There’s a long history of movie magic, thought it’s gotten easier in recent years with green screens. But “ever since Pretorius put ballerinas and kings behind glass in Bride of Frankenstein in 1935, filmmakers have used many different methods to make people appear small onscreen.”
Tag: 01.05.18
Harvey Weinstein Sued For Spying On Actress Who Says He Raped Her
This is complex, but stick with the story of one lawyer suing another lawyer, and Weinstein, in order to kick a D.A.’s investigation back into full gear: “Filler told Variety that he brought the suit in part to determine why the Manhattan D.A.’s probe of de la Huerta’s rape allegations appears to have stalled. ‘Our purpose is to investigate what caused the N.Y. D.A. criminal investigation and criminal prosecution to stall, and to call TWC/HW to account if they used extra-legal means as we believe they did,’ Filler said.”
A Burnt 1600-Year-Old Text Gets An X-Ray, And New Life
The codex was written between 400 and 600 AD, in southern Egypt. “The charred codex was purchased by the Morgan Library in 1962. But no one has opened it for fear of destroying it: The brittle pages have been fused together by a cinder that sank through much of the book, congealing the parchment fibers. Unlike famous codices that have their own names, like the Codex Sinaiticus, this one is known humbly as M.910.”
Bringing Anna Deavere Smith’s Eerily Contemporary Play About Rodney King To Britain, More Than 20 Years Later
The play’s director says: ““It’s shocking how cyclical it all is. … The same problems that existed 25 years ago still exist. And that is down to a lack of platform for a diverse range of voices. Not having that platform means we can’t have the right discussions.”
Betty Woodman, Who Turned Pottery Into A Multimedia Art Practice, Has Died At 87
Woodman bucked trends in high school and beyond. She was the first women artist to be alive when she got a retrospective at the Met in 2006. Art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote at the time, “At the age of 76, she is beyond original, all the way to sui generis.”
Could ‘Moby Dick’ Help Get Humans To Mars?
OK, sure, why not? “The parallels between the whaling industry and deep human spaceflight are striking. Voyages to the South Seas usually lasted between two and four years, mirroring almost exactly the timeframes associated with a roundtrip journey to Mars. Whalers worked in confined conditions aboard their floating factories, often going months at a time without setting foot on land, prefiguring the cramped space capsules being considered for Mars missions.”
A Woman Who Saved A London Bookstore And Earned A Double First At Cambridge (And Was A Supermodel) Earns The Ire Of A Man ‘Protecting’ Emily Brönte’s Name
So this went over well (read the link for the lengthy backlash): “‘What would Emily Brontë think if she found that the role of chief ‘artist’ and organizer in her celebratory year was a supermodel?’ the biographer, Nick Holland, asked. Mr. Holland said Ms. Cole’s appointment smacked of a desire to be ‘trendy.’ He was quitting the society, he added sarcastically, before it had the chance to announce the comedian James Corden and the singer Rita Ora as future partners.”
The *9 Effect – Why Our Accomplishments Grow When Our Age Has A 9 At The End Of It
To a biologist or physician, the physiological differences between, say, 39-year-old Fred and 44-old Fred aren’t vast—probably not much different than those between Fred at 38 and Fred at 39. Nor do our circumstances diverge wildly in years that end in nine compared with those that end in zero. Our life narratives often progress from segment to segment, akin to the chapters of a book. But the actual story doesn’t abide by round numbers any more than novels do. After all, you wouldn’t assess a book by its page numbers: “The 160s were super exciting, but the 170s were a little dull.” Yet, when people near the end of the arbitrary marker of a decade, something awakens in their minds that alters their behavior.
Has Television Taken Over The Basic Strengths Of The Novel?
“Great television is taking over the space occupied by many novels, and taking with them many excellent writers. And by and large, it’s delivering the same rewards to its audience. But what about novels that exploit the opportunities that are available only to the form of the novel, such as novels that explore interiority, or rely on the novel’s versatile treatment of time and causation? Who will speak for such novels?”
Classical Music’s “Crossover” Problem
“As classical music searches for a wider audience, classical crossover poses an increasing conundrum — not least because it’s attracting exactly the audience that “straight” classical claims to be seeking. The mass audience is generally put off by classical music, which seems, to many outsiders, to present a facade of unwelcoming elitism. The crossover genre, however, offers the same kinds of mellow tonal sounds and rich buttery voices — music to relax to, if you will — without classical music’s perceived strictures or judgments.”