“[Polina] Kadiyska, 22, died today from injuries she received after being run down Sunday by a drunk, teenage driver” on Broad Street in South Philadelphia.
Tag: 03.20.12
Abel Gance’s Napoleon, Restored To Its Full Length And Lustre
Since its 1927 premiere, the extraordinary, innovative silent film epic has survived mostly in heavily cut and simplified versions. Now historian Kevin Brownlow’s 5½-hour restoration is making its US debut, with a full orchestral score from 1980 that has never been heard here.
Director/Composer Heiner Goebbels Wins $430K Ibsen Award
“German composer and director Heiner Goebbels has won the 2.5 million kroner ($430,000) International Ibsen Award for his contribution to theatre. … He was hailed by the jury as ‘one of the great creative personalities of today’ and singled out for particular praise for his innovative use of music.”
Mike Daisey Attacks Journalists, Insists On ‘Truth’ Of His Monologue
“After four days of nonstop media coverage, Mike Daisey is still standing his ground and refusing to retreat. In fact, he is taking the counter-offensive, blasting the media for what he sees as their skewed obsession with him.”
Andy Warhol Gets A Make-Up Line
“Postmodern eye shadow, anyone? Tomato-soup blush? A new line of cosmetics is being launched that will bear the name of Andy Warhol. … The new collection of makeup will be developed by Nars Cosmetics, under license from the Andy Warhol Foundation.”
BBC Radio 4 To Air Series About Shakespeare’s Audience
“The [20-part] series, called Shakespeare’s Restless World, is being presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor and will use objects to discuss ‘how Elizabethan playgoers understood and made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing world in which they lived’.”
BBC Director General Mark Thompson To Leave Post
“Trust and approval are at record highs, our services are in brilliant creative form and we’ve demonstrated beyond contradiction that the BBC can be just as much of a leader and innovator in the digital age as we once were in the analogue one.”
Have We Learned All We Can From Ancient Cultures?
“Even if the language is dead, the classical world isn’t. New discoveries are being made all the time. Oxford’s papyrology department has 200,000 untranslated Greek papyri in its archives – so many that, last year, they asked the public to help translate them. Recently the department has unearthed new ancient curses, love potion recipes, and fragments of Plato, Herodotus and the Gospels.”
Cindy Sherman At MoMA – A “Wake” Rather Than A Coronation
“What pop culture giveth pop culture also taketh away. Having insinuated herself into the museums by dressing herself in a shopping mall’s worth of middlebrow iconography–she’s the whore, the housewife, the waif, the clown, the porn star, the prom queen, the wallflower, the romance-novel princess–Cindy Sherman has become a victim of the very clichés she embraced.”
A Study Hot Off The Presses: Singers’ Eyebrows Go Up When They Sing High Notes
“When singers sing high notes, their eyebrows go higher than when they sing low notes. While that may not be an absolute physiological rule, a team of Danish and American researchers discovered that it happens pretty consistently.”