Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear took an unusual joint honor in the annual ceremony for London theatre. Helen Mirren got plenty of media attention for winning yet another prize for playing Elizabeth II, this time in The Audience. And Maggie Smith, receiving a career award, begged from the podium for more stage work.
Tag: 11.17.13
How Matthew Bourne Learned To Stop Worrying And Stage Sleeping Beauty
“[It] was a project Bourne had avoided for years, despite the success he had found with Tchaikovsky’s other two ballets, The Nutcracker and – especially – Swan Lake … His reluctance to complete the trilogy stemmed from what he saw as Sleeping Beauty‘s tepid love story.”
Margaret Atwood Says Doris Lessing Inspired ‘Colonials With Scant Prospects’
“Some of Lessing’s energy may have come from her outland origins: when the wheel spins, it’s on the edges that the sparks fly. Her upbringing also gave her an insight into the viewpoints and plights of people unlike herself. And if you know you will never really fit in – that you will always be ‘not really English’ – you have less to lose.”
Helen Mirren Plays The Queen (Again); Wins Award (Again)
“‘I’ve always felt playing her majesty that it’s actually her majesty who’s winning the award and not me,’ Mirren told Reuters.”
Exotic Foreigners Would Like To Make It In Bollywood
If only there were more roles for the (blond, blue-eyed) actors/dancers/models.
The Low-Key Ceremony That Became An Important Oscars Preview
The Governors Awards “now has a full-blown red-carpet walk and has evolved into a free-for-all campaign stop for those who want to be seen as candidates for the current round of Oscars, though almost no significant film awards or nominations have yet been conferred.”
Even J.J. Abrams, Now In Charge Of Star Trek *And* Star Wars, Thinks He Has Too Much Power
“I was insanely flattered, but felt like it was too much. … [But] it was such a once-in-a-lifetime chance to do something completely thrilling and wildly challenging.”
Interview With An Art Hoarder: Cornelius Gurlitt Finally Speaks
“He spoke to his paintings. They were his friends, the loyal companions that didn’t exist in his real life. He considered it is his life’s mission to protect his father’s treasure, and over the decades he lost touch with reality”
If You Leave New York, You’d Better Hope You Feel Like Rebecca Wolff
Many writers who leave NY feel wistful nostalgia, but “Rebecca Wolff, a Manhattan native who now lives upstate, delivers an impassioned, highly entertaining diatribe that includes the line ‘New York is a giant sinking pile of crap compared to what it used to be.'”
Once You Raise $800,000 For Your Blog, Why Not Publish Magazines?
“The new monthly magazine will be exclusively for subscribers. ‘Free-riders can’t see it,’ [Andrew] Sullivan’s email said. ‘We’ve erected a real paywall to keep them out, unlike our leaky meter system on the blog.'”