Portland’s NPR station launched its first episode of “State of Wonder” on Nov. 2. Host April Baer: “We’re shooting for an elasticity that frees us to talk about local, national, and international stuff, as it pertains to what’s created and consumed here.”
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Why Is James Levine Missing From The Met’s Commission Plans?
“Of all the areas where Mr. Levine has shifted some artistic authority to Mr. Gelb, this one is the most worrisome. I want Mr. Levine, one of the major musicians of our time, to make the crucial musical choices for the Met, especially commissions, and promote them to the public.”
Texts Not The Best Way To Keep Relationships Strong (Surprise!)
“Reaction to disappointment and reality testing occur more quickly face to face. … There is a narrowness with texting, and you don’t get to see the breadth of a person that you need to see.”
Wait, More Music Awards?
Yes, but these are for music (and videos) on YouTube, and the broadcast is a webcast – so it’s totally different.
Amazon Uses Its Massive Data Trove To Plan TV Hits
“The company is betting it can improve on the traditional TV development process by collecting viewer feedback in unprecedented ways and using it to make less risky bets on which shows to produce.”
Hollywood: Why Are You So Terribly Pathetic About Women?
“Incredibly, the situation is worse today than it was a century ago. In the 1920s, there were almost as many female screenwriters in Hollywood as male ones. Writers such as Frances Marion and Anita Loos were among the most revered in the industry, and brought a raft of complex, multi-dimensional female characters to the big screen.”
Yep, It’s Time For The Behind The Scenes ‘Spider-Man’ Tell-All
Julie Taymor’s playwright, who says he worked on multiple secret scripts in the men’s room: “Every now and then, you’ve got to put manure on the fields. This was high-grade manure.”
Are Universities Headed For Extinction?
Novelist J.M. Coetzee: Universities have “come to an end not just because the neoliberal enemies of the university have succeeded in their aims, but because there are too few people left who really believe in the humanities and in the university built on humanistic grounds.”
Gérard de Villiers, 83, France’s Spy Novelist Who Never Got The Fame He Wanted
“He told Le Monde he chose to make his hero Austrian as ‘nobody would take a Frenchman seriously.’ ‘Besides cheese and wine, nothing about us is credible abroad.'”
Report: Bullying Is Rampant In The Entertainment Industry
“Early analysis of a survey carried out by the Federation of Entertainment Unions, which includes Equity, BECTU, the Musicians’ Union and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, has found that 56% of respondents have been “bullied, harassed or discriminated against” while in employment.”