And “to no one’s surprise, Tracy Letts’s ambitious prizefight of a family drama, August: Osage County, was the leader among the new plays, with seven nominations (a robust haul for a play), picking up three acting nods and one for its director Anna D. Shapiro.”
Tag: 05.13.08
Museum Kills A Living Exhibit
“One of the strangest exhibits at the opening of Design and the Elastic Mind, the very strange show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that explores the territory where design meets science, was a teeny coat made out of living mouse stem cells. The ‘victimless leather’ was kept alive in an incubator with nutrients, unsettlingly alive. Until recently, that is.”
A Serious Drift Away From Network TV
Broadcast network ratings have been declining year-to-year for many years, but “a confluence of several difficult dynamics came together” to make this a particularly bad season
Does Anyone Read Political Memoirs?
There are so many of them. Politicians seem to be obsessed with writing books about their exploits after they’ve left office. There seem to be three audiences for these books…