing, to the notion that the sacred songs are antiphon substitutes, not supplements.
One of those complications was backlash to Spider-Man's suit, an issue that the director dealt with right away in part two.
