How did author and filmmaker Stephen Chbosky make his 1999 The Perks of Being a Wallflower, with its bad language, underage drinking, suicide, drug use and sex, into a PG-13 movie? An actors’ contest over the f-word didn’t hurt.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Rallying The Conservative Troops – With Poetry?
“In politics, mere dubious facts don’t ignite the media, or capture the imagination of the fact-laden undecided voter, with the same potency as exceptionally elegant, or pathetically inartful, expression. Politicians must be very afraid of the crudely put. So, is there a poet for Romney?”
Flaming Dance Swords Might Be A Little Bit Dangerous
For instance, the antique Samoan swords may have sparked off a fire that cause $150,000 in damages in Illinois.
Bettye Lane, 82, Photographer of Revolutions
Lane, whose photos of the 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality made front pages and who was one of very few photographers of Stonewall, “made a point of lugging her equipment to every rally — whether she was paid to go or not — and getting to know the leaders.”
Your Kid’s Brain, On Apps
“What’s unknown, but fascinating, is how media and especially touch screens, might shape — or warp — children’s attention span, language development, and dawning understanding of concepts.”
Does Norway – Which Sidesteps Literary Agents – Have Publishing Right?
“Norway buys 1000 copies of every book a Norwegian author publishes. It provides a $19,000 annual subsidy to every author who is a member of the Authors’ Union. The Association of Bookstores is allowed to have a monopoly on the sale of books–but is prohibited by law from engaging in price competition.”
The Scottish, Abstract Painter One Of The Young British Artists
Callum Innes “begins from a point at the very heart of the classical tradition of abstract painting, and he remains true to that tradition, especially its conjectural nature: the urge to continually explore and test what a painting is or might be. In this respect, he’s been called an ‘unpainter.'”
New Acting Director Named At Smithsonian History Museum
John Gray, the new director of the National Museum of American History, suffered a heart attack last week, so the museum made a quick temporary appointment.
That Theatre Snacks Lawsuit? Tossed.
Dang it: Price-gouging movie theatre concessions case is thrown out of court in Michigan. (Good news for Netflix, though.)
Readers Rejoice As Typography Makes The Sound and the Fury Clearer
“Faulkner readily acknowledged the difficulty of what he’d written. In fact, he himself first proposed using different-colored inks as a way to make Benjy’s section more accessible, with distinct shades assigned to its crisscrossed time-settings.”