“It all makes one long for some Netflix-like behemoth — Netclassix? — that could easily stream works from all over to all televisions, tablets, smartphones and computers.”
Tag: 08.22.14
Time To Celebrate #Shortreads?
“Of all things, the least of which we have is time, and short novels tip their hats courteously to that fact.”
Time For The FCC To Review The Comcast Takeover Of Time Warner
“Among other things, the FCC requested that Comcast explain how the proposed Time Warner Cable transaction would result in ‘cost savings and other synergies worth approximately $1.5 billion’ according to the public filing.”
Sometimes An Artist’s Best Strategy Is To Avoid Strategic Plans
“No matter what the crisis is — whether financial, emotional, spiritual, creative, physical or other — it is not the time to be setting future objectives or making determinations about how you’ll behave in a year, or two, or three. You don’t have objectivity in a crisis and your ability to be strategic is greatly diminished.”
The Canadian Roots Of North American Fringe Festivals
“A producer named Brian Paisley with a $50,000 grant decided to open up the crummy, empty spaces in Old Strathcona to artists. Or people who wanted to be artists. Anyone, really. … This year, there are 53 venues.”
These Beautiful Images Might Just Make You Want To Diagram Sentences Like It’s 7th Grade At The Parochial School
“It was a purely American phenomenon. … It was invented in Brooklyn, it swept across this country like crazy and became really popular for 50 or 60 years.”
Fearing Riots, Indian Gov’t Blocks Film About Indira Gandhi’s Assassination
Certification board chief Leela Samson: “We saw the film and decided it could not be released as it was, due to fears that it would lead to disruption of public order. … The film is double trouble. It glorifies Indira Gandhi’s assassins who took the law into their own hands and it glorifies the hanging of the two men.”
Thelma Holt Tells Tales
“In the previous 15 minutes, [the legendary London stage producer] has related one story about a fellow theatre producer (unprintable), two stories about a theatre owner (possibly libellous), a yarn about an encounter with the crown prince of Japan (probable diplomatic incident) and a saga that swerves from the crisis in Gaza to David Cameron’s taste in suits.”
Met Opera Settles Contracts With Last Remaining Unions
“The Metropolitan Opera announced Thursday night that it had reached labor settlements with the last of its unions, including those representing its costume and wardrobe departments, hair and makeup artists, scenic artists and designers, camera operators and others.”
Even After A Decade On Broadway, “Wicked” Is Casting (Exactly) The Same Spells
“The producers have been careful, not to say monomaniacal, about replicating the experience they gave audiences in the opening months. … My return visit also confirmed how significant … young fans remain to the show’s success. The audience at the evening performance I attended teemed with bopping tweens and their families.”