“The trouble with Jean Cocteau was the breadth of his talents: poet, playwright, performer, filmmaker, sculptor, painter and musician. Celia Bernasconi, the director of the new museum, says that that’s exactly what turned the French against him.”
Month: February 2012
Who Is Elizabeth McGovern? (Aside From Lady Grantham On ‘Downton Abbey’)
“The English approach to show business and their work is more — and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say — but it’s more, they work on it as a craft job. There’s not the expectation that any minute they’re going to take over the world, the way show business is set up in L.A., for instance. I feel comfortable with that.”
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Finds The Love Online
When 15,000 viewers watched a webcast of the DSO, they set a new record – one that the DSO hopes to overturn. “‘Our goal is to be the most accessible orchestra on the planet,’ Scott Harrison, the orchestra’s executive producer of digital media, said in a statement.”
Portrait Of Mary Todd Lincoln A Hoax – And So Is Its Poignant Story
The portrait, which has been hanging in the Illinois Statehouse, isn’t of Mrs. Lincoln at all. “Bauman identifies the culprit behind the scam as Ludwig Pflum, who rechristened himself Lew Bloom and was given to the kind of self-invention that America became famous for during the industrial era. He worked as a jockey, circus clown, boxer and vaudevillian before settling on art collecting.”
Lucian Freud’s Assistant, Model And Photographer Talks About The Artist
David Dawson: “Even though Lucian said he was not a creature of habit, the one thing he did do every single day of his life was get into the studio every morning. In our 20 or so years he did not miss a day, literally. And I had to be there first thing every morning, seven days a week, to prepare it for him.”
What Did ‘It’s Halftime In America’ Mean In Cinematic Terms?
J. Hoberman explains the Clint Eastwood (oh, and Chrysler) Super Bowl commercial: “‘It’s Halftime in America’ was a most effective bit of political theater — maybe the best of its kind since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 ‘Morning in America.'”
The Secrets To Lighting Up The Stage
“The intensity of the colours in the new lighting is really completely different. If we were to go back 20 years, the world would look so different, lighting wise. I spend a lot of time in China and the light there is very different, so that inspires me. But I guess, like every lighting designer, most of the inspiration we get comes from the sun.”
Remember When A TV Kiss Could Change The World?
“There was a time when a kiss, delivered by the right kind of person to the right kind of person, could set the whole country abuzz and speak profoundly to our national identity crisis.”
Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, Author Of ‘The Last Lecture’
“Zaslow, a columnist and best-selling author whose books included chronicles of a dying professor’s last lecture, a pilot who landed a crippled commuter plane in the Hudson River and Representative Gabrielle Giffords’s recovery from wounds in a horrific shooting in Arizona, died on Friday in a car accident in northern Michigan.”
Yes, Happy Birthday Dickens And All That, But Trollope’s Our Real Model
“With our robber-baron bankers, our financial panics, our privileged political elite and our disenfranchised migrant workers, it can feel as if we are living through a new Victorian era; certainly the narrative mode that Trollope established in The Way We Live Now has seen a renaissance in recent years.”