“The on-again, off-again movie adaptation of Gypsy, with Barbra Streisand in the lead, is officially on again. Universal announced Tuesday that the movie project is moving forward with Downton Abbey creator and writer Julian Fellowes coming on board to pen the screenplay.”
Tag: 03.14.12
LA’s Hammer Museum Announces New $100K Artist Prize, With Winner Picked By Viewers
“The Hammer Museum announced on Wednesday a new $100,000 award” – called the Mohn Prize – “to a Los Angeles artist participating in its first biennial, “Made in L.A.” And, in a popular voting process familiar from reality TV, the winner will be chosen by people who see the exhibition, after a jury of art experts narrows the choice to five finalists.”
Dante’s Divine Comedy Is ‘Offensive And Discriminatory,’ Says Italian NGO
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here: Dante’s medieval classic the Divine Comedy has been condemned as racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic by a group” – Gherush92 – “calling for it to be removed from classrooms.”
How Shakespeare Sounded In The Original (Now Online)
“The eminent Shakespearean scholar John Barton has suggested that Shakespeare’s accent would have sounded to modern ears like a cross between a contemporary Irish, Yorkshire and West Country accent. Others say that the speech of Elizabethans was much quicker than it is in modern day Shakespeare productions. Well, now you can judge for yourself.”
Disney Makes Big Theatre Play For Its Cruise Ships
“Disney’s deep pockets, in an era when Broadway producers struggle to raise money, has turned cruise theater into a plum opportunity for those who aren’t soured by strictures like blending venerable Disney characters and songs into new shows.”
How Unfriendly! (Why We’re Unfriending People)
“Unfriending has become so rampant that the word was 2009’s word of the year in the Oxford Dictionary. Emotions run high around unfriending, too — especially now that there are apps that notify users when they’ve been dropped from someone else’s Facebook list. There have even been cases of people reacting violently in real life to a cyber unfriending.”
Antiquities Collector Exonerate By Israel Judge In James Ossuary Case
“A Roman-era burial box inscribed ‘James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus’ was reprieved from the scrapheap of history on Wednesday when a Jerusalem judge completely exonerated an Israeli antiquities collector who had been accused of forging it.”