“In 1941, when she was 22, Mona Inglesby founded the International Ballet. For the next 13 years, through some of the worst austerity Britain has ever known, she ran it entirely on the basis of its box-office success. It’s a feat never repeated by any ballet company since.”
Tag: 12.09.12
Novelist Wilbur Smith Paid £15 Million For Six New “Plot Outlines”
“Smith will reportedly sketch plot outlines and characters, leaving his appointed writers to flesh the skeletons out into full books. The new arrangement means his output of novels will dramatically rise, delighting his fans and adding to his fortune, already estimated at £100million-plus.”
‘We Had Battles In The Beginning’: Nikolaj Hübbe On Coming Home To The Royal Danish Ballet
“[The] system here, which is a civil servant one, can really breed complacency. … When I came, the company took class when they felt like it. … I said, you are wasting the opportunity to improve. What I learned is that you can’t just tell people what to do in Denmark. You have to explain your point of view, why, and what good can come out of it.”
Charles Dickens’s Great Disappointments: His Children
Robert Gottlieb: “Now people, if they think of Dickens’ children at all, say, ‘Oh, they were failures.’ But they weren’t. … What’s interesting is not just that he expected so much of them, but that we, because they are the children of Charles Dickens, expect so much from them.”
Need To Up Your Writing Output? Hire A Co-Writer
“The concept is not too dissimilar to ghostwriting, but while it is widely accepted that ghost writers are commonly used for celebrity-penned biographies or novels, the notion that Wilbur Smith – as a working author – could hire co-authors has caused some rumblings in the press and among literary purists.”
Is There Too Much Information In The New Movie Technology?
“The new technologies – high-speed, high-definition, 3-D, etc. – used in many of this year’s blockbusters, are, I think, overloading my brain with so much information, forcing me to see in such a new way, that the mere act of watching them exhausts me.”
Can Social Media Be The “Moneyball” Of Canadian Indie Film?
“If we can get Canadians to fall in love with Canadian filmmakers early we believe we can be the Oakland A’s to the New York Yankees of the big studios.”
US Schools Dropping Fiction In Favor Of Non-
“Books such as JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird will be replaced by “informational texts” approved by the Common Core State Standards.”
Using 3D Printers To Recreate Ancient Artifacts
“Using a process called photomodeling, the Harvard team photographed sculpture fragments in the museum’s collection from hundreds of angles to create 3-D renderings of each piece, then meshed them together to form a semi-complete 3-D model of the original artifact.”
In Recession, Europe Cuts Back On Public Art
“It is curious, therefore, that people don’t consider public sculpture an important part of the civic landscape.”