“Without plot, there is no reliable access to character; Christie understood this. Her characters are properly, realistically three-dimensional – which doesn’t mean what many seem to think.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Picasso Stage Curtain Exiled From Four Seasons Gets A New Home
“On Sunday morning it was hanging, rolled up in a 23-foot tube, over West 77th Street. At the ready were about two dozen people, on the street and inside the museum on Central Park West, prepared for the final hours of an operation that had been planned for months and rehearsed repeatedly.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Franz Wright, Son Of A Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, Dies A 62
In his poetry, he explored “the competing imperatives of self-annihilation and self-preservation; his yearning for his father, who abandoned the family early; his labyrinthine struggles with alcoholism, drug addiction and manic depression; and his eventual, cautiously hopeful passage out.”
Are Women (Finally) Dominating The Box Office?
At Cannes, yes: “Historically, film markets have been a breeding ground for macho-infused action fare, but increasingly the other gender is the focus.”
Sylvie Guillem Has Been A Prima Ballerina For Decades, But Now She’s Stepping Away
“What others found difficult, she found easy, coming top in every exam. She was, quite simply, built to dance, in perfect proportion, with strong, arched feet, long legs, flexible ligaments, and great strength. But she also began to see dance differently, to feel that she was capable of expressing steps in new ways by extending the technique she was being taught.”
The Great War Writer Whom America Just Plain Forgot
“Wouk never lets the reader forget that the Second World War was the biggest collective undertaking in the history of the human race. No movie could ever depict it, because no movie could ever have the budget.”
The New York Times Book Review Hires Friends Of Writers To Review Books Sometimes, But Is That OK?
“A personal connection with the author, or well-known strong feelings on the book’s subject, may actually be considered a positive, or at least not a disqualifier, Ms. Paul told me. … Landing an accomplished reviewer who will write a provocative, well-informed piece ‘is what gets us excited,’ she said.”
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When Marc Maron Interviewed Uber-Interviewer Terry Gross
“She thought about being a writer; she tried teaching. Then she began volunteering at a local radio station. (There was an opening at the feminist show because one of the producers was moving to the lesbian feminist show.)”
It Took Queen Latifah 20 Years – And HBO – To Bring A Movie About Bessie Smith To The Screen
Director Dee Rees: “This is a woman who is complicated, and even the way she’s talked about is complicated. And no two people necessarily agree on who she was or how she was. And if I couldn’t answer the ‘how,’ I wanted to answer the ‘why.’ I wanted to understand what’s inside her, so I started with her lyrics, with the songs she wrote, to try to really understand her as an artist.”