“Why aren’t more high schools producing David Mamet plays, or Neil LaBute, Yasmina Reza, John Logan, or Rajiv Joseph, and thereby exposing the students and the school community to new works? Because they’re too busy with Beauty and the Beast, Seussical, and The Wizard of Oz.”
Tag: 01.02.14
Sharing Your Netflix Password Will Probably Get A Lot More Expensive
Uh-oh: “Selected customers pay more if increased number of people log in to the account at the same time.”
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
You know those weird Netflix genre categories you’ve seen on your “recommended” screen? Well: “Netflix possesses not several hundred genres, or even several thousand, but 76,897 unique ways to describe types of movies.”
Cincinnati Art Museum Director Stepping Down
“Aaron Betsky is leaving his post as director of the Cincinnati Art Museum after seven years in the job.” Says the board chairman, “It’s time to give someone else a chance. He has done an incredible job and gotten done what he set out to do.”
West End Theatre Where Ceiling Collapsed Closed For Additional Week
“Performances of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Apollo Theatre have been cancelled for an extra week until January 11.” The auditorium ceiling at the Apollo fell in mid-performance on December 19.
The Sweet Science of Punch Sound Effects
“What is the sound of one hand punching? It depends what movie you’re watching.” It could be a human body part, a turkey, pizza dough, a watermelon, or dry pasta shells.
Postcards From Antartica’s Poet-in-Residence
“The National Science Foundation sent Jynne Dilling Martin to Antarctica this winter (the austral summer) as an artist-in-residence. [Here] are two poems she wrote from there.”
Writer Elizabeth Jane Howard, 90
“[She] won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize in 1951 for her debut novel, The Beautiful Visit. But she is best known for her five-part family saga, The Cazalet Chronicles.” Martin Amis (her stepson) declared her “the most interesting woman writer of her generation.”
Cincinnati Art Museum Director Stepping Down
“Aaron Betsky is leaving his post as director of the Cincinnati Art Museum after seven years in the job.” Says the board chairman, “It’s time to give someone else a chance. He has done an incredible job and gotten done what he set out to do.”
West End Theatre Where Ceiling Collapsed Closed For Additional Week
“Performances of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Apollo Theatre have been cancelled for an extra week until January 11.” The auditorium ceiling at the Apollo fell in mid-performance on December 19.