There was a time there, during the mega-musical era when Broadway seemed to forget what it was like to dance. Now most of the best musicals are energized by movement as the street remembers how much fun it is to dance. – The Times (UK)
Tag: 06.05.00
MOVIE MILESTONE
Today 20th Century Fox will premiere the first movie to be sent from a Hollywood studio to a theater via the Internet. The animated sci-fi epic “Titan A.E.” will be shown to an audience in Atlanta – after a transmission that could one day replace the traditional movie distribution system. – Yahoo! (Reuters) 06/05/00
THE LATEST HIT IN RUSSIA
A current affairs show where the female reporters are topless has become such a surprise hit on Russian television that politicians are lining up to be interviewed. “Svetlana Pesotskaya, the blonde actress who reads the news while playfully taking off her top or having it removed by a pair of hairy male arms, insists that the program is a serious news show.” – The Age (Melbourne) (The Telegraph) 06/05/00
“COPENHAGEN,” “CONTACT,” “KISS ME KATE” BIG WINNERS —
— at Sunday’s Tony Awards. – New York Times
Complete Tony reports, video, pictures. – MSNBC
Backstage at the Tonys. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
BROADWAY REDISCOVERS DANCE
There was a time there, during the mega-musical era when Broadway seemed to forget what it was like to dance. Now most of the best musicals are energized by movement as the street remembers how much fun it is to dance. – The Times (UK)
WHAT, ME WORRY?
Attendees at this years BookExpo America shrugged off worries about electronic publishing, online bookselling and corporate consolidation of the business. Book publishing is in pretty good shape after all. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
RESTORING THOMAS WOLFE’S WORK
It’s something of an American publishing legend that back in 1928 book editor Maxwell Perkins cut 60,000 words from Thomas Wolfe’s manuscript to sculpt the masterpiece “Look Homeward, Angel.” This fall a restored version of Wolfe’s work will be published for the first time. “Some Wolfe lovers believe it will prove just how funny and irreverent Wolfe really was and how Perkins, a prim young editor who never used a curse stronger than “My God!,” got hold of one of our country’s most ambitious novels and cut out its heart.” – Washington Post
INDIES TAKE IT TO THE NET
Independent booksellers can’t agree on much beyond who their common enemies are. But they have agreed on a website to help market their books – two websites, actually. But some worry that the indies have entered the fray too late. – New York Times
LONDON LOVES ART
“To be in London these days is to be endlessly entertained by art, by the museums that show it, the multiplying galleries that sell it and the masses who have become weirdly fascinated by it.” Tate Modern and a swell of new galleries have just opened, and the city is buzzing with exhibits – each more bizarre than the next. – New York Times
PROSECUTING MUSEUMS FOR BORROWING
New York state governor signs a law that gives prosecutors the power to bring criminal charges against institutions that borrow stolen work. New York museums have opposed the law, saying it will hurt their ability to borrow artwork. – The Art Newspaper