Screenwriter and Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson has prevailed in a lawsuit against another writer who penned a script about a love triangle involving art critic John Ruskin, his teenage wife Effie Gray and pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. Thanks to a ruling Tuesday, Thompson can release her film, Effie.”
Tag: 12.19.12
Vantage Press Shuts Down
“Vantage Press, one of the original ‘vanity’ publishing businesses, has closed three years after its acquisition by media investment banker David Lamb.” Says a lawyer’s letter to creditors, “Vantage does not have sufficient revenue to sustain itself as a going concern. It has, therefore, ceased all business operations.”
Study: Rock Stars Have Shorter Life Expectancy
“Specifically, they found the gap in life expectancy between pop stars and the public widened consistently until 25 years after the musicians first became famous.”
Remembering Dave Brubeck, My Dad
“At this age many in my generation are experiencing the loss of their parents. My situation is a bit different than most because not only did I lose a father, but I lost a dear friend and musical partner. We have been recording, performing, and writing together for over 40 years.”
Aging Rock Stars – Tough To Be A Young Rebel
“Their visible aging happens under the microscope, and seems somehow more tragic since they toil in a business built on youthful rebellion, and contrasts so sharply with our shared cultural images of them, frozen in youthful glory.”
Works By Foreign Artists Vandalized At Kochi Biennale
“Miscreants vandalised works by two foreign artists who are participating at the ongoing Kochi Muziris Biennale here, an act seen by the organisers as a conspiracy to derail the art event.” Throughout the lead-up to the Biennale, some locals have been protesting what they see as a focus on outsiders at the expense of Indian and Kerala artists.
Black Watch Director Leaves National Theatre Of Scotland
“The director behind the National Theatre of Scotland’s biggest hit, Black Watch, has announced that he is to leave the company. John Tiffany, who was named best director at this year’s Tony awards for his production of the musical Once, has stepped down as associate director for the National Theatre of Scotland, having held the role since 2005.”
La Scala Ballet Strike: Dancers Back Down, But Chorus Forces Cancellation
The corps de ballet members who were demanding hazard pay for performing on a stage with a 10-degree rake withdrew their strike threat at the last minute, but the choristers – who insist on extra money for memorizing their music and moving in time (the way they do for opera) – continued their walkout, forcing cancellation of the ballet season’s opening night.
Strauss-Kahn-Vs.-Hotel-Maid Case Is Now A Play (A Flop, In Fact)
“The calamitous moments inside the New York hotel that cost Dominique Strauss-Kahn his career, his dignity and possibly even his wife have now been turned into theatre. Some say bad theatre.”
‘Anti-Englishness’ Debate Roils Scotland’s Arts Community
Author Alasdair Gray “triggered a huge row at the weekend when it emerged he had written a hard-hitting essay – entitled ‘Settlers and Colonists’ – … [in which he] expressed opposition to short-term colonists who come north of the border to advance their careers, then head back to England,” singling out certain arts leaders in particular.