Uh, investor update: “Under its traditional mountain and stars, it shouts PARAMOUNT, using the all-caps styling and arched text of the Skydance logo instead of a more gently whispered Paramount.” - The Verge
Some things are similar. For instance, like a lot of us, "Harry and Sally are a pair of lonely people who got their hearts broken by people they fell in love with before they really got to know them.” But can straight men and straight women really be just friends? - Salon
He grew up on a dairy farm, but took tap and ballet. He “was in middle school when a recruiter from Richmond’s Virginia School of the Arts visited the Wolfmeyer School and invited him to spend his high school years there,” launching the dance portion of his career. - Oregon ArtsWatch
“So much of Munro’s work was about someone forgiving someone else (especially a woman forgiving a man) for something unforgivable, or about making some other horrible compromise of the soul — and also about how wretched these compromises are.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
She says, “The damage reflects the hateful misogynistic act and it should not be forgotten. It is part of the history of the work and is a testament to the power of art.” - Hyperallergic
But Mary C McCall Jr was “airbrushed” from much of Hollywood history, perhaps because while “to screenwriters in the 1950s, she was a major power player, fighting for pay rises and striking rights. To the Hollywood studio heads, she was ‘the meanest bitch in town.’" - The Guardian (UK)
“In its heyday, the Barton Opus was able to recreate the sounds of many instruments, including strings, flutes and tubas. ... It also contained real percussion instruments such as a piano, xylophone, glockenspiel, cymbals and drums and could produce sound effects including steamboat and bird whistles.” - AP
Nader’s “private collection is filled with blue-chip modern and contemporary artists, including Carlos Cruz-Diez, Joaquín Torres-García, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, and Guillermo Kuitca, as well as more than 100 works by Fernando Botero.” - ARTnews
Author Sally Franson says that if you want belly laughs, you might have to go through some painful experiences first. “The harder I laughed or the harder I cried, the more people laughed. And it wasn’t malicious, you know, it was like, I see you. That is so human.” - Slate
New director Lauren Post, currently dancing Romeo and Juliet with ABT’s corps de ballet at the Met, has some ideas: Focus on education first, and eventually, “Minneapolis could be a destination for classical ballet training, and potentially even for a strong local company.” - Pioneer Press
Dutch artist Johannes Harm-Hovinga sits, punching holes in a copy of a UN report on climate change, for hours a day - and the repetitive strain is forcing him to take painkillers to complete his performance. - The Guardian (UK)
“Spotlight charges performers to appear in its directory, which it says was used to cast 99% of productions in the UK in 2023. But Equity says the fees, which were recently increased to £216 a year for actors on a monthly tariff, are ‘above what the law reasonably allows.’” - BBC
Dinaw Mengestu, on his character Samuel: “There’s a limitation to how fully we can truly understand his experiences. ... That gap becomes part of the narrative, part of what the story is trying to deeply engage with.” - The New York Times
