“The rest of us who saw 1984’s Amadeus were prepared to accept at face value playwright Peter Shaffer and director Milos Forman’s portrait of Salieri as a mediocrity who despised Mozart’s God-given talent, and who thus wreaked revenge on the innocent genius. Not Kyer.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Man Who’s Transforming The Family Sitcom
“When a colleague kept comparing the colleges they had attended, Barris recalls, ‘I was like, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you went to school, because right now I’m looking at you across the table. So kudos to Harvard! Because we make the same money.’ ‘”
Modern British Writers Say Happy 200th Birthday To Charlotte Brontë
“The Lowood episode is the most frightening boarding school story ever written, and, of course, all children, me included, think they are friendless, persecuted and despised, and identify with the poor orphan.”
Dear Hollywood: What Is UP With The Yellowface?!
“Which is worse: Hollywood not casting Asians to play Asians or Hollywood pretending that Asians don’t exist in the first place?”
How U.S. Coastal Cities Left The Middle States Behind
“The relative decline of St. Louis—along with that of other similarly endowed heartland cities—is therefore not simply, or even primarily, a story of deindustrialization. The larger explanation involves how presidents and lawmakers in both parties, influenced by a handful of economists and legal scholars, quietly altered federal competition policies, antitrust laws, and enforcement measures over a period of thirty years.”
The Young Artists Destroying Stereotypes About Asian American Women
“They asked Asian women to finish this sentence: ‘All asian women are not ____.’ They received hundreds of submissions, but decided to present 100 statements that seemed to consistently come up. The statements succinctly touch upon the fetishization of Asian women, the model minority myth, the token sidekick and myriad other stereotypes that Asians face.”
A 19-Year-Old Braves Everything To Lead A Women’s Orchestra In Afghanistan
“Now living in an orphanage in the Afghan capital of Kabul, Negin leads the Zohra orchestra, an ensemble of 35 women at the Afghanistan National Institute for Music that plays both Western and Afghan musical instruments.”
The Bolshoi’s New Director Gives His First Western Media Interview
“Vaziev insists it was time for him to return home to the tradition he grew up in as a dancer. He says he brings few lessons back from his time in the West, other than being firmly convinced there is nowhere in the world that ballet is danced better than in Russia.”
The Murky World Of The Ancient Artifact Market
“On the one hand are the source countries, which are mostly poor and have passed laws against taking ancient objects out of the country — but they often don’t have the wherewithal to enforce the bans. On the other hand are the rich countries where the collectors live.”
Remember When Amazon Prime Was For Free Book Shipping?
Now you can get a Netflix-competitor standalone Amazon Prime Video service. Books? Other goods? Meh. Streaming!