Even James Bond Can’t Overpower Indian Railways

“The Indian government has asked the makers of the new James Bond movie to rewrite a planned action sequence showing people travelling on the roof of a state-run train service.” Said the railways minister, “Rooftop travel is illegal in India and it cannot be encouraged. … There are many trains in India and not all trains have people travelling on the rooftops.”

Trisha Brown Wins $300K Gish Prize

The choreographer Trisha Brown “has won this year’s Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, an award worth about $300,000 that was named after the silent film actresses. The trust that administers the award, given to artists for ‘groundbreaking impact in their chosen fields,’ said Ms. Brown had ‘transformed’ modern dance ‘with new vocabularies of movement’.”