In the case of Let It Be, just beginning previews on Broadway, “one Beatles tribute band is in the curious position of defending itself against copyright infringement claims leveled by another Beatles tribute band.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Venice’s Flood Gate Project Devolves Into Massive Financial Scandal
The 81-year-old director of the project, who resigned less than three weeks ago (ostensibly due to ill health), and “six other people were arrested as part of an investigation into the alleged rigging of contracts and fraudulent invoicing.”
I Don’t Ever Need To See Shakespeare On A Stage Again, Says Critic
Rupert Christiansen: “Part of the problem is that I dislike the mainstream of modern directorial style, with its penchant for hyperactive visual sensationalism, combined with a tendency to sloppy or estuarine verse-speaking. But my doubts may go even deeper than that.”
Ira Glass Remembers David Rakoff
The host of This American Life pays tribute to his late friend, a longtime contributor to the show -and shares private video footage of Rakoff recording the audio version of his final book.
And What Does David Sedaris Think Of Same-Sex Marriage?
“See, I wish that gay marriage would be legal everywhere, but that no gay people would act on it. because, look. nobody wants to go to anybody’s wedding.”
Moulin Rouge Ballet To Be Filmed For Theatrical Release
“The Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s colourful dance production Moulin Rouge – The Ballet is being captured in a full-length, HD film that will screen in movie theatres across Canada.”
Alan Sokal Is Back
“British psychologist Nick Brown and two co-authors have just published an astonishing demolition of a top-ranked paper in the field of positive psychology … One of the authors of the critique is Alan Sokal, the physicist who, in 1996, famously wrote a parody of then-fashionable postmodernist theorizing and had it published as a serious paper in a sociology journal, thus sparking years of controversy.”
Sukkah City: Revisiting The Crazy, High-Concept, Temporary Jewish Huts Of NYC
“A documentary shows how a 2010 design contest became ‘probably the largest non-Orthodox, non-Israel centered public expression of Jewish life in the history of New York’.”
Mary-Louise Parker Threatens To Quit Acting Because The Internet Is So Mean
“I’m not really that into it anymore … The world has gotten too mean for me, it’s just too bitchy. All the websites and all the blogging and all the people giving their opinion and their hatred … it’s all so mean-spirited, it’s all so critical.”
Shakespeare’s Globe Wants To Tour Hamlet To Every Nation On Earth
“The Globe theatre is sending a production of Hamlet on the first genuine world tour in theatre history. Starting on 23 April 2014, the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the company will spend two years travelling by planes, trains, boats and buses to visit every nation on Earth – 205 countries in all.”