“There’s nothing new in our fascination with celebrities. But the Internet and the spread of “tabloid” culture into the mainstream have created a whirlwind in which rumor, claim and rebuttal swirl and feed off one another.
Month: June 2008
Does Product Placement On TV Need Better Regulation?
“Some are questioning whether viewers should be better informed when broadcasters are paid to feature a brand in a TV show. The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it will look into the blurring of the line between content and commerce.”
Bio -Degradeable
“Whatever happened to the golden age of biography? And what is the future for a genre in which the best subjects have already been written about, time and again?”
Should There Be Tax Incentives For Broadway Producers?
If film and TV producers get tax incentives to make their product in Gotham, why not legit producers?
The Lion King Effect
The show has been a huge success. And it seemed revolutionary. But did it really have an impact on the theatre or on Broadway?
Leonard Slatkin, The Washington Years
Slatkin the conversationalist is like Slatkin the conductor: You get a lot of material, flecked with flashes of apparent revelation that recede as quickly as they appear. Talking about one subject, his firefly mind is already on to the next one.
Lessons Buckminster Fuller Taught Me
“There was nothing mad, however, about Fuller’s objectives: He just wanted to invent devices that would help humankind and protect the planet (which he dubbed, no kidding, “Spaceship Earth”).”
Tere O’Connor On How To See Dance
“When did they get stuck interpreting or trying to impose a narrative? When did they lose interest or space out? When did they grasp a moment of emergence of what O’Connor called a developing architectural form?”
Why Your Brain Is Unreliable
“The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer’s hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man’s curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there. Every time we recall it, our brain writes it down again, and during this re-storage, it is also reprocessed. In time, the fact is gradually transferred to the cerebral cortex and is separated from the context in which it was originally learned.”
The Tango – Cure For The Blues?
Researchers in Australia are investigating whether doing the tango can help people battle depression.