“Her family spent the first five months of detention in stables at the Santa Anita Park racetrack. It was there that three animators from the Walt Disney Studios taught her to draw.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
British Author On A Ramble With His Son Gets Questioned For Kidnapping
Will Self and his 11-year-old son were following a British tradition of long, rambling walks when police got called in to protect the boy. The author is … er … not best pleased.
Want Proof That Alfred Hitchcock Loved Dance? Watch His First Film
“It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the British filmmaker had a soft spot for dancers. Think of his nonverbal finesse, his precise and fluid way of blocking scenes and isolating gestures, as in a work of dance-theater.”
Eventually, That Broken Heart Might Mend Damn Fast Via Computer Interfact
“Sure, it sounds like movie fantasy right now, but don’t laugh off the imagination of Hollywood screenwriters; sometimes the movies can be a great predictor of things to come.”
Stop Making Fun Of Life-Saving (Or At Least Eyesight-Saving) ‘Star Wars’ Action Figures
“Action figures provide all the interactivity of video games without the eyestrain — but with much of the freeform imaginary wonder of sticks and rocks. I would contend that the Star Wars toys many of us used to play with … open up remarkable new avenues of creativity for children.”
How Did A Legendary Editor And A Legendary Media Mogul So Badly Misread The Fate of ‘Newsweek’?
Current and former employees claim that Tina Brown and Barry Diller “underestimated what it would take to reverse the dive of a print magazine (the two have acknowledged as much) and that there was never a credible plan to integrate the products into a better whole (an opinion they utterly contest).”
The Largest African-American Theatre Troupe In The U.S. Is Suddenly Homeless
“The Black Rep has to move anything it has from the theater by Friday, August 16. A liquidator will empty the theater completely at the end of the month.”
(British) People Don’t Just Enjoy Opera, They Long To Create Opera
“Budgets for these operatic laboratories are minuscule, but the atmosphere is rich in constructive critical encouragement. As yet, no masterpieces have emerged from the Petri dish, but one day who knows?”
U.S. Tech Companies Aren’t Exactly Beloved In Europe
What with Amazon’s labor practices, Google’s Street View, and Facebook’s issues with privacy, Europe – especially German – is not into boosterism these tech companies often receive at home.
Turning Hurricane Sandy’s Devastation Into Theatre – About Hurricane Sandy
At the Rockaway Theatre Company, which lost everything in the hurricane: “There was the darkness part of the story, all storm songs and rain and wind songs. And then the other side is the comeback, the light that we would be coming into.”