June Millington: “‘We were good, and we got better and better,’ she said. ‘So essentially [our message was] f*** you. But f*** you with a smile on our face because we want you to buy our records!'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Pervasive, All-Consuming Sexism Of Hollywood
“If the luminous Hollywood of my childhood was obliterated for good, it all started with ‘Jaws’ in the summer of 1975, which would devour half a billion dollars at the box office. America fell in love with the blockbuster, and Hollywood got hooked on the cohort of 15-year-old boys. It has never wavered in this obsession.”
Saturday Night Live Shows That Music Is The Only Way To Soothe The Savage Family Arguments At Thanksgiving
“With debate continuing to rage over the acceptance of Syrian refugees, the gender wage gap, police brutality, and the U.S. response to ISIS, there may be only one person who can bring generations of family members together: Adele.”
Science Fiction And Fantasy Get A Literary-World Approved ‘Best Of,’ At Last
“You have to create the compelling characters and have the beautiful prose and everything, but a science fiction story has to do all that and also build an entire world for you, or come up with some mind-blowing idea on top of all that.”
That Time A Religious Scholar Found A Fragment Of The New Testament On Sale For $99 On E-Bay
“The credit-card-size papyrus, which Dr. Smith dates from around A.D. 250 to A.D. 350, contains about six lines of the Gospel of John on one side and an unidentified Christian text on the other. If Dr. Smith’s analysis is correct, it is the only known Greek New Testament papyrus from an unused scroll rather than a codex, the emerging book technology that early Christians, in sharp contrast to their Jewish and pagan contemporaries, preferred for their texts.”
The British Art Elite Unites With Students In Outrage About Proposed Move Of Cass Design School
“The issue is not just about changing address and revisiting the menu, it is about a failure to respect the integrity of hands-on creative education or understand the real skills involved that make it attractive to students and their employers and enable it to thrive. Homogenisation is not the way forward.”
The Million-Dollar Bet On New Novelists
“Heavy bidding for first timers is ratcheting up the size of some advances, agents say, since the competition offers some reassurance that other houses see big potential in a book as well.”
Broadway Is Having A Wonderfully Diverse Season … In Front Of The Curtain
But backstage is a different story. When will that change?
Please Remember To Turn On Your Cellphones After Intermission
“The most striking new development is the normalization of onstage digital communication: the number of shows in which mobile devices and social media are not the subject of comment or criticism, but simply a contemporary reality.”
How Dance Shaped America (And Vice Versa)
“[Paul] Taylor’s use of everyday steps like skipping and hopping in his choreography is not so very different — though the venues surely are — from James Brown being inspired by the audiences dancing in the aisles at his electrifying concerts. Brown incorporated their moves into his act and took them on tour, serving as ‘the Johnny Appleseed of dance,’ in one biographer’s words.”