Author’s story is now the story. – San Francisco Examiner
AND: Bowles’ musical legacy. San Francisco Examiner 11/23/99
Tag: 11.23.99
ROARRRR!:
“Lion King” cleans up at London’s Evening Standard Theatre awards. BBC
THE “LONGEST RUNNING FARCE IN THE WEST END”
After a string of pratfalls, insolvency, scandals, four directors, London’s Covent Garden reopens next week after a £214 million makeover. London Telegraph
ACTING TIRED
David Mamet recently took aim on the art of acting calling for a return to the heroic values of an earlier age. Maybe it’s time, says one critic, to move away from the uniformity of realism and less-is-more and study Chekhov’s nephew. London Telegraph
ROUNDABOUT SUCCESS
New York’s Roundabout Theater has been a study in hard-luck stories. But now it’s embarking on a swank $21 million redo of a forlorn old movie house and looking for benefactors to get the job done. New York Times (removed to paid archive)
BUYING PICASSOS ONLINE
But how can you tell if it’s a fake? Wired
FAVORITE POEM PROJECT
Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s crusade to unleash the power of poetry. A conversation about collaboration, creative writing programs and the religion of art. – Feed
THE “VERY DEFINITION OF CANADIAN LITERATURE”
Al Purdy is the rarest of the rare – a poet who actually makes a living being a poet – indeed, is celebrated for it. – CBC
POOR RELATION
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Library has a leaky roof. Inside the employees shiver in the cold. Now the Missouri library has gone to court battling heirs and publishers to get a piece of its namesake’s estate, which it says it was promised. – New York Times
MAJOR INDEPENDENT LABEL –
– says it will offer free MP3 downloads of its entire music catalogue online. – Wired
- And: Online music sales expected to reach $5.2 billion by 2005. – Variety 11/24/99