Director Sara Driver’s 1983 version of Bowles’s short story “You Are Not I” – the first-ever film adaptation of the author’s work – was thought to be gone for good when the director’s negative was ruined by water damage. Then Bowles’s own copy of the movie was located in Tangier.
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No Directors Make It On Hollywood’s Ten Highest-Paid Women List
“Collectively, the highest-earning men made $1.2 billion between June 1, 2009 and June 1, 2010, compared to the $835 million the women brought home in the same time period.”
Why Hollywood Doesn’t Do Working-Class
Interviews with a dozen former studio executives, producers, directors, screenwriters and academics confirmed that, while still admired, films focusing on working-class characters like “Norma Rae” and “Silkwood” are considered so last century. Even 10 years ago “Erin Brockovich” only got the go-ahead after Julia Roberts signed on to star.
You A Good Reader? Maybe That’s Why You Have Trouble Recognizing Faces
“When the researchers showed participants pictures of faces, the visual word form area of those who could read was much less active than that of participants who could not read. So, the researchers speculate, learning to read competes with face recognition ability – in this part of the brain at least.”
NY’s Community Orchestras Are Dying
The free-lance and regional orchestra community in the New York area “has slowly declined, and in the process of dying.”
Will Google TV Change The Way We Watch TV?
In a word, yes. But do we necessarily want it to change?
In Defense Of Polemic
“The most effective polemic, I have always found, is actually a kind of musical reinterpretation of someone else’s argument. Arguments are rarely wrong. Rather, they are ethically or intellectually unfinished.”
What It Takes To Make The Big Bucks In Hollywood
“Talent matters, to be sure, but the stars who earn the most are not always the ones who obviously possess the most talent. They tend instead to be individuals who simply have a knack for getting people to pay attention to them. And big audiences translate into big business.”