“Seinfeld, famously, was a show about nothing. Jerry Seinfeld’s new show, on the other hand, is clearly a show about something; it’s right there in the title: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. The meaning of something, of course, is relative.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
The Fearmonger’s Guide To Robot Composers (A Defense Of Software That Writes Its Own Music)
“We already use computers to edit films, process photographs, record and enhance music. Artists actually have a great working relationship with technology. So what’s the hang up with introducing computers into music composition? … [M]usic is different. It’s so rooted in math and science that it seems to make more sense to trust computers with it.”
Andy Warhol’s Odd Relationship With Food
As the artist-superstar, who grew up poor, once wrote: “Food is my great extravagance. I really spoil myself, but then I try to compensate … My conscience won’t let me throw anything out, even when I don’t want it for myself. … I’ll buy a huge piece of meat, cook it up for dinner, and then right before it’s done I’ll break down and have what I wanted for dinner in the first place – bread and jam. I’m only kidding myself when I go through the motions of cooking protein: all I ever really want is sugar.”
Help Choose The Worst History Books In History!
“[The] History News Network … has announced that it would be celebrating the Fourth of July by … accepting nominations … for ‘history books that nobody should take seriously’.”
Miami City Ballet Board Fires Executive Director
“Executive Director Nicholas Goldsborough, hired last fall to improve fundraising and management, is out as of Saturday. … ‘Apparently that is correct,’ Goldsborough said upon being told of a Thursday email announcing his resignation. … And staff at the company and its school have been told they will receive pay cuts and unpaid furloughs in the face of serious financial troubles.”
MGM Sues To Stop Sequel To Raging Bull
“Claiming breach of contract and four other counts, MGM put the legal gloves on today with Jake LaMotta and the producers of Raging Bull 2.”
Barnes Foundation’s Ex-CEO Claims Organization Was Never ‘Bankrupt’ (Strictly Speaking)
Kimberly Camp, who is writing a book on the museum’s controversial move, posted on her blog, “Bankruptcy was not the reason we filed the petition to move the Foundation to the city. At the time the petition was filed, the Barnes Foundation had a cash surplus and we had no debt – none. But, saying so made the rescue so much more gallant.”
Faulkner’s The Sound And The Fury To Be Published, As Intended, With Colored Ink
“The four sections of the book, which tells of the disintegration of a southern family, move back and forth through time. Faulkner had hoped to use different colours of ink to mark the sometimes-confusing chronological shifts.” Now, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the author’s death, the Folio Society is releasing a printing following Faulkner’s plan.
Actor Andy Griffith, 86
“With his lanky build, boyish smile and winsome drawl, Mr. Griffith was one of the most recognizable figures on television for more than five decades” – as the sheriff of fictional Mayberry, North Carolina on The Andy Griffith Show and as a canny Georgia attorney on Matlock.
Andy Griffith’s Greatest Performance
“But before he was Mayberry’s wise sheriff or Atlanta’s revered lawyer from the country, Griffith took on a quite different role in Elia Kazan’s brazen 1957 cautionary tale, A Face in the Crowd. He played a ‘Demagogue in Denim,’ as another character in the film describes him.”