The justice’s nephew, Daniel Stiepleman, wrote the script; her grandson has a part; her daughter reviewed drafts of it, as did RBG herself. (“As if it were a contract.”) As Jane Ginsburg said, “There wasn’t going to be a movie, at least not by [Stiepleman], if my mother wasn’t comfortable with it.” — The New York Times
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For The First Time In A Seven-Decade Career, Rosemary Harris Is A Replacement Actor
The 91-year-old theatre legend talks about stepping in for Diana Rigg as Mrs. Higgins in the Broadway revival of My Fair Lady. (No, she wasn’t at all insulted, and she found the prospect daunting.) — TheaterMania
‘Beast Jesus’ May Have Been An Art Conservation Disaster, But It Has Transformed The Town That Hosts It
The Lord really does move in mysterious ways, it seems. Not only has tourism to the Spanish town of Borja more than quadrupled, but revenues have funded places for the indigent in the local old-age home. — The Guardian
New York Times Dance Critic Alastair Macaulay’s Farewell Column
“There have been breakthroughs and positive changes in the dance climate this century. They’ve made me happy. Yet, Cassandra-like, I foresee ills ahead. … We’ve now entered a Silver Age, in which theatrical dance is a less radically creative art than before. Where once choreographers forged their dance language, now they tweak within lexicons they have inherited from others.” — The New York Times
HMV, UK’s Biggest Music Retailer, Enters Bankruptcy For Second Time In Six Years
The chain, which has appointed administrators from KPMG, has been wallopped by online sales and streaming; it had an unusually weak Christmas shopping season this year. Customers with HMV gift cards are being warned to use them right away. — BBC
The Rise And Fall Of HMV
The BBC’s Jennifer Scott reviews a history that goes back to the very invention of the phonograph. — BBC
‘It’s Never Too 21st-Century For The Rockettes’: Sarah Kaufman On Why The World’s Most Famous Kick Line Still Pulls People In After 85 Years
“The Rockettes are all about power and cheery domination — they are a glittering army in heels — but there is no hierarchy. Their power is group power. It’s a collective whose uplifting force is greater than what any single dancer could achieve. There is something reassuringly American about them, their natural athleticism, their beauty, their wholesome sexiness.” — The Washington Post
Meet The First Dancer To Go From AileyCamp To The Main Ailey Company
As a 12-year-old on Chicago’s South Side, Solomon Dumas was interested in the arts but had never thought much about dance. Then his mother sent him to AileyCamp. “After that camp, I was completely obsessed.” — The New York Times
Hermitage’s Director Makes His Museum Major Player In Cultural Diplomacy
With a big Piero della Francesca exhibition at the St. Petersburg mother ship and exhibitions, exchanges, and even satellite museums abroad and regional Russia, Mikhail Piotrovsky, compares his Hermitage to the Sputnik program: “a mobile cosmic system with satellites in different orbits.” — The Art Newspaper
Italy’s New Nationalist Government Makes Leonardo Da Vinci A Battleground
“Nationalism — taboo for half a century following World War II and the fall of Mussolini — is suddenly in, as every possible political dispute is cast in chauvinist hues. Culture had long been a relatively neutral terrain. Not anymore. And deliberately so.” — The New York Times