Aaron Sorkin: “I understand that news outlets routinely use stolen information. That’s how we got the Pentagon Papers, to use an oft-used argument. But there is nothing in these documents remotely rising to the level of public interest of the information found in the Pentagon Papers. … Every news outlet that did the bidding of the Guardians of Peace is morally treasonous and spectacularly dishonorable.”
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Could Sony Sue Media Outlets For Reporting Hacked Info?
Over the weekend, star attorney David Boies wrote numerous news outlets on Sony’s behalf to warn that any leaked Sony documents should be destroyed, not published. Could the entertainment giant win a lawsuit over this? Probably not, argues law professor Eugene Volokh – if the media respect certain boundaries.
Richard Linklater On The Hardest Scene To Write In His 12-Year Epic “Boyhood”
“If there was one scene that felt like it was looming over all those years, it was the good-bye scene. I knew that the last shot of the movie would be Mason at college meeting someone – I had that in my mind for ten years, and I was looking forward to that – but I knew that the scene before it had to be the emotional break of the movie, when son parted from mom. It’s where Boyhood kind of ends emotionally, although spiritually, it continues.”
Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center Receives Largest-Ever Gift, $38 Million
The grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation includes $25 million for the endowment (pledged as matching funds) and $13 million for capital improvements, in particular at the Alliance Theatre. (The Woodruff also includes the Atlanta Symphony, which locked out its musicians for the first nine weeks of this season, and the High Museum of Art .)
Irene Dalis, 89, Star Mezzo-Soprano And Opera Company Founder
After a two-decade-plus career as one of her generation’s leading dramatic mezzos, Dalis returned to her hometown of San Jose, where she founded Opera San José in 1984 and led it to become a widely-admired regional company with its own theater.
Curtis Institute Of Music Gets $11.5M Gift From Board Chair
“Baroness Nina von Maltzahn is making a $10 million gift to the endowment to establish the Nina von Maltzahn President’s Chair, a post currently held by Roberto Díaz, plus $1.5 million to underwrite the Curtis on Tour program during the next three years.”
Pow! Right In The Canvas! This Video Game Lets You Punch A Monet
“Last week, IRL Monet-puncher Andrew Shannon was sentenced to six years in prison for his actions in 2012 (don’t worry, it has since been restored). As you take your anger out on the Impressionist masterpiece in the digital version, you can see the dollars’ worth of damage add up at the top of the screen – without the repercussions.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.15.14
Indianapolis Museum Stirs Up A Hornet’s Nest
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-15
“Forever Now,” Forever Yesterday: MoMA’s Failed Defense of 21st-Century Painting
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-12-15
Fire and Ice: Both Burn
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2014-12-15
Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows”
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-12-15
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Agnès Varda Is Fed Up With The Sexism Of European Cinema
“I know a lot of very good female directors and women editors and I would like them be more represented and helped by the European film academy.”