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Tag: 10.28.14
It’s The World’s First-Ever Iranian Feminist Vampire Western
Oh yes, it’s real. It was quite a hit at Sundance last winter, and it’s already been nominated for a Gotham Award. (includes trailer)
Why Would Harvey Fierstein, Of All People, Write A Show About The 1899 Newsboys’ Strike?
“Kids love it” – his brother’s kids, specifically, loved the Disney movie – “so I had that affinity. I got stuck with the story, and there was little I could change, but, as the strike happened during the time of the women’s struggle to vote, I began thinking about my own recent turn of the century.”
Maya Angelou Describes Her Stepfather’s Greatest Con, And The Racist Who Fell For It
“Suffice to say the scam includes one racist Southerner, three persuasive actors, a tract of land, and $50,000 in cash.” (video)
HBO Expected To Lay Off More Than 150 People This Week
The cuts, amounting to about 7% of HBO’s workforce, are part of company-wide layoffs at Time Warner.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.28.14
Time to join the rest of the world
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2014-10-28
Do you need the matrix?
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2014-10-28
When Music Sounds Like a Cash Register: Taylor Swift
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-10-28
Ten moments of pure musical joy
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2014-10-28
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Portland Opera Moves To Summer Season ‘To Avoid Death By 1000 Paper Cuts’
“The change, revealed as the curtain is about to rise on Portland Opera’s 50th season, is an attempt to stabilize the company after years of fluctuating finances. And it will affect all aspects of the organization, from audience experience to casting, marketing, production and budgets.”
The Poppies At The Tower Of London Are A Trite And Terrible ‘Memorial’
“Nationalism – the 19th-century invention of nations as an ideal, as romantic unions of blood and patriotism – caused the great war. What does it say about Britain in 2014 that we still narrowly remember our own dead and do not mourn the German or French or Russian victims?”
Shakespeare Didn’t Even Know What A Balcony Was
So how did “the balcony scene” (there is no balcony in the scene) in “Romeo and Juliet” become the most famous Shakespeare scene ever?
The Time France’s Cultural Minister Forgot To Read Any Of The Books By France’s Nobel Prize Winner
“She admits: ‘I’ve no problem in confessing that I’ve not had any time to read for the past two years. I read a lot of notes, a lot of legislative texts, news, AFP stories, but I read very little,’ squirming when it was noted that a culture minister might, well, enjoy partaking of a novel or two here or there.”