In Search of Lost Screenplay: When Pinter Adapted Proust

“If one were to create a stylistic spectrum of great writers in the twentieth century, Harold Pinter and Marcel Proust would likely wind up on opposite ends of it. … So, when choosing a writer to adapt In Search of Lost Time for the screen, one would not be inclined to think first of Pinter – and yet, that is what happened.”

MoMA Mulls Making Its Sculpture Garden Free to Public, And Not Everyone Is Thrilled

“The idea that you buy your giant pretzel and walk in off the street is, I’m sorry, just not the same,” says one visitor. Grouses an architect, “How is this different than just a shopping mall with sculptures? That’s where it’s headed.”

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Famous Japanese Composer Admits He Hired Another Composer To Write His Music

“A deaf composer known as Japan’s Beethoven has confessed to hiring someone to write his most famous works, to the embarrassment of broadcasters and the chagrin of a figure skater due to dance to his music at the Winter Olympics.”