Joseph Borg, head of the Alabama Securities Commission: “We made a determination that Ms. Lee, based on our interview with her, was aware that her book was going to be published. She wanted it to be published. She made it quite clear she did.”
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Rupert Goold Says The American Model Of Creating New Musicals Is Better Than The British One
The English director, “whose production of Made in Dagenham is currently running in the West End, said that, unlike the US, the UK’s musical theatre scene is ‘led by a producing model that is dictated by the size of our theatres’ and added that musicals should originate from writers and composers who have stories they need to tell.”
Here’s What’s Getting Audra McDonald Back On Broadway (Since “‘Night, Mother” Didn’t Work Out)
She’ll be starring in a new musical, directed by George C. Wolfe and choreographed by Savion Glover, about the making of the 1921 all-black musical that launched Josephine Baker’s career.
How A Movie About Kremlin Corruption Became A No. 1 Hit in Russia
“It says something about Russia’s messy, fitful return to dictatorship that, in the week after the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the best performing movie in the country, beating out Focus and Cinderella this past weekend, was a thriller whose villain works deep within the Russian government.”
The Problem With The Enlightenment(s)
“The greatness of the Enlightenment lies less in its ideals, than in our efforts to realize them. The tragedy of the Enlightenment lies there too. … It was a set of abstract philosophical ideals, but it was also a lived historical experience, full of ordinary disappointments and irregularities” – it was, like a centaur, an impossible combination. “We know what a centaur should look like, but we never see one in real life.”
Why Lawyers Object To Making Legal Briefs Briefer
The federal judiciary plan “would pare back the word-count limit from 14,000 to a svelte 12,500. The idea has gotten a thumbs-down verdict from some lawyers … but it won cheers from dozens of bleary-eyed appellate judges.” (Mind you, for the attorneys, it’s not just about billable hours.)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.12.15
Arts organizations and the quest for data
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-03-12
Buyer of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi Identified
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-03-12
Hard Times at Haverford: Recent Travails of Daniel Weiss, Metropolitan Museum’s Incoming President
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-03-12
Charlie Parker, 8/29/20 – 3/12/55
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-03-12
Jazz, by the numbers
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-03-12
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Author Terry Pratchett, 66
He was the UK’s bestselling author of the 1990s and sold more than 85m books worldwide.
Record Global Movie Box Office In 2014 Fueled By Huge Surge In China
“Global box-office revenue climbed to $36.4 billion, according to an annual report Wednesday from the Motion Picture Assn. of America. And much of the growth came from one country: China. The world’s most populous nation saw its box-office revenue jump 34% to a staggering $4.8 billion last year, making it the first foreign market to cross the $4-billion threshold.”
Here’s How Big Los Angeles’ Creative Economy Is
“The report compiled figures on jobs and pay from 2013 for a dozen creative industries that include not just arts and entertainment but also advertising, publishing and three manufacturing and product sales fields: fashion, furniture and toys. Thus defined, the report said, creative sector payrolls accounted for 406,900 jobs in L.A. and Orange counties in 2013 — 12.5% of the region’s economy as a whole.”