Ennio Morricone “never sloughed off any assignment. Even B action pictures like ‘Guns for San Sebastian’ and ‘The Five Man Army,’ both from the late ’60s, sport glorious themes befitting far better movies. His thrillers veer into the avant-garde. Even infamous bombs, such as ‘Exorcist II: The Heretic’ and ‘Mission to Mars,’ were inevitably buoyed by Morricone music.”
Tag: 02.22.16
Psychopathic, Narcissistic Machiavellians – What Makes Con Artists Tick
“So wherein lies the truth: Is the con artist psychopath, narcissist, Machiavellian? A little bit of all? It is possible, it turns out, to possess all the tenets of the dark triad, and then some, and still not turn to con artistry.”
Kanye West, Donald Trump, And Martin Luther King (There’s More In Common Than You’d Think)
“Despite a career-long alignment to both Jesus and God, neither is actually what Kanye truly seems to be aiming for. Nor is the perfect Martin Luther King of legend. … [And] if you peel back a layer, Trump and Kanye actually share a lot, at least as public characters, starting with many rhetorical gestures, a truly messianic sense of purpose, and an amazing conviction that one’s ego is itself a kind of messianic purpose.”
‘Theatre Has Been The Last Bastion Of Segregation,’ Says Playwright Lynn Nottage
“You see plays by African American playwrights, by-and-large, have majority Asian or African American cast and are produced either on smaller stages or produced in theatres that are specifically geared towards work by people of colour.”
Why Should ‘American Psycho’ Be A Musical? Let The Composer And Director Tell You
Rupert Goold: “You’re in a public environment with [Patrick Bateman] when youire in a theater, you’re all in one room with his very sexually present energy. It’s like Phillip Glass or Depeche Mode in that it moves heavily and intensely, with a chill, but the emotional payload at the end is incredibly powerful, because we haven’t been belting our hearts out at each other throughout the whole thing.”
Iranian Media Have Pooled Funds To Increase The Bounty On Salman Rushdie’s Head
“Forty state-run media outlets in Iran have pooled together to raise $600,000 to add to the fatwa on writer Salman Rushdie, 27 years after Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, called for Rushdie’s assassination following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses.”
Using Dance To Teach Math (It Works)
Teachers call such melding of art and traditional subjects “art integration,” and it’s a new and increasingly popular way of bringing the arts into the classroom. Instead of art as a stand-alone subject, teachers are using dance, drama and the visual arts to teach a variety of academic subjects in a more engaging way.
The Numbers Are In: Hollywood (Lack Of) Diversity Detailed
“The top-line takeaways from USC’s Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity in Entertainment, released today, paint a bleak picture of inclusivity in Hollywood, at a time when movements including #OscarsSoWhite and a campaign to reduce the gender gap seem to be constantly making headlines. The statistics also undercut the critics or viewers who claim that “political correctness” rules TV casting decisions.”
Why The Met Museum’s New Breuer Museum Could Change Art In New York
“Per the institution’s own recent messaging, the Met’s commitment to an historically and geographically expanded view of modern and contemporary art means the museum can contemplate doing the one thing New York museums have ignored for decades—namely, reconsider today’s market-driven contemporary canon.”
We’re Addicted To TV. Can The Arts Compete?
“Given the tendency to be distrustful of television, we were curious: are people going to be worse off on average watching TV instead of engaging in other, potentially more enriching, activities? Is there an opportunity here to improve wellbeing through the arts?”