“How much latitude do movie studios have in writing blurbs? A fair amount. There’s no official check on running a misleading movie blurb, aside from the usual laws against false advertising.”
Tag: 11.25.09
Slatkin Extends Recovery From Heart Attack
Conductor Leonard Slatkin, sidelined since suffering a heart attack on Nov. 1, had been expected to conduct the DSO in concerts on Dec. 10-13, but after consulting with his doctors has chosen an additional three weeks of precautionary rest and care.
A Struggle Over TV Standards
“There is a lot of very adult material on television all the time, and mostly it flows unchecked and unpunished, except when it comes as a surprise and hits a nerve. Community standards are mutable and vague; lots of people don’t know obscenity until someone else sees it.”
Non-Profit Art Galleries Take To Vacant Spaces
“Non-profit arts organisations and curators are following their commercial equivalents in New York, with a wave of “pop-up” galleries taking advantage of the recessionary real-estate market to strike up partnerships with realtors to stage free exhibitions.”
The End Of Cool?
“The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness. I think this is good news. As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich range of sources–cherry-picking whatever makes sense to them–it becomes more natural to do the same thing with their social, political and other cultural ideas.”
Is Canada Prize Poised For A Reappearance?
“[F]ederal Heritage Minister James Moore said the magic, startling words during a media scrum: There will be news about the Canada Prize ‘very soon.’ Many felt sure that plans for an annual international culture contest in Toronto would just vanish after a political storm that caught the Harper government by surprise in late January.”
As Child Actors Flourish On B’way, So Do Child Wranglers
“Safety is job one,” but for wranglers there’s also “lots of reminding the children, who range in age from 7 to 18, that while waiting in the wings they’ve got to keep their energy up and their voices down, that if they want to eat something while in costume they’ve got to put on a robe, and that roughhousing while in costume is simply not in the script.”
Novelist Annabel Lyon Wins $25K Writers’ Trust Prize
“After being denied two of the big awards for which she was nominated this year, last night Ms. Lyon won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for The Golden Mean, her popular novel narrated by a boldly imagined Aristotle.”
Artists Object To Gag Clause In Cultural Olympiad Contract
“The arts-festival portion of the 2010 Olympics risks sliding into a squabble over free speech, as artists who signed on to be part of the Cultural Olympiad learn of a clause in their contracts that prohibits negative comments about the Games and its corporate sponsors.”
Julie Andrews Plans A Comeback Concert
A dozen years after “an operation to remove non-cancerous nodules from her vocal cords was thought to have ended her singing career,” Julie Andrews, 74, is to “announce today a homecoming concert in London that is expected to net £1 million in box-office receipts and will be one of the most scrutinised shows of next year.”