“Directors have started to manipulate actors’ performances in postproduction. Modern visual effects technology allows them to go beyond traditional cosmetic changes, such as removing wrinkles and unsightly hairs, and adjust actors facial expressions and subtly alter the mood of a scene.”
Tag: 02.19.07
On Shakey Ground
“The Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, which is changing its name June 1 to the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, informs us that we’re supposed to use the nickname Orlando Shakes,” writes criic Elizabeth Maupin. What’s with choosing your own nickname? “Yikes. And I’d like you to call me Queen Elizabeth. Please.”
Orlando Shakespeare Fest Becomes A Theatre
The Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival is changing its name to the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. “The festival’s move follows the lead of other prominent theater companies that specialize in Shakespeare, several of which have taken on new names as a better indication of what they really do.”
British Theatre Critic Sheridan Morley, 65
“Sheridan Morley, the prominent British critic, biographer and broadcaster who devoted his career to chronicling and, often, celebrating plays and players, died on Friday at his home in London.”
Record Sale For Steinbeck
“A rare edition of John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath has sold for $47,800 (£24,380), doubling the estimated price and setting what is believed to be a world record for a book by the Nobel Prize-winning author.”
Ailing EMI Might Sell Music Division
The company is tgrying to avoid a takeover. “Shares in EMI, home to acts such as Norah Jones, Robbie Williams and Coldplay, plunged last week after the company admitted that sales in the US had been disappointing. Retailers have also been returning more unwanted CDs than the company had expected.”
Remembering Celia Franca
She created Canadian dance, by creating the National Ballet of Canada. “She was complicated, and she had this vision of excellence that she willed us to become and we did. We rose to this demanding, visionary force. Her gift to us was her life and it shaped and transformed generations of us, and it goes beyond dance.”
Celia Franca, 85
She was founder of Canada’s National Ballet. “Franca came to Canada in 1951 and had a classical ballet company running within 10 months, though she had to support herself by working as a file clerk at Eaton’s. She recruited and trained dancers for the first performance of the National Ballet of Canada on Nov. 12, 1951, at Toronto’s Eaton Auditorium.”
Chinese Film Tops Berlin Film Festival
Tuya’s Marriage, a Chinese film about a woman and her life in the steppes of Inner Mongolia, has won the Berlin Film festival’s top honour, the Golden Bear.
The Dreadful Ground Zero Tower (Again)
“If built, the lamentable Freedom Tower would be a constant reminder of our loss of ambition, and our inability to produce an architecture that shows a genuine faith in America’s collective future rather than a nostalgia for a nonexistent past.”