“The trouble facing the movie industry right now is the same one the music industry had to confront 10 years ago. The easiest and most convenient way to see the movies or TV shows you want is to get them illegally.”
Tag: 07.08.11
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens Returns To China After Three Decades
“Twenty-seven years after Les Grands Ballets Canadiens first performed in China, the company is setting off with 50 dancers and crew this month for Beijing and two other Chinese cities, Dalian and Guangzhou. The intervening years have seen radical changes in both China and the company. It’s likely that neither will recognize the other.”
How To Survive As A Modern Dance Company In The Arab World
“How does an artist reconcile his dream with reality? For Beirut’s Caracalla Dance Theatre, survival in the Arab world depends on a careful balance of imagination and financial pragmatism. Love and money perform a delicate duet.”
The Butcher, The Bible And The Boleyn: Genesis Of A Play
“As his … Anne Boleyn, a drama of Henry VIII’s reign, returns to [Shakespeare’s] Globe, Howard Brenton recalls how it all started with his father’s argument with a butcher.”
Britain’s Tough Visa Process Is Discouraging Artists From Coming
“Non-Europeans wanting to entertain British audiences must endure a bureaucratic nightmare which, combined with rising costs, increasing delays and occasional consular rudeness, is deterring more and more of them from coming here. Britain is taking itself off the cultural map.”
Income Correlates With Happiness? They Don’t Buy It In Aspen
Justin Wolfers: “I spent last week at the Aspen Ideas Festival, talking about Betsey’s and my research on the Economics of Happiness. You might think that my message – that income and happiness are tightly linked – would be an easy sell in Aspen, which is the most beautiful and most expensive city I’ve ever visited. But in fact, it’s the millionaires, billionaires and public intellectuals who are often most resistant to data upsetting their beliefs.”
Former ABT Union Lawyer Accused Of Embezzlement Takes Plea Bargain
“An attorney for a small, independent union of ballet dancers and stagehands [at American Ballet Theatre] pleaded guilty Thursday to falsifying reports about more than $350,000 in checks he wrote to himself, his law firm and his ex-wife, from the union account.” Leonard Leibowitz, 72, faces up to one year in federal prison.
Grammys Defend Decision To Reduce Number Of Categories
“It is disappointing that some individuals chose to make false, inflammatory statements suggesting that this realignment of the Grammy award categories was motivated by race or ethnicity.”
Is There A Reason For NYC Opera To Exist?
“What now? Is there a sufficiently large audience for new and unfamiliar operas to keep NYCO afloat? Should the company instead turn back the clock and stick to “Carmen” and “La Bohème”? Or is there yet another road to solvency for City Opera?”
US House Proposes Cutting NEH Funding By 20 Percent
“The measure would allocate $135 million to the NEH, which would represent a reduction of 13 percent — nearly double what the House panel proposed to cut from the Interior Department and other agencies covered by the spending legislation.”