Hollywood is getting out of the hand-drawn animation business, in favor of creating animated features on computers. “The new Hollywood truism is that Bambi is dead. That kids, hooked on the wizardry of 3D computer games, no longer want to watch quaint old-fashioned characters against painted backdrops.” Except… outside Hollywood, traditional animation seems to be thriving?
Tag: 08.26.03
Claudio Abbado Returns
Conductor Claudio Abbado has resurrected the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. “For musicians and audiences alike, Mr. Abbado’s return was also the stuff of emotion. Last year he stepped down after 13 years as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. But more pertinently, after a diagnosis of stomach cancer in 2000 he is again in good health and, at 70, has proven strong enough to lead a new orchestra. It is something he is practiced at doing.”
Piling On To Martin Amis
Martin Amis’ new novel hasn’t even been officially released yet and it’s been nominated for this year’s Booker Prize and stirred up the ire of a number of critics. “Though it might seem odd to declaim in August about a novel that is not scheduled for publication until Sept. 4, nothing is odd, really, when it comes to Mr. Amis and the strangely potent brew of envy, unease, schadenfreude and fury he inevitably provokes in fellow writers here.”