“In the aftermath of its July 27 sale to Disney, film historian and author Leonard Maltin recalls Fox’s wild early days, a predator mogul, firings and backstabbings, and along the way, movies from Cleopatra to Titanic (and movie stars like Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Temple) that impacted the world.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
‘Life In The Foxhole’: An Oral History Of 20th Century Fox
“The Fox film studio essentially died July 27 when shareholders voted to merge with Disney. As the House of Zanuck and Murdoch faces a fraught future, The Hollywood Reporter looks back at the hits (The Sound of Music, Star Wars), the flops (Cleopatra), the stars (Marilyn Monroe) and the legacy of a Hollywood institution.”
Six Reasons Some Genuinely Gifted Dancers Never Make It Professionally
“You need so many factors, and some of these are out of your hands,” says the founder of Youth America Grand Prix. “The process of becoming a professional is different than being a professional,” points out the director of NUVO Dance Convention. Here are half a dozen problems and pitfalls involved in that transition – and suggestions for getting through them.
Julie Kent On Why Directors Sometimes Need To Criticize, Re-Cast, And Even Fire Dancers
Yes, it should be done respectfully and sensitively, writes the longtime ABT principal, now director of The Washington Ballet, but it’s far better than stringing a dancer along and letting him or her stagnate and get frustrated.
Are The Rape Jokes In This Play Beyond The Pale? Actually, They’re Not, Argues Lyn Gardner
Several critics have objected to a scene in David Ireland’s Ulster American, now running at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in which two male characters talk about which well-known females they would rape. “The rape conversation is not just thrown in to give the audience a good laugh, it is there for a reason. Actually, many reasons,” writes Gardner. “It may be extremely discomforting to watch, (there were several moments when I realised that my jaw was hanging open) but I don’t doubt that everyone involved interrogated every single one of the decisions they were making. Very carefully.”
Comedian And Critic Feud, And Everyone At Edinburgh Fringe Takes Sides
“Sinha, who has a Radio 4 show and is a regular contributor to ITV’s quiz show The Chase, labelled Scottish writer Kate Copstick a ‘sociopathic bully’ after she responded angrily to being refused entry to his show. The Scotsman critic wanted to see his show’s only preview night in the city.”
A New Co-Artistic Director At Marlboro Music School And Festival
Pianist Jonathan Biss, who began attending Marlboro as a 16-year-old student, joins Mitsuko Uchida at the helm of the summer conclave in the hills of southern Vermont.
Russian Court Orders Artwork Depicting Putin Destroyed
“The condemned work, entitled 9 Stages in the Decomposition of the Leader, is a print of nine time-lapse digital images showing an official portrait of the Russian president over a seed box, with each image documenting the disintegration of Putin’s portrait as grass grows through. … [This] may be the first recent case of Russian authorities ordering the destruction of a specific work of art.”
H.F. ‘Gerry’ Lenfest, ‘One Of The Greatest Philanthropists Philadelphia Has Ever Seen,’ Dead At 88
After launching and building up the television company Suburban Cable and then selling it to Comcast, Lenfest spent the second part of his life giving away more than $1.3 billion dollars to arts and education. “He was chairman of the board of old-line institutions like the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Curtis Institute of Music, … and he willed new ones into existence.” Among those are the Museum of the American Revolution and the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, to which he donated The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com (all of which he had acquired outright in 2014).
224 Artworks Are Missing From UK Parliament’s Collection
“A huge haul of paintings, etchings and prints are unaccounted for – with the authorities at the House blaming database errors but admitting they do not know whether they have been stolen.”