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Tag: 02.20.13
Ken Burns Wins Battle With New York City Over Central Park Five Footage
“Yesterday, a District Court judge in New York City blocked the city’s quest to subpoena unused footage that the filmmakers … gathered during production. The footage would have been used by the city lawyers in lengthy federal suit brought by the wrongfully convicted defendants.”
Mike Daisey Says His Steve Jobs Fiasco May Have Done Some Good
“I shared the concern that everything I’d done would actually cause more damage than good, but I spent a lot of obsessive time tracking all of it, and it’s clear at this point that that’s simply not the case at all,’ Daisey says, citing reports that pressure from Apple, and agitation by Chinese workers, has improved their lot.”
James Conlon Signs For Five More Years At LA Opera
“The 62-year-old conductor has renewed his contract with the Los Angeles Opera for five more years, and will remain music director at least through the end of the 2017-18 season.”
Eric Ericson, 94, Giant Of Choral Conducting
As director of the Swedish Radio Choir and Stockholm Chamber Choir (which was later named after him), as the author of a major textbook on choral conducting, and through countless workshops and guest-conducting dates, Ericson became known worldwide (and revered among choir geeks) as the standard-bearer for the Nordic style of choral singing.
Missing Banksy Mural Turns Up For Sale In Miami
“North Londoners are furious over a missing Banksy mural that was torn off a building in the Wood Green neighborhood of the city and has since resurfaced online at Fine Art Auctions Miami.”
Shia LeBoeuf Walks Away From Broadway Debut
“Shia LaBeouf won’t be making his Broadway debut this season after all. The 26-year-old actor has quit the upcoming revival production of the play Orphans in New York over ‘creative differences’.”
In Blasphemy Trial Of Turkish Pianist, Prosecutor Brings Up Autism
Fazil Say “has been charged with religious defamation under Article 216/3 of the Turkish Penal Code in response to a series of messages he posted and re-tweeted” to declare his own atheism. This week the prosecutor requested a professional assessment of whether Say is autistic, offering to end the case if the diagnosis was positive (“because I am not without a conscience”). The judge denied the motion.
Artistic Director Leaves New Jersey State Opera (None Too Happily)
“Jason Tramm has resigned from the struggling company he has led since 2008, saying the board’s vision is no longer in sync with his own” – and submitted a bill for $80,000 of unpaid sevrices. Says the board president, “The performances weren’t up to par, he wasn’t following protocol … If he feels he has to go on to bigger and better things, God bless him.”
Watch A Brutally Frank Oscar Voter Fill Out His Ballot
A film director and longtime Academy member lets a journalist look on as he fills out – complete with candid commentary on every category – his ballot for this Sunday’s Academy Awards. (Unsurprisingly, we don’t know the guy’s name, though commenters have some ideas.)