“The fundamental problem of the movie seems to be that none of the many, many screenwriters assigned to the task could figure out how to translate the game into a filmable story.”
Tag: 08.05.12
Justice Ginsburg Turns To Opera
“Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is among the jurists who have looked for legal lessons in arias, and she got a chance Friday to indulge both passions at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in Chicago.”
Auto-Correcting Into Incoherence
“In the past, we were responsible for our own typographical errors. Now Autocorrect has taken charge. This is no small matter. It is a step in our evolution — the grafting of silicon into our formerly carbon-based species, in the name of collective intelligence. Or unintelligence as the case may be.”
Was A Lost Leonardo Just Discovered In Scotland?
“For years it sat on a farmhouse wall gathering dust. And when Fiona McLaren redecorated, she didn’t even take the time to cover the apparently worthless painting in a protective sheet, so it got flicked in specks of paint. However, in an astounding twist it has emerged that the picture is likely to have been the work of master artist Leonardo da Vinci and worth over £100million.”
Attendance, Ticket Income Up At Cincinnati Symphony
“At a challenging time for orchestras and when the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra was between music directors, the orchestra increased both its subscription sales and attendance last season. … Average attendance for classical concerts at Music Hall was 1,891, an increase of nearly 8 percent. That uptick follows a banner year the previous season – Paavo Järvi’s last as music director.”
The Power Of Positive Thinking? Not So Much…
According to researchers, “visualizing a successful outcome, under certain conditions, can make people less likely to achieve it.”
Chavela Vargas, 93. Legendary Ranchera Singer
“She was born Isabel Vargas Lizano in Costa Rica, but audiences knew her as Chavela, a hard-partying, rabble-rousing, fiery singer who adopted Mexico as her homeland and began singing on the streets in her early teens.”
T.V. Networks Apparently Have No Clue How To Appeal To Latino Audiences (Hint: Stereotypes Aren’t The Way To Do It)
“The discrepancy between English and Spanish language shows is most acute among shows that are scripted in English. The issue, many viewers and critics argue, is that there still hasn’t been the Hispanic equivalent of The Cosby Show, meaning a show that deals with Latino culture in a way that doesn’t offend viewers with crude stereotypes.”
You Can Tell The Difference Between Ironic And Sincere? Thank Your Theory of Mind Brain Center
“We naturally attribute beliefs and intentions and emotions to people we interact with. That is, we develop a ‘theory’–though not necessarily a theory we’re consciously aware of–about what’s going on in their minds. (An inability to do this is thought to play a role in autism.) And this ‘theory’ in turn shapes our interpretation of things people say. The ‘ToM network’ is a brain region–or, really, a network of different brain regions–that seems to play an important role in the construction of these theories.”
Defenders Of Jeffrey Deitch Speak Up – And So Does The Man Himself
“‘What we’re doing here now, it’s on the most serious level,’ says Deitch, nattily attired in a pale yellow suit and his signature round-frame glasses. ‘It’s as good as any museum in the country.'”