Who knew that after somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 million books, movies, TV shows and documentaries about the Nazis, there was something left to learn? “Though elements of this tale have been told, the extent of narcotic consumption by Nazi soldiers and Hitler has surprised even those who have spent decades researching this era.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Emma Rice Says Gender Parity In Theatre Shouldn’t Be Hard At All (Of Course, She Said That Before The Globe Let Her Go Early)
The British director says the most American of slogans: “Just do it! You don’t need to agonize about how or why. … It doesn’t need to be a big deal. I think it was Geena Davis who said, ‘How do you get more women in films? Cross out the cast list and make half the names women.'”
Congress Makes A Law Banning Online Ticket Bots – Will It Help?
But let’s get serious here: The secondary market for tickets is worth something like $8 billion, so what do the scalpers care about a little bill banning their bots?
Will The Academy Ever Recognize The Skills Of Those Who Cast Movies?
Sure, casting geniuses get “special Oscars” sometimes, including this year, but “an Oscar category honoring casting alongside acting, directing, and the other long-recognized areas has yet to take hold.”
Mika Kurosawa, The Godmother Of Contemporary Japanese Dance, Has Died At 59
Kurosawa lived in New York in the early 1980s and was deeply influenced by that city’s experimental dance scene. “She was rebelliously devoted to dance; the trappings of fame or popularity were antithetical to her approach.”
The Lost Power Of ‘Life’ Magazine
Two in-the-theatres-now movies remind us that Life Magazine once set the national agenda. “Looking back at Life now is a bit of a shock. All those pages! All those ads! And how strange to think there was once a time when only a handful of trusted sources were delivering our news.”
Dickens’ Famous Little Christmas Book Actually Gets Its Power From Horror
Happy Scrooge is – frankly – a bit boring, but terrified Scrooge being dragged by chain-ridden Marley and all of those ghosts through the pit of despair his life has become? Oh heck yeah. You know you love it.
The Panel Mediating On Objects Stolen By The Nazis Says That Yes, A Rare Violin Is In That Group
The violin disappeared after its owner, a Jewish man who ran a music business in Speyer, couldn’t escape Nazi Germany and committed suicide; it reappeared in 1974.
Sure, You Can Have Your End-Of-Year Best Book Lists, But What About NPR’s Bizarrely Great Book Concierge?
Pick your desire – “eye-opening reads” that are “for art-lovers” – and click the buttons, and voila! The app, now in its fourth iteration, provides hours of fun and small quibbles with the creators – and a lot of opportunities to catch up on books readers had missed this year.
There Have Always Been Times Like These, And Artists Have Always Fought Back
Writer Kameron Hurley: “We are going to lose much in 2017. That is something that we as writers, as artists, as human beings, cannot forget … but we cannot allow it to let us lose our hope or our ability to tell the stories that not only earn us our supper but also inspire and comfort others during times of great upheaval.”