“An amazing number, but Avatar isn’t exactly a business model. Hollywood can’t live on a ginormous hit once a decade. And if the studios chase the success of Avatar, they’re [liable] to throw a lot of bad money after good.”
Tag: 01.04.10
In New York, $5 Theatre Tickets For The Truly Broke
“The Jewish Theater of New York announced Monday that anyone on food stamps or Medicaid can see its upcoming production for just $5. Full price tickets are $50.”
Are America’s Students Lazy?
“I know this author will be criticized for this article, but based on my decades of college teaching experience she is exactly right,” wrote one. “What she leaves out is that we are dealing with a generation of students that have been left behind by No Child Left Behind, supervised by ‘Helicopter Parents.’ Students now feel entitled to high grades despite little work and want their hands held on every assignment, while they are unable to think for themselves.”
Why Danish Cartoonists Are Endangered
“Hardly anyone has showed any solidarity with the threatened Danish cartoonists — to the contrary.”
Has London’s National Gallery Wrecked Its Masterpieces By Cleaning Them?
“Many of its finest masterpieces have been cleaned within an inch of their aesthetic life.” They have been subject “to scientific cleansing and treating conservation less as a subjective exercise than as a work of chemistry.”
TV Producers Balk At New NY Permit Shooting Fee
“In view of the current economic downturn, entertainment industry representatives say they are not opposed to a charge for the use of municipal buildings. But they question how the city arrived at the $3,200 figure and say that and other aspects of the new fee have unnecessarily complicated a heretofore cordial relationship that, in their estimate, generates about $5 billion a year for the local economy.”