The musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie scooped the major awards, but who won everything else? Here’s the list.
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Woody Allen (Who Has Also Been Accused Of Abuse) Seems To Defend Harvey Weinstein And Then Backtracks
This happened first: “You also don’t want it to lead to a witch hunt atmosphere, a Salem atmosphere, where every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself.” Then today, he clarified, “When I said I felt sad for Harvey Weinstein I thought it was clear the meaning was because he is a sad, sick man.”
The Next Thing Millennials Will Kill: The Lottery
That’s bad for state coffers, and thus possibly for arts budgets. How can states get Millennials addicted to what is, after all, legalized gambling? The obvious: “Georgia, which runs the fifth largest US lottery program in terms of sales, introduced smartphone lottery game apps in an attempt to appeal to millennials.”
Some Books To Read When Everyone Is Talking About Assault And Rape
There’s a list, but first … “In publishing, just as in the movie business, there are men we warn women not to work with, not to be alone with, not to send work to. The burden has always been placed on women to keep each other and ourselves safe—men don’t take accountability for their actions, and why should they? After all, they aren’t held accountable for those same actions (but sometimes their victims are). This is called rape culture.”
How To Fail At Running A TV Show Before You Save It
Christopher Rogers of Halt and Catch Fire:”We call it redefining the story of losers. History seems to gravitate toward narratives centered on big personalities, so when you talk about this world, you talk about Steve Jobs, Bill Gates. If you talk about search, you talk about Google. But it’s so much more complex than that. It’s millions of people in obscurity who did most of the heavy lifting, only to have somebody step in and get the credit.”
The Smithsonian’s First Choreographer In Residence Takes On Sylvia Plath
The director of the National Portrait Gallery: “The corporeal verve of dancers is a perfect remedy for the typically static environment of museums. ‘All these artificial boundaries between art and poetry and performance need to come down,’ Sajet says. ‘Our goal is to bring a sense of emotion about who we are as humans into the Portrait Gallery.'”
The 102-Year-Old Artist Who Paints The Past Century Of Jewish Life In Europe And Israel
The story is quite amazing: “The artist, Tova Berlinski, was born in 1915 in the Polish town of Oswiecim, better known by its German name — Auschwitz. Newly married, she and her husband left for what was then known as Palestine in 1938, a year before the Germans conquered Oswiecim and began building the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp on the edge of town.”
The Man Booker Shortlist Is Out (And It Doesn’t Include ‘Underground Railroad’)
And the UK’s The Observer isn’t thrilled with the list: “When Lola Young, as chair, summarised the shortlist as ‘unique and intrepid books that collectively push against the borders of convention,’ she articulated a mission statement for a final session that promises to be an excruciating visit to the third circle of a literary critical inferno.”
Top AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 10.15.17
On playwrights attempting to be in the driver’s seat: my experience at Dominique Morisseau’s “Pipeline” at LCT
I’ve recently starting working as an assistant professor and program director for a new MA in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship (MA AME) at The New School. If you don’t know it, The New School is … read more
AJBlog: JumperPublished 2017-10-15
‘Just Like Real Life’
William Cody Maher & Signe MählerWilliam Cody Maher & Signe Mähler Oct. 21 – 28 at Freehome / Berlin “two people who have been living together for a long time have learned how to live … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2017-10-14
Replay: George Balanchine’s Duo Concertant
Duo Concertant, Hugo Niebeling’s 1973 film version of George Balanchine’s 1972 ballet. Kay Mazzo and Peter Martins, who created their roles for New York City Ballet, are the dancers, and Igor Stravinsky’s score is played … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-10-13
What’s Up With The Ultra-White Romance Genre?
The authors of a report on diversity in the genre are the owners of the U.S.’s only romance-focused store, and they love the genre. But the numbers are bad – in some cases, abysmal. They say: “The traditional romance publishing industry is going to collapse if it doesn’t start hiring authors that reflect the current U.S. population.”