– as the 20th Century began, but this was definitely the century of American dance. A century’s end history of dance. – Boston Globe
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“A Celebration of 100 Years of American Dance on Film”
One of “the most improbable dance events of 1999. – New York Times
ENTERTAINMENT RENEWAL
Many cities believe the key to redevelopment of their downtowns is building entertainment/retail districts. Do they work? A survey. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
WHAT’S SO FUNNY?
Apres le Comedy Industrial Revolution – Have movies and marketing turned audiences into complacent consumers of mediocre comedy? Comedian Rick Maranis looks back at the slippery slope. National Post (Canada)
FAKE O’KEEFFES
Twenty-eight paintings in a Kansas City Museum may be frauds. CBC
BRITISH BALLERINA BADDIES
It’s been a bad year for British ballerinas – there were fights on a Royal Ballet flight, name-calling that led a dancer to quit a major tour, and then the infamous posing by English National ballerinas in their underwear for a magazine. It’s as though “the ballerina, once the representative of what was most graceful about British femininity, was a fiction that no one could be bothered to keep up.” – London Telegraph
PAUL BOWLES
Composer, poet, writer of “Sheltering Sky” was an icon of individuality and evocateur of old Morocco. Dies at 88. – New York Times
DIGITAL FILMING
“See this?” asks one director. “It’s a new, state-of-the-art digital camera. Costs about $3,000.” In case you had any doubts that digital cameras and production would change the artistic world of making movies … New York Times
JUST HOW OLD ARE THESE JUDGES?
Associated Press film reviewers pick 25 best movies of the century. The most recent to make the list was 1977’s “Star Wars.” The Oregonian
ON THIS SIDE, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS
On the other – basement radio geeks. Debating the FCC’s proposal to allow thousands of low-watt radio stations. On paper, the NAB ought to be able to squash this quixotic, power-to-the-people issue like a bug… New York Press