“Throughout its history, political theater at its best has attacked what everybody thinks, challenging people’s prejudices and posing questions that don’t have easy answers, if there are answers at all.” So where are the plays defending George Bush?
Tag: 03.24.08
Hollywood After The Writers’ Strike – It Ain’t Pretty
“There are significantly fewer TV pilots, budgets for series are being cut back, feature films are being put on hold in fear of a SAG walkout, and the shifts in the TV and film skeds have meant either accelerated workloads or prolonged unemployment.”
What Reading Means To Humans
“Reading changed history. More than that, it changes the brain. It creates new pathways in the brain, and, by doing this, makes us think in new ways. When you read, you see letters written on a page, then you recognise them as representations of sounds made by the human voice, then you join the sounds together to make words, then you fit the words together into sentences. This takes an amazing amount of ultra-fast processing. Brains that do this are different from brains that don’t.”
How Hitler Might Have Rebuilt Berlin
“What if Hitler and his helpers had been successful in their aggressive striving for world power? A new exhibition in Berlin attempts to answer this question in part by looking at the devastating architectural consequences Hitler’s success would have had for the German capital.”
The Ruination Of An Art Dealer
To dealer Larry Salander, “many contemporary art collectors are philistines. But if he could use his gallery to create a new market for old-master and Renaissance art, perhaps he could shift the paradigms of the international art trade. It was an intriguing idea, but it left him in ruin.”
Satellite Radio Merger Gets Approval
“Sirius Satellite Radio’s $4.59 billion purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio was given antitrust clearance on Monday as the Justice Department concluded consumers have many alternatives, including mobile phones and personal audio players.”
Was Hotel Rwanda Movie Story A Fraud?
A new book says that after several investigations they have concluded that the hit movie ‘Hotel Rwanda’ is fiction. “They say that the film’s main heroic figure, Mr Paul Rusesabagina is using the success of the movie for political and other manipulative interests.”
Digital Short Stories Get New Look
“Some of the UK’s best young novelists are working with computer games designers to create digital short stories, each inspired by a classic work of literature but featuring games, blogs and web tools.”
World’s Most Expensive Violin Played For First Time In 70 Years
“Lawyer Maxim Viktorov invited the cream of Moscow society to the private concert at Pashkov House to show off the Guarneri del Gesù violin he bought at Sotheby’s in February for a record-breaking $3.9m (nearly £2m).”
Development Changes The Equation Of Filming In Downtown LA
“For decades, filmmakers have depended on downtown’s rail yards, brownstones and beaux arts facades to depict urban anywhere. In the process, they have grown used to operating with few restrictions in the long-neglected urban core. In all, there are an average of 23 downtown location shoots each day.” But the filming is bumping up against growing development of downtown.