05.18.14 – ArtsJournal Wayback

PJ O’Rourke: Your College Degree Doesn’t Make You Smart

“What intrigues me is that there are 31.1 million Americans between 18 and 24, and 21.8 million of you—70 percent—are going to college. It is not possible that 70 percent of you are among the 50 percent of you who are above-average in intelligence.”

Remembering Boston Movie Critic Jay Carr, 77

“To say that Carr had a distinguished record at the Globe and at New England Cable News where he worked from 1998 to 2010 is overstating the obvious.”

This Year’s Cannes Scandal? ‘The DSK Film’

Welcome to New York, “Abel Ferrara’s graphic and barely fictionalized film about the sexual assault case involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn” starring Gérard Depardieu, has already occasioned an unusually outrageous premiere party, a lawsuit threat from Strauss-Kahn’s attorneys, and an outraged column from DSK’s ex-wife, newscaster Anne Sinclair.

Apple’s Purchase Of Beats Will Change The Music Biz

“Beats headphones, already a fashion statement for many, could be a big hit as wearable technology, coupled with useful and enjoyable data streams. And what could be better than daylong, mood-and-activity-appropriate music?”

The ‘Mistress Of The Splodge’ And The Monumentality Of Sculpture

Phyllida Barlow: “The western world is as monument crazy as the dictatorships. I often think there’s a strange paradox there in that, though they may take a different visual form, both are coming from a highly individualistic place.”

North Miami Wants To Keep Its Museum, But The Museum Doesn’t Want The Same Thing

“The dueling directors are just part of the chaos emanating from a bitter showdown that has erupted between MoCA, as the museum is known, and the city that founded it.”

In British TV Awards, Detective Drama ‘Broadchurch’ Wins Big

“Bradley said he was sent a replica Bafta award in chocolate by his agent last Christmas and added: ‘Finally I can take it down off the mantelpiece and eat it.'”

Parents Think Butoh Teacher Influenced Dancer’s Suicide

“Kan’s influence — over her art and her life — led Stern to abandon everything she once treasured: her husband, her parents and her closest friends, according to the lawsuit.”

AT&T To Buy DirecTV, Creating A Competitor To The Possible Comcast/Time Warner

“‘The media chessboard is moving more this year than it has in the past decade,’ said Richard Greenfield, a media analyst with the brokerage firm BTIG. ‘You’re seeing major shifts. Everyone is jockeying for position.'”

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