And imagining her is what we do: we have next to no reliable evidence about Anne Hathaway. Over the last couple of centuries, she’s been cast as either the devoted wife-and-mother who kept the proverbial home fires burning in Stratford or the woman who got Will to knock her up and then drove him away to London. With the new century, though, new ways of picturing Hathaway have been popping up.
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Little New Jersey Musical Goes Viral Out Of Nowhere And Ends Up Sold Out Off-Broadway
Be More Chill, a show about a high-school nerd who takes a mysterious drug (an actual “chill pill”) that makes him popular, got one professional production at a Jersey Shore theater in 2015, dropped a cast album on the streaming platforms, and disappeared. Two years later, young fans started discovering the show online; before the year was out, it had been listened to 150 million times on Spotify. So the creators got an off-Broadway production together – and its initial run sold out in a day.
YouTube Launches Meter To Tell You How Much Time You’ve Wasted On YouTube
“YouTube began rolling out its so-called digital wellbeing tools Monday morning, which include a dashboard that tells users how much time they’ve spent on the service watching videos. The Google-owned video service also recently launched a new feature that allows users to set reminders, alerting them when it’s time to take a break from binging.”
Carnegie Library Thefts Rattle Tightly-Knit World Of Antiquarian Booksellers
The arrests in July of a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh archivist and a dealer on charges of stealing and selling $8 million worth of items from the library’s collections “sent a shudder across the rare books industry, a multimillion-dollar business in the United States … In this niche world based on trust, where confidants are currency and handshake deals are commonplace, the arrest of a prominent dealer is a shocking suggestion of deceit.”
The Great Rare-Book Road-Trip Crime Spree Of 1980 (And Its Ignominious End)
A pair of thieves spent that summer driving from Texas to Maryland to Illinois, going into university libraries and cutting out lithographs and engravings from 19th-century naturalist journals and newsweeklies that they would sell piece by piece – until, at last, they were foiled by a foolhardy change of method and an air-conditioning maintenance man.
One Resignation, Two Suspensions At New York City Ballet For ‘Inappropriate Communications’
A statement released by the board chairman said the company “received a letter alleging inappropriate communications made via personal text and email by three [principal] members of the company. … [An investigation] determined that each man had violated the norms of conduct that New York City Ballet expects from its employees.” As a result, Chase Finlay has resigned, and Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catazaro have been suspended without pay for the rest of 2018.
Visiting Art Museums Can Help Patients With Chronic Pain: Study
Researchers from UC-Davis “found that 57 percent of chronic-pain patients who attended a private hour-long tour” – branded as “Art Rx” – “of the galleries of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, reported a decrease in their pain levels up to three weeks after the tour. Most participants also generally reported feeling less socially disconnected, a common byproduct of chronic pain.”
Rotten Tomatoes Expands Pool Of Critics Who Count Toward Tomatometer
“The Tomatometer score is the percentage of the reviews that have been positive, supposedly reflecting the ‘collective opinion’ of critics, but critics have so far been limited to those who write for established publications, a group that, according to numerous studies, is heavily slanted toward critics who are white and male. Reviews from established publications will still be included automatically, regardless of who wrote them, but the new rules allow for the inclusion of individual critics, regardless of where they publish.”
Berlin Wall To Be Recreated For Berliner Festspiele Installation
“Pending final approval from Berlin city authorities, which organisers said was ‘in the works’, staff plan to erect 900 concrete wall slabs, each 3.60 metres (about 12 feet) tall, for the 6.6 million euro ($7.7 million) event. Visitors to the parallel world will have to apply online for entrance ‘visas’ … Set on a city block on Unter den Linden boulevard, the time-capsule project is due to launch on October 12 and end with a ritualistic tearing down of the wall on November 9, the day of the historic event in 1989.”
Watching Michelle Dorrance Choreograph Tap Steps On ABT
“‘Don’t look at the mirror, look at your feet,’ Michelle Dorrance corrects. Smiling at the counterintuitive suggestion, Gillian Murphy, Devon Teuscher and Christine Shevchenko — American Ballet Theatre principals accustomed to projecting up and out to opera house balconies — look down at their pointe shoes as they shuffle into a line of tight fifth positions. As polyrhythmic strains of music fill ABT’s studios, the trio flashes through small, quicksilver position changes while Teuscher quietly counts a steady 4/4 beat that isn’t yet audible in the music.”