She started playing Joanie when she was 12. “Over the 10-year run of ‘Happy Days,’ Joanie transformed from the young teenager who complained about being sent to her room to a major character on the show. In later seasons, Joanie’s love interest with the aspiring musician Chachi Arcola became a major story line.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
American Poets Are Not OK With This Administration, And They Don’t Hesitate To Let Everyone Know That
Poet Jane Hirshfield, who hadn’t done anything political before (“I don’t even give dinner parties,” she said), participated in the Science March on Washington on Earth Day. She said; “Poems are visible right now, which is terribly ironic, because you rather wish it weren’t so necessary. … When poetry is a backwater it means times are O.K. When times are dire, that’s exactly when poetry is needed.”
If You Truly Want To Bond With Mozart, You Need To Adopt A Starling
He bought the starling and, when it died, wrote an elegy for it. Yes, really. “He paid a few kreuzers for a starling in that notebook. And he called the bird Vogelstar.”
So, How Do You Make A Horror Film That Makes Audience Members Faint – But Is Actually A Comedy?
“Raw” is the French director Julia Ducournau’s first feature film, and it’s already made waves. Here’s how she made the coming-of-age cannibal film, from getting the actors to bond through horror and beer to recreating the feel of a college down, aka places that “swim in the organic, heaving messiness of teens.”
Elizabeth Sargent, A Poet Who Was The Final Tenant Forced Out Of Carnegie Hall, Dies At 96
The space above the hall was a haven for artists of all stripes for many decades. “For Ms. Sargent, Carnegie Hall was as much sanctuary as studio. She moved there to distance herself from an abusive husband who drank, she said. Her starting rent for Studio 901, a well-lighted apartment with a lofted bedroom, was $188 a month.”
The First House Gaudí Designed Is Soon To Become A Public Museum
The private home in Barcelona had been the residence of a single family for almost a century, but now it will be (another, but can you have too many?) museum about Gaudí.
Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare
The Bard turns 453, and Stratford-upon-Avon is not missing out on a parade for the man.
Blurring Genres And Crossing Boundaries, Alone And In Collaboration
The artist Okwui Okpokwasili blurs boundaries, hates talking about genres, and collaborates both with her husband and a variety of other performers. “Nearly six feet tall, with a hypnotic voice and limbs that swallow up space, she pushes herself to the edge as a performer, playing with extremes of ecstasy, sadness or rage with almost dangerous intensity.”
Deconstructing The Met’s Many Woes
As Thomas Campbell begins his exit, the museum resets: “The wing will wait while the museum conducts long-needed repairs. Exhibitions will be cut back by as much as a quarter. And just as crucially, the Met is revamping its money-losing gift shop — because, as it turns out, America’s greatest storehouse of treasures can’t balance its budget without selling nicer scarves.”
Altadena Has A Revamped Bunny Museum, But Is It Great Or Creepy (Or Both)?
It’s all due to a love story, the Guinness Book of World Records, and a move from Pasadena in order to accommodate all of the bunnies – and to open the “Chamber of Hop Horrors, a room that only visitors 13 and older may enter.”