“I’ve had really good luck with my looks. I had them when I needed them but never too much that I couldn’t obliterate them with great ease when I didn’t. I have this ridiculous big round moon-pie face and this kooky smile and no eyes left whatsoever. … It’s a good character face. So I guess my vanity usually is about how successfully I can pull off the character.”
Tag: 09.22.13
Why Zaha Hadid Designs With Curves And Not Corners
“People think that the most appropriate building is a rectangle, because that’s typically the best way of using space. But is that to say that landscape is a waste of space? The world is not a rectangle. You don’t go into a park and say: ‘My God, we don’t have any corners.’ It’s like saying that everyone has to write in exactly the same way. And it is simply not the case.”
What’s Choreographer Crystal Pite After?
“I’ve got an obsession with narrative. … [It’s] kind of a taboo subject. … “‘m trying to recognise and excavate what’s true. I’m looking for moments of resonance.”
Synesthesia Is Now A Marketing Tool
“Hotel chains have signature scents; Starbucks has soundtracks to complement the flavor of its coffee. In the past most marketing passed through the aural and visual channels, and the other senses were neglected. Now the idea is that, with so much competition for consumers’ attention, no sense should be left unturned.”
Why We Choose To Listen To Sad Music
“When we weep at the beauty of sad music, we experience a profound aspect of our emotional selves that may contain insights about the meaning and significance of artistic experience — and also about ourselves as human beings.”
Peter Gelb Talks About The Met Opera And Politics
“We stand against the significant human rights abuses that take place every day in many countries. But as an arts institution, the Met is not the appropriate vehicle for waging nightly battles against the social injustices of the world.”
Is ’12 Years A Slave’ Partly Fiction – And Does That Matter?
Solomon Northup’s life, and most of his story, is heavily documented. But “scholars have been trying to untangle the literal truth of Mr. Northup’s account from the conventions of the antislavery literary genre” for decades.
What To Do When Your Script Gets, Like, Accidentally Whacked By Technology?
“All but 20 minutes of the necessary audio was lost: precious minutes upon minutes of the crucial pauses, ‘ums,’ ‘aahs’ and similar grammatical acne that made the first episodes (which ran a total of some eight stage hours) such distinctively funny, if at times maddening, viewing.”
No One Likes ‘Salinger,’ So It Gets Recut – While It’s Still Showing
“The new ‘special edition’ was released to replace the original cut when the film expanded into 60 new US territories over the weekend, after opening in New York and Los Angeles.”
What’s LIfe Like For Dancers In The Corps?
Many dancers will never leave the corps for solo careers, but the corps “casts the spell on the whole theater. That artistic integrity really follows through your entire career.”