Not easy. Not easy at all, says the 78-year-old president of documentary films at HBO, a woman who has won 31 Emmys in the process of overseeing more than 1,000 documentaries. And when an interviewer calls Sheila Nevins ‘an original,’ she says, “I think you pay an enormous price for being ‘an original.’ I think I’m empathetic. I catch rising stars. I catch falling stars.”
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Got A ‘Too Hyper’ Kid? Take Him To Ballet Class [VIDEO]
Andreas Cross: “Doing these really big jumps, going down into splits, I just thought it was amazing.”
Here We Go: The Met Files A Request To Charge Non-New-Yorkers Required Admission To The Museum
And it’s all about the money, of course: “The Met’s current ‘suggested’ admissions fee, $25 for adults, generated about $39 million in the fiscal year 2016, or 13 percent of the museum’s overall revenue. A mandatory fee would be likely to generate tens of millions of dollars more a year.”
Crayola Gets A True – Almost Yves Klein – Blue Crayon, By Accident
See, this is why research funding is so important: “Not familiar with YInMn? Don’t worry, it’s pretty new to the color scene. The pigment was discovered by accident in 2009 at Oregon State University in a chemistry lab run by Mas Subramanian, a professor in materials science, and his graduate students. Accident or not, Crayola liked the new hue.”
Book Lovers May Not Be Thrilled To Learn George R.R. Martin Has Turned His Attention To Four Game Of Thrones Spin-Offs
On the other hand, “some might wonder why we even need the books at this point, since the series will keep chugging along to its conclusion in 2018.”
It’s 50 Years Since The Metropolitan Opera Moved In To Lincoln Center – Here Are The Numbers
To date, 251 productions have been mounted in the Lincoln Center opera house, which has staged 164 different operas and given more than 11,000 performances.
Today’s AJBlog Highlights – 05.05.17
Songwriting’s Roots in Poetry and Prose GENERALLY, I’m skeptical of the glib and automatic denoting of any intelligent or articulate musician as “a poet.” But the connection between popular song and literature go back, in the Anglo-American tradition, at least … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2017-05-05
Weekend Extra: Billy Hart Seen And Heard At the Portland Jazz Festival earlier this year, photographer Mark Sheldon captured a splendid image of drummer Billy Hart in action. There was no opportunity to use the picture in our Rifftides … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-05-05
Shortening Sondheim In today’s Wall Street Journal I review an off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Whenever John Doyle stages a Stephen Sondheim musical, you can always count on being … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2017-05-05
What’s that strange music you hear? In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I write about a new book on film music. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Because I’m a trained musician, I always notice film music, in much the … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2017-05-05
British Museum Signals It’s Willing To Lend Out Parthenon Marbles – And Doesn’t Get Much Interest
“The British Museum has received only a single request to borrow one of the Parthenon Marbles since the sensational loan of a sculpture to [the Hermitage in] Russia in December 2014 … [which] was the first time that any of the Parthenon Marbles had left the British Museum since arriving in London in 1807.”