“Hidden beneath brown paper backing, the newly discovered pieces are unfinished, but they have sent tremors through the world of Cézanne scholarship, where additions to his body of work are exceedingly rare and where even the resurfacing of long-unseen pieces can be huge news.”
Tag: 02.20.15
Right Actor, Wrong Movie, Or, Why Julianne Moore Will Win An Oscar For The Maudlin ‘Still Alice’
“In other words, you are not winning just for your performance. You are winning because a butterfly flapped its wings on Oscar night years earlier. And so now here we are, trapped in this uncomfortable loop.”
Read The New (Lost) Sherlock Holmes Story That Was Found In An Attic
“‘We’ve had enough of old romancists and the men of travel’, said the Editor, as he blue-pencilled his copy, and made arrangements for the great Saturday edition of the Bazaar Book. ‘We want something up-to-date. Why not have a word from “Sherlock Holmes”?'”
The New York Times Tells You How To Use Big Data To Win Your Oscars Predictions Pool
“If people are going by what they enjoyed, they’re likely to be unwittingly picking more underdogs than makes sense.”
Writing Is Nothing Like A Dream Job, But It *Is* Like A Horror Film
“It plays havoc on relationships – because most writers are extreme introverts, who, when in the middle of a work, barely notice the rest of the world exists. When you are successful, you can quickly become vain and narcissistic. When you are not, depressed and despairing.”
The Crackdown On Little Free Libraries
“Alas, a subset of Americans are determined to regulate every last aspect of community life. Due to selection bias, they are overrepresented among local politicians and bureaucrats. And so they have power, despite their small-mindedness, inflexibility, and lack of common sense so extreme that they’ve taken to cracking down on Little Free Libraries, of all things.”
Hollywood’s Got All Kinds Of Problems With Diversity
“Minorities are underrepresented compared to their numbers in the overall population by a factor of about 3-1 among lead roles in film and among film directors. That ratio is nearly 5-1 when it comes to screenwriters. On TV, minorities do best on cable, where they’re only underrepresented 2-1 among lead actors in dramas and comedies. Among show creators, the discrepancy is nearly 9-1 in broadcast, nearly 5-1 in cable. All this when ratings and box office tend to rise when casts match the nation’s racial and ethnic diversity.”
Theatre Artists Decamping From London’s Skyrocketing Expenses
“The days when all roads led to London for young artists are over, and there appears to be an exodus of artists looking south to Bristol and Cardiff and north to Manchester, Leeds and further afield to Glasgow, places which all have a creative buzz around them. Why barely survive in London when you can live far better elsewhere, find opportunities, and put down roots?”
The Writer Of ‘Selma’ Tells His Side Of The Controversy Over The Script
“Ava DuVernay became attached as director. She has been blunt in the States in saying she rewrote much of the screenplay. How do you react to that?
“Those claims are highly exaggerated. … She has told the story very well though it’s not quite the story she was given.”
London Will Get A New Concert Hall, If Sir Simon Rattle Has Anything To Say About It (And He Does)
London’s mayor: “We have heard the clarion call from Sir Simon Rattle and many others who wish to see a brand-new and world-class centre for music in London.”