Watching those early videos on Thursday night was a reminder of how little all the window dressing — the Rick Baker creature makeup, the Saturday matinee story lines, the waves of dancers, the celebrity guest stars and directors — mattered.
Black movies matter, black actors matter, black directors matter, and the Oscars would matter more, if they included more people of color, more women, and more diversity in ideas and stories told, and quite frankly, if the Academy wasn't so white.
A guy commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a truck on the freeway, and we glimpse a sickening stripe of gore being painted on to the tarmac from under the rig before the director matter-of-factly cuts to something else.
Director, Russia Matters Project; Assistant Director, U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Simon Saradzhyan is the founding director of the Russia Matters Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Editor's note: Kenneth A. Linzer is a partner at Hobart Linzer LLP who counsels executives, business owners, and boards of directors in matters including strategic planning and corporate governance.
Career 2012-present: chiexecutiveive, Capita Personal Independence Payments covering Wales, West and East Midlands, and Northern Ireland; 2009-12: various director-level positions, Serco, welfare to work, and other public sector markets; 1989-2009: founder and director, Disability Matters global consultancy.
One thing you have to respect about Yahoo's board of directors – no matter how much the press criticizes them for making painfully awful strategic decisions, they keep their chin up and at least maintain some level of basic decorum.
MARCI REAVEN Co-Director Place Matters, City Lore.
JANET McLAUGHLIN Director, Cooking Matters Share Our Strength Washington, July 6 , 2011
I mean these directors, no matter what anybody said, knew that I was the one for the job.
