“Worse, the edited lede … still highlights her as ‘world’s best mom’ rather than focusing on her status as a female pioneer in science.”
Tag: 03.31.13
Fay Kanin, 95, Blacklisted Screenwriter And President Of The Academy
“‘I’m a big feminist,’ she declared at the time that her play Goodbye, My Fancy opened on Broadway in 1948. ‘I’ve put into my play my feeling that women should never back away from life.'”
One Of LA’s (Many) Intimate Chamber Music Venues
“For classical aficionados, of course, music is the main draw of any chamber series. The Clark’s specialty has been spotting young, up-and-coming musicians as well as lesser-known established talent, and developing long-term relationships that will lead to repeat engagements.”
Writer Snags Record Number Of Award Nominations (And Writes About It)
Seanan McGuire, Hugo nominee: “So here are my firsts for this year: First woman to appear on the ballot four times in fiction categories alone. First person to appear on the ballot five times in a single year. First person to appear on the ballot with a purely self-published work.”
Why The Heck Would Anyone Want To Be A Theatre Critic?
“Many of us … suffer truly bad theater in polite silence, simultaneously angry that we were subjected to it and ashamed that it got to us so.”
So Is This Guy An Opera, Or What?
“I want to be completely legitimate as a singer. I don’t want it to be ‘O.K., couldn’t quite cut it as an opera singer, so he had to do performance art.’ It always bothered me that Laurie Anderson said she wasn’t good enough to be a professional violinist.”
Steal This Movie – Please
“Simon Klose would like you to steal his movie. Stream it, download it, share it with someone in Croatia or Brazil and remix it with videos of kittens playing patty-cake, if that’s your kind of thing.”
What’s Up With All The Small, Impermanent, Cool Theatres?
“Audiences have become less impressed by the grandiose and are more at home with the intimate, informal and pop-up. There’s a new sort of energy you get at festivals and other events which theatre needs to tap into.”
Can Culture Move On From The 1960s?
“The boomers have turned out to be like cockroaches surviving all sorts of cultural catastrophes and even their own apparently allotted life span.”