For instance: “I was horrible in that film [Dance With A Stranger], drunk on my own success. I was horrible to Miranda Richardson. But she was very irritating.” Yet, observes Alex Witchel, “Everett has had people staring at him for so much of his life that he seems quite unaffected by it. I couldn’t help thinking that any other man who got these kinds of looks from both men and women would be a complete monster.”
Tag: 02.22.09
Broadway’s IQ Is Rising, But (Fear Not) It’s All About Money
“The names on Broadway marquees this season read like homework for a seminar in high-flown dramaturgy. … Do producers think theatergoers have been given brain transplants? Not really. Broadway is just as cynical as it always was. In part, this wave of intellectualism is a reflection of the fact that tourist business is down.” It’s theatre for New Yorkers — and it comes without the expense of paying an orchestra or a living playwright.
New Greek Law Worries Archaeologists About Sunken Teasures
“Archaeologists believe hundreds of wrecks beneath the eastern Mediterranean may contain treasures, but a new law opening Greece’s coastline to scuba diving has experts worried that priceless artifacts could disappear into the hands of treasure hunters.”
California Finally Offers Tax Credits To Movie Industry
“Previous attempts by [Governor Arnold] Schwarzenegger to secure such credits have been torpedoed by lawmakers who viewed them as a handout to Hollywood. But those arguments weakened amid mounting evidence that other states were poaching jobs from Southern California.”
Theatre Leaders Talk About The Death Of Print Critics
“Newspapers are fading away, and the critics don’t know where they are headed next. There really can’t even be a conversation about criticism right now, period, until there are no more newspapers. The truth is that print media is going away, and in almost every city, word of mouth now really rules the day.”
How The NEA’s Stimulus Money Will Be Allocated
What is known so far is that 40 percent of the stimulus money for the arts will go to state arts agencies and the country’s six regional arts agencies, including the Western States Arts Federation. They will then redistribute those allocations via their existing funding channels.
How Our Ideas Of Heritage And Conservation Are Changing
“As our experience of landscape changes, so do our ideas about what constitutes heritage. While curators and managers once focused on the protection of specific sites and buildings, they now also seek a broader, more holistic understanding of the historic environment. This shift in emphasis is partly due to our increasingly mobile society, which has created a heightened sense of ‘localness’, and a growing appreciation of personal views of what matters and why.”
Report: Reality TV Is More Diverse Than Scripted Shows
Despite pressure on the networks to diversify, the lead characters in all but a handful of prime-time scripted shows this season are white — and usually young and affluent. In contrast, reality programs consistently feature a broader range of people when it comes to race, age, class and sexual orientation.
Hollywood Box Office Up (But Big Threats Loom)
“In the last two weeks, as media companies have unveiled their quarterly earnings, in many cases showing dismal losses, studio chiefs and Wall Street analysts have been debating whether consumers, having been forced by the recession to break themselves of the DVD-purchase habit, will resume buying discs after the wider economy recovers. And there are other storms on the horizon.”
The Reading Revolution
We in the UK are on the verge of extraordinary changes in the way we read, think about narrative and define the book itself.