I, Ashley: We’re Still Imposing the Harding-Kerrigan Narrative on Young Female Skaters

We can at least try to break our destructive judgments of public figures by remembering they are real human beings with feelings, minds, and agency of their own, and by leaving them a little room to surprise us.

Crying in Public: The Cost of Gawking at Tonya and Tammy Faye

We are the audience, with our endless appetite for scandal, standing around the woman at the well (or in this case the two women at the well), ready to throw stones.

Seeing and Believing 139: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread and Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya

It’s dressmakers and figure skaters on the show this week, but the movies being reviewed are anything but prim and proper: “Phantom Thread” and “I, Tonya”