“The company said Friday that its operation of the 655-seat theatre, adjacent to the much larger Queen Elizabeth Theatre, has built up a debt exceeding $900,000, a spokesman said in announcing the closure Friday.”
Tag: 03.09.12
Future Of Books – Innovation In The Printed Book?
“Though the middle ground may eventually disappear – paperback fiction, for example – the ongoing rise of ebooks should actually encourage the making of beautiful physical books. Readers want the volumes they keep on their shelves to be as striking and as sensory as possible. And so, while most publishers are racing to keep up with the conquest of the screen, the true mavericks may well be people who are doing something very old-fashioned very well.”
Edith Pearlman Wins National Book Critics Circle Award For Fiction
It’s for “Binocular Vision, (Lookout Books), a story collection that has elicited praise from reviewers for its delicate and wry character portraits.”
China Courts Hollywood Film Industry
“China is looking to learn from Hollywood and develop the ability to make commercially successful movies on par with the biggest blockbusters. U.S. studios are trying to break further into China, where box office receipts rose more than a third last year to $2 billion US. That puts it on pace to become the world’s second largest movie market in a few years, expected to top $5 billion US by 2015.”
Cashless Economy = Lower Crime?
Would crime rates plummet if cash were banned?
Telenovela Production Begins Migrating From Mexico To Miami
“Although telenovelas were long churned out in Mexico, the two dominant Spanish-language networks in the United States, Univision and Telemundo, are increasing production in South Florida, attracted by American marketing opportunities, tax breaks and the growing Hispanic audience in the United States.”