Says a spokesman for the Diocese of Leeds: “It is a debate that has been going on in the Church for a long time – are we doing a cabaret or are we actually celebrating the Eucharist? The fear is that if some guidance is not given and general decisions are not put down, the interpretation of the liturgy leads to unsuitable things, like strobe lights and girls in hotpants.”
Tag: 04.04.09
Whence The Magic Of Fred Astaire?
“Fred Astaire was definitely an odd bird, at least by Hollywood standards. He despised publicity, appears to have been a fierce monogamist, was a regular churchgoer and decidedly Republican in his politics. He wasn’t tall or dark or handsome in the manner of a typical leading man; Astaire was about 5-foot-7 but looked taller because he was so slim – 135 pounds.”
To Readers, Fictional Characters Can Seem All Too Real
“[T]he world of fiction and the world of real flesh-and-blood people are not quite as separate as one might imagine,” Alexander McCall Smith writes. “Although we eventually learn to distinguish between the world of make-believe and the real world, I suspect that many of us continue to experience fictional characters and events as being, in some way, real.”
Ideas For The Next Book (A Reinvention)
“Just as digital media have begun to change the nature of news, music and video, the emergence of e-books is causing various entrepreneurs and technologists to reconsider the kind of experience that books might one day deliver.”
Art Gallery Of Ontario Cuts 23 Jobs, Won’t Renew 47 Contracts
“All 23 of the job cuts announced Thursday were to union staff, leaving non-unionized senior managers untouched, though some senior staff left voluntarily in recent months as part of a restructuring plan to adapt to the AGO’s newly renovated Dundas Street site. The gallery has also instituted a salary freeze for all managers and senior executives and cut back on travel and consumption.”
And Who Was Harold Clurman?
Though his name was never to be found above the title, he was one of the half-dozen most influential figures in modern American theater.
Wynton Marsalis’ Stemwinder Of An Arts Speach
He gave this year’s Nancy Hanks speech. “Marsalis’s eloquence and easy humor made his tears at the finale all the greater a surprise. He bowed and cried, and bowed and cried, which made the crowd cheer even more. Though he couldn’t articulate what brought on this emotion, he told me it came from feeling ‘overwhelmed’–from putting into words the full weight of the tragic, glorious history bound up in our arts, and vice versa: ‘That’s our life, that’s the life I live, so it started to hit me’.”