That’s right, it’s time for a biopic of J.R.R. Tolkien. But will this one succeed with his notoriously touchy estate?
Tag: 11.22.13
To Avoid Nazi Loot Accusations, Should German Museums List Their Collections Online?
“German museums are obligated to go through their collections for works that may have been looted by the Nazis. But the museums have balked at going a step further and digitizing their collections to allow independent searches, citing budget restrictions and a lack of staff.”
Where Should You Sit – Or Stand – To Best Experience The Opera?
“The standing places were empty enough for me to put my back up against the wall and pretend to conduct whole scenes without anyone seeing me while the action onstage appeared to go on among tiny but very loud ants.”
Is That A Six-Minute 3D Laser Light Show Writ Large Across Shakespeare’s Birthplace?
Yes, yes it is. And Stratford-upon-Avon seems keen to do it again.
Global Choral Project To Mark Britten’s 100th Birthday
“About 100,000 singers – most of them children – from 640 choirs as far afield as Melbourne and California will sing Britten’s Friday Afternoons to mark the composer’s 100th birthday on Friday, turning the event into one of the largest global community singing projects ever attempted.”
What Makes Something Canadian Literature?
“Academics have been scrambling to find some kind of official criterion for inclusion in this canon since at least the 1950s – Is it a literature that is made here, or set here, or addresses uniquely Canadian themes? – and they have always been curiously hidebound about it, always trying to find ways to restrict membership in this club rather than to open it up.”
How A 24-Hour Interactive Video Was Made
“The proposal was insanely ambitious–real people, alone or in groups, dance to the song, essentially creating an entire day’s worth of music videos–and therefore riddled with creative challenges.”
Hearing To Determine Fate Of Renoir Stolen From Baltimore Museum
“A federal court judge set a hearing date Wednesday in the 15-month dispute over who owns a tiny Renoir painting that was stolen in 1951 from the Baltimore Museum of Art, but she also urged both parties to consider settling.”
Louis D. Rubin Jr., 89, Founder Of Algonquin Books
“He wrote three novels himself, which drew on his own upbringing as a Jew in the South … But in a life of prolific production – he wrote or edited more than 30 books – his greatest contribution was as a cultural historian and critic who became … ‘perhaps the person most responsible for the emergence of Southern literature as a field of scholarly inquiry’.”
Enough Of The Bad Sex Award – It’s Time For A Good Sex In Fiction Award!
William Nicholson, a nominee for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a passage from his novel Motherland, explains in an essay why he will not be a good sport about this.