Rhimes proceeded to call a “high-ranking executive” at the company to figure out the issue, but he showed no interest in giving television’s most prominent showrunner a $154 ticket to the park. “Don’t you have enough?” he allegedly responded. Rhimes collected herself, hung up, and called her lawyer with a simple directive: She was going to move to Netflix, and she’d “find new representatives” if that couldn’t be accomplished. – The Hollywood Reporter
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Marge Champion, Dancer, Choreographer, And Live Model For Disney’s Snow White, Dead At 101
“Fame arrived in the late 1940s, when she and Gower Champion began a professional dance partnership that continued through the next decade. … In television appearances and a slew of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie musicals including Show Boat (1951), they produced a chemistry that recalled for many viewers … the earlier performances of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.” And yes, as a young woman she modeled movement for Walt Disney’s animators, not only as Snow White but also as Dopey the dwarf and the hippo in Fantasia. – The Washington Post
48 Artists Reimagine The “I Voted” Stickers
In addition to the New York Magazine covers, 500,000 stickers will be distributed for free at retail locations including Crate and Barrel and CB2, who, along with Warby Parker and EHE Health, are supporting the project’s printing costs. The sticker sheets will also be distributed by book stores and museums across the country, and at nonprofit organizations including the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, as well as official polling sites such as the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Brooklyn Museum in New York. – New York Magazine
Carlos Acosta’s Genius Idea: Socially-Distanced Tutus
For Lazuli Sky, the first new work Acosta has presented at Birmingham Royal Ballet since becoming artistic director at the beginning of this year, “we wanted a piece where nobody would touch each other and so the dancers will be wearing elongated structures” — in this case, more than six feet wide — “that are not static but are constantly moving and creating different shapes, evoking your imagination.” – BBC
Landscape Architects Unveil Plan To Save National Mall’s Tidal Basin
The Tidal Basin connects centuries of American history and includes memorials to Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. Some 1.5 million people walk along the basin’s rim during the annual Cherry Blossom Festival each spring. But with increased car and foot traffic, the ground underneath is dipping. As sea levels rise, the walkways flood daily. – NPR
Don McLean Explains ‘American Pie’
That’s not to say he finally tells us what the lyrics mean: “Carly Simon’s still being coy about who ‘You’re So Vain’ was written about. So who cares, who gives a fuck?” But he does discuss the song’s structure as a fusion of folk, rock, and old-school popular song and about the roots of its inspiration in his suburban New York upbringing and family tragedies. – The Guardian
Queen Arthur? 8-Year-Old Swedish Girl Pulls Ancient Viking Sword From Lake
“I felt something in the water and lifted it up. Then there was a handle and I went to tell my dad that it looked like a sword,” Saga told the broadcaster Sveriges Television. – BBC
Ruth Falcon, Soprano Who Became Leading Voice Teacher, Dead At 77
From the mid-1970s through the ’90s, she had a career at most of the world’s top opera houses, but in 1991 she began the job for which she’ll be remembered: teaching singing at the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan. Among her students, there and in her private studio, were Deborah Voigt, Sondra Radvanovsky, Nadine Sierra, Kate Lindsey, and Danielle de Niese. – The New York Times
Theatres Remain Dark In The US – Some Are Blaming The Actors Union
“Some theater professionals say Equity’s lockdown could effectively kill off the entire industry — an industry that generated about $17 billion in ticket sales in 2017, according to a March study from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the National Endowment for the Arts.” – Fort Myers News-Press
Piet Mondrian Heirs Sue German Museum In U.S. Court For $200 Million Worth Of Paintings
“The suit has been filed [in federal district court in D.C.] against the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, which is located in a western German city near Dusseldorf, by the three U.S.-based children of American abstract artist Harry Holtzman,” who was the sole inheritor of Mondrian’s estate. “The heirs are attempting to recover four paintings by Mondrian that are currently held by the museum and damages for an additional four Mondrian works which the museum no longer has.” – ARTnews