“A ubiquitous stage, film and television actor best known for his role as Ellen DeGeneres’s sweet, befuddled father on the TV sitcom Ellen in the 1990s,” Gilborn also played Shakespearean leads at Washington’s Folger Theater and “appeared in scores of other television shows, including The Wonder Years, Law & Order, The West Wing and NYPD Blue.”
Tag: 01.12.09
Stephen Hough Surveys Dressing Rooms Of The World
Says the MacArthur-award-winning pianist of his new blog series, “Rooms I have dressed in”: “I do spend over a hundred hours a year in these surprisingly small, surprisingly stuffy, surprisingly unglamorous chambers, and I thought it might be interesting to have a series of candid photographs of them from across the globe.”
Triumphant Slumdog Millionaire Faces Hurdles In India
“The film won every award for which it was nominated at last night’s Golden Globes – best film, best director, best adapted screenplay and best original score. The clean sweep confirmed it as this year’s Oscar front-runner. But its biggest challenge might just be reaching Indian audiences. Slumdog is due to be released in India on Jan 23, but has yet to make it past the country’s notoriously prickly censors.”
Scottish Artists In An Uproar Over New Funding Body
“[Y]ou can tell things have reached a pretty sticky stage when no fewer than 440 artists band together to protest about what’s going on – or rather, what isn’t – at the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) and Scottish Screen, as they endure an amalgamation process designed to produce a new body called Creative Scotland. The artists’ beef is with the uncertainty, delay and cost of the transition – and with being kept in the dark about it.”
Poet Jen Hadfield Wins TS Eliot Prize
“A relative newcomer to poetry who has been widely praised for her passion and awareness of the natural world has tonight won one of the genre’s grandest awards – the TS Eliot prize for poetry. Shetland-based Jen Hadfield was given a cheque for £15,000 but she will doubtless be just as grateful for the sales and profile boost that winning the prize will bring about.”
A Writer In The White House: It’s Happened Before
“It’s been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves,” Jonathan Raban writes. So who — besides Lincoln — were the others? And what does Obama’s writing portend for his presidency?
Coosje Van Bruggen, Oldenburg’s Partner & Wife, Dies At 66
“Coosje van Bruggen — an art historian, writer and curator whose professional partnership with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg, turned ordinary objects into startling monuments around the world — died Saturday at her Los Angeles residence. She was 66 and was battling metastatic breast cancer.”
Press Nights At LA Theatres Just Got Even Less Crowded
“[L]ongtime Los Angeles theater and arts critic Jim Farber was let go today. Farber, whose wrote for the Daily Breeze for nearly 16 years, said the news came as a surprise to him since he reviewed and wrote nearly all features on classical music, opera and fine art, in addition to coverage of the stage.”
Gallery To Senator: Revision Coming Right Up, Sir
Are federal institutions — or museums, for that matter — supposed to move at lightning speed? Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Jan. 7 letter to the National Portrait Gallery, decrying the wording on the label accompanying the new portrait of President Bush, has already resulted in the promise of a revision.
The Golden Globes: So Cheesy, But So Close To The Stars!
“Complaining that the Golden Globes are bought and paid for is a bit like being upset that a billboard for a movie is bought and paid for. They’re both just ads. But next year around this time, you can bet you’ll be hearing tawdry tales of the Golden Globes all over again. Why?” Might it be the legitimate journalists’ jealousy of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association?