An extensive new report, including much information never before made public, details how the decision to close the company and create a Merce Cunningham Trust to preserve the choreographer’s works was made – and how it was implemented.
Tag: 04.25.13
Alfredo Guevara, 87, Fidel Castro’s Film Czar
“At Fidel’s behest, Guevara founded the I.C.A.I.C., the Cuban Institute for the Arts and Cinematography, which sponsored Cuba’s state-funded, leftist ‘new’ cinema … Paradoxically, Guevara was also the preëminent homosexual in a Communist regime where … homosexuality was brutally suppressed.”
As Canadian Networks Decline, Documentaries Feel A (Possibly Fatal) Blow
“The slowing volume of production has ramifications that extend far beyond the small community of Canadian filmmakers, the report suggests. … The industry has lost the equivalent of 4,000 full-time jobs since 2008.”
Selling Dance As A Business Tool (A Way For Companies To Survive?)
“Watching the dancers in action and talking with them afterward about their creative process ‘pulls our staff out of the same way we do things so that we can better design solutions and solve problems,’ he says.”
Granta Editor Steps Down
“I loved this job, but I always felt five years would be a kind of marker, and it was.”
Artist’s Repurposing Of Photos Is Not Copyright Violation: Court
“Painter and photographer Richard Prince, whose works have sold for millions of dollars, did not violate copyrights with most of the paintings and collages he based on a photographer’s published works, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a case closely watched within the art community.”
First-Ever Nora Ephron Prize Goes To –
The $25,000 award, presented by the Tribeca Film Festival to a “woman writer or director with a distinctive voice, went to filmmaker Meera Menon for Farah Goes Bang, a road comedy about three friends working on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
The Secret Of David Sedaris’s Success
“No one, save perhaps the producers of This American Life, has better mastered the radio narrative formula, which requires a steady drumbeat of change. It seems simple enough until you consider the poem-like compression the form requires, and which sometimes allows a writer as skillful as Sedaris to condense something novel-size into 15 or 20 minutes’ worth of words meant to be spoken.”
The Wandering, Dwindling Chinese Opera Troupes Of Bangkok
“Sleep like dogs, eat like pigs, dress like angels. This, in their own words, is the life of an itinerant Chinese opera singer. They are the Gypsies of Bangkok, hauling their stages, their costumes, their musical instruments, their hammocks and their cooking gear through the back streets of the city from one Chinese temple to the next … for a shrinking following of increasingly elderly ethnic Chinese Thais.”
So, According To Those New Letters, What Was The Young J.D. Salinger Like?
“Salinger himself comes off as the caustic, brilliant, insecure friend you are constantly justifying to your other friends. Yeah, he can be a jerk sometimes, but he doesn’t mean it. His brain is wired differently from the average person’s, try talking to him one-on-one.”