Tag: 03.31.17

What Actors On Broadway Earn

“If you are a performer who is also a dance captain, your minimum salary increases by $300. If you are an assistant dance captain, it increases $150. For each principal role that you are understudying, your minimum increases $33. For every performance in which you, as an understudy, actually end up playing that principal role, you get an extra 1/8 of your weekly salary. Tony nominated lead actors normally see a $500 per week pay bump while winners can see that number climb to $1000 per week.”

Miami Herald Repurposes City’s Best Movie Critic As A Real Estate Reporter

In his memo announcing the move, first published by Bill Cooke’s Random Pixels, Herald managing editor Rick Hirsch wrote, “Rene’s assignment obviously means that he will no longer be working as a film critic. That decision is one of several coverage shifts we’ve made to reflect what our audience is telling us about the news they value most.”

Why Netflix Is Getting Rid Of Ratings

“People rated aspirationally, but they watched situationally. Yes, you did give That Important Documentary five stars when you got around to watching it, but at the end of a trying day at the office, you more often settled on viewing some pleasing pap like “The Ridiculous 6.” This sort of virtue signaling, often undercut by divergent behavior, is everywhere — witness the discrepancies that sometimes occur between polling and actual voting in elections.”

Creator Of “Smash” Writes About Getting Fired From The Show

“Let me tell you something. When Steven Spielberg calls your agent to say he is infatuated with your writing, that is a good day. The saga of what came next is so long and complicated it would take a book to write it all out. Sometimes I think of writing that book and sometimes I think that writing that book and reliving the whole thing would be somewhat akin to shooting myself in the head.”

A Move To Kill The US Antiquities Act, Which Protects Historic Places

“Representative Rob Bishop, a Republican from Utah and chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, are ramping up a campaign to strip away the president’s authority under the Antiquities Act to designate monuments. Mr. Bishop complains that it allows the federal government to “invade” and “seize” lands. But that’s not true. The act authorizes the president to protect only lands already “owned or controlled by the government of the United States,” not state or private land.”

When Reshelving Books Turns Into Philosophical Ruminations On The Nature Of The World (And It Always Does)

This is the problem: “Every organizational schema is a doomed attempt to blanket chaos with order, and only more so the grander its ambitions. It may be possible to draw a sensible line delineating science from nature, art from design, autobiography from memoir, or war history from American history from Native American history, but to do so is to suggest that any one exists independently from the other. The clear lines bleed and become wobbly.”

Freedom Of Speech Is So Complex That We Need To Break It Up Into Different Parts And Laws

The theory: “Put free ‘speech’ as such to one side, and replace it with a series of more narrowly targeted expressive liberties. Rather than locating actions such as protest and whistleblowing under the umbrella of ‘free speech’, we could formulate specially tailored norms, such as a principle of free public protest, or a principle of protected whistleblowing.”