“For better or worse, Mr. Key’s government has taken extreme measures that have linked its fortunes to some of Hollywood’s biggest pictures, making this country of 4.4 million people, slightly more than the city of Los Angeles, a grand experiment in the fusion of film and government.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Will Immersive Reading Save Publishers But Kill The Traditional Novel?
“The buggy whip industry did not disappear overnight. But certainly many a tanner looked at the sputtering fruit of Henry Ford’s assembly line and began to lament the passing of the old ways.”
Ballroom Dancing: Psychologically (And Physically) Demanding
Strictly Come Dancing‘s Anton Du Beke: “For two decades he doggedly pursued his unfashionable passion, working variously as a baker, a painter and decorator and a furniture salesman, to fund himself on the amateur circuit.”
Naked Men Are Invading Vienna!
“I think we are just used to seeing naked women because they are used as objects of desire in advertisements and TV. Naked men are not that common – we are not used to seeing a penis. I think that is the main problem for people.”
No, Prehistoric Art Was Not All About Porn
“When respected journals–Nature for example–use terms such as ‘Prehistoric pin-up’ and ‘35,000-year-old sex object,’ and a German museum proclaims that a figurine is either an ‘earth mother or pin-up girl’ (as if no other roles for women could have existed in prehistory), they carry weight and authority. This allows journalists and researchers, evolutionary psychologists in particular, to legitimize and naturalize contemporary western values and behaviors by tracing them back to the ‘mist of prehistory.'”
Grow Old(er), And Wiser, Along With Robert DeNiro
“I have so much respect for people like Marty, or any director who only directs — all the battles over this and that, everybody giving their opinion. And you gotta listen to them. Because they paid for it. I’ve been through it, and it’s a real fight. There’s a quote: You gotta be part gangster. You’ve got to fight for what you want. You’ve got to listen to everybody’s opinion, then finally at the end of the day, you have to do what you feel is right.”
A Musician, Finding Home Transplanted From Home
The San Francisco Symphony’s assistant principal violist goes to Taipei to find Shanghai.
The Real Estate Market Needed To Be Jazzed Up, Right?
And so began the book readings (and lingerie buying opportunities).
One David Lynch, Many Artistic Moments
“Lynch’s best films have a creepy mixture of privet-fenced normality and psychosexual violence. There isn’t much of either in Tillim’s photograph. Lynch must have just liked it. But then things get very Lynchian indeed.”
Thieves Steal Ancient Petroglyphs In California
“Ancient hunters and gatherers etched vivid petroglyphs on cliffs in the Eastern Sierra that withstood winds, flash floods and earthquakes for more than 3,500 years. Thieves needed only a few hours to cut them down and haul them away.”