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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Gianna Horcher | Graphic Artist

‘A Complete Unknown’ keeps Bob Dylan a mystery

Ruby Voge February 7, 2025
The film’s title, “A Complete Unknown,” serves as a guide for how it approaches its subject material. Mangold’s script works to uphold the mythology of Dylan as an unknowable artist — who, from the beginning, was reluctant to be defined by others and by himself. 
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

Social media influencers on Broadway: well-deserved or purely for profit? | All Things Theater

Maia Penzer March 13, 2023
Broadway is denying opportunities to those who devote their entire lives to the performing arts by hiring social media influencers who are already very well-known — and it has begun to take away the allure of live theater
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: The commodification of age

Max Ferrandino March 10, 2021
The perceived age of an actor or actress is important, not just for the viewer's entertainment but for the overall success of a TV show or movie. Fundamentally, age is not just a number — it’s a commodity. The younger you look, the more likely you are to be successful in Hollywood.
TENTINDO: Scarlett Johansson perpetuates Hollywood yellowface in "Ghost in the Shell" casting

TENTINDO: Scarlett Johansson perpetuates Hollywood yellowface in “Ghost in the Shell” casting

Will Tentindo April 18, 2016

This week, Scarlett Johansson and the filmmakers behind the upcoming movie “Ghost in the Shell” fell under criticism for the decision to cast Johansson in a role as an Asian woman. The movie, produced...

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