Michael Wolff: “Books Are Evil!”

If there are still good books, they are largely irrelevant to a form and business that is largely about the creation of the artifact–identifier, symbol, leave-behind, brand enhancer. Books are a sales tool. They’re propaganda. And they’re fake. A lie. So many are just simply not written by the people the publisher tells you they are written by. Somebody should sue.

A Case For LA As A Theatre Town

“According to an Actors’ Equity Assn. spokesperson, there are roughly 79 theaters in Los Angeles that use one form of equity contract or another, a number that doesn’t include any big sit-down productions or the 40 or so theaters that sometimes use an Equity member or a guest artist or special appearance contract. Nor does it include the huge number of 99-seat productions each year (verging around 1,000, was the estimate).”