“While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway’s home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 recently digitized records delivered to the United States will give scholars and the public a fuller view of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist’s life.”
Tag: 05.06.13
Coming Out Of The Closet As A Gatsby Hater
Kathryn Schulz: “I find Gatsby aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent; I think we kid ourselves about the lessons it contains. None of this would matter much to me if Gatsby were not also sacrosanct. Books being borderline irrelevant in America, one is generally free to dislike them – but not this book.”
Artists Sue Honda, Ad Agency For Copyright Infringement
“Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, the artists behind the famous 2005 Houston art piece Inversion have filed a copyright infringement suit against the Honda Motor Company and commercial directors for using their iconic inverted sculpture in a TV ad for their relaunch of the Honda CR-V.”
Opera Australia Furloughs Some Singers To Make Way For Musical
“According to the actor’s union, Equity, about 20 singers who are now on 12-month contracts will be rested without pay for six to 12 weeks in 2014. The union claims that the move is in order to accommodate another musical, The King and I, planned for next year.”
‘My Psychic Garburator’ – Margaret Atwood On Dreams
“Last night’s dream: ‘The Forest of Misplaced Inventory,’ said the dream voice. ‘That shouldn’t take much description!’ The visual was a stack of shrink-wrapped red plastic garbage-can lids in a stand of green spruce trees.” (Note: “garburator” is Canadian for kitchen garbage disposal.)
Algorithms To Predict Movie Success? Hollywood Thinks It’s A Joke
“The real news here is that algorithmic analylsis pioneer Vinny Bruzzese charges “as much as $20,000 per script.” That’s nothing. By the standards of a Hollywood feature film, it’s a joke.”
Europe’s First Images Of Native Americans Uncovered In Vatican Fresco
“The lightly sketched group of men – nude save for what appear to be feathered headdresses and posed as if dancing – emerged during the restoration of a fresco of the ‘Resurrection of Christ’ by the Renaissance artist Pinturicchio, painted in one of several rooms he decorated for Pope Alexander VI between 1492 and 1494.”
Documents Show CIA Influence In Making Of “Zero Dark Thirty”
“A memo obtained by Gawker shows that the CIA actively, and apparently successfully, pressured Mark Boal to remove scenes that made them look bad from the Zero Dark Thirty script.”
UK Academics Protesting Education Cuts Are Themselves Dinged For Bad Grammar
“The 100 educators have inadvertently made an argument for precisely the sort of formal education the letter is opposing.”
Canada’s CBC Crisis
The days when the principles of “public service” and “civic duty” – the essence of Wade Rowland’s context for CBC’s role – mattered in Canada are over. There is outright hostility to them and to everything the CBC’s role as a public broadcaster encapsulates.