“Trey Parker and Matt Stone have confirmed … that they plan to adapt their Broadway hit The Book of Mormon for the big screen.” Says Parker, “Hopefully [the stage show] will have a big run and a big tour and then we can do the movie in several years.”
Tag: 09.12.11
Has Post-Modernism Made Us Shallow?
“Now we are profoundly immersed in the tortuous, commercially controlled currents of postmodern design and thought, and its weapons of mass psychic deconstruction. Has this made our lives richer in meaning, or just richly vacuous?”
Study: Performing Music Helps Us Retain Speech Cognition
“Playing music seems to delay the decay in an aging brain’s central auditory processing system.”
Gothenburg Art Center Reported Focus Of 9/11 Anniversary Plot
A late-night opening and reception at the Röda Sten Art Center in Sweden’s second-largest city was evacuated after police discovered a terror plot planned for the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Four Swedisn residents of Somali and Iraqi origin have been arrested in connection with the plan.
Authors Of Young-Adult Novel Say They Were Told To Make Gay Character Straight
Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown, established young-adult authors who have co-written a book titled Stranger, say that an “agent from a major agency… offered to sign us on the condition that we make the gay character straight, or else remove his viewpoint and all references to his sexual orientation.”
Gay Marriage Gets (And Goes Beyond) The Mad About You Treatment
The new Web video series Husbands “trusts that its audience won’t judge a gay couple for treating marriage as cavalierly as straight couples have been allowed to for decades. By going small on the Web, Husbands can raise bigger questions about the future of gay relationships than its longer and better-financed network counterparts.”
The Korean Pop That Ate Japan
“In Japan – a country that has prided itself on producing and exporting its own fantastical pop culture – Korean entertainment has come to gobble up massive portions of melodrama and musical market share. … Korean media, especially pop music, has exploded in the Land of the Rising Sun because the K-Pop architects have embraced everything that the Japanese music industry has shunned for years.”
Who Was The First Scientist?
“Predictably there is little agreement, but popular candidates, such as Galileo, Archimedes and even Pythagoras, displayed many of the qualities now deemed essential in modern science.” One author now suggests that “this place in history belongs to little-known Greek philosopher Anaximander. ”
Rome Opera Threatens To Sue Over Fabio Luisi’s Skipping Out To The Met
The Italian conductor had to cancel a number of scheduled engagements to fill in for the ailing James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera. “Leading the queue of angry theatres is Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, which is threatening to sue the Met after scrambling to find a stand-in to conduct Richard Strauss’s Elektra on 30 September.”
EU Extends Copyright Protection To 70 Years
“The European Union on Monday agreed to extend royalty protection for music performers and producers from 50 years to 70 years. … Thousands of European performers who recorded in the 1960s were on the point of losing airplay royalties, and suffering a subsequent loss of income.”