“Public flagship universities do a generally poor job of enrolling and educating underrepresented minority students and those from low-income families, and actually regressed rather than made progress on those fronts from 1995 to 2004, the Education Trust argues in a report released Monday.”
Tag: 11.21.06
Robert Altman, 81
A five-time Academy Award nominee for best director, most recently for 2001’s “Gosford Park,” he finally won a lifetime achievement Oscar in 2006.
Will Oldsters Control The Music Charts?
Older people are now the biggest market for music. “The graying of the music market crept up on America. Now they control too much disposable income — and live too long — to be ignored. And nowhere is the shift in attitudes more pronounced than in the beleaguered pop music business, which desperately needs their money (who do you think is buying all those $750 Barbra Streisand tickets?) and shares their aversion to illicit music downloads.”
Getty To Return 26 Antiquities To Italy As Talks Break Down
The museum failed to make an agreement with the Italian government about returning art. Museum director Michael Brand “noted that the museum was willing to give back some of its most important pieces and had even offered to transfer full title to Italy of its signature figure of the goddess Aphrodite — as long as further research into its origins could be jointly investigated. The letter cites the source of the deadlock as the museum’s refusal to return a prized bronze statue of a young Greek athlete, which along with the Aphrodite are considered the Getty’s marquee pieces.”
Greece To Charge Ex-Getty Curator
‘Greek authorities have recommended that felony criminal charges be filed against former J. Paul Getty Museum antiquities curator Marion True for her role in the acquisition of a 2,500-year-old gold funerary wreath considered one of the museum’s masterpieces.”
How YouTube Is Changing The World
“Until about five minutes ago, remember, almost all video-entertainment content was produced and distributed by Hollywood. Period. That time is over. There was a time when advertisers could count on mass audiences for what Hollywood thought we should be watching on TV. That time is all but over. There was a time when broadband penetration was too slight and bandwidth costs too prohibitive for video to be watched online. That time is sooooo over.”
Relief Over OJ Cancellation
Booksellers are relieved that the OJ book has been canceled. It put them in an awkward spot. Three-hundred tousand copies were printed; they’ll be destroyed. And Judith Regan, responsible for publishing it?
Why We Love Kiki Smith
“It is tempting to say that Smith’s chief creation is herself: a neo-hippie queen of bohemia and—what with her wild hair, sharp features, pale skin, and abundant little blue tattoos of rings and stars—an avatar of the Addams Family. But Smith is a grounded product of breeding and circumstance, with nothing made up about her.”
CBS Appealing FCC Fines For Wardrobe Malfunction
The network is contesting a $500,000 fine for Janet Jackson’s over-exposure suring the SuperBowl two years ago. In its filing, CBS described the flashing as an “unscripted, unauthorized and unintended long-distance shot of Ms. Jackson’s breast for nine-sixteenths of one second.”
Sundance Goes For Cellphone Movies
The Sundance Film Festival is showcasing movies made for cell phones this winter. “The six participating filmmakers, who will create 3- to 5-minute films, have all screened films at the institute’s Sundance Film Festival.”