“The suit says that the paper lured the film’s producer into last year’s awards race with the offer of an expensive promotional package, then savaged the film in a review.”
Tag: 03.10.10
How To Get Filmmakers To Work In LA? Throw A Film Fest
The makers of a short film, “a cross between ‘Goodfellas’ and the ‘Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,'” hope to use it to “build support for stronger incentives to keep filmmaking centered in Southern California.” They also hope it “will be featured in a festival they’re planning that would showcase short films that are shot in California.”
There Are 8 Million Sketches In The Naked City
Or there will be, if a 27-year-old artist completes his self-appointed “mission to sketch every person in New York City, all 8,363,710.” He “had only just dropped anchor in a studio apartment the size of a city bus when he began the dogged pursuit of his expansive goal with nothing more than a black pen and a notebook the size of a DVD box.”
Moviegoer Who Complained About Cell User Is Stabbed
“The theater was packed for a 9 p.m. Saturday screening of the Martin Scorsese film when the moviegoer complained about a woman near him using a cellphone. The woman and two men with her left the theater. But sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said two men returned a few minutes later and stabbed the victim.” With a meat thermometer.
How Did Caravaggio Die? First Task: Find His Corpse
“For many months, [Italian TV host Silvano] Vinceti and a team of scientists have been exhuming remains they believe are Caravaggio’s in hopes of performing a belated autopsy. After digging up dozens of bodies, Mr. Vinceti has narrowed the field to a handful of long-buried corpses.”
Record Number Of Dealers Flocking To $2.7 Billion Tefaf
“The 23rd annual edition of the European Fine Art Fair — Tefaf — in the Dutch city of Maastricht will be the year’s first test of demand from buyers outside the auction rooms, where wealthy collectors have been pushing up prices.”
No More Raunchy Bathrooms, Public Theater Says
Monday’s “symbolic ground-breaking at the downtown theater complex that produced ‘Hair’ and ‘A Chorus Line’ launched a $35 million, two-year project to expand and modernize the building’s facade and cramped common areas.”
For City Opera, 2010-11 To Be Another Slender Season
But general manager and artistic director George Steel “said that this season City Opera expects to balance its budget for the first time in years. ‘The company is light-years ahead of where we were last year at this time,’ he said. ‘There are still significant challenges, but we are working very hard to address them.'”
Has Caravaggio Dethroned Michelangelo?
“Caravaggiomania … suggests that the whole classical tradition in which Michelangelo was steeped is becoming ever more foreign and therefore seemingly less germane, even to many educated people.” Meanwhile, Caravaggio “exemplifies the modern antihero, a hyperrealist whose art is instantly accessible.”
Nightingale: Years Have Not Been Kind To The Phantom
“[T]his Phantom is not the phantom we knew. The ‘poisoned gargoyle who burns in hell’ has clearly taken an anger management course in New York. … Would he whimsically hang the backstage crew or send a chandelier crashing into a crowd? Not any more.”