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Tag: 11.25.13
Animals Were Harmed In The Making Of This Picture
Taking off from a newly-revealed incident on the Life of Pi, in which the tiger nearly drowned, The Hollywood Reporter presents an in-depth investigation of treatment of animals in the U.S. movie industry.
Peter Lewis, Arts Philanthropist, 80
“Lewis played a key role in the career of Gehry, the world famous Los Angeles architect. By spending more than $5 million over a dozen years on plans for a house by Gehry that he decided not to build, Lewis bankrolled experiments with computer technology that enabled Gehry to design the widely acclaimed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.”
Ian McKellen Says This Is Probably His Last Broadway Outing
The 74-year-old actor, currently appearing alongside Patrick Stewart in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Pinter’s No Man’s Land, says that he “night as well go out with a bang.”
Ousted Bolshoi Star Nikolai Tsiskaridze Testifies In Acid Attack Trial
The popular and outspoken dancer “told a packed Moscow courtroom that [Bolshoi Ballet director and acid attack victim Sergei] Filin had created an unhealthy atmosphere at the historic establishment by picking favourites and demoting others out of personal spite. He accused Filin of being known as ‘a poser and a hysteric’ … [who] always insulted people and yelled at everyone.”
Why Is Philosophy So Dominated By Men?
“Philosophy remains the most male-dominated discipline in the humanities, both in its population and its combative methods. Instruction in philosophy often consists of being reprimanded for mistakes so small you need a magnifying glass to see them.”
Vladimir Putin Orders Russian Government To Explore Buying Rachmaninoff Estate
“Simon Morrison, a musicologist at Princeton University, said the potential acquisition by Russia could shape a particular portrayal of Rachmaninoff and open new doors for researchers.”
Turmoil At The Dallas Chamber Music Society
“After more than five decades with a single artistic director, the late Dorothea Kelley, the group now has neither an artistic nor an executive director.”
Are We Destroying Great Art By Moving Them Around The World?
“It would seem that nothing in museums is now safe from this international exhibitions jamboree – no work plays too important a role within a collection, or is too fragile, or too unwieldy, to prevent curators from taking a gamble with its welfare (in hope of reciprocal loans and a curatorial buzz).”
Vladimir Putin’s Dead Poets Society
“Putin apparently decided recently that it was time for him to take over literature, and he reached for the only kind of literary legitimacy he understands: the great names.” Masha Gessen visits the University of the Friendship of the Peoples in Moscow for the All-Russian Literary Gathering, packed with namesakes and relations of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhentsyn, etc.