“A raft of companies offering specialised media services has sprung up, eager to lend Hollywood a helping hand in producing and marketing films with a Christian-friendly message.”
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TV Viewers: Bad Language Increasing
UK TV viewers say there is more bad language than ever on TV. “Overall, the Ofcom report said viewers felt that swearing started earlier in the evening and that soaps and reality programmes had contributed to this decline more than other genres.”
In Buenos Aries: A Historic Theatre’s Hard Times
“Over the past decade, the Colón, which opened in 1908, has had seven different artistic directors or coordinators, including one who held the job twice. That chronic instability might have reached a peak in October, when the new management was forced to suspend the entire 2006 season, only to reverse course in early November when a tentative labor accord with one of the theater’s two unions was announced.”
Broadway Dance May Lose Home
New York’s Broadway Dance Center, “which has shaped the dreams – and the legs – of Broadway-bound hoofers for more than two decades, may lose its home, becoming the latest example of how the heated real estate market is squeezing arts groups in the city.”
Movie Tentpoles…. Maybe Not Such A Good Idea?
“Because the studios are trying to respond to a clear audience demand for more material that’s fresh and unpredictable, they are greenlighting riskier fare. The results this fall were disastrous. A spate of fall movies crashed and burned, movies that if they had been produced and marketed at the independent level might have worked.”
Auditor General: Canadian Content Rules Need More Attention
“Ottawa spent $2.2 billion on culture in 2002-3, including $1 billion for the CBC, Fraser said in her report. But Canada’s Heritage Department does not have a clear strategic plan for Canadian culture and the many agencies involved in cultural funding all seem to go their own way, Auditor General Sheila Fraser said.”
When Jazz And Hiphop Got Together
“The jazz/hip-hop nexus is simply a cultural and genealogical fact. Turntablists, MCs, and jazz musicians are collaborating every day. And yet the impact of hip-hop on some of the best new acoustic jazz still isn’t widely understood.”
A Few Minutes With The NYer’s Fiction Editor
Deborah Treisman feels the weight of history as fiction editor of the New Yorker. “I carry the weight of this 80 years on my shoulders. Everyone puts the magazine on a pedestal and they spend all their time staring up at you adoringly or trying to knock you off that pedestal. There’s such an engaged relationship with the magazine because it’s been around for so long. Even though I’ve only been there for 8 or 9 years, I’m accountable for 70 years before that, somehow.”
CBC Prez Under Attack
CBC broadcast chief Robert Rabinovich is expected to come under fierce rebuke by a Canadian parliamentary committee today over his running of the public broadcaster.
Baltimore’s Walters Museum To Expand Again
The museum is buying a nearby building. “The Walters, which opened in 1934, now fills three buildings and in recent years has been active on the renovation and refurbishing front. In 2001 it completed a $24 million renovation of its main building; last fall it finished remodeling its smaller signature palazzo -like building. “We had just reopened the original Walters building and in the last four years had installed 4,000 works. And then before we had a chance to put our feet up, this opportunity happened.”