“The series of linked 5- to 10-minute shorts, aimed first on the Web and then perhaps television, will be set at a point in time before 2019, when the Harrison Ford movie takes place in a dystopian Los Angeles.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Baltimore Keeps Alsop Through 2015
“Marin Alsop, the dynamic American conductor who became the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 12th music director in September 2007, will remain in that post until 2015 under the terms of a five-year contract announced Thursday. That contract will begin when her initial three-year deal ends in September 2010.”
David Carradine, 72, Found Hanged In Bangkok
“As an actor, and possibly as a human being, David Carradine was a walking yin-yang symbol, a bundle of opposites tightly stitched together.”
Ballet BC Parts Ways With Artistic Director John Alleyne
“[H]e and the Ballet BC board came to a joint decision not to renew his contract when it ends June 30. Questions remain about the terms under which he is leaving, including whether he’ll receive a severance payout. The decision is part of a major restructuring plan that will leave the province without its flagship dance company during the 2010 Olympic Games.”
Yoko Ono, Putting Grief To Work
“Since Lennon’s death, she has been hounded for exploiting his memory; just last week she was castigated for including Lennon’s blood-stained clothes in a New York exhibition, a decision she justifies as a work of political art. […] Even at the height of her grief, she went on with her work … ‘[B]ut nobody really noticed,’ she says without rancour. ‘I was like a prisoner drawing on the walls or someone doing cave paintings. I was laying things for the future, for the next prisoner who might notice it.'”
20-Year-Old Aussie Wins Queen Elisabeth Competition In Brussels
“Ray Chen of Australia has won Belgium’s Queen Elisabeth Competition, which this year was for violinists. His prize includes 20,000 euros, concert engagements, a CD recording contract, and the loan for three years of the 1708 ‘Huggins’ Stradivari.”
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) Prepares For Second Mumbai Film
“The British film-maker has apparently bought the film rights to Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, a 2004 book by Suketu Mehta, the Indian-born, New York-based journalist and author, for an undisclosed sum. Mehta’s first book, a searing account of Mumbai – part personal essay, part travelogue – received global acclaim and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.”
Abbas Kiarostami On Having His Films Banned In His Homeland
“I only feel grateful that [the authorities’] power is limited to not releasing the films. The good thing is that their power doesn’t go any further than that. The people who really want to see them can do it illegally. The fruit is blown away. But others can catch it, and eat it. The wind knows where to take it.”
World Premiere At Luminato Postponed Due To – Weather
“Rain damage to the roof of a warehouse built in the 1930s has delayed the world premiere of the ambitious new opera, The Children’s Crusade, by composer R. Murray Schafer, as crews scramble to repair the structure and rebuild sets.”
Now’s Your Chance To Buy Your Own Performing Arts Center – In Beautiful Malibu!
“The Malibu Performing Arts Center – a performance venue and recording studio used by A-listers such as Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand and, recently, Sting – will be auctioned to the highest bidder on June 19 as part of the bankruptcy proceedings of its owner, the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Malibu.”