Mr. Slatkin tweeted about the mistake on Monday morning, writing, “Andre deserved better.” – The New York Times
Month: September 2019
Bob Iger, Hollywood’s “God King”
“In a town where everyone is always filleting everyone else, Mr. Iger floats above it all, cosseted in what some call a “a cult of nice.” He may own most of the box office, but he is shielded from schadenfreude because the people who would ordinarily begrudge him are happy that someone was able to assail the unassailable Netflix, and rescue the spirit of Old Hollywood from the takeover of the deep-pocketed tech giants.” – The New York Times
Time To Rethink The Ticket Model For Classical Music Concerts?
Is it so far-fetched to wonder what could happen if — like museums, which only raised about 13% of their budgets through admissions fees and memberships in 2015 — they shifted even further away from relying on ticket revenue and more toward a low-cost membership model? – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Next Evolution In The Art Gallery Model?
“The disruption in the art world is not going to come from the Internet, it’s not going to come from business-people. It’s coming from the artists. The artists are going to change the model of how they engage with the public. Changes are coming.” – The Daily Beast
State Of Illinois Wants To Sell/Demolish One Of Chicago’s Best Post-Modernist Buildings
“In 32 years of annual “most endangered” designations from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Thompson Center is the youngest building ever to make the list. It’s also a prominent presence on the endangered lists of local activist groups Preservation Chicago and Landmarks Illinois (which, looking at the environmental impact, estimates that demolishing the center would create 145 million pounds of waste).” – Chicago Reader
When Copy Editors Backstopped The News Room
“It makes me crazy reading sloppy, typo-strewn copy. Ditto for readers, as has been made clear by the hundreds of emails I receive complaining about errors and inexcusable typos. The takeaway is that we just don’t care enough to give every story a good shake.” – Toronto Star
Russian Court Frees Actor After Public Protests
Pavel Ustinov had been arrested during anti-government protests last month. The backlash against the case came largely from Moscow’s theatre community, which carries plenty of social capital with government elites who seek to co-opt and befriend popular actors and directors. – The Guardian
How Ann Patchett Threw Her Entire Book Away (Parts Of It A Few Times) Before Getting To The Right Voice
Patchett, author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder (and the new The Dutch House): “It was a funny thing to throw a book out. People seemed much more upset about it than I was. Some people said, It must be like a death! It was nothing like a death. It was like burning a cake. You know that feeling? Oh, hell, I burned the cake. Then you cut the cake open and eat the little pieces in the middle that aren’t completely ruined, then you bake another cake.” – LitHub
Netflix Might Start Giving Out Bonuses For Successful Films
Of course, that would mean it might need to release numbers because, after all, what is “successful” for Netflix? Bonuses for awards, however, might also be in the works at the streaming giant. – Bloomberg
It’s Only 2019, But The Guardian Has Made A List Of The 100 Best Books Of The 21st Century
Agree, disagree, tick off the ones you’ve read on a list … whatever, here they all are, from nonfiction to poetry to doorstop novels to graphic novel memoirs to everything else that won the approval of the British newspaper’s reviewers. (We hesitate to imagine the epic meetings and battles that took place to decide on number one.) – The Guardian (UK)