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Tag: 01.07.08
Sundance Leftovers (About 3,500 Of Them)
“More than 3,600 features were submitted for the 2008 Sundance festival (up from the previous record of 3,287), meaning that there are now about 3,500 rejected projects that will navigate the year’s festival circuit, struggling to cut through the noise.”
Maazel At The Met – 45 Years Later
“I always considered myself a symphony conductor who would once in a while conduct opera. But that once-in-a-while became habit forming. It’s like a drug. The theater’s a wonderful place.”
Producers And Striking Writers Trade Charges
Why is the Writers Guild making deals with some entertainment companies and not others? “The guild risks violating federal labor law if it refuses to deal with companies on an equal basis. If they’re willing to sign the same deal and the guild won’t give them the time of day, I think that raises an issue.”
Anne Frank, The Musical
Frank’s diary is the basis for a new musical in Madrid. “The Anne Frank Foundation, which jealously guards the rights to the diary – it once turned down Steven Spielberg when he wanted to make a film – has given its support.”
Give Us The Bio, Skip The Childhood
“From time to time, I’ve decided this is a bad habit. I must read the whole biography, I tell myself. But I can’t. Much as I try, I can’t force myself to read anything until our hero is working on his or her first novel or play, and leaving the world of parents, school or university behind.”
Stonehenge Rescue Plan Stalls
“Once painted by Constable, who praised it as standing “remote on a bare and boundless heath”, Stonehenge has declined into a place mostly tourists visit, and then only once, a break on a trip from Oxford to Bath.”
Sydney Fest Goes For Mass Market Appeal
“An audacious move by director Fergus Linehan to make the festival more public and inclusive paid off handsomely, as an estimated 200,000 Sydneysiders came out to play.” But not everyone is happy with the populist approach, and Linehan has been criticized for not balancing serious art, music, and drama with the party-on atmosphere.