” Both the Chinese auction houses attributed the reversal of this upward sales trend to the weaker economic environment in the country in 2012.”
Tag: 02.02.13
Your Acting Career Is More Important Than Plastic Surgery (Says Kathy Baker)
“It’s the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you’re younger and you suddenly realize, oh, now I’m playing the mom, oh, I’m playing the grandma. Some parts are smaller.”
No, This Ballet Doesn’t Feature A Singing Crab
John Neumeier’s 2005 Little Mermaid “features a mermaid who gets her tail violently torn off by an evil Sea Witch. Consequently, she spends some of her time onstage in a wheelchair, doesn’t get to live happily ever after with her prince and… often looks deliberately uncoordinated and tortured.”
Crowdfunding Civic Life In The UK
The government of the United Kingdom may have (partly) abandoned public life, but Britons use DIY funding to cover some cutbacks. “Successful projects have ranged from the creation of a tiny art space in a red telephone box in Edinburgh to a community center in a deprived ex-mining village in southern Wales.”
If The Play’s Not Difficult, This Director Won’t Take It On
“Why bother putting everything into it if you are not producing something that is really worth doing? Something that pushes you and pushes everyone else involved? If it is just another run-of-the-mill show, then what is the point?”
Why Are We (And Quentin Tarantino) Addicted To B-Movies?
“A lot of people were spooked when they went to the studio system and discovered how many people were looking over your shoulder. It’s kind of a rude awakening.”
Andre Cassagnes, Inventor of Etch A Sketch, 86
“Then an electrical technician, Cassagnes came upon the Etch A Sketch idea in the late 1950s when he peeled a translucent decal from a light switch plate and found pencil mark images transferred to the opposite face.”
Can Critics Review Pieces Whose Performers Have Certain Disabilities?
“Historically, there is no nice precedent for this work: Once, the circus freak show was the only home for the handicapped performer. When the talkies started, dwarfs, in particular, were occasionally called on to play clowns or villains but today the film industry actually has an increasingly realistic approach to presenting the handicapped.”
The BAFTAs Are Barely British This Year
“There are some signs of home voting, if fewer than previous years. BAFTA’s minor deviations from the Oscar consensus almost all favor either British talent or work in British movies. “
Philly Stagehands Agree To Contract
“When PTC producing artistic director Sara Garonzik became directly involved in talks, ‘that turned the whole thing around.'”