“It’s not just people who have different accents but bats as well develop dialects depending on where they live which can help identify and protect different species, according to Australian scientists.”
Tag: 09.13.10
What Werner Herzog Could Do for 3-D
“[He] is perhaps the person best suited to give 3-D a much-needed jolt of artistic credibility. If [Herzog] … is willing to embrace the medium, then maybe someday it might be recognized as having some benefit beyond helping Hollywood squeeze more money out of moviegoers with sky-high ticket prices.”
London’s Fringe Theatre Scene Is Healthier Than Ever
Lyn Gardner: “Once, the fringe was somewhere you graduated from and never went back to. But increasingly it seems to be the place you go to put on the shows you really want to do, but maybe can’t interest a subsidised theatre in, or – if you’re an actor – where you play the roles you really want to play.”
What’s With Our Addiction To “Reality” TV?
“Reality shows again dominated ratings this summer, especially among viewers whom the majority of networks consider most valuable, those 18 to 49. On broadcast television, 15 of the top 20 highest-rated programs among that younger adult group were reality or unscripted shows.”
HBO Is Hot. So Why Are Subscribers Leaving?
“HBO had 28.6 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2010, according to newly released numbers from SNL Kagan, its lowest total in four years and the second of its first back-to-back quarterly declines in at least six years. So if HBO is so hot, how come its subscriber base is dwindling?”
Proposals And Counter-Proposals Fly In Fisk U Art Case
“Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper has unveiled a proposal that would remove the renowned Stieglitz Collection from the campus and install it in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. The university, meanwhile, is revising its proposal to sell a half-share in the collection to an Arkansas museum for $30 million.”
Christo Campaigns For Colorado Project
“At age 75, he’s trying to convince a swath of southern Colorado to let him temporarily suspend flat sections of silvery fabric over a 42-mile-long stretch of the area’s Arkansas River. For two weeks, people will be able to drive alongside this mirror-like ribbon or raft underneath it, he says.”
Did Tarantino Give Unfair Advantage To Friends At Venice Film Festival?
“Quentin Tarantino has been accused of nepotism after he presented friends with several major awards at the Venice Film Festival, where he led the jury.”
Study: People Are Consuming More News Online
“The survey found 26 percent of Americans said they read a newspaper in print the day before, compared to 38 percent in 2006. However, 17 percent of Americans said they read something on a newspaper’s website the day before, up from 9 percent two years earlier.”
Blogger Wins In Blogger Vs. Royal Opera House
“The Royal Opera House has been forced to apologise to a theatre blogger after its head of legal and business affairs threatened to sue her for breach of copyright and ban her from attending Covent Gard.”