“Singers, actors, instrumentalists and dancers — a total of 128 performers are involved in the production — transform the city around you as you are driven around, occasionally changing cars, going for a stroll in a park or being guided through a building.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Safe Is Iran For Readers And Writers?
Ask Azar Nafisi, the woman who wrote “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” and she’ll tell you: “the truth of the matter is that the laws have remained the same, and there is no real security until there is real reform and real change. As you can tell from reading Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, the human rights situation in Iran — the situation of journalists, writers, political prisoners — that also remains the same.”
This ‘X-Files’ Episode Was Basically Banned From TV For Being Too Terrifying
“It just seemed like such a horrifying situation, and I’d been trying to use it. So we had been working out the story where there was another brother under the bed, and Jim Wong one day goes: ‘It’s the mother! The mother’s under the bed!’ And I felt Freud and Joseph Campbell do back flips, and that was that.”
How Shonda Rhimes Got So Successful
“Ms. Rhimes has decided to continue her year of yes. One of her biggest takeaways from the experience was learning to have difficult conversations. She now asks employees to speak up about their problems, and in her personal life, she has become more outspoken about her boundaries, such as not wanting to get married. ‘Across the field of difficult conversation lies serenity,’ she says, because ‘whatever the outcome’s going to be, at least you know.'”
There’s A New, Dark Ballet Series On TV
“The cast members who play dancers are actually dancers. Ms. Walley-Beckett regards the show, a psychological drama about obsession and worship, as the anti-‘Black Swan,’ the Natalie Portman thriller that was the last ballet drama to achieve mass success; it relies on neither the fantastic nor body doubles.”
Do We Seriously Still Need A ‘Women’s Prize’ For Fiction?
“What was it that meant that women’s work was not seen, somehow, as valuable as the writing of their male counterparts. Tradition; nervousness about a plurality of voices; a sense that some subjects were more important than others?”
Al Molinaro, The Diner Owner On ‘Happy Days,’ Dead At 96
“Molinaro, the basset-hound-faced character actor who was known for playing Al Delvecchio, the harried diner owner on the long-running sitcom ‘Happy Days’ — and who recommended a little-known comic named Robin Williams to portray an alien named Mork on a 1978 episode of the show — died on Friday.”
What The iPod – Now 14 – Did For Us All
“I gave in and bought a 160-gig iPod Classic, which remains the closest thing to an emotional holodeck. … Photos are souvenirs, but songs are a means of reliving.”
The British Museum Is Training Iraqi ‘Heritage Professionals’ In Rescue Archaeology
“‘While, at present, the situation on the ground in Iraq prevents direct intervention to protect those ancient sites that are currently held by so-called Islamic State, the scheme will instead plan for the day when the territory is returned to effective and legitimate governmental control,’ the museum wrote in a press release.”
Horror Movies In The U.S. Can’t Succeed Without Latino Audiences
“Edwin Pagan, who runs LatinHorror.com, a website for Latino horrorphiles, has a theory about why Latinos are drawn to the genre. ‘Traditionally, we have always loved ghost stories and the macabre and Gothic tales,’ he says. ‘They’re just sewn into the fabric of who we are as a people.'”