“He wasn’t a household name, but his solid, broad, hang-dog screen face became a household image.” In addition to considerable theater and television work, Hingle played crucial roles in films from On the Waterfront and Splendor in the Grass to Norma Rae and The Grifters; he was best known as Commissioner Gordon in the first four Batman films.
Tag: 01.05.09
Doctor Who Star Returns To RSC Hamlet
David Tennant, star of the popular TV series, “was forced to pull out of the show in December just as it transferred to the West End’s Novello Theatre, due to a recurring back injury. Thousands of fans were left fearing that he would sit out the entire run.” Now he’s back in the title role for the production’s final week.
Spoleto Festival USA Shrinks Program For 2009
“This year’s festival has a budget of $6.2 million – down from last year’s $8.4 million, said festival spokeswoman Paula Edwards. Last year’s festival was staged just as the national economy soured and ended the season $372,000 in the red – the first deficit for the festival in 13 years.”
Writer Inger Christensen, 73
“The Danish writer who built experimental poems, essays and novels around systematized and mathematical structures has died at age 73.”
Coming Soon To A Cell Phone Near You: The Young And The Condom-less
A New Jersey foundation has created a series of 12 short soap opera episodes, shot and edited for mobile phones, aimed at encouraging condom use among young women who wouldn’t pay attention to pamphlets.
St. Louis Symphony Bucks The Downward Trend
“Numbers – for both revenues and bodies in seats – are up at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, where the 2008 holiday concerts did very well indeed. Despite the fact that the SLSO offered three fewer performances in 2008 than it did in 2007, attendance was up 3%, while revenues increased by 12.5%.”
Yo-Yo Ma To Appear In Super Bowl Ad
“Hyundai Motor Co. will use music by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma in a Super Bowl XLIII television commercial that consumers can re-edit online, Billboard has learned.”
Retrying Shylock: Diana’s Lawyer On Finding Against Him
“Seven senior lawyers convened in New York last month to reconsider the case against Shylock, Shakespeare’s money lender in The Merchant of Venice. One of those lawyers, Anthony Julius – best known for representing Princess Diana in her divorce from Prince Charles – explains why he voted to let merchant Antonio keep the money after all.”
One Thing The Downturn Won’t Kill: The Art Fair
“[T]he fair phenomenon, which grew out of the need for dealers to compete with the ever-expanding range of the auction rooms, is now deeply entrenched as a concept for convenient one-stop shopping and has become a key source of income for dealers.” While “there may now be too many fairs, and some may fall by the wayside, those that adapt to the new economic reality can survive.”
Broadway’s ’08 Attendance Grew Slightly Over ’07
“Broadway grossed $940,871,190 during the 2008 calendar year — about on par with last year’s $938 million, although that tally was hobbled by the 19-day stagehands’ strike that in 2007 darkened the majority of Rialto shows during some of the Street’s most profitable frames. … Attendance hit 12.32 million, just above the 12.29 million logged in 2007.”