“Olympic ice dancing also now carries the reality-television, celebrity-culture appeal of shows like ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ programs that have turned the salsa, tango and fox trot into somewhat quantifiable competitions.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Should Minneapolis Terminate The Lease For Orchestra Hall?
Minnesota Orchestra musicians have been locked out of Orchestra Hall for more than a year – but “under the terms of its lease, the [Minnesota Orchestral Association] is required to show how the facility is being used to promote the arts in Minneapolis.” Hm.
Sex Without Rhythm Is Like Poetry Without Words, Right?
“Literature about sex should never be seen as a guide for the uninitiated, she warned; the choices for her Penguin anthology were driven by literary merit, not instructional value.”
Multiple Oscar-Winning Producer Saul Zaentz Dies At 92
Zaentz was a “fiesty music industry executive turned independent movie producer who won three best-picture Academy Awards in three different decades” – for One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, and The English Patient.
Star Trek Pioneered A Lot Of Things On TV, Including Sex With Aliens
These episodes of the original Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation “may have allowed viewers to reconsider knee-jerk and intolerant positions on sexual difference; as we see the pain caused by intolerance, we have a chance to rethink our positions.”
Is High School Theatre Dying Because Of Censorship?
“Why aren’t more high schools producing David Mamet plays, or Neil LaBute, Yasmina Reza, John Logan, or Rajiv Joseph, and thereby exposing the students and the school community to new works? Because they’re too busy with Beauty and the Beast, Seussical, and The Wizard of Oz.”
Sharing Your Netflix Password Will Probably Get A Lot More Expensive
Uh-oh: “Selected customers pay more if increased number of people log in to the account at the same time.”
Novels Are In Grave Danger, And So Are Readers
“On the desolate beach that is the lot of the contemporary book reader, the footprints of one companion can still be found. They belong to the writer.”
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
You know those weird Netflix genre categories you’ve seen on your “recommended” screen? Well: “Netflix possesses not several hundred genres, or even several thousand, but 76,897 unique ways to describe types of movies.”
When Should You Take A Potty Break During The Movie?
There’s an app for that. (Yes, really.)