“The Odeon and Cineworld cinema chains have cancelled screenings of Indian film Nanak Shah Fakir following a major sit-in protest at a branch of Cineworld in Wolverhampton. … The film, a biopic of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak, was being protested because the religion prohibits any personification of the Guru, either by actors or in animated movies.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Mixed Signals: Why People Misunderstand Each Other
Explaining the deep-seated psychological habits most of us have – the transparency illusion, the primacy effect (that’s the power of first impressions), and the fact that we all tend to be “cognitive misers” – that make it difficult to consistently get an accurate read on other people.
What On Earth Has Happened To Those Beloved Old Ballroom Dances? Competition, That’s What
Alastair Macaulay: “How should we react to a waltz in which the man’s opening move is to lift the woman and hold her horizontally along his chest as he turns? Had you thought of ‘Send in the Clowns’ as a Viennese waltz? Me neither. … It’s a tribute to the three-part PBS series America’s Ballroom Challenge … that the show broke down some of my prejudices.”
Jan Morris: ‘I Hate Being Called A Travel Writer’
“I have written only one book about travel, concerning a journey across the Oman desert. I have written many books about place, which are nothing to do with movement, but many more about people and about history.” Here, she answers questions, some from readers, about her book Venice, her career, and her brushes with history.
The Shakespeare’s Globe Round-The-World “Hamlet” Tour: Postcards From The Halfway Mark
“After 80,000 miles, 96 countries and more than 150 shows, the two-year worldwide tour of Hamlet has reached its halfway point in Spain – on Shakespeare’s birthday. Here’s a taste of some of the shows so far.” (slideshow)
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This Theater Company Makes House Calls
“The latest iteration of intimate, in-home performances – think home concerts – Salon Ariel hopes to fill a void in the theater world.”
Christo’s Next Project Will Let Us Walk On Water (Sort Of)
His first major work to be realized since The Gates in 2005 – and the first since the death of his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude – The Floating Piers will be “three kilometres of shimmering yellow walkways on Lake Iseo in Italy that will link two of its islands to the mainland for the first time.”
A Brief History Of Religion On The Stage
“Religious drama is one of the oldest forms of British theatre, with the incorporation of performance into worship recorded from the time when Christianity was only 500 or so years old.” Mark Lawson gives an overview of the 15 centuries since then, from medieval mystery plays through Murder in the Cathedral and Jesus Christ Superstar right up to The Testament of Mary.
Lars Von Trier: ‘I’ve Started Drinking Again, So I Can Work’ (Uh-Oh)
The all-too-irrepressible filmmaker, in one of the few interviews he’s given since his unfortunate Nazi joke got him banned from Cannes in 2011, talks about anxiety, AA, rebellion, Dogme, and why he puts so much sex in his movies (He comes from a nudist family).