The actor returns to the scene of an early humiliation, and dishes about everything and everyone from David Frost to his acting method, which is certainly not method acting.
Author: ArtsJournal2
That Rumored Amazon Tablet? It’s Real, And Shipping For Christmas
The rumored tablet might change everything about e-book, music and video purchasing … and it’s no longer just a rumor: The Amazon Kindle will go head to head with Apple’s iPad and the Barnes & Noble Nook Color. And it’s cheap.
Old Media: Don’t Touch That Dial! Viewers: I’m Tweeting That.
“Forty-four percent of respondents said they stream TV shows online more than once per week.” But networks are pushing back — hard. What does the future hold?
You’re Safe From Nuclear Warheads. Why Not Check Out The Art?
A formerly top-secret bunker near Sarajevo now hosts a site-specific art project. “I think this is the most expensive museum ever built in human history,” says the show’s director and organizer.
A Mediator’s Not Quite Enough; Now Louisville May Get A Consultant Too
Thanks to an anonymous donor, the beleagured musicians and management of the Louisville Orchestra may add a nationally experienced consultant to the mediation team trying to resolve contract issues that have already forced cancellation for part of the season.
This Really Isn’t About You: Writers Use People, But Tell Good Stories
Novelist Lynn Coady: “Writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you’re trying to tell.” That doesn’t sit well with those who feel their lives have been stolen.
Cities Kill Everything Except Ideas. How Do We Fix That, And Fast?
More than 90 percent of the U.S. population will soon live in urban areas. “If cities are the fastest growing systems on earth — and causing resource depletion, species die-off, and declining natural ecosystems of unprecedented scale — how can we manage the way that urbanization is drastically restructuring the ecology of our planet?”
Words, Words Everywhere, But Not A Book To Buy
Thanks to the Internet and superstore discount pricing, more than 2,000 bookstores have closed in the U.K. during the past six years. And it’s only going to get worse, book advocates warn.
A Mythic Hero Of Modern Times, For A Modern Opera
Rick Rescorla, who saved 2,700 people on 9/11 before losing his own life, gets the mythic treatment in a new opera opening in San Francisco. “It has timeless, epic themes: a warrior’s code of honor, the intense bonds of loyalty, late-found love. And it ends in a cataclysm not unlike that of ‘The Ring.’”
For Your Eyes Only: Small Cinemas In a Multiplex World
Cinemathèques keep popping up, changing the film landscape of N.Y. “The most enterprising microcinemas promise not just a film that isn’t showing anywhere else but also an experience tailored around it. Context is everything.”