“Three hundred performers said in a letter to Putin they believed Bolshoi star Pavel Dmitrichenko had only confessed to plotting the Jan. 17 attack that almost blinded Sergei Filin because of police pressure.”
Tag: 03.12.13
Sergei Filin Says Accused Acid Attacker Repeatedly Threatened Him
Yet the injured Bolshoi Ballet artistic director echoed his boss, general director Anatoly Iksanov, in suggesting that the attack had another mastermind: “It appears that someone had worked really well on that and pushed him into doing it, since every time, every moment, my every meeting with Pavel Dmitrichenko meant another threat, another show of dislike.”
Australian Government Proposes Controversial Media Reforms
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy [unveiled] Labor’s long-awaited media reform package, which includes a public interest test for media mergers and a toughened self-regulation system for print and online news media. … It would be backed by a public interest media advocate, which would rule on proposed media mergers and oversee the operation of the Australian Press Council in enforcing media standards.”
Jefferson Mays’s Latest Multiple-Personality Act
“While Jefferson Mays was performing in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder in the fall of 2012 at Hartford Stage, he recalls, his wife kept overhearing variations on the same remark at intermission: ‘Isn’t it wonderful how they got actors who all look the same to play the different members of the D’Ysquith family?'”
Why Hollywood Is Paying Attention To China
“When excerpts of the script leaked out in 2010, they prompted the headline “US reshoots cold war movie to demonise China” in the Beijing-based, 1.5m-circulation Global Times. Buyers told MGM that distributing Red Dawn in China would prove problematic. So the studio decided on a change of tack.”
British Museum Tops UK Attractions (Again)
“Despite bad weather and the Olympics, there was an overall 5.1% increase in visitors at all UK attractions, from 87.7 million in 2011 to 92.1 million.”
The End Of The Car?
“New automobile registrations have plateaued in the U.S, even as the population has continued to grow. Rising gas prices have made some housing patterns predicated on the car unsustainable. Twentysomethings are now less likely to own cars and say they’re less enamored of them.”
What Our Dictionaries Say About Us
“Look-ups during a major news event suggest cultural narratives.”
‘Negro’ Is Dead, Long Live ‘Negro’
Sandy Banks: “The Census Bureau announced last month that the word ‘Negro’ is being dropped from its lexicon. … Erasing the word might seem to census officials politically correct in this racially sensitive time. But it feels like they’re trying to scrub a chapter from a story that is uniquely American, and undeniably mine.”