Not exactly the same ring to it, eh? Christopher Hitchens reflects on his pal Joseph Heller. How a cultural conundrum almost came up four short if not for Leon Uris. – The Nation
Tag: 12.21.99
EQUITY ACTORS
employment days/earnings hit all-time highs last year. Variety
CIRCULAR ARGUMENT
British Medical Association study says that playing the saxophone is a major health hazard for jazz musicians. – CBC
THE SECOND PERFORMANCE PROBLEM
Andre Previn beats the odds with a second production of “Streetcar” announced for Pittsburgh. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
RADIO REVENUES –
– up a robust 34 percent annual rate, fueled by acquisition mania; film revenues up 19 percent. Variety
THAI FILM CENSORS –
– ban “Anna and the King,” deeming it disrespectful to the country’s royal family. BBC
TWO OLD PILES OF BONES
On a Canadian TV show John Irving attacks Tom Wolfe: “I can’t read him because he’s such a bad writer,” and dismissed Wolfe’s novels as “yak” and “journalistic hyperbole described as fiction.” Wolfe fires back: “Irving needs to get up off his bottom and leave that farm in Vermont or wherever it is he stays and start living again. It wouldn’t be that hard. – Salon
CUTTING THROUGH THE HYPE –
– about electronic publishing. – Publisher’s Weekly
THE UN-E-BOOK
Call them software companies, content-managers or digital distributors, but they all want the same thing: “to fundamentally disrupt the business of book publishing and bookselling — not the writing or editing of books, but everything that happens afterward, or, in New Media- speak, the way it is distributed to, and consumed by, the end-user.” – Publisher’s Weekly