While keeping Mr. Potato Head in the mix with Toy Story 4, and taking franchise favorite characters Woody and Buzz Lightyear into new territory, Cooley also embraced the opportunity to push creative boundaries, through the addition of new characters. A plastic spork that unexpectedly springs to life and is met with an existential crisis, Tony Hale’s Forky was just one example—a character that playfully called into question the rules of the Toy Story universe, as we’d come to know it. “Forky was definitely going, ‘Oh, we can still surprise Buzz and Woody,’” the director reflected. “There’s still parts of the world they don’t know about yet, about toys coming to life.” … [Read more...] about Director Josh Cooley Dug Through 25 Years Of Audio Recordings To Keep The Late Don Rickles Present & As Funny As Ever In ‘Toy Story 4’
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Broadway Playwrights Jeremy O. Harris & Matthew Lopez To Receive HRC’s LGBTQ Equality Award
Slave Play, which moved from Off Broadway to Broadway and ended its limited run Jan. 19, was one of the year’s most talked about productions, a comedy-drama in which several interracial couples, both straight and gay, underwent an experimental form of therapy involving role-playing of Old South stereotypes. Read Deadline’s review here. … [Read more...] about Broadway Playwrights Jeremy O. Harris & Matthew Lopez To Receive HRC’s LGBTQ Equality Award
