Deaf actor Russell Harvard (Tribes, There Will Be Blood): “It might sound funny, but I’m afraid that in the future, the deaf community culture would be extinct because technology is taking over and there would be no more deaf people. In the future, genetic engineering, cochlear implants, the language will be forgotten – I was really terrified of that.”
Tag: 04.07.13
How The New York Review Of Books Became An Unlikely Publishing Success Story
A Q&A with founding editor Robert Silvers on the occasion of the magazine’s 50th anniversary.
The ‘Misery Threshold’, Addiction, And Religious Ecstasy
William James “explored this question … because he wanted to know if some people were more capable or more prone to experience ‘the acute fever’ of religious belief. His answer: it is those who suffer most who are inclined to experience that fever. These are the people who fascinated him: those who toed right up to and sometimes over the line of despair and meaninglessness.”
Fiona Shaw On Playing The Mother of Christ
“There’s a Danish philosopher who has come up with the fascinating notion that actually the moment of despair, of Christ’s death, is the moment which we all need to be freed from – but not through resurrection. Just the fact that someone has dared to say there is this much despair in life may have in itself some healing potential.”
What It Takes To Make A Great Play
“Then the play finally goes up, and — if the writer really nails it — there’s this feeling of inevitability about the whole thing, as if every false start and shaky draft had been building to this point all long — which, in a way, they were.”
Merged Sacramento Opera And Orchestra Get A New Leader
“Both organizations were deeply affected by plunges in subscription ticket sales and corporate donations, which became a strong motivator for a merger. Those pressures led the 31-year-old Sacramento Opera to cancel most of its 2011-12 season and the Sacramento Philharmonic to threaten closure last year.”
Orphans Actors Regroup After Shia LaBoeuf’s Noisy Exit
“Is anything ever easy with Alec Baldwin?” He and the other two cast members of the play, now in previews on Broadway, talk about getting the show back together.
The First-Ever High School Performance Of “Appalachian Spring”
The reason no high school has ever performed “Appalachian Spring” before, according to Graham company artistic director Janet Eilber, is that no high school has ever asked.
Bigas Luna, 67, Who Burst Onto Spanish Film Scene After Franco Died
Luna “introduced Penélope Cruz to audiences and launched Javier Bardem as the embodiment of the Spanish stud. ‘I owe my career to Bigas Luna,’ Bardem said in 2001.”
‘Game of Thrones’ Is Massively Pirated, But HBO Doesn’t Seem To Care
“HBO has been surprisingly polite if not kind about the illegal downloads. You had HBO’s programming chief, Michael Lombardo, saying a couple weeks ago that his bigger concern wasn’t the people who were downloading, but that by downloading they’d get an inferior product.”