“Game shows, once stacked end to end across the daytime grid, are no longer the staple (they’re making more money in primetime). Talk shows, with aggressively likable hosts, are all the rage.”
Tag: 09.20.06
Met Starts A Satellite Radio Station
The Metropolitan Opera has made a deal with Sirius satellite radio to program a new channel of opera.
Young American Art – It’s Hot In London
Young American art is taking London by storm this autumn – not in the salerooms, but in our public institutions and private galleries where, behind the scenes, a new, potentially volcanic market is bubbling.
Disney Scores Big With iTunes Movie Downloads
“Less than a week after announcing its newest initiative with Apple Computer, the Walt Disney Co. has sold more than 125,000 feature film downloads via iTunes.” Disney predicts the download business will earn the company $50 million this year.
Lucas To Give USC $175 Million For Film School
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas, through a foundation, plans to make a blockbuster donation to USC of $175 million — the university’s biggest single gift ever — to build a new home for its prestigious film school.
Paris Rethinks Disney And Les Gauche Americans
“The Grand Palais is paying homage to Walt Disney — seriously, academically and without a trace of disdain for American pop culture. Disney “was one of the great geniuses of the 20th century and the greatest storyteller of the 20th century,” gushed curator Bruno Girveau, who tirelessly promoted his project to skeptics who couldn’t understand why he wanted to put Mickey Mouse on walls usually graced by Matisse or Monet… Lately, the French seem intent on debunking the stereotype that they turn up their noses at Americana.”
Rare World War I Items Go Missing After Film
“Soon after the ambitious TV movie The Great War finished shooting in Quebec last summer, the Montreal producers, Galafilm Inc., made a disheartening discovery — more than 1,000 items of largely irreplaceable First World War insignia, uniforms and equipment had walked off the set, they suspect, with some of the 150 descendents who had been hired to re-enact their great-grandfather’s bloody battles in the trenches.”
We Want Out (Of The Concert Hall)
“From a certain angle, the Canadian Music Centre’s efforts to turn Canadian composers loose on public spaces looks like a revolt organized by the same group that has spent decades lobbying to get contemporary music into concert halls, not out of them.”
What Your Books Say About You
“What interests me about other people’s books is the nature of their collection. A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world. Even how the books are arranged on the shelves deserves notice, even reflection. There is probably no such thing as complete chaos in such arrangements.”
Anyone Want To Buy Napster?
“Napster has put itself up for sale and hired bankers to explore interest in the once notorious and now struggling music download service. Analysts have highlighted the service’s dwindling subscriber base and failure to turn a profit.”