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Tag: 12.03.10
A Generational Battle For This Year’s Oscars?
It’s early yet, but this year’s best picture race — for both the Globes and the Oscars — is quickly shaping up as a battle of old versus new, pitting the emotional uplift of the historical drama “The King’s Speech” against the exhilarating immediacy of “The Social Network.”
Why Are Grammys So Much More Mainstream Than Oscars?
“Why are the Grammys so much more oriented toward the mainstream than the Oscars, whose voters regularly opt for cinematic snobbery over populist appeal? If anyone has a theory, I’d love to hear it.”
Thieves Make Off With Truck Full Of Art In Spain
“Thieves near Madrid, Spain, have stolen a truck with 28 works of art, including at least one Picasso, Spanish police say. Police estimate the value of the works stolen at 2.7 million euros ($3.6 million Cdn), but art experts estimated it was closer to five million euros ($6.6 million).”
American Poet Wins Dylan Thomas Prize
“Elyse Fenton has been awarded the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize, set up to honour the Welsh poet and encourage writing among the young. Ms Fenton’s collection Clamor is the first book of poetry to have won.”
A Broadway Ticket With Something Extra?
“True, few theater devotées would make their Telecharge choices based on the possibility of scoring a free snack. But in some instances, the lure of something special may be the only way to get a particular group of bodies in the seats.”
Black Swan – A Ballet Movie That Doesn’t Like Ballet
Director Darren Aronofsky “may offer all the usual accessories to the tale – vengeful ageing divas intent on thwarting the bright young thing headed to her doom, tyrannical directors, ambitious mothers, vicious colleagues, absurdly high stakes – but he forgets to like ballet.”
British Government To Display Its Art Publicly For The First Time
“Government Art Collection works are to be shown in a public gallery for the first time in its 113-year history. The collection has more than 13,500 works which usually hang in embassies and other governnment buildings.”
Mark Morris: My Hard Nut Is Not a Nutcracker Spoof
“Mine is fully classical; it’s more classical structurally and compositionally than a lot of classical ballets. I love a good Nutcracker that I didn’t make up better than anyone else, I love this stuff. It’s not a sendup. It’s a perfectly legitimate version with virtuosic dancing, and of course there’s funny stuff, and scary stuff and sexy stuff and, it’s sad.”