“Once again, Academy voters failed to select a diverse group of honorees, something that is bound to raise objections. Other than Alejandro G. Inarritu, none of the other acting or directing nominations were for people of color despite strong work by the likes of Idris Elba in “Beasts of No Nation” and the “Creed” team of Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan.”
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Opera Philadelphia Lands $2.5M Grant For Its New ‘O’ Festival
“The grant, from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, based in Miami, is one of the largest ever to the company, which plans to launch the first iteration of the festival in 2017.”
When Baryshnikov Met Brodsky
From the time Baryshnikov arrived in the U.S., he found in the Nobel-winning poet and essayist “a kind of older brother, and he needed one. Though a number of people were very kind to him, he did not, at this early point, have close friends in the United States, and he was slow in making them, because he had no time to study English. With Brodsky he could speak in Russian, and they had a city, a government – in some measure, a history – in common.”