“I met a girl named after me at the Toronto film festival. I thought her mother was going to say she was called Susan but she said: ‘This is Sarandon.'”
Tag: 06.29.13
Black And White Movies Are Back In Vogue – Why?
Nostalgia. (Also, directors think it’s pretty.)
Reading Aloud Is Fun And Fast – And Lucrative For Actors
The founder of Audible claimed the company “employed 2,000 actors to read books last year, and he speculated that he was probably the largest single employer of actors in the New York area.”
Some Protest The Bolshoi’s Decision To Get Rid Of Controversial Dancer
“The demonstrators, who had gathered on a square near the Bolshoi, held banners that attacked the theater’s management, claimed that the theater had lost its reputation and that Russian ballet was dead.”
What’s This Collector And Developer’s Big (Artistic) Plan For Toronto?
David Mirvish wants “to erect three 80-storey Frank Gehry-designed condo towers on King Street West. It is a game-changing architectural addition to the urban core that would also include … a museum to serve as a public platform for his expansive collection of modern sculpture and painting.”
Long Before Tumblr, Teenage Punk Feminists Made Revolution By Xerox Machines
“The central mode of [riot grrrrl] communication was the zine: lovingly handwritten or typed manifestos, full of collaged confessions, rants and recommendations, photocopied and disseminated at concerts or by post.”
Pittsburgh Symphony’s Deficit Tripled Last Year
The symphony’s still feeling the effects of the recession – and in 2012, the state cut budget contributions to zero.
Zing! Orson Welles Hated Damn Near Everyone, Newly Discovered Tapes Reveal
“Laurence Olivier was ‘stupid,’ Spencer Tracy ‘hateful’ and Charlie Chaplin ‘arrogant,’ and he could not even bear to look at Bette Davis.” (But John Wayne was cool.)
Hitchcock’s Silent Movies – ‘Steamy Showgirl Dramas’ – Restored For The Queen’s Jubilee
“We chose our big icon, you know,” Dixon says. “Drama has Shakespeare. Literature has Dickens. We have Hitchcock.”
The Hottest City For The Arts Isn’t New York – It’s L.A.
“Naturally, Los Angeles has more actors, producers and directors and ‘other entertainers’ than anyone other city. But the biggest category of workers employed in the arts here (and just about everywhere else) is actually designers.”