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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 6 February 2020
‘Homeland’ stars say farewell

to their Showtime spy series

By John Carucci
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — As
the Showtime spy thriller
“Homeland” comes to an
end, Claire Danes hopes
that her portrayal of a
character with bipolar dis-
order helps destigmatize
This Monday, Aug. 31, 2017, file photo shows a Barnes & Noble mental illness.
Booksellers store in Pittsburgh. “I don’t think there have
Associated Press been many shows or many
opportunities in pop culture
Barnes & Noble to focus on people who Actress Claire Danes attends Showtime's "Homeland" eighth
are wired a little differently
suspends reissues of from most, and experience and final season premiere at the Museum of Modern Art on
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in New York.
the world through such a
Associated Press
classics with new images different filter,” Danes told
The Associated Press on the to kind of make sense of it, professionals to discuss the
red carpet for the Show- and just have profound re- issues that “keep them up
NEW YORK (AP) — Barnes leading critic of "American time series’ eight and final spect for people who live at night.”
season Monday night at with this day in and day Danes said these are the
& Noble is withdrawing a Dirt," tweeted about "Di- people that help keep the
planned line of famous lit- verse Editions." the Museum of Modern Art out,” Danes said.
“Homeland” has also world safer.
erature reissued with multi- The decision also comes in in New York. helped explain the com- “I’m in the land of make
cultural cover images that February, which is Black His- Danes, who plays CIA ana-
lyst Carrie Mathison, said plexity of national security believe. You know, I take
has been met with wide- tory Month, an annual cel- risks in a very qualified way.
spread criticism on social ebration of past and pres- she took seriously the task through the work of the in- And these people do it
of playing the highs and telligence community. Be-
media. ent achievement. fore each season, principal for real. So, you know, all
"We acknowledge the To much disbelief online, lows of mania and depres- the respect in the world to
sion. “I was really humbled cast members and produc-
voices who have ex- the organizers of "Diverse
pressed concerns about Editions" had said they by the process in my efforts ers meet with intelligence them,” Danes said.q
the Diverse Editions project used artificial intelligence
at our Barnes & Noble Fifth in reviewing more than 100
Avenue store and have older books and determin- Kobe Bryant's books surging in popularity
decided to suspend the ing whether the race or
initiative," Barnes & Noble ethnicity of a character go through when they are
announced in a statement is specifically stated. Few playing a sport."
Wednesday. The author would argue that Alice Another of Bryant's books,
Adriana Herrera had called from "Alice in Wonderland" "The Mamba Mental-
the books, scheduled to be or the title characters of ity: How I Play" has also
launched this week, "the "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll reached No. 1 on Amazon's
classics in blackface." and Mr. Hyde" are fitting for non-fiction sales charts this
"Diverse Editions," a joint a tribute to black history. week. Bryant released that
project between Barnes & "They could have Googled, book in 2018, the same year
Noble and Penguin Ran- chosen a dozen books by that he won an Academy
dom House, featured 12 actual Black authors that Award in the best animat-
texts, including Lewis Car- are classics & sent those out ed short for his ode to the
roll's "Alice's Adventures in with fresh covers & a big game called "Dear Basket-
Wonderland," Mary Shel- event," author MIkki Kend- ball." Granity additionally
ley's "Frankenstein" and L. all tweeted. "Add in bring- Spectators pay tribute to basketball legend Kobe Bryant prior produces a podcast series
Frank Baum's "The Wizard ing in contemporary Black to the start of the Italian Basketball second division match be- called "The Punies," tales
of Oz." The words are the authors to discuss these tween Rieti and Scafati in Rieti's PalaSojourne, Italy, Wednesday, about a boy who plays
same, but on the cover, works & the whole thing is Feb. 5, 2020. Associated Press sports with friends. Bryant
major characters are de- a win. They didn't do the was also the creator and
picted with dark-skinned easy or logical thing." By TIM REYNOLDS Tree Of Ecrof" will be No. writer of the "Detail" sports
illustrations by artists of In its statement Wednes- AP Basketball Writer 1 on that list, followed by analysis series of programs
"different ethnicities and day, Barnes & Noble ac- Books created by Kobe "Legacy And The Queen" on ESPN, and Granity has
backgrounds," according knowledged that the new Bryant's content company and "The Wizenard: Training said it will continue as Bry-
to Barnes & Noble. covers were "not a sub- soared in popularity in the Camp." ant wanted — "using cre-
"Diverse Editions" was an- stitute for black voices or days following the basket- All three of the books were ative education to inspire
nounced at a time when writers of color, whose work ball legend's death in a he- written for children be- people to be the best ver-
the publishing industry is al- and voices deserve to be licopter crash. tween the ages of 10 and sions of themselves."
ready facing scrutiny over heard. "The booksellers A trio of the books created 14. Bryant, in an interview Bryant, his 13-year-old
the novel "American Dirt" who championed this ini- by Bryant's Granity Studios with The Associated Press daughter Gianna and
and its depiction of Mexi- tiative did so convinced it will occupy the top three in 2018, said his mission for seven others were killed
can life and culture. "Ab- would help drive engage- spots on the Middle Grade the books was "to com- on Jan. 26 when the heli-
solute TONE-DEAF decision- ment with these classic Hardcover portion of The bine education and inspi- copter they were riding in
making," Mexican-Ameri- titles," according to the New York Times' best-seller ration and build around crashed into a hill in Cala-
can writer David Bowles, a bookstore chain.q list for Feb. 16. "Epoca: The the concepts of what kids basas, California. q