“The musicians’ new five-year agreement calls for a pay freeze at the 2006-2007 rate during the first three years, then a two-and-a-half percent increase in the fourth year and a three percent increase in year five.”
Tag: 01.16.08
Baghdad Culture Waits At Crossroads
“Now, with violence on the wane, the city’s struggling artist community looks for signs that their patrons could someday return and the discussions in the coffee houses could again be about their latest works rather than the latest troubles.”
Bouncing Down The Spanish Steps
“Hundreds of thousands of brightly colored balls went cascading down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps on Wednesday in the latest stunt orchestrated by the man who dyed the waters of the Trevi Fountain red.”
Ravished By A “Mermaid”
Richard Zoglin knows all the critics seemed to hate Disney’s new “Little Mermaid.” But, “all in all, it was one of the most ravishing things I have ever seen on a Broadway stage. For the record, I am not a drag queen.”
EMI’s Difficult Road To Reinvention
The “proposal to reduce each of EMI’s labels to a handful of talent scouts, plugged into a central marketing machine, is entirely logical. But, as recent comments by Robbie, Kylie, Coldplay and the Verve have made clear, big stars don’t like logic; they like being stroked.”
Should Family Be Allowed To Destroy Nabokov’s Last Work?
“Who ‘owns’ a work of art, particularly an unfinished work of art by a dead author who did not want anything but his finished work to become public. Who controls its fate? The dead hand from the grave? Or the eager, perhaps overeager, readers, scholars, and biographers who want to get their hands on it no matter what state it’s in?”
Brenda Little Vs. The Seattle Symphony
“For almost two years, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra has been wrestling with the one-woman law firm of Brenda Little. She’s a specialist in workplace law.”
Drug Agents Sue NBC Over Portrayal In Film
A group of retired federal drug enforcement agents sued NBC Universal on Wednesday, saying the movie “American Gangster” falsely portrayed them as villains in the story of a Harlem heroin trafficker.
The Woman Related To Mona Lisa
“Not that there’s much of a resemblance. Natalia Giucciardini Strozzi says her wide and often exuberant smile has never been mistaken for the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic expression. ‘I don’t have her smile at all. But around the eyes, people have said there’s a resemblance’.”
An Even Bigger Sundance – And The Market Is Strong
“An unusually large number of available films, an abundance of potential buyers and Hollywood’s labor unrest is fueling talk of the most robust Sundance market in years.”