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Tag: 08.09.13
Playwright Protests Hedy Weiss Review In Chicago Sun-Times
“In responding to Hedy’s review I am contesting neither her assessment of the play nor our production of it. I am contesting her support for racial profiling.”
How To Get Your New Book Noticed? Swag Of Course
“Let literary snobs mock. (Madame Bovary Blue, anyone? Jane Eyre Ecru?) New authors who want to find readers will find creative ways to attract them.”
Why TV Is Now So Much Smarter Than Movies
“There are many reasons why post-millennial TV has switched places with movies as the medium of choice for people seeking smart diversion, but one of them is this: in the same way the middle has dropped out of class categories and political discourse in North America, it’s also disappeared from popular movies.”
How Netflix Figures Out What You Want To Watch Next
“Netflix knows what you watched, searched for, rated and even scrolled past, and they know when and where, including on which device, you saw it. That data is factored into several algorithms to determine what you might want to see next, the engineers explain.”
Bolshoi Dancer Retracts Confession In Acid Attack; Attacker Backs Him Up
Pavel Dmitrichenko, “accused of organising and paying for the acid attack that blinded the Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin, has denied orchestrating the assault, in an apparent retraction of a confession made earlier this year.” Yuri Zarutsky, who admits throwing the acid, “denied that either Dmitrichenko or Lipatov had anything to do with the crime, accusing detectives of fabricating the case against them.”
Jack Clement, 82. “Genius” Country Music Producer
“His earliest successes came in the 1950s at Sun Records, where he ran the soundboard for the recording of early rock ‘n’ roll classics by Jerry Lee Lewis and others. He also engineered the so-called Million Dollar Quartet session featuring Mr. Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. Three decades later Mr. Clement returned to the Sun studio to help produce U2’s hit album Rattle and Hum.”
Jane Austen, The Interactive Board Game
This year in particular, besides the novels, there are Austen biographies, banknotes, fan fiction, a movie, and even that ring Kelly Clarkson paid so much money for. So The New York Times has helpfully provided the one thing that was missing.