This will come as a real shocker, but a lot of these people are men such as Clint Eastwood. Eastwood wrote and directed The Mule, and … well: “All those closeups of himself looking incorrigible, or lapping up the adoration of others, or getting down to business with women young enough to be his great-granddaughters – these were staged and approved by him. Perhaps he even asked for extra takes. Better safe than sorry.” – The Guardian (UK)
Tag: 01.25.19
What Was Virginia Woolf Like As A Child?
Young Virginia Stephen’s quick and fierce tongue, her nickname of Goat, and her ability to pierce her siblings’ consciousness with deeper thoughts and questions than they had – all seem to presage Virginia Woolf the Writer. And then there was the depression. – LitHub
Buzzfeed Lays Off Entire National News Desk, National Security Unit
BuzzFeed’s national news and national security teams broke some major stories on the Trump administration, Russia’s use of social media to shift public opinions in the United States, and other important subjects. – Variety
Alan Walker’s New Chopin Bio – This Year’s Best New Book On Music?
Tim Page: “This is now the best biography of Chopin — meticulous, scholarly and well-told. Whatever the composer’s shortcomings as a person, his music grows only more moving. – Washington Post
Unsealed Docs: Facebook Created Kids Game That Caused Them To Spend Millions
“Facebook created a system that allowed children to spend tens of millions of dollars through their parents’ credit cards and Paypal accounts on games and other goods without their parents’ knowledge and, despite concerns raised by game developers and solutions suggested by internal analysts, did nothing to fix the issue, according to a trove of documents unsealed from a 2012 class action lawsuit.” – Variety
Ranks Of Women Conductors Grow As BBC Symphony Hires Dalia Stasevska For Principal Guest Post
Stasevska, a 33-year-old Kiev-born Finn who picked up her baton professionally only four years ago, was introduced to the orchestra by its Chief Conductor, fellow Finn Sakari Oramo. — The Guardian
The ‘Emergency Poet’ Is Opening A Poetry Pharmacy
“[Deborah] Alma, who as the ‘Emergency Poet’ has prescribed poems as cures from the back of a 1970s ambulance for the last six years, is now setting up a permanent outlet in a shop at Bishop’s Castle in Shropshire. … Together with her partner, the TS Eliot prize-shortlisted poet James Sheard, Alma is preparing to turn [the shop] into a haven ‘to help ease a variety of maladies with the soothing therapy of Poetry’.” — The Guardian