Christopher Plummer: “Julie, of course, had been, you know, trained since day one as a – I mean, she was tone perfect since she was in her cradle, which is an exasperating thing to admit. And it was awfully hard to match her and her sustained long notes.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Busking By National Anthem
How to earn money as a classically trained, former Marine Corps band saxophonist? Leaping and twirling, and spotting Japanese tourists, on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum.
A Book Inside A Game Becomes A Game Inside A Book
“At the core of Myst’s story was a mystical technology called Linking Books that pulled players into other realms, called Ages. They were these beautiful old tomes that, when opened, showed an animated preview of the Age to which you’d be linked.” So one Myst-lover created a real one.
Larry Hagman, 81, Who Played J.R. On ‘Dallas’
“Few actors enjoyed their fame as much as Mr. Hagman, who portrayed the oilman-robber baron J. R. as, in one critic’s words, ‘an overstuffed Iago in a Stetson hat.’ At the height of the show’s popularity, he handed out fake $100 bills with his face on them.”
Should Museums Rent Out Their Most Famous Works?
In Boston, “a total of 26 paintings, including the marquee Dance at Bougival and Madame Roulin, have been sent to exhibitions in Italy organized by a private company called Linea d’Ombra, for a large, undisclosed fee. The combined loans and rentals have resulted in what Malcolm Rogers, the MFA’s director, readily admits is a ‘traffic jam’ of missing masterpieces.”
Finding An Actor’s Director, And Becoming A Star
“The journey to being an American movie star, Mr. Schoenaerts said, can often feel like being in the spin cycle of a Laundromat and ‘it never ends.'”
King Croesus’ Golden Brooch Finally Returning Home
“Since being illegally excavated in the 1960s, it has been stolen, replaced by a fake, sold to pay off gambling debts and has allegedly brought down a curse on its plunderers.”
Electronic Music: It’s Not (And Never Was) Just A Guy Thing
“Female composers of electronic and computer music have long been overlooked outside circles of scholars and record scavengers. But because of the efforts of a handful of small, independent record labels, that situation has begun to change.”
Nobel Prize Choice A ‘Catastrophe,’ Says Former Winner
“Herta Mueller, the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says the choice to give this year’s award to Mo Yan is a ‘catastrophe’ that never should have happened, and accuses the Chinese writer of praising the Asian country’s tough censorship laws.”
Theatre Where Almost Anything Is Possible
Want to receive texts from a SuperFan about the show long before the show opens? Want to wear a mask with a beak? Theatres want to engage audiences – and it seems the audiences want to be engaged.