Tag: 11.13.17

Berklee College Of Music President Addresses Reports Of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

“Berklee College of Music president Roger Brown on Monday told a packed campus-wide forum that the renowned school has terminated 11 faculty members in the past 13 years for sexual misconduct. The admission punctuated an extraordinary day at the music school, with hundreds of students, many holding signs, marching down crowded Boylston Street at lunchtime to a gathering to discuss sexual assault and harassment at Berklee.”

Hollywood Has Avoided Filming In Greece. Greece Wants To Change That

Visiting the biggest film studios outside Hollywood in Chicago last month, the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said the money had been set aside to provide 25% in cash rebates for expenditure by foreign producers in Greece. With the largest unemployment rate in Europe, officials now see the ever-expanding entertainment sector as a valuable source of jobs. Under the weight of its economic crisis, the country has suffered an unprecedented brain drain of its brightest and best.

The Inside Story Of The Three Billboards In ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’

“If the signage in a movie has top billing over Frances McDormand … you can bet a whole lot of thought went into its conception and execution. … And everything about the [eponymous signboards] – from the design and classic construction, to the custom structures that display them – is authentic. For the complete billboard blow-by-blow, we spoke with Three Billboards‘ production designer Inbal Weinberg, the brains behind Mildred’s advertising war.”

Stage Director Frank Corsaro, 92

Though he came out of the theater – he attended Yale Drama and the Actors Studio and directed on Broadway – his greatest impact was in opera: he was renowned (and occasionally infamous) for his daring interpretations and the high level of acting he drew from singers, especially at New York City Opera during its glory years.

BBC Viewers Upset By Sound Levels For New ‘Howard’s End’ Background Music

The four-episode adaptation by Kenneth Lonergan of E.M. Forster’s novel has drawn plaudits from critics and high viewership, but many viewers have complained that the “most intrusive and dominating” music (as one irate Twitterer put it) frequently drowns out the dialogue. This seems to be a sound mixing problem rather than a musical one, and it evidently is not a new one for the network.

Two Journalists Covering Louvre Abu Dhabi Arrested And Held For Two Days Over Their Coverage

A reporter and cameraman for the Swiss public broadcaster RTS say they were arrested while taking images at an open-air market of migrant workers like those who built the museum. The pair were separated, blindfolded, and interrogated for up to ten hours at a time about the nature of their reporting on the migrants; their equipment was confiscated and has still not been returned.

Author Faces Criminal Charges For Exposé Of South Africa’s President

Jacques Pauw’s The President’s Keepers, an account of corruption, coercion and violence at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s administration, has become the fastest-selling book in South Africa since Nielsen began tracking sales there – thanks in no small part to the government’s Streisand-Effect attempts to suppress the book. Now the country’s State Security Agency has reportedly filed criminal complaints against Pauw for “unlawful publication of classified information.”

Old Vic CEO Says She Knew Nothing About Kevin Spacey Allegations

Sally Greene, who hired Spacey as the theatre’s artistic director, “said it made her ‘sick to the stomach’ to think people may have suffered harassment or abuse [there]. The theatre is facing questions about how much was known among management and trustees about Spacey’s alleged behaviour during his 11 years in charge. Former employees have described it as an open secret.