Tyler Bates, who has scored both Guardians of the Galaxy movies and a whole lot more, says, “The thing I love about film is — as nerve-racking as it is because it’s not like they give me a locked picture to score — it’s frenetic and a triathlon, but when you work with geniuses and studios that have massive investments in a property, you know what it’s like to be alive. You are running alongside failure, everyday, all the time.”
Tag: 10.27.17
The End Of ‘American Idol,’ And The Dream Of Unity It Once Represented
In the context of Kelly Clarkson, the inaugural winner of the show, and her new album – which is both lightly political and aimed at a casual pop listener – we can see the end of whatever unity the country was thought to possess, musically and otherwise, in 2002.
The Director Of The Harry Potter Play In London Wants British People Taking To The Streets For Art
John Tiffany “argued that it is a ‘social crime’ to deny children the arts, as this prevents them from reaching their full potential.”
A New Theatre In London Is Making Bank As It Steps Away From Government Funding
Ironically, the first show of The Bridge Theatre, a venture from former National Theatre head Nicholas Hytner and his former executive director, Nick Starr, is about Marx.
Theatre Director Who Has Voiced Opposition To Putin’s Policies Put Under House Arrest
The decision is supposedly about fraud involving another theatre and film director, who’s also been placed under house arrest: “Investigators claimed in a statement that Apfelbaum helped Serebrennikov’s dramatic collective, Seventh Studio, obtain 214 million rubles ($3.7 million) in state funding by providing falsified documents.”
Fay Chiang, A Poet Who Fought Racism And Championed Asian-American Culture, Has Died At 65
Chiang was an educator, an activist, and a poet. “Chiang’s poetry — sometimes serene, sometimes angry and sometimes written in all lowercase letters — reflected her anxieties as a first-generation Chinese-American, her desire to etch Asian culture into American society, her involvement with organizations in Chinatown and on the Lower East Side, and her multiple reckonings with breast cancer over nearly a quarter-century.”
Now That An Accused Harasser Isn’t Running Amazon Studios, It’s Time To Reassess ‘Good Girls Revolt’
One of the actors from the show, which is about workplace sexual harassment (and more): “I know we’re talking about TV, but it was sort of a microcosm of what was going on. … We thought we had it in the bag. There’s no way [Trump’s] going to win. There’s no way we’re getting canceled. That happened, and that happened, and it was like … we’re really operating against some crazy forces right now.”
Telling The The Oral History Of A Community Through Dance In Apartments And Hair Salons
That’s right, a dance of oral history: “‘Sit, Eat, Chew’ also staged performances in a private apartment, a restaurant, a public park, and a museum. The stories — told in Mandarin, Cantonese, English, and through movement — were culled from interviews with senior citizens and local youth. The project, born out of a desire to share oral histories from Manhattan’s Chinatown residents with the public in an engaging way, was funded through a Kickstarter campaign as well as several nonprofit and city and state grants.”
Well, This Is Interesting: Yves Bouvier Sells Off His Geneva-Based Art Storage Company
“Bouvier, who is Swiss, made his reputation as a businessman involved with freeports, the largely tax-free storage depots where wealthy collectors now store so many of their treasures.” But he’s battling in courtrooms across the world, including against a Russian billionaire who claims Bouvier committed fraud.
Wizarding: It’s Not Just For White People, Say These Young London Actors And Activists
The campaign puts Black Londoners into famous movie posters, including Harry Potter. The recast posters will be going up in London’s Brixton neighborhood. “Black kids can be wizards too,” says the young woman playing Hermione in the posters.