The 2009 Stage 100 list in full.
Tag: 12.30.09
The Lessons For Hollywood From 2009
“Among them: audiences don’t flock to see just any superhero … torture-porn is over, with the Saw franchise finally hitting a wall; and people seem more interested in seeing stars … on tabloid television shows than on the big screen.” Most of all, “[m]oviegoers decided that relatable, nonthinking comedies … are the perfect balm for the recession.”
David Levine, 83, NY Review Of Books Caricaturist
“[His] macro-headed, somberly expressive, astringently probing and hardly ever flattering caricatures of intellectuals and athletes, politicians and potentates were the visual trademark of [the magazine] for nearly half a century.”
Auction Prices For Koons, Hirst Plummet
“Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, the stars of the art boom, were deposed as auction bestsellers in 2009 as prices for some of their works fell 50 percent. It may take much of the next decade before their works return to record prices, dealers say.”
The Semiotics Of The Dude
“The Big Lebowski has spawned its own shaggy, fervid world: drinking games, Halloween costumes, bumper stickers (‘This aggression will not stand, man’) and a drunken annual festival … The movie is also the subject of an expanding shelf of books,” including scholarly studies. Why? “Where cult films go, academics will follow.”