“The work is intended as modern depiction of the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan.
But a Metropolitan police officer who saw the Derrick Santini image from a bus was alarmed. He alerted his colleagues and two uniformed officers went to the gallery.” The sales director said, “They stood there and didn’t leave until we took the piece down.”
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Time To Give In To Texting At The Movies? (It’s Happening Anyway, Right?)
“Texting at movies could work as a draw to some moviegoers. Maybe if theaters pitched it as a different kind of “interactive” experience – ITXT, if you will – so that everyone in the theater gets what they paid for. Maybe it could be one showing a day across theater chains with a special hashtag to link everyone at the showing. They could react and interact – and fill each other in on what they’re missing in the movie.”
HBO Turns Up The Temperature On Documentaries
Sheila Nevins, head of HBO’s documentary programming: “We’re not the main reason people subscribe to HBO. In the documentary department, I like to think of us as off-off Broadway in way. In order to get on Broadway, you have to be really careful with your steps — you have to make sure they want to transfer you from Bleecker Street to 42nd Street. You just feel your own ground and get your footing more carefully.”
What’s The Point Of A Newspaper, Really?
A recent suggestion that the The New York Times sell information before printing public stories has the media world in an uproar – but what’s the purpose of a newspaper in the 21st century, anyway?