“One of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s” – he was one of the “Angry Young Men” – Arden “was in later life an almost forgotten theatrical figure.”
Tag: 03.03.12
California’s Napa Valley Symphony Closes Down
“The board of the Napa Valley Symphony Association voted Thursday night to ‘suspend all operations and to explore the wisdom of dissolving,’ according to chairman Michael Enfield.” He said that saving the orchestra “would require an immediate source of funding that is not in evidence.”
Osama Raid Film Shoot In India Disrupted By Radicals – Hindu Radicals
“Right-wing Hindu activists on Friday disrupted shooting for Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow’s movie on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, protesting at the use of Indian locations to portray Pakistan.”
Other Books Of Revelation (And Why Only John’s Made It Into The Bible)
John of Patmos’s fevered prophecy “wasn’t unique. At the time, countless others – Jews, pagans and Christians – produced a flood of ‘books of revelation,’ claiming to reveal divine secrets. Some have been known for centuries; about 20 others were found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945. So what do the other revelations tell us, and how did John’s come to trump the others?”
Is The English-Speaking World In Decline?
“It’s indisputable that the Anglosphere no longer enjoys the overwhelming global dominance that it once had. What was once a globe-spanning empire is now best understood as a union of language, culture, and shared values.”
‘The Most Existentially Terrifying Kids’ Book Ever Written’
David Plotz: “But there’s one literary depiction of mortality for kids so gripping and so terrifying that it has been haunting me – a fully grown man – since I read it. It is arguably the most disturbing book published in America since The Road. I refer, of course, to Mo Willems’ 2010 picture book, We Are in a Book!“
During The Ballet Season, Lots Of Workouts (And Lots Of Naps)
Ruben Martin Cintas, principal at San Francisco Ballet: “I see stress as excitement without the breath… So I try to help that by breathing deep. I find some time to meditate and get a bigger perspective on things. Everything must have a solution, right?”
You Can’t Kill Zombie Hollywood
Hollywood was rumored dead more than a century ago. But it keeps on plugging – and won’t quit anytime soon – because Hollywood keeps its friends close, and its enemies, like YouTube and Netflix, even closer.
A Japanese Actor Breaks A Taboo With A Tweet, And Keeps On Going
Taro Yamamoto was perhaps the first celebrity in Japan to call for an end to nuclear power, and the actor paid for his stance: “Just a month later an offer for him to appear in a TV drama series was withdrawn because of his actions. Yamamoto then quit the entertainment agency to which he belonged and became a freelance actor.”
Edward Albee’s Second Chance (With Dubuque)
Albee: “If you write plays because you just want them to be liked, you have to lie too much. … People like theater that is safe, generally speaking — things that are easy, that are not too deeply troubling. In other words, people want to go to the theater and waste their time.”