“Our entertainment industry is essential to our city’s identity and economy, and this campaign represents the next step in a strategic agenda to ensure Los Angeles remains the entertainment capital of the world.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
More Americans See Actors In Redface On Stage Than Ever See Native Actors
“My grandma walked straight to the president’s grave. She stood for half a second, then her neck arched back, her body heaved forward, and for the first time in my life, I saw my grandma spit. It wasn’t a casual spit. It was a once in a lifetime spit. I watched as the saliva of our ancestors flowed through her mouth and hit that grave with an echo that turned heads and stopped conversations.”
Grand Budapest Hotel Is The Rarest Of Things: A Thoughtful Comedy About The Holocaust
“To be sure, the period also needs to continue to be addressed head on. But hundreds of thousands of people who might otherwise shy away saw this movie, and took away its important lessons about tolerance, governance, and the rule of law. That matters.”
Why Do People Relate To Characters Who Aren’t Real?
“Fiction offers many pleasures – we may enjoy its capacity to make the world anew for us through its descriptions, or to advance our understanding of science or philosophy through its application of ideas to examples of human behaviour, but although it does – on examination – seem so faint as to be numinous, nonetheless it’s our conviction that fictional characters’ hopes, fears and desires matter that allows fictions to become facts on the ground – a ground we sympathetically traverse alongside them.”
Yes, The 3D Printer Will Initiate A Revolution – In Counterfeiting
“The potential impact of 3D printers for counterfeiting just keeps on growing: A recent report by Gartner Group speculates that intellectual property loss due to 3D printer counterfeiting could total $100 billion by 2018.”
To Become Great, Picasso Needed Paris
“Great French artists fed Picasso’s changing styles, while the city itself – with its sleaze and bohemianism – inspired his imagination.”
Crowdsourcing A Beloved Bookstore’s Minimum Wage Raise
“It occurred to Beatts that, to his customers, something like a membership might seem not only like an opportunity to help Borderlands but also like a genuine business transaction: they would be paying for the continued existence of what, to them, was an important gathering place.”
Dear Movie Studios: How About Bundling All Of The Oscar Nominees Into One Streaming Package?
“It isn’t hard to imagine someone downloading a best picture bundle and plowing through two or three movies a night the week leading up to the Oscars. The proposition has the added bonus of heightening interest in the broadcast, thus driving viewers to it and perhaps sparking their interest in other nominees, creating a theoretical virtuous cycle.”
Both Films That Are Favorites For Foreign-Language Oscar Are In Trouble In Their Homelands
“The two frontrunners on the five-strong shortlist have spurred intense debate at home, with critics arguing that one, Polish film Ida, misrepresents the country’s past, and that another, Andrei Zvyaginstev’s Leviathan, spreads calumny on Russia’s present and its ruling regime.”
The Tug Of War Over A 1711 Stradivarius That May Leave A Soloist Without His Instrument
“Zimmermann doesn’t own the violin. He rents it through an arrangement, struck with a now-defunct German bank, WestLB AG. That contract is set to expire Sunday night.”