“Right now, the only thing here is a heavy wooden sign marking it as the future home of the Citizen Theater. But renderings have been drawn and the interior design process is well under way for what would be the first movie theater in Fort Worth devoted exclusively to independent and foreign cinema since the Ridglea Theater stopped showing movies in the early 1990s.”
Tag: 06.09.12
Time For A Ray Bradbury Museum?
“Waukegan, Ill., has two festivals, a park and a library conference room named after Ray Bradbury. But what the town still needs, according to the late author’s biographer, is a Ray Bradbury museum.”
Mid-Budget Hollywood Movies Endangered
“The mid-budget movie — largely abandoned by the six major Hollywood studios — is becoming increasingly difficult to bring to life for producers.”
Why Is Facebook So Successful? It’s The Photos
“There are two main reasons why Facebook is a dominant Internet company. One, it is the first cross-platform and truly global identity provider. Second, it is the most constantly updated photo album on the planet. That is why photos are Facebook’s lifeblood.”
Simon Schama: How Shakespeare Helped make The English
“Sometimes we forget the startling fact that in the 16th century only the English had custom-built, site-specific commercial theatre. In Italy the peripatetic commedia dell’arte performed on the street; in Spain and the Netherlands plays were acted on decorated carts and wagons. The court and the church still summoned performances all over Europe. But the English had the Theatre, the Curtain, the Rose and the Globe, open to both the elite and ordinary for it cost just a penny to stand with the groundlings in the pit.”
The Decline Of The Porn Business
“The porn industry is in crisis, its profits decimated by the impact of the illegal downloading of pirated content from YouTube-style sites and also amateurs uploading their own sex scenes on paid-for sites.”
The Impermanence Of Traditional Publishing
“Getting published, it turns out, is a lousy way to stay published. Back in the day my stuff at the original BYTE.com was lost, years later the same thing happened to my stuff at InfoWorld.com. With all due respect to this venue I will be pleasantly surprised if the URL at which you are reading this is alive in 2020.”