The director-actor relationship relies on trust: you’re doing something, the other person is observing, and you’ve got to feel that what they say is trustworthy.
Tag: 02.15.07
The Swan Soars
Royal Ballet star Tamara Rojo at 32, “far from being a fake, has proved herself worldwide to be one of the art’s greatest ballerinas. The highest evidence of this lies in her conquest of the apex of classical ballet, Swan Lake, in which she has a magic unequalled on the British stage, a rare privilege to see.”
Big Recording’s Business Crisis
“The market for CDs is in free fall and seemingly out of the music majors’ ability to do anything lasting about it. The American market is down 20pc so far this year on Main Street, but the wholesale market is even worse. As retailers panic, they are slashing inventories and returning CDs resulting in a wholesale market down 35pc.”
EMI’s Dire Rvenue Report
Music recording giant EMI warns that its recording revenues will be down 15 percent for the latest quarter. “This unprecedented level of market decline has led to an exceptionally high level of product returns.”
Mailer On Hitler
Norman Mailer has “never regarded poetic truth as truth of an inferior variety. From An American Dream and Advertisements for Myself through The Armies of the Night and Why Are We in Vietnam? through The Executioner’s Song and Marilyn he has felt free to follow the spirit and the methods of fictional inquiry to gain access to the truth of our times, in an enterprise that may be riskier than the historian’s but offers richer rewards.”