Indian Summer, about the relationship between India’s first prime minister and the wife of the last viceroy, was to have starred Cate Blanchett, Hugh Grant and Irrfan Khan. Universal Pictures says its concerns are over the film’s $40M budget; the director says that the Indian government demanded the removal of the protagonists’ love scenes
Tag: 10.22.09
‘Why Must The Stage Always Be Horizontal And The Dancer Vertical?’
“Perhaps the most salient characteristic of [Deborah] Colker’s work since she founded the company that bears her name 15 years ago has been her desire to toy with perceptions of dimension, direction and distance. An early piece, Rota, featured dancers performing in a large spinning wheel, like hamsters at play.”
$10 Million For One Violin (And Not A Strad)
Violinist Aaron Rosand, now 82 and retired, has sold the instrument he played for more than 50 years, the 1741 “ex-Kochanski” Guarneri del Gesù. “The buyer was a Russian billionaire whom Mr. Rosand declined to identify” but who will allow other violinists access to the instrument.
Concrete Evidence That NY City Ballet And Opera Finally Get Along
The renovated Koch Theater (né New York State Theater) at Lincoln Center “announces to the world that New York City Ballet and New York City Opera – despite a history of tensions and disagreements that initially threatened the project, and despite City Opera’s strained finances – have managed to move forward as roommates.”
David Hockney’s iPhone Is His Sketch Pad
“Over the past six months, Hockney has fashioned literally hundreds, probably over a thousand,” images with the Brushes iPhone app, “often sending out four or five a day to a group of about a dozen friends, and not really caring what happens to them after that. (He assumes the friends pass them along through the digital ether.)”