Jeune Femme took Cannes by storm last year, and its writer/director still says her star “was at once totally the character, and not the character at all. When I write a script, I can be a bit precious, so I need someone who’ll come in and blow the whole thing apart.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Is Broadway Dealing With Our Cultural Moment?
Not brilliantly. Or rather, some shows are doing pretty well with acknowledging what their audiences know, and how times have changed since the show first started, and some … are not.
Maybe Don’t Stress: Amazon Bookstores Can’t Actually Compete With Indies
“With all its gizmotopian technosyncrasies, it cannot actually compete with your neighborhood shop. It stocks too few books, its approach is too robotically data-driven, its employees are not remarkably knowledgeable about books, it is selling toys and e-gadgets as much as (or more than) books, it is not a cozy place to browse or to discover something you did not already know about.” Yes, fine – but Amazon is also still a huge threat to independent bookstores and to publishing itself.
A Paris Museum Held Special Hours For Nudists Over The Weekend
The Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art museum, hosted the group on Saturday. “It is the first time a gallery in the French capital has held such a naturist event. The tour was attended by some 160 unclothed people, with the event sold out in under two days.”
What’s Up With The Huge Rise In British People Going To Sculpture Parks (And Hugging The Sculptures)?
Attendance has increased to a half million visits per year at once sculpture park, and many others have seen their attendance doubled in the last few years. One artist thinks it’s down to emotion: “When you put your work in a park people will immediately voice their opinion and it seems more real and alive. With sculpture we have an emotional response that’s more connected when we’re outside with it.”
Barnes And Noble May Be Dying, But There’s Still Time To Save The Big Bookstore Chain
Basically, the only fix is antitrust legislation against Amazon. Meanwhile: “Barnes & Noble is in trouble. You hear that, in worried tones, when you talk to people in the book business. You feel it when you walk into one of the chain’s stores, a cluttered mix of gifts, games, DVDs (DVDs?) and books. And you really see the problems if you dig into the company’s financial statements.”
Parts Of The New (Old) War About German Identity Revolve Around Symbolism
First, there was a 47-second video that dramatically changed Germany’s concept of its ability to deal with contemporary anti-Semitism. And then there’s the Christian cross: “The situation in Germany has become complicated. Previous certainties are being lost and old battles are being launched anew. In Bavaria, for example, the cabinet of Governor Markus Söder recently moved to require that the cross be displayed at the entrance of every state government building.”
So An Indie Romance Writer Copyrighted The Word ‘Cocky,’ And Audible And Amazon Are Taking Down Other Authors’ Titles If They Include That Word
Yes, this is real – and no, it’s not funny for the authors whose livelihoods depend on having their books up on Amazon and Audible for the voracious erotic-romance-reading public to find. (Here is more background.)
Charlotte Bronte Definitely Wrote More Than One Good Book, But You Probably Didn’t Know That
Here’s why, according to writer and teacher Joanna Russ: “The myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers’ less good work as their best work. For example, Jane Eyre exists, as of this writing, on the graduate reading list of the Department of English at the University of Washington. … Villette does not appear on the list. How could it? Jane Eyre is a love story and women ought to write love stories; Villette, ‘a book too subversive to be popular,’ is described by Kate Millett as ‘one long meditation on a prison break.'”
Did Armenia Just Dance Its Way To Revolution?
This puts a new spin on the old Emma Goldman quote, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”