From One Second to the Next, a 35-minute documentary made as part of AT&T’s “It Can Wait” stop-texting-while-driving campaign, is “quite likely the greatest driver’s ed film of all time.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Arts In UK Face Losing Millions More In Funding From Local Governments
“Local authority support for culture will fall by a further £124 million in 2013/14, according to figures published by the Department for Communities and Local Government.”
Broadway Spider-Man Finally Ready To Become Multinational Industry
“Now that legal obstacles concerning ousted director Julie Taymor are officially settled, producers of Spider-Man are launching new versions of the musical, including a Las Vegas arena production, a touring arena show and a production in Germany.”
Can We Add (Part Of) Another Play To The Shakespeare Canon?
“For nearly two centuries, scholars have debated whether some 325 lines in the 1602 quarto edition of Thomas Kyd’s play The Spanish Tragedy were, in fact, written by Shakespeare. … But now, a professor at the University of Texas says he has found something closer to definitive proof using a more old-fashioned method: analyzing Shakespeare’s messy handwriting.”
Cuba Gets An English-Language Bookstore
“The brainchild of a longtime U.S. expat, Cuba Libro launched Friday as a bookshop, cafe and literary salon that offers islanders and tourists alike a unique space to buy or borrow tomes in the language of Shakespeare. Cuba Libro also gives customers an occasional glimpse of opinions hard to find elsewhere on the island.”
Readers Compete To Translate David Mitchell Into Chinese
“Chinese social network Douban is hosting a competition for readers to translate excerpts from David Mitchell short stories ‘The Gardener’ and ‘The Massive Rat’.”
Regina Resnik, 90, Opera And Broadway Star
A versatile performer who had two successful opera careers, first as a soprano and later as a mezzo, Resnik was known for a powerful voice, impressive dramatic skills – and for the snubbing she received at the hands of Met general manager Rudolf Bing even as she sang major roles throughout Europe.
The Russian Celebrity Who’s Fighting Her Country’s Morality Laws With Mockery
“Kseniya Sobchak is a celebrity, TV figure, and socialite, … whose late father was mayor of St. Petersburg and, in the early nineteen-nineties, a kind of mentor to Vladimir Putin … [She] is an attractive woman of about thirty known for her audacious, even provocative, talk about any matters from politics to sex.”
Footage From Jerry Lewis’s Suppressed Holocaust Movie Leaks Onto YouTube
“A seven-minute report from a 1972 Danish television show about the making of The Day the Clown Cried” – which Lewis admits he withheld from release out of embarrassment – “surfaced recently, and based on that, the movie looks hammy and self-important at the same time.”
Revisiting The City Of God Favela, A Decade On
“Ten years after a Rio de Janeiro slum called Cidade de Deus (City of God) burst into the world’s consciousness with the hit film of the same name, very little has changed for the residents and the actors have enjoyed mixed fortunes.”