OMG, Audio Of Harpo Marx Actually Speaking!
Harpo (né Arthur) developed his silent persona due to his own stage fright; in later years he said he didn’t want to “tear down...
Top Hollywood Exec Pay Rose 51 Percent As Industry Shed 17,000 Jobs
The total compensation for the top executives surged a stunning 51% from a year earlier, based on a tally of $615 million vs. $408.5...
ESPN Meets The Savannah Bananas’ Choreographer
“Maceo Harrison deftly designs routines that emphasize charisma over technical precision and spotlight the teams' natural showmen while camouflaging the players with two left...
The Art Looter Who Supplied Museums
Latchford’s success depended not just on criminal networks that supplied and transported these objects, but on the willingness of museums, dealers, collectors, and scholars...
Universities Rethink The SAT
“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics while simultaneously teaching the material students need for sciences, engineering, economics,...
Summing Up Dudamel’s Time With The LA Philharmonic
Unlike his immediate predecessor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, who also served as the Philharmonic’s music director for 17 seasons, Mr. Dudamel seems not to have matured on...
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Finally Has A Real Theater Building
Designed by award-winning architects Studio Gang, the 451-seat Scripps Theater Center — in Garrison, NY, 60 miles north of New York City — is...
FCC Action Against ABC Is A Threat To Free Speech, Says Disney
“The order is inconsistent with a legitimate exercise of investigative authority and is plainly incompatible with the First Amendment,” Disney said in its Thursday...
Looking At 100s Of Thousands Of College Essays: AI Flattens Creativity
This seems to be especially true for students. A.I.’s smooth sentences, elegant transitions and rich vocabulary give the illusion of expansive creativity and individuality....
Gehry Partners Will Work On Renovation Of The Getty Center
Gehry Partners will design a variety of upgrades to the Getty Center — including a major revamp of its entry experience — during its...
English Can Be A Weird Language. That’s Why It’s Perfect For Competitive Spelling Bees.
Sure, there are some other languages whose speakers have spelling contests, but there are plenty — Italian, Finnish, Malay, etc. — whose words are...
The Publishing Industry Is Very Vulnerable To AI
The book-publishing industry had already been wrestling with the prospect of a flood of AI-authored texts in the fiction market, and now the Rosenbaum...
YouTube Will Start Labeling AI Video
YouTube is making AI-generated content labels more prominent for viewers — and it’s going to start automatically applying the labels if it detects that...
Science: Yes, Pianists Can Control Sound By Their Touch
Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggest that the subtle motions of a pianist's fingers and hands influence how...
Smithsonian Chief Lonnie Bunch Has Curated A New Exhibit About America’s Ideals. He Thinks...
“(He) did not set out to make the exhibit American Aspirations his swan song. But he said that his organizing of an exhibition that honors...
England’s Arts Funding Body Changes Its Criteria To Re-Focus On “Excellence”
Arts Council England has unveiled a new strategy to replace the “Let’s Create” regime, which was widely criticized for appearing to de-emphasize high quality...
ARTnews Lists “The 100 Best Artworks About America”
“What, exactly, defines America? It’s a question that’s been asked for more than two centuries, and it’s unlikely to be conclusively answered anytime soon....
How We Selected Our “100 Best Artworks About America”
“We started working on this list over a year ago and spent more than a month alone wrestling with how best to define its...
ABC TV Stations Say Trump FCC’s Review Of Their Broadcast Licenses Is Illegal
“Local TV stations owned by ABC across the United States blasted the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday for launching an 'unlawful, arbitrary and unconstitutional'...
CBS Says It Will Be Making $15 Million In Profit From Stephen Colbert’s Former...
A network spokesperson argued that producing its own programming for the late-night talk-show slot is now “cost-prohibitive” — and that, by leasing that airtime...
Broadway’s “The Book of Mormon” Reopens After Three-Week Closure Due to Fire
“The Book of Mormon, one of Broadway’s biggest hits, resumed performances on Wednesday night after a three-week shutdown prompted by a damaging three-alarm electrical fire at...
Trump Camp Announces Summer Pop Concert Series On National Mall. Stars Promptly Start Withdrawing.
“A day after the President Donald Trump -affiliated Freedom 250 announced the ‘first wave’ of performers for ‘The Great American State Fair’ shows on Washington’s National...
Who Was Alma Mahler?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7bhDcSZYZUs&version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Esther van Zyl as Alma Mahler in my play “The Marriage,” as performed at Colorado Mahlerfest two
America’s First Late-Night Talk-Show Host Was A Woman
Faye Emerson was a Hollywood actress specializing in noir films; then she married FDR’s son, moved to New York and got into TV. From...
Colbert’s Late Night Replacement On CBS Pulls Small Ratings
According to The Daily Beast, even Colbert's YouTube channel is nearly outperforming Allen's show. Colbert's appearance on the public access TV show "Only in Monroe" drew...
