“Lucy, one of the puppet stars of the risque Broadway show ‘Avenue Q,’ won’t get [to show her cleavage] in the conservative bastion of Colorado Springs, Colo., where her ample — if also pink and fuzzy — endowment has proved too much for a billboard company.” Lucy’s puppet breasts have been — yes — banned from bus-stop ads.
Tag: 02.24.10
Lawyer: File-Sharing Damages Should Be $21, Not $675K
Imploring “a federal judge yesterday to slash the jury award or order a new trial … Harvard law professor Charles Nesson said the 1999 federal law applied by the jury to calculate damages caused by his client, Joel Tenenbaum, had ‘produced absurd results’ and a grossly excessive award that violated Tenenbaum’s constitutional rights.”
LA Gets Serious About Keeping Filmmakers At Home
Los Angeles “has been low key — some would say complacent — when it comes to singing the praises of filming close to home,” but an upcoming campaign will herald the economic benefits to the city. In addition to billboards and PSAs, “[e]xpect to see production trucks plastered with banners trumpeting how many jobs were created on a given show.”
With Twitter And Fan Sites, Spoilers Are Tough To Avoid
“On the one hand, a twist ending can turn a movie into a conversation piece since it is, quite literally, the last thing we see before we leave the theater. … But there’s undoubtedly a risk for a movie that relies on a surprise ending should that ending become known. And, increasingly, that’s a danger.”
DC Museum Aims To Alter Area With Public Sculpture
The National Museum of Women in the Arts hopes its New York Avenue Sculpture Project “will bring some much-needed zing to its sector of downtown and spark interest in the 23-year-old museum. … All the artists will be women, and the work will change every year or two.”
Alexie, Kingsolver Among PEN/Faulkner Fiction Finalists
“[Sherman] Alexie’s short-story collection ‘War Dances’ and [Barbara] Kingsolver’s historical novel ‘The Lacuna’ are in contention for the $15,000 prize along with [Lorraine M.] López’s ‘Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories,’ [Lorrie] Moore’s ‘A Gate at the Stairs’ and [Colson] Whitehead’s ‘Sag Harbor.'”
An Embassy Design As Embodiment Of US Psychic Turmoil
The proposed new American embassy in London “has all the glamour of a corporate office block.” And yet the project is “an eye-opening expression of the irresolvable tensions involved in trying to design an emblem of American values when you know it may become the next terrorist target.”