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Tag: 01.24.13
Kevin Spacey Launches Endowment Campaign For London’s Old Vic
“I’m now planning to leave in 2015 and am determined to raise £20million by then as an endowment fund to make the theatre fit for the 21st century. We can then use the £20million to give us £1million-a-year income to help refurbish the theatre – like more ladies loos and more bar room.”
Britain Plans To Put All Its Oil Paintings – All Of Them – Online
“The project, a collaboration that began in 2003 between the Public Catalogue Foundation and the BBC, aims to record all oil paintings owned by the nation ‘irrespective of perceived quality and condition.’ That means everything from recognized masters in famous London galleries to the work of a councilman in a town in Somerset who painted his colleagues.”
Olivier’s Unproduced Macbeth Screenplay Found
“Laurence Olivier’s screenplays for a 1950s film version of Macbeth that was never made have been found at the British Library. … Prior to this, the manuscripts were thought to have been lost because Olivier recalled all of the distributed copies after the film was shelved during the final stages of production in 1958.”
German Court Rules That Internet Access Is ‘Essential’
“A German court ruled on Thursday that people have the right to claim compensation from service providers if their Internet access is disrupted, because the Internet is an ‘essential’ part of life.”
Actors Who Won’t – Or Can’t – Act As We Assume They Should
“Consider, for example, the close-attention-demanding ensemble that animated the Australian-born Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, in which most of the cast members had ‘intellectual disabilities.’ Or the Israeli troupe of blind-and-deaf performers in Not by Bread Alone. Or the actors who chose to act badly in Inflatable Frankenstein and Seagull (Thinking of you).”
The Never-Before-Told Story Of The World’s First Computer Art
“During a time when computing power was so scarce that it required a government-defense budget to finance it, a young man used a $238 million military computer, the largest such machine ever built, to render an image of a curvy woman on a glowing cathode ray tube screen.”
Benjamin Millepied On Leaving His LA Dance Project For Paris Opera Ballet
“In no way is it something I want to abandon. I think it is important to follow through with it,” says the new company’s founder, who expects to hand it over to another choreographer. Says a producer for LADP, “This was never meant to be ‘his’ company,”
Now You Can Read The Lost Original Ending Of The Shining
“Back on May 23, 1980, when The Shining was first released, audiences saw something slightly different from what viewers obsess over today. That’s because the next weekend Stanley Kubrick did an unusual thing: He re-cut the film, removing about two minutes from the ending, even though it was already in release.”
Revisiting Australia’s Cinematic New Wave
“[There was a period] when new waves were all the rage in film, from French to Czech to American. The Australian reawakening came at the end of that stretch, and for a cohort of American filmgoers who are now in their 40s and early 50s it was the first of those national flowerings that could be experienced in real time.”