“The director Julie Taymor, a key creator of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, sued the producers of that $75 million show in federal court on Tuesday, claiming that they were profiting from her creative contributions without compensating her.”
Tag: 11.09.11
Little, Brown Pulls New Thriller From Stores Due To Plagiarism
“The biggest mystery in Q.R. Markham’s new spy novel Assassin of Secrets, it turns out, is the number of books the author borrowed from.”
Half-Blood Blues Wins Giller Prize
“Calgary-born novelist Esi Edugyan has prevailed against almost 150 other Canadian novelists to win the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize, worth $50,000.”
Australia’s Oldest Living Ballet Dancer
“Colin Peasley danced in the Australian Ballet’s first staging of The Merry Widow in 1975 and has been in at least 10 productions of it since.” The 77-year-old, who has served AB as principal dancer, ballet master and education director, “says that after 49 years in the country’s premiere ballet company, of which he was a founding member in 1962, he will finish next year.”