“In his latest film, director Michael Almereyda draws comparisons between Stanley Milgram and cinematic auteurs. There’s some research to back this analogy.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Disney To Launch Subscription Streaming In Great Britain
“The service, DisneyLife, will make available a wide range of titles, including the complete Pixar catalog, which includes the Toy Story franchise, and classics such as Snow White, Lady and the Tramp and The Jungle Book … DisneyLife will cost £9.99 ($15.43) a month.”
The Business Of Broadway: An Infographic
“Using data provided by the Broadway League, the industry’s trade association, The Wall Street Journal examines the business side of show business, from hits and flops to cyclical realities.”
Margot Winspear, 83, Philanthropist Whose Name Is On Dallas’s Opera House
With her husband, Bill, who died in 2007, she was a leading supporter of the performing arts in their hometown of Edmonton, Alberta and in Dallas, to which the Winspears moved in 1975.
Marty Ingels, Actor/Comedian/Voice-Over Artist, Dead At 79
“A raspy-voiced Brooklynite who co-starred with John Astin in the early-1960s sitcom I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster,” Ingels appeared on sitcoms like The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Addams Family and in such films as The Horizontal Lieutenant and Wild and Wonderful; among his many voice roles was Pac-Man. “But he was best known as half of what many thought to be one of Hollywood’s oddest couples.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.22.15
Sit Back & Enjoy the Ride: The Roller Coaster Career Plan
When I was younger, I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up: Theatre Director. But after a few years in that world, I didn’t … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-10-22
The Career Path of a Nonprofit Generalist
About a year ago, I was accepted into the Chief Executive Program at National Arts Strategies. This particular cohort is focused on leaders using cultural organizations to change/alter/improve community. Unlike … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-10-22
What Do We See and How Do We See It?
Leaving St. Mark’s Church after seeing Danspace Project’s presentation of Moriah Evans’s Social Dance 9-12: Encounter, I had a surprising thought about the experience: “This is so non-interesting that it’s interesting.” Then I spent the bus trip home wondering what I meant by that. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-10-22
Suffering Suffragettes: Save Tenafly’s Feminist Landmark (aka Charlie Brown’s)!
I ate at Charlie Brown’s while it was there for 25 years, and I never felt a connection with Elizabeth Cady Stanton while eating there. So said Mayor Peter Rustin of Tenafly, NJ, … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-10-22
“Danaë” Downpour: Metropolitan Museum & Yale University Shower Dealer Richard Feigen with Gold
Dealer Richard Feigen has once again used the imprimatur of the Metropolitan Museum to add luster to a work transferred from the Met’s galleries to an auction house’s premises. It now appears that Danaë’s golden … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-10-22
BlogBack: Curator Jonathan Stuhlman on the Met-to-Sotheby’s “Danaë”
As suggested in the BlogBack below, a few CultureGrrl readers and tweeters have interpreted my previous post – “Danaë” Downpour: Metropolitan Museum & Yale University Shower Dealer Richard Feigen With Gold – as criticizing the Metropolitan Museum’s curators for … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-10-22
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Ex-Principal Cellist Writes Of Coping With Career-Ending Hearing Loss
Janet Horvath, formerly associate principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra: “After a second months-long round of doctor-hopping, I finally met an ENT who seemed to understand my condition. I had developed a noise-induced ailment called hyperacusis, he told me, an auditory injury caused by repeated exposure to high decibels or a single acoustic shock. It was characterized by abnormal sensitivity – in other words, the total breakdown of tolerance to all sound.”
UK’s Grange Park Opera Evicted From Grange Park, Which Will Start Its Own Opera Company
“Grange Park Opera, based at the Grange, Hampshire, is to leave its home of 18 years after one final season next summer, after a long-running dispute encompassing one of Britain’s best-known banking dynasties, a new demand for rent, and [television presenter] Bamber Gascoigne’s stately home.”
Did They Just Find A Lost Donatello?
“Andrew Butterfield, an art dealer and Renaissance scholar, had seen the two-and-a-half-foot tall wooden sculpture several years before, in a photograph, and thought it was ‘really fantastic.'”
Terry Gross’s 40-Year, 13,000-Interview Master Class In Conversation
“Over the years, Gross has done some 13,000 interviews, and the sheer range of people she has spoken to, coupled with her intelligence and empathy, has given her the status of national interviewer. Think of it as a symbolic role, like the poet laureate – someone whose job it is to ask the questions, with a degree of art and honor. Barbara Walters was once our national interviewer, in a flashier style defined by a desire for spectacle. Gross is an interviewer defined by a longing for intimacy. In a culture in which we are all talking about ourselves more than ever, Gross is not only listening intently; she’s asking just the right questions.”