“We say that word in the movie, and people say, ‘Well, I had a problem with that word,'” Foxx says. “I want to shout, ‘You should have a problem with that word. You’re supposed to let it affect you. That’s why it’s in the movie.'”
Category: issues
The CIA Director Jumps Into Zero Dark Thirty Discussions
Acting CIA Director Michael Morell: “Whether enhanced interrogation techniques were the only timely and effective way to obtain information from those detainees, as the film suggests, is a matter of debate that cannot and never will be definitively resolved.”
Of Course Wealthy French Movie Stars Should Flee The Tax Rates, Says Catherine Deneuve
Deneuve defends fellow actor Gerard Depardieu for his move to Belgium, where the wealth tax is 50 percent instead of next year’s French rate of 75 percent.
Why Pussy Riot Gave This Year’s Most Important Rock Performance
“What Pussy Riot understand so keenly is Allen Ginsberg’s observation in the 1960s that ‘national politics was theatre on a vast scale, with scripts, timing, sound systems. Whose theatre would attract the most customers, whose was a theatre of ideas that could be gotten across?’ … They are not our cute punk pin-ups but unflinching hardline activists.”
Pussy Riot: We Do Not Do This To Become Rock Stars
Yekaterina Samutsevich: “We’ve got invitations to perform with certain musicians, but we reject legal performances. It’s a matter of principle for us to give unsanctioned, illegal performances. We can’t do something by agreement, even more so with superstars. … It’s a total contradiction of our views and we won’t do it.”
UK Relaxes Law On Digital Copying
“We feel we have struck the right balance between improving the way consumers benefit from copyright works they have legitimately paid for, boosting business opportunities and protecting the rights of creators.”
‘Anti-Englishness’ Debate Roils Scotland’s Arts Community
Author Alasdair Gray “triggered a huge row at the weekend when it emerged he had written a hard-hitting essay – entitled ‘Settlers and Colonists’ – … [in which he] expressed opposition to short-term colonists who come north of the border to advance their careers, then head back to England,” singling out certain arts leaders in particular.
Dead Sea Scrolls Online Library Goes Live
“Courtesy of Google, in collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the new Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is now home to detailed digitized photographs of thousands of biblical and non-biblical manuscripts.”
Japan’s Strangest Christmas Tradition: A Bucket Of KFC
“Christmas isn’t a national holiday in Japan … yet a bucket of ‘Christmas Chicken’ (the next best thing to turkey – a meat you can’t find anywhere in Japan) is the go-to meal on the big day. And it’s all thanks to the insanely successful ‘Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii!’ (Kentucky for Christmas!) marketing campaign in 1974.”
Mariinsky Will Cut Back On Foreign Touring
“World audiences have come to know [Valery] Gergiev and his company well as they crisscrossed the globe after the collapse of Soviet state funding. But with Russians now pouring the kind of money into the arts that has just built the $700-million Mariinsky II theatre [the company’s third stage], he wants to concentrate on domestic performances.”