It’s too late to fix the early seasons of Game of Thrones, but after actor Emily Meade asked HBO to hire someone to advocate for actors during sex scenes on The Deuce, HBO did it – and “Rodis’ hiring has made such an impact that showrunner David Simon told Rolling Stone in September that he would never work without an intimacy coordinator again. Following suit, HBO has now adopted a policy whereby all of its shows and movies with intimate scenes will be staffed with an intimacy coordinator.”
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Dead Sea Scrolls Forgeries Cast Doubt On Bible Museum
The revelation about the five Dead Sea Scrolls fragments reflects an ongoing tension between biblical-studies scholars and the museum. In their book Bible Nation, the scholars Candida Moss and Joel Baden criticized the Green organization for lacking “any sense of due diligence.” Judicious sourcing of artifacts is especially important given the rampant looting of archaeological sites in the Middle East in recent decades. Since the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of artifacts have been looted from Iraq alone. At this point, any recently discovered artifact being billed as an authentic fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls has to be met with cautious scrutiny.
James Karen, Prolific Character Actor, Dead At 94
After a thriving stage career, he went to Hollywood and appeared in 204 films, from Poltergeist to The China Syndrome to Return of the Living Dead to Mulholland Drive. Among his many TV appearances, he played the villain in the final episode of Little House on the Prairie and was for years the pitchman for Pathmark supermarkets.
Canadian Opera Company Ends Fiscal Year In The Black Despite Lower Ticket Sales
Despite the declining ticket revenues, the COC is on a sound financial footing. Besides operating with what is essentially a balanced budget, the Canadian Opera Foundation has seen its endowment balance rise to $43 million. This is nearly double of what was in the bank at the end of 2009-10 — $22.4 million.
London’s Royal Opera House To Appeal Ruling On Musician Who Claimed Rehearsals Damaged His Hearing
Chris Goldscheider, a former viola player in the orchestra at Covent Garden, said he could no longer work as a musician due to the ‘acoustic shock’ he suffered over a weekend rehearsal of Wagner’s Ring Cycle in 2012. He said the noise he was exposed to was unacceptable.
Poet Tony Hoagland, 68
“In seven poetry collections, the most recent, Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God, published this year, Mr. Hoagland found insights and imagery in the everyday: a pool in an Austin, Tex., park; a spaghetti strap on a woman’s dress that won’t stay put; an old man dying awash in paranoia from too much Fox News.”
Warhol’s 102-Canvas Painting Is Restored And Back On View
“Installing Shadows (1978-79) according to Andy Warhol’s precise instructions has always been tricky. Not only does this single, monumental work consist of multiple silk-screened and painted canvases (102, to be exact), but they must also hang in the round, edge to edge.”
The Incredible Drama Around ‘Doctor Zhivago’ And The Nobel Prize (A Dive Into The New York Times Archives)
“Sixty years ago, the Swedish Academy awarded the Russian author Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize for Literature, but less than a week later, under pressure from the Soviet government, Pasternak rejected the award. The story, which had more twists and turns than a Cold War-era spy novel, played out in The New York Times with one front-page story after another.”
Opera Star David Daniels And U. Of Michigan Sued By Student Who Says Daniels Molested Him
Master’s student Andrew Lipian, an aspiring countertenor, accuses Daniels, now a tenured professor at the school, of sending nude selfies to Lipian, regularly coming on to him in conversation, and, on one occasion, drugging Lipian, removing his clothes, and groping him. (Earlier this year, Daniels and his husband were accused by another young singer of rape.)
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Career Is Soaring (If Only She’d Lived To See It)
The 17th-century Italian painter’s work has been getting lots of attention, and fetching ever-higher prices, over the past year or two. #MeToo is probably a factor (she was one of the rare victims of her time who insisted on a public trial of her rapist), as is the desire to compensate for the centuries of neglect female artists have received generally — but there’s also, quite simply, deserved recognition for her gifts as a painter.