“[A]fter facing strong opposition in federal cabinet to the idea of scrapping import restrictions altogether,” the country’s Competition Minister suggests “that the government could keep import restrictions in place but require local publishers to make new releases available simultaneously with their overseas release.”
Tag: 09.30.09
Big Apple’s Big Arts Groups Say They’re Faring Quite Well, Considering
“New York’s largest performing arts institutions have come through the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression relatively unscathed. … the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic boasted of record attendance and beating their budget forecasts.” Even the endangered New York City Opera says it’s exceeding expectations.
Enormous Street Puppets, Made From Junk, Help Celebrate German Reunification
“Working with high-tech puppets that are meters high and weigh tons, the company [Royal de Luxe] can turn any city into a stage for another chapter of its ‘giant saga,’ which started in 1993. … This chapter – named ‘The Giants Arrive – a Fairy Tale for Berlin” – will cost around €1.6 million.”
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Gore Vidal Goes A Bit Overboard, Even For Him
America is “rotting away at a funereal pace. We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together.” Timothy McVeigh “was a true patriot, a Constitution man.” And this: “I would have liked to have been president, but I never had the money.”
Bloomberg Admin. To Offer Space And Training To NYC Artists
“Artists in the five boroughs could gain access to new exhibition and performance space and receive entrepreneurial training as part of a series of five initiatives city officials unveiled Wednesday to bolster the cultural sector in the five boroughs.”
What Do You Do When Your Endowment Drops By 25%?
The consensus at Crain’s Future of New York City: Performing Arts conference: “A lack of money sure can bring out the creative qualities in a person.” E.g., if a bank has less money but an empty branch office, it could donate the space.
American Airlines May End Naming Deal For Broadway Theater
“The Roundabout Theater Co., which operates four venues, including the American Airlines Theater in Times Square, reported … that its 10-year sponsorship contract with the airline expires in six months and may not be renewed.”
The Met’s New Tosca: Even The Tenor Thinks It Has Problems
The production’s Cavaradossi, Marcelo Alvarez, “likens parts of Luc Bondy’s controversial new production of Puccini’s Tosca to a car wreck. ‘It’s like there’s an accident in the middle of street: People say, “Ah, I don’t want to go.” But they want to see the blood’.” (And yes, some tenors do think.)
‘Schlubs, Second-Raters, Or Sadists’ – Dentists In The Movies
As part of her series “The American Way of Dentistry,” June Thomas surveys the cinematic carnage. (And she asks, “Be honest: How long did it take you to show up for your next cleaning after you saw Marathon Man?”)