Will Simon & Schuster end up an orphan?
Publisher’s Weekly
PLUS: NEW YORK MAGAZINE COLUMNIST says merger isn’t about synergy, it’s the stock price.
Month: September 1999
NERO’S MOTHER’S HOME
Workers digging a new road near the Vatican have discovered a frescoed wall that experts believe might be part of the emperor’s mother’s house. – CBC
DANCE MUSIC IS THE JAZZ OF THE ’90s
So says this critic for the Irish Times. Unfortunately, the Irish and British governments are no fans. In 1994 they passed the Criminal Justice Act and Public Order Act, effectively outlawing many aspects of club culture. How similar to the social marginalization of the pre-Second World War jazz scene. – Irish Times
THE US IS ALREADY THE FIFTH LARGEST SPANISH-SPEAKING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
But the market for Spanish books is as diverse as the Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Central Americans and other Latinos within it. – Publisher’s Weekly
The New York Times Bestseller list
Amazon, the online retailer, recently marshaled its attorneys for the right to use the list in its marketing. Now book superstore Barnes & Noble has announced it doesn’t want to use the list at all. What’s the fuss about? – New York Times
Writing with substance
Is it really true that “the question is no longer what the writer has written but rather who the writer is?” Jonathan Yardley writes about the pressures of writing literate. – Washington Post
CHINESE DIRECTOR ZHANG ZIMOU WON ANOTHER TOP AWARD AT THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL –
– for “Not One Less,” the true story of a rural village schoolteacher who risks everything to bring back a tyke sent to the city to work. It was Zhang’s third major prize in Venice, and confirms him as one of the most original film makers working today. – Variety
THE ART NEWSPAPER wonders –
– how much the dollar-value (English pound-value?) of a work of art affects the way we look at it. There’s a little test at the end of the story. –
The ARTNewspaper.com
Only 5 percent of Movies shown in Canada are Canadian made
In Mexico it’s only 2 percent. The two countries got together last week to talk about how to preserve their own cultural identities. CBC
KICKING THE LIFE OUT OF LIVENT
Since being taken over by the giant New York-based SFX company, Livent, the once-proud theater giant, has been undergoing dismantling. More than 100 employees have been fired, and the company’s theater holdings around North America are being evaluated. CBC