BBC ratings down in Britain as other channels pick up viewers. – Variety 01/07/00
Tag: 01.07.00
FRUSTRATING FRUSTRATION
Trying to make an original musical in Cuba, a director is redirected when his financing falls through. Instead, he makes a movie about putting together a project he knows will never happen. – New York Times 01/07/00
- A review of the film. – Christian Science Monitor 01/07/00
WOMEN’S WORK
“Women’s voices in the theater continue to be seriously underrepresented.” Two festivals in the Bay Area step up to the issue. – Backstage
CELEBRITY YES, ACTING NO
We are besotted by the celebrity of actors, but do we care anything about actual acting? Not the Bruce-Willis-playing-Bruce-Willis for the 187th time kind, but actual get-into-the-character acting. The new David Hare diary chronicling the struggles of trying to be a serious actor shows how trying it is. – The Globe and Mail (Canada)