“Barbra Streisand has met with Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents to discuss starring as Rose, the mother of all stage mamas, in a film version of their 1959 musical Gypsy.”
Tag: 01.05.11
If Space Aliens Ever Find Us, They’ll Kill Us, Won’t They?
Last year, Stephen Hawking suggested that if any beings advanced enough for interplanetary travel should find Earth, their arrival would have on us more or less the same effect that Europeans’ arrival had on Native Americans. Marcelo Gleiser begs to differ.
When My Dad and I Did Yoga With Allen Ginsberg
“Before Ginsberg could utter the opening lines of his mantra, and assume the proper meditative posture, my father and I began to chortle uncontrollably. … My father suggested I go and apologize, which I did, at which point Ginsberg grimaced, urinated on himself, … and fell to his knees.” (Years later, Ginsberg got karmic revenge of a sort.)
The Corcoran – A Museum In Decline
“Beset by years of financial troubles, leadership changes and a drifting sense of identity, the Corcoran Gallery of Art – Washington’s largest private art museum – is turning to a team of consultants in an attempt to chart its destiny.”
Bad Form? Publisher Changes Twain’s Words In New Edition Of “Huck”
Throughout the book — 219 times in all — the word “nigger” is replaced by “slave,” a substitution that was made by NewSouth Books, a publisher based in Alabama, which plans to release the edition in February.
For A Second Year, “Lion King” Breaks West End Box Office Records
“The Disney production earned more than £34m in 2010, a greater sum than any other show had over a 12-month period. It broke its own record for a London show, which it set in 2009 by generating £32m in takings.”
LA Movie Filming Way Up Over Last Year
“Overall production activity for on-location filming in the L.A. area rose 37% in December, compared with the same month a year earlier… The increase is the latest sign of recovery in a sector that has been hit hard by advertising cutbacks, studio belt-tightening and production flight from California.”
Belarus Free Theater’s Escape to New York
Members of the dissident theater company – forced to go into hiding during the wave of repression that followed Belarus’s disputed elections in mid-December – have smuggled themselves out of the country and arrived in New York for their performances in a January festival.
Some Cinemas Are Upgrading Snack Bars to ‘In-Theater Dining’
“Under pressure from viewers as well as movie-industry executives, the country’s theater chains are trying to win back moviegoers – with food. Audiences at a growing number of theaters can order such dishes as chinois chicken salad rolls or limoncello-tossed shrimp.”