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THE BULLETIN • JUNE 3 - 9, 2021
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“Special Agent Oso: Three
Healthy Steps” (June 6)
“Life Below Zero: Season 15”
(June 6)
A bevy of Disney characters
including Paw Pilot, Special Agent
Wolfie, Special Agent Dotty,
Professor Buffo and, of course,
Special Agent Oso appear in this
series of shorts that aired on Disney
Junior in 2011, which encourages
youngsters to use the titular three
healthy steps regarding eating and
exercising.
The 15th season of this National
Geographic documentary series
continues to follow the daily and
seasonal activities of subsistence
hunters as they make their living
in remote areas of Alaska, where
temperatures can reach minus-60
degrees, resources are hard to come
by and fish caught through the ice
are used as currency.
BY JAY BOBBIN
“Ice Road Rescue: Season 5”
(June 6)
The National Geographic
documentary series returns for its fifth
season and finds the Ice Road heroes
facing another harsh winter and new
challenges, thus forcing them to take
on new partners and seek out new
territories. It’s all in a day’s work for
those who battle the treacherous
conditions of the ice roads.
Billy Porter
As it ends its three-season run, to
what do you credit the impact that
“Pose” has had?
It’s the brilliance of our creators, who
really are observers of real life. And
one of the things that I think happened
rather quickly is that they were able to
pinpoint every one of our strengths, the
character’s strength as well as the actor’s
strength. Ryan (executive producer
Murphy) said, “What do you want to
say?”
The manifestation of speaking life into
yourself, speaking what you want,
speaking what you need into the
universe – it comes back in this way, so,
it’s very powerful. It’s very emotional.
“Pose” has been such a unique
series, certainly in how it has
serviced its actors, what has it
meant to you in terms of other work
that you might pursue after it?
“Loki” (June 9)
From Marvel Studios comes this
drama series that is set after the
events of the 2019 action feature
“Avengers: Endgame” and follows
Loki (Tom Hiddleston), the god
of mischief, as he steps out of his
brother’s shadow to embark on
an adventure. Richard E. Grant,
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Owen
Wilson are also in the talented cast.
(ORIGINAL)
OF ‘POSE’ ON FX
“You don’t give somebody the food, you
teach them how to fish so they can do it
for themselves”? That’s the gift of being
in this space, that we’ve all now been
empowered to go out and continue.
I’m going to steal, recently from Vice
President (Kamala) Harris: We may be
the first, but we’re definitely not going to
be the last.
I got into this business in the ‘80s. There
was never, ever a space in my brain
to dream of what “Pose” is. I spent the
first 25-plus years of my career trying
to fit into a masculinity construct that
society placed on us, so I could eat.
“Pose” really taught me to dream the
impossible.
What is the main lesson that you
take, and share from making
“Pose”?
One of the things that I love so much
about this creative team is that they have
taught us all through this experience
“how to fish.” Remember that old saying,
To be empowered inside of yourself.
Even when everything and everybody
around you says the opposite, do it
anyway, and dream the impossible.