“Your first experience with theater in this country tends to be a bad grade school play or a bad high school play that you have to suffer through a three-hour production that has absolutely no truth or meaning to it, or you’re trying to buy that a 16-year-old is Willie Loman in Death of a Salesman, and so it turns people off.”
Tag: 12.18.09
A Grim Prognosis For Bookselling?
“Is there a model for success selling content? I think the answer to that question is “no.” I’ve spent my lifetime in book publishing and so did my Dad; I don’t like coming to this conclusion. But what I think I see is that selling content as a publisher is a business that is going to just get harder and harder until it won’t really be much of a business anymore.”
Businesswoman Surprises Young Pianist With Gift Of Steinway Concert Grand
“He needs a concert piano to practise on.” Irene Besse said “there are no strings attached to her gift. She bought it with a bank loan and put the piano in the teenager’s name.”
Report: Illegal Music Downloading Isn’t In Decline Despite New Legal Sites
A survey for The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) revealed one in three consumers are using illegal sites.
Jennifer Jones, Golden-Age Hollywood Actress, Dead At 90
She “won an Academy Award playing a saint in The Song of Bernadette and became a popular sinner in Hollywood melodramas including Duel in the Sun and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.” Jones was also known for a tumultuous personal life that included marriages to producer David O. Selznick and industrialist Norton Simon.