“Two Chinese movies have been pulled out of the Palm Springs International Film Festival in the United States in protest at the inclusion of a film about Tibet, state-run media reported Wednesday.”
Tag: 01.06.10
Should Mona Lisa Have Been Watching Her Cholesterol?
“An Italian medical expert says he has found evidence of a range of afflictions in some of the world’s greatest works of art. Vito Franco, Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Palermo, claims that there are clear signs of diseases, from bone malformations to kidney stones, that cast certain icons of perfection in a very different light.”
Avatar‘s Case For Environment Better Than Copenhagen’s
“The film is brilliant PR — smug and simplistic but effective and energising. James Cameron, who won an Oscar for sinking the Titanic, now wants to save the world and may just succeed in converting the next generation,” who are seeing his movie, and absorbing his message, in droves.
Steep Challenge: Reflecting Charles Addams’ Wit Onstage
“What works brilliantly in morbidly hilarious cartoons … is a tougher trick to translate to live theater, as the producers of ‘The Addams Family’ have learned” in the show’s Chicago bow. They chose “to eschew the slapstick humor of the popular ‘Addams Family’ television show of the 1960s and three movies in the ’90s” in favor of the cartoons.
How Disability Altered A Scholar’s View Of Shakespeare
Adam Cohen, a Shakespeare scholar and associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, died of cancer Saturday at 38. During his illness, radiation treatment left him temporarily unable to read — and thus, he later wrote, forced him to “experience the plays as Shakespeare probably intended”: visually.
Parsing The Personals In The New York Review Of Books
“They’re sort of like the brainy, geriatric version of the ads on Match.com. Nothing as vulgar as a photograph, of course, and quite a bit of talk about culture signifiers. The women – it’s about 90 percent women – are always slender – so slender, in fact, that you could probably fit six of them into the backseat of a Chevrolet.”
Fidelity To The Composer’s Score: Required Or Optional?
“The score is really a blueprint for our creative talents and, consequently, our interpretive options abound,” Byron Janis writes. “We interpret not only the music but the verbal directions the composer has given us. No score will tell you how to play allegro (quickly)–there are a lot of different ‘quicklies’ to go around.”
Los Angeles Needs A Film Commission
The city of Los Angeles “can’t afford to neglect the looming crisis that’s been building for more than a decade in the film and TV industry. The studios, of course, always whine about their problems…. For Los Angeles, however, the problem is not the industry’s distress but its success.”
3-D TV: Coming Soon To A Living Room Near You?
“A full-fledged 3-D television turf war is brewing in the United States, as manufacturers unveil sets capable of 3-D and cable programmers rush to create new channels for them. Many people are skeptical that consumers will suddenly pull their LCD and plasma televisions off the wall.”
Smithsonian Visits Exceed 30M For First Time Since 9/11
“A draft report the museum complex released Tuesday shows visits to the Smithsonian’s 18 museums, galleries and the National Zoo increased about 19.4 percent in 2009, up from about 25.15 million visits in 2008.”