“Because I think once you have a situation where there is $65 million at stake, it’s very hard for anybody to say no. An actor who says, ‘No, I won’t do that; it’s unsafe,’ is basically an actor who’s saying, ‘I’ve got to quit my job.’ “
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Steampunk Gathers Steam
“No, you’re not stuck in some goofy concept album by The Moody Blues. Steampunk is a fantasy made physical, made of brass and wood and powered by steam, born of the Industrial Age and inspired by the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.”
Nintendo Warns Younger Players Not To Play In 3D
A Google translation of the advisory suggests adults protect young players by setting a code to block the 3D function, a view that “has a potential impact on the growth of children’s eyes.”
Agathe von Trapp, Inspiration For “Sound Of Music”, Dies At 97
“She died in a hospice in the Baltimore suburb of Towson after suffering congestive heart failure in November, a long-time friend told reporters. In the hit musical she was portrayed as Liesl, singing the duet Sixteen Going on Seventeen with Rolf.”
Jazz Pianist Billy Taylor, 89
“[He] was a living refutation of the stereotype of jazz musicians as unschooled, unsophisticated and inarticulate, an image that was prevalent when he began his career in the 1940s, and that he did as much as any other musician to erase.”
Cambodian Art Finally Awakens From Killing Fields Nightmare
“Slowly but surely, Cambodia’s visual arts scene has been emerging from the shadow of the Pol Pot era, nurtured by a clutch of mostly Western-owned galleries dotted around the capital. Years of faith and investment are finally paying off.”
Vegas Museum Forces Museum To Cover Nipples On Paintings With Pasties
“The exposed nipples on portraits of women in the Ho-Down Mural Project violated a county sign code that bans (among other things) the showing of the areola of female breasts, the county says. Museum curator Laura Henkel covered the nipples with pasties, but argues that the murals are urban art, not signs.”