Andre Previn beats the odds with a second production of “Streetcar” announced for Pittsburgh. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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RADIO REVENUES –
– up a robust 34 percent annual rate, fueled by acquisition mania; film revenues up 19 percent. Variety
THAI FILM CENSORS –
– ban “Anna and the King,” deeming it disrespectful to the country’s royal family. BBC
TWO OLD PILES OF BONES
On a Canadian TV show John Irving attacks Tom Wolfe: “I can’t read him because he’s such a bad writer,” and dismissed Wolfe’s novels as “yak” and “journalistic hyperbole described as fiction.” Wolfe fires back: “Irving needs to get up off his bottom and leave that farm in Vermont or wherever it is he stays and start living again. It wouldn’t be that hard. – Salon
CUTTING THROUGH THE HYPE –
– about electronic publishing. – Publisher’s Weekly
THE UN-E-BOOK
Call them software companies, content-managers or digital distributors, but they all want the same thing: “to fundamentally disrupt the business of book publishing and bookselling — not the writing or editing of books, but everything that happens afterward, or, in New Media- speak, the way it is distributed to, and consumed by, the end-user.” – Publisher’s Weekly
THEATER RESOLUTIONS
Herewith one critic’s resolutions for the New Year in the hopes of making the theater a safer, saner place for all of us. Backstage
A THOUSAND YEARS OF THEATER
Not much theater going on in 1000, so on to the 20th Century and highlights in show biz. Backstage
IT’S BOOM TIME IN TORONTO THEATERS,
but no one knows quite why. Toronto Star
COMBINING PERIOD MUSIC WITH OPERATIC STYLE
“Gatsby” opens tonight at the Met. – New York Times
- “I ALWAYS WANTED TO WRITE OPERAS” says John Harbison. An interview. Boston Globe 12/19/99
- Previously: GREAT GATSBY: Metropolitan Opera’s first contemporary opera since 1992. Boston Phoenix 12/14/99
- And: COUNTING SECOND CHANCES: Few repeat productions. Hartford Courant 12/17/99
- And: Gatsby and the Jazz Age Toronto Globe and Mail 12/18/99