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Tag: 05.07.14
Hemingway Biopic ‘Papa’ Is First Hollywood Feature Film Shot In Cuba Since Revolution
“Papa came to Cuba under a U.S. Treasury Department license exempting it from most embargo restrictions. … For licensing purposes the movie qualified as a documentary, since it depicts a firsthand account of real events that took place here. So it’s unlikely just any Hollywood blockbuster would get the same permission in the future.”
American TV Shows Can Be Popular Or Written About, But Not Both
“[With] television, the world of criticism and the world of viewership aren’t merely askew; they’re mostly on different planets. No self-respecting TV critic writes about NCIS: Los Angeles, ever – ever – even though the all-time most-popular episode of Game of Thrones (which is, itself, the all-time most-popular HBO show) got fewer viewers than an NCIS: LA rerun.”
‘America’s First Queer Jazz Festival” To Debut In Philadelphia
“With funding from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage,” the city’s William Way LGBT Community Center “coordinated at least five venues to host dozens of musicians from around the country to take part in OutBeat,” scheduled for mid-September.
Senior Showgirls Strut Their Stuff Again At Palm Springs Follies
“The Palm Springs Follies is an old-fashioned musical revue designed for an audience who remembers when this sort of entertainment wasn’t old fashioned. But it’s not only for older people – it’s by older people. The dancers range in age from 55 to 84.”
Switzerland To Open $46M Charlie Chaplin Museum
“After more than 14 years of discussions and stumbling blocks, work to turn screen legend Charlie Chaplin’s Swiss home into a museum has finally begun, with the opening planned in early 2016.”
Singers’ Union Withdraws Suit Against San Diego Opera
“The American Guild of Musical Artists, which represents solo singers, chorus singers and stage management personnel at the opera, filed the claim with the National Labor Relations Board on March 26, accusing the opera company of failing to honor year-long contracts with 35 singers.” The union now promises to work with the new board to put up a 2015 season.
Jennifer Weiner Wants Critics To Take Female Genre Authors Seriously – So Laura Miller Gives Her A Serious Review
“[Weiner] doesn’t need the New York Times; she doesn’t respect its literary standards; her readers don’t care about it; and yet she craves its validation. … An obsession with prestige and exclusion haunts her characters and her fictional universe, but as much as they (and Weiner herself) resent all the people they imagine to be looking down on them, they can be dismayingly ready to turn the tables and partake of the same arrogance themselves.”
Daily Mail Pays Damages To J.K. Rowling Over False Story
“Rowling sued the [British tabloid] newspaper for libel in January over the piece which suggested she had told a false ‘sob story’ about being stigmatised by churchgoers” because she was a single mother at the time. The Mail has published an apology and retraction and paid “substantial damages”.
Supertaskers (Some People Really Can Multitask)
For years, researchers have reported that humans cannot truly multitask and that performance suffers when they try. Yet there seems to be “a tiny but persistent subset of the population – about two per cent – whose performance does not deteriorate, and can even improve, when multiple demands are placed on their attention.”