“Norwegian lamp maker Luxo filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court in New York accusing Pixar and parent Walt Disney Co. of infringing its copyright by selling a limited-edition Luxo Jr. lamp packaged with a Blu-ray version of the Disney/Pixar movie ‘Up.'”
Tag: 09.07.09
The Theatre Dies, The Musical Hits The Big Time
“A Massachusetts regional music theater that has gone out of business will finally see one of its original musicals reach Broadway.” It’s the only show the theatre did that got to Broadway.
Venice Film Festival Honors Pixar For Lifetime Achievement
“Pixar has made 10 films, four of which have won best animation Oscars. Earlier, John Lasseter said he hoped more animations would be put forward for the best picture Oscar now that 10 films will be eligible for the shortlist.”
A Challenge To Blogging About Books?
“Five years from now, no sensible person will argue that there’s a lack of commentary or reporting about books online; the real question is, who will have the same authority and reach that newspapers have long enjoyed, and who will adhere to the standards that the best newspapers have established?”
Lessons About The Movies From The Summer Of ’09
“From May 1 through Aug. 31, attendance was down 2.4% from 2008 and 6% from 2007. Summer box-office revenues rose 1.3%, not even enough to account for ticket price inflation, let alone the premiums charged in a growing number of 3-D theaters. In the midst of the economic crisis, the best that studios could argue is that almost flat is the new up.”
Books You (The Reader) Can Argue With In Real Time
“Readers will be able to highlight a word, a sentence or a paragraph and add notes that will be integrated as footnotes on the text. We thought this would be a great way to go deep into the text and literally argue with it sentence by sentence, collectively.”
The Twitter Opera (It’s Surprisingly Good)
“Despite the predictable moaning by some British critics about it being an empty publicity stunt, the show turned out to be rather a lot of fun. Whoever was in charge of paring down seven acts’ worth of wilfully silly libretto into 15 minutes of something vaguely approaching a cohesive narrative deserves a pay raise.”
John Calvin And The Making Of Americans
“Others have noted the surprising ways that Calvinist ideas helped to legitimize representative political institutions [and the rise of capitalism]. Less widely acknowledged, though no less historically significant, is the profound impact of Calvinist assumptions on the formation of American patriotism – and in particular on the country’s sense of itself as an exceptional nation empowered by providence to bring democracy, liberty, and Christian redemption to the world.”