Juilliard president Joseph Polisi is celebrating the school’s 100th anniversary. “With the future of art at stake, Polisi says Juilliard’s mission is no longer just to teach talented young people to sing, act, play instruments or dance. ‘In my view they’re responsible for more than getting the notes right or the words right or the steps right. They have to be missionaries for the arts. I can’t find a significant national politician who really will take a major stand for the arts because there’s not much political capital in it and in fact there may be some downside.”
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Poll: Texas Chainsaw Is Scariest
Readers of Total Film magazine have voted the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” the scariest horror movie of all time. Made in 1974 “for just $140,000 US, it is based on the exploits of real-life serial killer Ed Gein and stars Gunnar Hansen as the axe-wielding Leatherface.”