“At their best, public apologies restore relationships or even improve them. At their worst, the perpetrator ends up needing to apologize for the botched attempt and the initial offense, said attorney and business ethics expert Lauren Bloom, author of the Art of the Apology. Even a lousy attempt, however, is better than nothing.”
Tag: 02.26.12
What’s Happening In Nollywood – And Will Nigeria Find Its Way In World Film?
“Twenty years after bursting from the grungy street markets of Lagos, the $500 million Nigerian movie business churns out more than a thousand titles a year on average, and trails only Hollywood and Bollywood in terms of revenues. The films are hastily shot and then burned onto video CDs, a cheap alternative to DVDs. They are seldom seen in the developed world, but all over Africa consumers snap up the latest releases from video peddlers for a dollar or two.”
Rammellzee, Re-evaluated: Hip-hop Musician, Science Fiction Hero, Artist?
“His artwork, though he did show it in galleries, at least in the early years, was artwork only secondarily, he said. Its real purpose was to illustrate a deconstructionist-type dual philosophy, called Gothic Futurism and Ikonoklast Panzerism, that imagined a world in which Roman letters would arm and liberate themselves, at his command, from the power structures of European language. He believed he had inherited his role as a kind of lexical commander in chief from medieval monks, whose literacy in a mostly illiterate world demonstrated the extraordinary power of words to shape reality.”
Who Won, And What Did They Say? Full NYT Oscars Coverage
Everything from fashion tweets to speeches to pictures to results, in one big dashboard. (And no, we’re not spoiling any winners if you haven’t seen the show yet.)
If You Read A Play At A Literary Event, Are You Betraying Theatre?
No. After all, “both poems and fiction (novels and short stories) have their origins as performances, as oral traditions.”
You Want Proof The U.S. Needs El Sistema? Just Look At The L.A. Phil’s Success
Yes, it’s replicable, and yes, we need it. “So pervasive is El Sistema in this society that if you were to ask the average Venezuelan whether he or she thought classical music is dying, you might be questioned about what planet you are on. So strong is the Sistema lockbox that this program is equally supported by rich and poor, the political left and right.”
Evita! Judy! Jesus! Thank Heaven For Musicals About Celebrities!
Ben Brantley: “You might even argue that in this age of instant celebrity – in which fame for its own sake is regarded as both a feasible career choice and a democratic right – the lives of the excessively famous are more relevant than those of struggling sample-kit schleppers like Willy Loman.”