Companies buying the right to plaster their names atop modern sports palaces has become routine. Now Kodak will pay $70 million over 20 years to affix its name on a new Hollywood theatre that will permanently house the Academy Awards starting in 2002. – Los Angeles Times 07/12/00
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RUSSIA’S FINEST
“The atmosphere has been electrifying” throughout the Kirov Ballet’s recent five-week run at Covent Garden. “Three times in the 20th century the Russians have come to teach us a lesson in the lively arts. What has sustained them through the century is a peculiar blend of collective outlook and blind conviction.” – The Telegraph (London)
THE QUESTIONABLE TOURIST BALLETS
St. Petersburg is the home of great ballet, home of famed Russian dance companies. “Unfortunately, virtually every package tour of St. Petersburg feels the cultural necessity of including a ballet performance in its offering – rather as Paris tours once felt equally compelled to provide the Folies Bergere, or Le Moulin Rouge and Pigalle. But the tourists’ ballets, as I recently discovered to my cost, are occasionally questionable. – New York Post
FIRST THE BOOKS, THEN THE MOVIE, AND NEXT…
Plans for a movie are already far along. Now a planned stage reading has rumors flying around Broadway that a “Harry Potter” musical is in the offing. – Theatre.com