First, movies are workplaces, and Nirenberg’s interviewees reveal the stressful negotiations involved in the daily life of filmmaking—not only with executives and producers but also with directors, who, though employed by those very same businesspeople, are also the immediate bosses of the crew.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Potash, the potassium-rich component of fertilizers, has also been in short supply in recent years, in part because of economic sanctions on Belarus and Russia, which are major potash producers.
And the impresarios and opera stars who drive the backstage story are all excellent, ably bringing comic relief to this dark tale.
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Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
24 Nov. 2025
In the 1990s, the internet boom created overnight fortunes along with unforeseen challenges for some tech geeks and impresarios who founded wildly successful dot-coms.
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