“Her fictionalised life of Thomas Cromwell won Hilary Mantel the Man Booker prize – and now Wolf Hall and its follow-up Bring Up The Bodies are to be brought to television in a six-hour adaptation for BBC2 … by Peter Straughan, who wrote the screenplay for the recent Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie.”
Tag: 08.23.12
Can Operas About Celebrity Icons Ever Really Work?
“Somewhere in celebrity heaven, Marilyn Monroe is doing a great job of jinxing those who capitalize on her icon status by degrading it.” (And Anna Nicole Smith, poor dear, may be doing the same thing.)
UK Government Proposes Dropping Drama From School English Curriculum
“The current curriculum for English contains a dedicated section for drama with statutory guidance on how it should be taught, within the ‘speaking and listening’ strand. However, in the new draft national curriculum for English key stages 1 to 2, there is no explicit speaking and listening strand, which means the taught drama framework has been removed.”
Rio Arts Collective Fights Eviction By Olympics-Hungry Developers
“In the past three years, about 50 artists – including sculptors, painters, fashion designers and sound engineers – have created studios and offices in the Behring factory … in Rio’s long-neglected port area. … Bt the property was recently auctioned and the new owners, Syn Brazil, told residents they had 30 days to get out.”
Independent Label New Albion Shuts Down
“According to the goodbye note … posted on the label’s website, ‘the actual infrastructure that New Albion was created in, one that resembled an independent record label, no longer exists and has yet to be replaced in the new order, so we are moving on’.”
A Lesbian Romance Movie From Iran (Yes, It’s Very Controversial)
Maryam Keshavarz, director of Circcumstance: “There were screaming matches. One woman said: ‘This film is such bullshit – it doesn’t look like Iran, smell like Iran, taste like Iran.’ I didn’t even have a chance to reply when this woman in her 20s stood up and shouted at the older woman: ‘I just came from Iran and it’s people like you who are ruining our country because you deny the reality.'”
‘Save The World’s Worst Art Restoration!’ (Those Kids With Their Irony!)
“Ironic art fans have launched a petition to save the ‘world’s worst restoration’: a retouched, century-old church painting of Christ that has become an international joke.”
Is There A Liner Note Problem?
“We can watch movies online with the credits included, and the same should be true for digitally released recordings. If music devices can access millions of tracks in the cloud, we’re confident we can find a way to acknowledge those who created the tracks here on earth.”
Claim: BBC Turned Down George Orwell Statue Because…
According to the Labour peer Joan Bakewell, the BBC’s director general Mark Thompson turned down the scheme to erect the statue at the BBC’s new Broadcasting House “flat”, because “apparently George Orwell would be perceived as too left-wing a figure for the BBC to honour”.
Canada’s Random House Publisher To Start Publishing Magazine On Website
“Traditionally, publishers have used their websites for sales and marketing. We believe publishers should also use their websites to publish.”