On the tropical islands, “performances by children, but not by adolescent girls, would be acceptable, along with military parades, singing the national anthem and performances by scouts and girl guides.”
Tag: 09.14.12
After A Long Run, Fox Co-Chair Forced Out
Tom Rothman kept movies under budget and focused attention on arthouse movies – and apparently pissed almost everyone off in the process.
Fear And Loathing In Your Brain
“Why are some of us able to relax, while others stay on guard long after any danger has passed?” (Part of the answer may have to do with the brain’s natural pot-like chemicals.)
That’s No Doorstop; That’s a Million-Dollar Vase
“The [Ming Dynasty] vase, owned by an unidentified family for decades, had been kept on a wooden stand and used as a doorstop, until someone spotted a similar piece in a Sotheby’s ad.”
Money Doesn’t Solve Everything; Just Ask MOCA Board Members
“Wealthy people have many options for their philanthropy, and, according to experts on nonprofit board behavior, they can quickly become skittish about giving when controversy breaks out. And MOCA has been swimming in controversy since late June.”
From Obscure Archives, A New Harlem Renaissance Novel
“This literary detective story began in the summer of 2009, when Jean-Christophe Cloutier, a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature, was working as an intern in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia. He was going through more than 50 boxes of materials belonging to Samuel Roth, a kind of literary pariah who died in 1974.” And voilà ! A new book by Claude McKay.
How Childhood Abuse Rewires The Brain
“Science is painting a dramatic picture of how childhood neglect damages developing brains, so stunting them that neglect might be likened to physically violent abuse.”
How Wayne Clough Is Remaking The Smithsonian
“With a budget of $1 billion and a salary of just over $500,000, he oversees a portfolio of museums as different as the National Portrait Gallery and the National Zoo. Some, like the National Air & Space Museum, get more visitors a year than the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Others, like the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, sit several states away in New York.”
Francesca Zambello Names Director Of Washington’s National Opera
Zambello will retain her position as artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Festival in Upstate New York, which she took over last year. She will also continue to direct productions around the world, although, she says, “I will be scaling back on some of my work” to spend more time in Washington.
Jan Morris’s Only Future Book Will Be Posthumous
“I decided not to write another proper book after Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere [her superb 2001 evocation of the Adriatic city] because it was the book in which I think I found my true voice, and I don’t think I’ll ever write a better one.” But she continues to work on a volume titled Allegorisings, to be published after her death.