Aiming “to adapt to the digital revolution that is reshaping Hollywood and evolve from a provider of back-office services to the studios into a creator of content,” film processing company Technicolor, the “world’s largest producer of DVDs, is venturing into an improbable new business of producing animated TV series.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Govt. Promises Funding To Upgrade Sydney Opera House
“$152 million to create underground truck access and new scenery lifts for the Opera Theatre will be confirmed in tonight’s NSW state budget. The work will take about three years to complete and performances will continue uninterrupted.”
Sydney Opera House, Safety Hazard
“Anyone who spends any time at the Opera House and here on the forecourt is aware of the multiple incidents that happen here on a daily basis,” Opera House CEO Richard Evans said. “There have been 200 reported incidents, many of which have necessitated ambulances coming … many of these people are tourists, and then ended up getting flown home. It’s really not a great situation.”
Love Story, The Musical (Tissues For Sale In The Foyer)
“[H]owever lethally misleading the famous line about love meaning never having to say you’re sorry, the story has legs. Mawkishness is counteracted by the timeless theme of defiant youth and the astringent stroppiness of the working-class heroine Jenny Cavilleri, taking on her preppy boy-man and slapping him about verbally until he grows up.”
Solving The Problem Of Theatre’s Inherent Smallness
“In the Twin Cities, theater is in danger of becoming a market like academic publishing: everybody’s just making stuff for each other. In other words, it’s not a market at all. We’re all struggling to get a bigger piece of the pie, when the pie is a cupcake. We need a bigger pie.”
Scaling Antony Gormley’s 84-Foot Squatting Sculpture
“I’ve climbed up to its testicles, but not much further,” the artist says. “It’s like a bridge or a piece of civil engineering. … The smallest bit of it is the bit that’s closest to the ground, that is the complete reverse of the way that stable structures are made.”
Tate Show Puts British Humor Under A Microscope
“We like to think that there is something distinct about the British sense of humour, that the comic is a singularly important element in the make-up of the British national character. I find it hard to imagine an equivalent show in the Pompidou Centre in Paris or in a German national museum.”
Medicis Of Musical Theatre
“Most theater backers seek a windfall or at least some financial return,” but Ted and Mary Jo Shen “instead fund non-commercial musicals that they believe advance the art form, usually through non- profit theater companies such as the Signature [Theatre in Virginia] or New York’s Roundabout and Public Theater.”
The Inseparability Of Art And Architecture
“It is impossible to conceive of the history of art in exclusion from that of architecture. If you were writing about the Baroque style, or the Arts and Crafts movement, or any other major cultural era: just to write about paintings and sculpture and ignore the buildings they were created for would be to trivialise the subject. It’s the same today.”
Trusting One Another (If The Right Hormone Kicks In)
“It may seem strange that there is a hormonal influence in such a delicate calculation as to whether or not to trust someone. But perhaps trust is so important to a society’s survival that natural selection has generated a hormonal basis for it.”