“Well, the game has changed. The big movies are all franchises based on cultural properties, less star vehicles than spectacle machines.” This, as it turns out, is not entirely a bad thing, especially for the actors.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Tail Resonance: Hummingbirds Play Their Feathers Like Violin Strings
“When you think of bird songs, you probably think of songs that come from their mouths. But hummingbirds have a whole different kind of music – one that comes from their feathers. As they fly, they spread their tail feathers, and the air passes through them, causing them to flutter. And that flutter, like a violin string, creates sound.”
Henry Louis Gates Collects Black Sambo Memorabilia
And he’s got very credible reasons for doing so.
From Swamplands To Vampires, Karen Russell Sees Things Through Teenage Boy’s Eyes
“I remember desperately wanting to write a story [for the latest collection] that was not from the point of view of an adolescent boy, because it had felt like that was exclusively what I had been doing. … I think, if given my druthers, everything I write would have everyone be like 13 to 15 in some kind of island morass, or some B horror movie Swiss Family Robinson situation. That just seems to be where I live, narratively.”
Can They Make A Respectable Musical Out Of The Bridges Of Madison County?
Well, they got a good movie out of it back in the day. And this venture has a lot of talent behind it: composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown, playwright Marsha Norman, and director Bartlett Sher along with his design team from the Lincoln Center Theater South Pacific.
David Carradine’s Last Movie Was Funded By Tax Fraud
“Richard Driscoll’s Eldorado was pegged to become a cult classic – the first British film shot in 3D set to be released posthumously as the last ever movie starring David Carradine. But after it was funded with £1.5 million taken from the taxpayer it never saw the light of day.”
New World Record Price For Islamic Art Set By Persian Carpet
The rarely-displayed Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet, one of 25 auctioned off at Sotheby’s by Washington’s beleaguered Corcoran Gallery of Art, sold for $33.765 million – a new high for art from the Islamic world and well over triple the previous record for a carpet.
A.M. Homes Pips Hilary Mantel To Take Women’s Prize For Fiction
“AM Homes became the fifth American in a row to be named winner of the £30,000 prize, formerly known as the Orange, for her sixth novel, May We Be Forgiven” – defeating the oddsmakers’ favorite, Hilary Mantel’s multiple award-winner Bring Up the Bodies.
Hirshhorn Museum Officially Deflates The Bubble
“The Seasonal Inflatable Structure project, informally known as ‘the Bubble,’ is dead, the Smithsonian Institution and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced Wednesday. The decision … caps years of high-level debate and division about what the Bubble would mean for the Hirshhorn and the Mall.”
Conductor Quits Opera Australia’s First Ring Cycle
Richard Mills “has withdrawn just months before the November launch of the $15 million Neil Armfield production of Wagner’s tetralogy, due to a lack of both ‘chemistry between cast and conductor’ and ‘unity of vision’, Mills commented in a statement issued today.”