“For every day one recent week, I lounged in the grand old space the Corcoran calls the Mantel Room, where the museum has created a Salon with dozens of its best old European pictures.”
Tag: 12.27.10
Is Hollywood Being Taught To Aim Higher?
“Studios are finally and fully conceding that moviegoers, armed with Facebook and other networking tools and concerned about escalating ticket prices, are holding them to higher standards. The product has to be good.”
When Fake Authors Write Real Books
They’re fictional characters who are cast as writers. Then their shows become popular and the audience expects to read their books…
93-Year-Old Surprises By Topping French Best-Seller List
“Proving that age is no boundary to publishing success, the French book world has been taken by storm by a surprise Christmas bestseller: a political call to arms by Stéphane Hessel, 93. The unlikely publishing sensation is a former resistance hero whose 30-page essay, Indignez-vous!, calls on readers to get angry about the state of modern society.”
How Time-Shifting Is Changing TV
“The good news about this situation is that we do indeed watch – more than ever. The tricky part, for the TV industry, is that this “time-shifting” creates a major challenge: how to sell a spread-out audience to advertisers, who still provide most of the revenue that underwrites all this programming.”
“Reality” TV Finally Having An Effect On The Movies
“Experts say that after a decade of reality television, the film business is finally catching up. Audiences and studio executives now not only tolerate a dose of real life in their feature films, they expect it.”
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre May Need To Be Rebuilt
“A replica Jacobean theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe may have to be rebuilt after its design was discovered to date from 50 years after Shakespeare died.”