“It’s a confusing time at the moment, I have made a big decision and the next one will be important so I don’t want to rush it. … I need a few days alone to think about what I’m doing as I haven’t decided yet.”
Tag: 01.28.12
What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind These Days?
“What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. Fortunately, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists are starting to explain the foundations of that weirdness.”
Seattle’s Intiman Theatre – This Week Is Do Or Die (Literally)
“Intiman has had a tumultuous year. Last April, the company shut down in the middle of its artistic season. An independent consultant decided the theater just didn’t have the money to keep going. In November, after months of soul searching, the Board announced it wanted to reopen Intiman this summer with a four-play festival. But Terry Jones says Intiman won’t produce the festival unless it has all the money up front: $1 million.”
As She Alters, And Controls, Her Career Path, Who Is Renée Fleming, Anyway?
The 52-year-old crossover opera star has now taken on the role of creative consultant to the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and her opera career keeps on morphing. What will she do next, and why?
Animal Rights Group To Indian Artist: Let The Pigeons Fly Free
“Live and ‘hand-raised’ pigeons are confined in a room filled with copper wires and transistor radios emitting white noise from unused frequencies.” It’s all part of an exhibition – and animal rights activists are not amused.
How To Succeed In E-books? Sell Sex, Of Course
At least in Canada, erotic e-books bring in the money. “Customers are starting to discover them and finding that they can read certain books that they do not want other people to see and in privacy,” says the woman who runs eXtasy Books.
Two Big Entertainment Unions Vote To Join Forces
Both SAG and AFTRA boards voted overwhelmingly to merge the two entertainment groups into one. Now the merger idea goes before the memberships, which together are comprised of about 175,000 actors, extras, stunt performers, singers, dancers, broadcast journalists and talk show hosts.
Dance Movies Before ‘Pina’ (Yes, They Do Exist)
“I once asked Alvin Ailey about a particularly unfortunate video shoot and he shrugged, saying that directors who can get the financing for dance projects aren’t always the ones who can do right by the artists involved.”
Inventing The Modern Blockbuster – Picasso At The Tate In 1960
The 1960 Picasso show at the Tate not only sold record numbers of catalogues and saw record numbers of patrons through the turnstiles; it reinvented what Britain thought of its place on the world stage – and changed the lives of artists like David Hockney, who’s now got a blockbuster of his own. Thank god the “ladies’ committee” pulled off the sangria.
Income Inequality Might Not Matter – If We Made A Few Small Changes To Our Social Structure
“Have we been too narrowly focused on income inequality when we should really be focused on a more fundamental issue: ensuring everyone has access to a minimum level of basic goods and services such as education and healthcare and an equal opportunity to earn a respectable living?”