After a decades-long career as director of special events for the city of Philadelphia, Kauders decided to try for the career she’d secretly wanted since second grade. She went on to play bit parts in dozens of TV shows, from Law and Order: SVU to The Sopranos, and in films ranging from Witness to American Splendor to Predator 2 (she’s the one who went after the alien with a broom).
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Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.10.16
New vs. Existing: A Time for Every Patron
As a chief marketing officer, consultant and now managing director, I’ve participated in my fair share of marketing committee meetings. One of the most hotly debated topics is whether to focus resources on developing new audiences or on increasing loyalty … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-05-10
Christie’s Gets It Done: My Storify on Tonight’s Solid Contemporary Sale
Christie’s tonight pulled the art market out of its Sotheby’s-induced funk with a Post-War/Contemporary sale that hummed along nicely from beginning to end, with one manic moment … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-05-10
Satin and Furs and Love of Dancing
New York City Ballet’s Spring Gala celebrates with new ballets and a recent masterwork. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-05-10
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When People At Parties Ask Me About Being An Actor, Here’s What I Tell Them
“Your work-life balance will be perfect because there is no distinction between the two. … Get used to early mornings and late nights. There is no luxury of being an owl or a lark. You have to be both, and be fit at all sorts of times of day to produce deep emotions or light-hearted frivolity at the drop of a hat, whatever you actually feel. Ten or 20 times over if required.”
All The Murders And Suicides In Shakespeare, Mashed Up In One Performance
“The show, called The Complete Deaths, aims to re-enact every onstage fatality in the Shakespearean canon: stabbings, smotherings, poisonings, bear attack, being turned into baked goods, the lot.”
Iranian Cartoonist Freed After More Than A Year In Prison
“Atena Farghadani, who was sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison last June for … depicting Iranian parliamentarians as monkeys and goats in protest against two bills that will outlaw voluntary sterilisation and restrict access to contraception,” was released on May 3.
Seems We Just Can’t Get Enough Of The Tudors – Why Is That?
Charlotte Higgins: “When speaking to historians, novelists and curators of the period, I found that they would, at some point in the conversation, reach for a pop-cultural analogy. The Tudors are like the Kardashians, said one. They are like the Caesars, or the Kennedys, said another. They are like Game of Thrones, said one. They are like House of Cards, said another. They are like Dallas, they are like Dynasty, said another.”
Being Afraid Of Artificial Intelligence Killing Or Enslaving Us All Is Like Fearing Monsters In The Dark
Stephen Hawking: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
Luciano Floridi: “Suppose you enter a dark room in an unknown building. You might panic about monsters that could be lurking in the dark. Or you could just turn on the light, to avoid bumping into furniture.”
Why Friendship Is Not A Moral Good
Humanities scholar Alexander Nehamas: “The major point is that morality is supposed to be impartial and universal. … Contrary to morality, friendship is a kind of value that is absolutely partial and preferential. In other words, it’s essential that I treat my friends differently from the way I treat everyone else. I will do favors for you and I will help you in ways that I will feel absolutely no obligation to do for someone else. And that doesn’t fit with our conception of morality, which says you should treat everyone the same.”
Did This Guy Just Buy A Renoir Online For 700 Euros?
“Lyon resident Ahmed Ziani, who has been buying and selling art after losing his job as a mechanic, may have stumbled across a long-lost masterpiece by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Browsing classifieds site Le Bon Coin, Ziani thought he was buying an unsigned piece by 18th-century artist Vernet, and offered €700 for the work.”
Japan’s Vagina Artist Gets Split Verdict: Vagina-Shaped Kayak Is Art, But Digital Scan Of Her Vagina Is Smut
Megumi Igarashi – a.k.a. Rokudenashiko (roughly, “Little Miss Good-for-Nothing”) – made headlines worldwide in 2014 when she was arrested for making and showing a kayak modeled on a mold of her private parts. Now a judge has ruled that her bright yellow v-boat, as well as little figurines she sells, are indeed art (and thus protected under law), but distributing files for 3D-printing replicas of her vagina is “distributing obscenity.”