“If the luminous Hollywood of my childhood was obliterated for good, it all started with ‘Jaws’ in the summer of 1975, which would devour half a billion dollars at the box office. America fell in love with the blockbuster, and Hollywood got hooked on the cohort of 15-year-old boys. It has never wavered in this obsession.”
Tag: 11.20.15
That Time A Religious Scholar Found A Fragment Of The New Testament On Sale For $99 On E-Bay
“The credit-card-size papyrus, which Dr. Smith dates from around A.D. 250 to A.D. 350, contains about six lines of the Gospel of John on one side and an unidentified Christian text on the other. If Dr. Smith’s analysis is correct, it is the only known Greek New Testament papyrus from an unused scroll rather than a codex, the emerging book technology that early Christians, in sharp contrast to their Jewish and pagan contemporaries, preferred for their texts.”
The Newspaper That Tried To Popularize ‘Bad’ Spelling
“On December 5th, 1846, in the first issue of a newspaper called Di Anglo-Sacsun, an introductory letter to readers heralded the day when ‘bad spelling, the monster that scares, and grins at, and harasses the people, will fall into fits, like the Giant Despair of Doubting Castle, and will die outright of his spasms.'”
Back From Bankruptcy And In Good Shape: Bookseller Waterstones
“We are delivering a really robust and proper profit. This will be the best true and underlying performance for this business for seven to eight years. A genuine, little small piece of black at last.”
Thieves Break In To Verona Museum, Steal Art
“Four men forced their way into the museum, the Castelvecchio, just as it was closing for the evening on Thursday but before alarms had been activated.”
Adele’s New Album Could Break All-Time Sales Records (But It’s 2015!)
“Adele’s highly-anticipated third album, 25, has a shot at breaking the all-time single-week sales record. Just to be clear: An album from 2015, a year where album sales are in the toilet and the industry is still freaking out about how to make streaming work as a viable business model, could be the fastest-selling record ever.”
UK Performing Arts Industry Speaks Out Against Ticket Reselling
“The consequence in many cases is that fans will attend fewer shows, meaning that the profits made by such immoral practice is also money lost from the industry.”
What Detroit Sounds Like In Music
Tod Machover’s original musical composition, which he created with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, is a blend of melodies played by traditional orchestral instruments combined with everyday Detroit sounds collected, digitized and translated into music via software developed by Machover and his team at MIT’s Media Lab.
Hollywood Movies Are Failing At Diversity. Chapter 1,286, The Hollywood Reporter Cover
Overwhelmingly, top black film actresses have found far more interesting fare and appreciation in television
France Moves To Help Cultural Industry After Attacks
Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin said that at least 4 million euros, or about $4.3 million, have been allocated toward a “solidarity fund.”