“Special effects explosions, idling vehicles, teams of workers building monumental sets — all of it contributes to Hollywood’s newly discovered role as an air polluter, a university study has found. … Although Hollywood seems environmentally conscious thanks to celebrities who lend their names to various causes, the industry created more pollution than individually produced by aerospace manufacturing, apparel, hotels and semiconductor manufacturing, the study found.”
Tag: 11.14.06
What Makes A Great Thriller?
Jerome Weeks is on the case: “The best spy thrillers, it seems, have told three central stories…”
A Play As Tool Of “Cultural Genocide”?
“The Theatre of Neptune In New France,” considered Canada’s first play, premiered on the water in a Nova Scotia harbor. “Now, four centuries later, a controversy has developed about whether the play — written by colonial lawyer and historian Marc Lescarbot — is simply a quaint if valuable historical precedent or whether it’s an implicitly racist tract aimed at subverting aboriginal peoples, the native Mi’kmaq.”
Inside The Most Famous Of Chorus Lines
“Life as a Rockette appears to be a subculture of contented women where sisterhood reigns supreme, despite the gruelling 84-performance run (there are 13 shows a week). … Rockette management courts the all-rounders — intelligent women with strong personal identities and highly developed outside interests.” Management also encourages them to eat: “Each Rockette gets a Radio City Music Hall lunch pail to pack food for the theatre. One can’t be anorexic and be a Rockette, and during the physical intensity of three months of rehearsals and shows, they consume huge amounts of everything from fruit to chocolate and from hamburgers to pizza.”
Who Decides A Painting Is Real?
“Most masters have at least a few disputed authorships in their oeuvre. On the say of one person the worth of a painting can rocket or plummet overnight. No wonder canvases have been the fields of such ferocious battles.”
Goya Snatched Near Scranton While Truck Left Unattended
The Goya painting owned by the Toledo Museum of Art, and stolen as it was being transported to the Guggenheim in New York “was insured for just over $1 million and was in the hands of a professional art transporter when it was snatched Wednesday in the Scranton, Pa., area. The transport vehicle was unattended at the time of theft.”
Upshaw Diagnosed With Cancer
Soprano Dawn Upshaw has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and has withdrawn from all of her engagements through the end of the year.
Flawed Arrest? Let’s Go To The Video.
The democratization of technology has given civilians potent tools — YouTube and cellphone cameras — to help ensure law-enforcement accountability. “Today, any bystander is likely to be reasonably proficient with a cellphone camera and to have the know-how — or at least, a preteen at home with the know-how — to post the images on YouTube. That makes certain subjects, like arrests, more likely to be captured and displayed repeatedly.”
Conductor Quits As Opera Job Loses Appeal
Conductor “Daniele Gatti’s resignation from the Teatro Comunale di Bologna leaves two of Italy’s top opera houses musically depleted, amid growing confusion about the role and responsibilities of modern music direcors.”
Who Ought To Be Next To Run The Met?
Phillipe de Montebello has been associated with the Metropolitan Museum since 1963 and director since 1978 – an unusually long tenure. He shows no signs of moving on, but CultureGrrl has taken it upon herself to compile a list of possible successors…