As the cameras panned over the orchestra, soloists and chorus, each and every musician (even the terrific timpanist with a goatee that extended down to his white tie) gave the impression of attempting to personally bring light, reason, substance, even love, into the life of world leaders capable of making the world better or blowing it to smithereens.
Tag: 07.08.17
SoCal Museum, Shuttered Temporarily Last Year, Will Close For Good By August Without New Funding Model
“The Museum of Ventura County, which temporarily shut its doors last year to take inventory, revamp some things and figure out its future, has not been able to raise enough money to get back on its feet. Unless the institution can get money from a new source, officials said, it will close by the end of the month. To Elena Brokaw, who since last summer has been the museum’s interim executive director, the answer lies in creating a public-private partnership.”
Time To Be Done With Mahler?
“Mahler said his time would come; the question now, for me, is when it will go. For the symphonies, up until the last, are all flawed, in different ways, but primarily because they peddle sentimentality as courage, heroism, defiance and piety.”
The Quasi-Feminist French Science Fiction Comic That Affected Everything From The Fifth Element To Star Wars
Laureline, the badass heroine of a 50-year-old French bande dessinée, has her roots partly in feminist texts including Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. “She was, from the start, a radically impressive figure who set the bar high for women in science fiction. No mere beautiful figure, Laureline has a piercing intellect, a near-indomitable pride in herself, an endearing but acid wit, and formidable fighting skills. And yet she resists being an archetype of female perfection.”
One Way To Fix Hollywood’s Pay Gap: Stop Paying Men More Than Women
Emma Stone: “In my career so far, I’ve needed my male co-stars to take a pay cut so that I may have parity with them. … And that’s something they do for me because they feel it’s what’s right and fair.”
Kansas City’s American Jazz Museum Has This Little Problem Of Being Too Identified With 18th And Vine
The city’s former mayor Emanuel Cleaver, during whose administration the museum was opened, says that the financially troubled museum – in a building owned by the city, with artifacts owned by the city, and with a third of its budget coming from the city – needs the entire city to view it as a point of pride. City Councilor Quentin Lucas: “When you look at the successful museums in Kansas City, those that have broader buy-in from a larger community are the ones that are successful.” But how to make that happen?
Even Famous Actors Have To Deal With A Huge Amount Of Sexism On Set
Zoe Kazan (whose partner of 10 years, Paul Dano, is named in the following quote) says, “There’s no HR department, right? We don’t have a redress. We have our union, but no one ever resorts to that, because you don’t want to get a reputation for being difficult. I’ve told Paul about stuff that has happened on set and it’s almost as if he can’t take it in. It’s too upsetting. And he’s never had to deal with that once.”
Nelsan Ellis, Star Of ‘Trueblood’ And More, Has Died At Age 39
The actor, beloved for his portrayal of the character Lafayette, died from complications of heart failure, according to his manager. Ellis was talented: “On True Blood, Lafayette was a short order cook at Merlotte’s. In the books, he was killed off, but because Ellis made him such an enjoyable character, he survived in the series.”