“All too often the scholar believes he is just offering an objective vision of the world, his own self comfortably absent from the text. But then the reader turns a corner, and the writer’s neuroses are laid out for all to see, the writer himself often remaining unaware he’s been stripped so bare.”
Tag: 11.08.11
Sergei Polunin’s Series Of Lucky Accidents
The up-and-coming Royal Ballet star’s career has depended on fortunate happenstance: the dust in his childhood gymnastics club, being Ukrainian in St. Petersburg, and his ballet teacher’s dog.
Banter Becomes A Stage Genre
“A sharp exchange of humour, with a bias towards the jocular insult, banter is becoming so ubiquitous that, last weekend, it even had its own festival.”
Young Ballet Dancer In Critical Condition After Mugging
Jack Widdowson, a 19-year-old apprentice at Bern:Ballett, was beaten and robbed after a night out while visiting his brother in Cardiff. His neck is apparently broken, and doctors fear that he may never dance again.
John And Yoko’s ‘Bed-In’ Sign Could Fetch $100K
“Lennon and Ono’s seven-day ‘bed-in for peace’ was held in 1969 at the Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal. … The sign (felt-tip pen on foam board), reading Bed Peace, is expected to fetch up to £100,000 at auction.”
A ‘Life Change’ For Winner Of Canada’s Siminovitch Theatre Prize
“Playwright Joan MacLeod leads a busy life: teaching writing full-time at the University of Victoria – and currently serving as acting department chair – while raising, with her husband, a 15-year-old daughter.” The $75,000 award, she says, “marks the end of full-time teaching for me.”
Annals Of Entrepreneurship: The Ed-Wood-Slash-Pied-Piper Of The Pampas
“As script-writer, director, producer, cameraman and projectionist, the grandfatherly 70-year-old [Daniel] Burmeister has carved out a unique niche … He shows up in small towns on this vast, lonely [Argentine] plain offering local leaders a deal: if they’ll give him a month’s room and board, he’ll make a picture that will offer townsfolk a taste of big-screen stardom.”
Second Life Was Hot. So Why Did It Fail?
“Today, Second Life limps along. In the first half of 2011, the company reported that an average of about 1 million users logged in every month–which, you have to admit, is about 999,990 more than you expected. But during this same period, Facebook averaged roughly 500 million logins per month.”
So Now How Do You Authenticate A Warhol?
“There is a twist in this month’s test of the Warhol market following the announcement that the Andy Warhol Foundation will dissolve its authentication board at the beginning of 2012.”
China’s Formula For A World-Class Culture
“The leaders’ approach to building a world-class culture is not all that different from the one that powered China’s economic miracle: set a long-term goal, adopt rigid specifications, pour in copious amounts of public money, monitor closely to ensure the desired result.”