The person who made the complaint said, “I simply believed that the comments made by Fry on RTÉ were criminal blasphemy and that I was doing my civic duty by reporting a crime.” Turns out that “Under Ireland’s Defamation Act 2009 a person who publishes or utters blasphemous material ‘shall be guilty of an offence.’ A conviction can lead to a fine of up to €25,000.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Stars Are Born (Sometimes Literally, Into Star Families) In Bollywood
Or at least that’s some of how it used to be. And Bollywood’s PR machinery, as in all of the film industry, worked overtime to support those stars. But things are changing. “Today, we are in the middle of a major transition. One of the great allures of stars, the reason for their success, is their mystery. One person among millions gets to make their dreams come true. … But today, anyone can be a star, truly. You can be an Instagram star, a Twitter star, a Youtube star, a Pinterest star, whatever! Put in enough work, be smart about it, and, in today’s world, you could easily be a star.”
Ellsworth Kelly’s Studio, Just As He Left It
His partner, photographer Jack Shear, took a series of black and white photos during the year after Kelly’s death. “I asked Mr. Shear why he chose to photograph the space in black and white. ‘I think color belonged to Ellsworth.'”
Anti-Fracking Group Buys Tickets, Blows Whistles, And Distribute Fliers To Protest The Boulder Chamber Orchestra’s Funders
Responses from the company, who were putting on a concert sponsored by Extraction Oil and Gas, were pretty much like “look, taking money from private funders is the only way we get to do music; please deal with it.” The protest group did not blow their whistles during the performance, “but the whistle-blowing prompted a response from University of Colorado police, who stayed through the second movement of [Beethoven’s Ninth] symphony.”
Five Lies Hollywood Tells Itself, And The Ways Those Lies Are Starting To Unravel
Among the tired tropes of backchannel Hollywood is that diversity doesn’t sell overseas and that women can’t open comedies (or anything, really). And then, of course: “It’s a mystery why Hollywood won’t cater more to baby boomers, especially given the success of the two ‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ films, which had seasoned casts and a combined $222 million in sales.”
What Kind Of Theatre, Exactly, Do ‘We Need Now More Than Ever’?
Broadway this season has pure escapism, like “Hello, Dolly,” and socially engaged theatre, exemplified by Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat.” The problem isn’t either one, argues critic Jonathan Mandell. “Escapist fare is most irksome not when it focuses on something other than the world’s concerns, but when it demonstrates an active indifference to those concerns.”
What’s It Like Being A (Not Sweet) ‘Old Lady Role Model’ In Hollywood?
Not easy. Not easy at all, says the 78-year-old president of documentary films at HBO, a woman who has won 31 Emmys in the process of overseeing more than 1,000 documentaries. And when an interviewer calls Sheila Nevins ‘an original,’ she says, “I think you pay an enormous price for being ‘an original.’ I think I’m empathetic. I catch rising stars. I catch falling stars.”
A Democracy Needs Storytellers, And Those Storytellers Need Good Technology
In other words: Use Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, and other social (and non-social) media to document stories of protest and stories of even small wins. “It is inviting and contagious for those who share views — seeing enough notes and posters in public makes it more welcoming to add your own. Visible support for a cause can translate into momentum.”
Got A ‘Too Hyper’ Kid? Take Him To Ballet Class [VIDEO]
Andreas Cross: “Doing these really big jumps, going down into splits, I just thought it was amazing.”
Here We Go: The Met Files A Request To Charge Non-New-Yorkers Required Admission To The Museum
And it’s all about the money, of course: “The Met’s current ‘suggested’ admissions fee, $25 for adults, generated about $39 million in the fiscal year 2016, or 13 percent of the museum’s overall revenue. A mandatory fee would be likely to generate tens of millions of dollars more a year.”