Ben Brantley after a single-date run of (fittingly) Brigadoon: “As it was, I left the Shubert feeling blessed and privileged, and I knew many of my friends would feel envious when I described what I had seen. Such single-performance shows, when they’re well done, tend to engender deeply personal and possessive responses.”
Tag: 06.16.10
The Onion Unmasks Banksy!!
“‘Those drawings? Oh, yes, those are mine,’ said the diminutive octogenarian, who admitted to scaling buildings and climbing fences in order to put up life-sized stenciled images that satirize modern society’s mores and its inherent political power structures.”
Getting Roald Dahl’s Golden Ticket To The Opera Stage
Dahl thought of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” on which “The Golden Ticket” is based, “as his most musical story. But his widow, Felicity, says that didn’t help it get to the stage. ‘I think there is a problem in the opera world — that they associate the story with children,’ she says. ‘There’s great difficulty in getting new repertoire for children in opera.'”
Unions: Listing Birth Dates, IMDb Aids Age Discrimination
“The Writers Guild of America, West, is leading an effort to convince the massive database — used by virtually everyone in Hollywood and far beyond — to permit people to remove their birth dates from the site.” Other Hollywood unions “have reached out to the site to see about taking down the birth dates of people who are not movie stars.”
Movie Exhibitors Caution Studios On Shortening Windows
“The National Assn. of Theater Owners took out full-page ads in the trade papers warning studios that they need to consult with exhibitors about any [moves] to dramatically shorten the windows between when a movie is released in theaters and when it is shown in homes.”
Met Opera Tax Returns Paint A Gloomy Picture Of FY 2009
“The company finished the year with its net worth down substantially and sizable debts looming in coming years. In financial statements, filed on Monday, the opera house listed net assets of $236 million, down from $380 million a year earlier.”
Staffers Accuse Ousted Penguin Canada Head Of Harassment
The former executive assistant of David Davidar, until last week CEO of Penguin Canada, is backing up a colleague who is “alleging that [Davidar] harassed her for three years when she worked at the company, including an alleged incident last fall in which he forced his tongue in her mouth.”
‘Shoe-Leather Reporting’: The Idea Of ‘Well-Done’ Meat And How It Has Changed
The 1964 edition of The Joy of Cooking described leg of lamb as being “well-done” at 160 to 165 degrees; the book’s 1997 edition describes the same meat at about 140 degrees as “medium.” By 1990, Craig Claiborne’s NY Times Cookbook didn’t even suggest well-done leg of lamb as an option. Susan Burton investigates how this change happened.
Researchers Think They’ve Found Caravaggio’s Remains
“The researchers announced results Wednesday of their year-long project, saying bones dug up in the place where Caravaggio died are likely his. However, they acknowledge there is only an 85 per cent probability they are right and they can never be fully certain.”
Pop Music Loves Its Classics. Why Can’t High Art?
“There is a maturity, a common sense about critics and consumers of popular music that is totally absent from the high arts. No one thinks it demeans Lady Gaga to admire Madonna. There is a sense of history in the appreciation of pop that completely eludes today’s debates about art.”