“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.”
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Siemens Pulls Sponsorship From Bayreuth Festival
“Siemens became involved four years ago hosting public screenings of performances which were also broadcast on the Internet on ‘Siemens Festival Night’. A company spokesman said the events had enjoyed success but ‘the baby has grown up and learned to walk on its own, and now we wish to pursue other projects’.”
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’.”
Why It Made Sense For Merce Cunningham To Shut His Company Down
Deborah Jowitt: “It’s not surprising that Merce Cunningham didn’t envision a future for his company without him. As an artist, he appeared to think in the present tense, to live in the moment. Like the philosopher Heraclitus, he clearly believed that you couldn’t step into the same stream twice.”
Moses Pendleton Says Momix Is ‘Not Really A Dance Company’
“We’re musical, we work in visual theater, but we make things more in the way a painter or sculptor does than a choreographer. We go for the image first, then we add props, costumes, lighting and finally music. What you see is a little like walking through a botanical garden.”
UK Equity Asks Gay Performers If It’s Really Safe To Be Out
“Equity devised the survey after members of the union’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Committee raised concerns that, contrary to common assumption, the industry is not one in which it is easy for performers to be open about their sexuality.”
America’s Next Top Sociologist: Insights From The Study Of Modeling
“There’s a long tradition among academics of embedding in an occupation to study it. … Sudhir Venkatesh spent seven years with a gang in the Chicago projects. One academic worked as a cotton picker, another entered prison as an inmate. Ashley Mears embedded as a model.”
This Year’s Kennedy Center Honorees Announced
The Kennedy Center announced on Wednesday that Meryl Streep will be honored this year alongside the singers Barbara Cook and Neil Diamond, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and the saxophonist Sonny Rollins.
A Name For Montreal’s New Concert Hall
“Government of the province of Quebec announced Wednesday morning that the hall will be called La Maison Symphonique de Montreal. During a tour of the facility the same day, representatives of the orchestra and the architectural and design teams could not agree about what the official English translation will be.”
Julian Barnes Favored To Win Booker Prize
Barnes, 65, has been shortlisted three times before for Flaubert’s Parrot (1984), England, England (1998) and Arthur and George (2005).