“The work, discarded by Pinter when plans to make it into a film fell through, has been adapted for radio by the film and stage director Sir Richard Eyre.”
Thai Actors Jailed For Insulting Monarchy With Student Play
“Student Patiwat Saraiyaem, 23, and activist Porntip Mankong, 26, had pleaded guilty to defamation” under Thailand’s lèse-majesté law, the world’s strictest, “following their arrests last August, nearly a year after The Wolf Bride – a satire set in a fictional kingdom – was performed.”
How Much Should A Funder Be Able To Dictate What The Art It Funds Should Accomplish?
“It is a given now that in order to get a foundation grant, it’s often not enough to simply apply for funding of what you do day in and day out. What do funders want? Innovation! New ways of ‘engaging’ younger audiences! High-impact special projects that others will want to emulate!”
What Is Acting, Really?
“Certainly impersonation has long been part of the acting tradition, and the skill required in building a character from the outside in is equal to the skill that builds a character from the inside out. My question instead is why the outside-in version, particularly when it involves miming an extreme ailment or an actual person, has become the default for Oscar voters.”
Who, And What, Won At The 2015 Oscars?
Hint: A lot, but not all, of the Oscars went to a film about a movie star trying to find meaning through theatre.
Remember That Time The Terrible Movie Mentioned A ‘First Edition’ Of The Iliad?
Well, reports are in: AbeBooks is reporting that “The Iliad: First Edition” has been the top search term since the Jennifer Lopez vehicle “The Boy Next Door” opened.
Top Posts From AJBlogs For 02.22.15
The Academy Merely Reflects Hollywood’s Beyond Dismal Record On Women Directors
“If you’re going to risk millions of dollars, you’re going to put a man in charge of that.”
More Americans See Actors In Redface On Stage Than Ever See Native Actors
“My grandma walked straight to the president’s grave. She stood for half a second, then her neck arched back, her body heaved forward, and for the first time in my life, I saw my grandma spit. It wasn’t a casual spit. It was a once in a lifetime spit. I watched as the saliva of our ancestors flowed through her mouth and hit that grave with an echo that turned heads and stopped conversations.”
Crowdsourcing A Beloved Bookstore’s Minimum Wage Raise
“It occurred to Beatts that, to his customers, something like a membership might seem not only like an opportunity to help Borderlands but also like a genuine business transaction: they would be paying for the continued existence of what, to them, was an important gathering place.”
How Do You Write A Film Score That Helps Dramatize (But Not Too Much) An Artist In His Studio?
“We’d been very meticulous in the look and the detail of the film in its period accuracy, but the music, the score, should somehow be a voice that comes from a different place. It should somehow be an expression of the essence of Turner’s painting in some way.”
The Car Mechanic’s Daughter Who Danced With Nureyev Calls It Quits
Sylvie Guillem: “One foot on stage. Curtain up. That was it… The relation I had with the audience, it was fantastic. It is always so strange. You dance, and there is an answer – that is always true. You put me in a room with people and I hide in the corner; put me on stage and I’m different.”
The Academy Might Make Bad Choices, But The Oscars Are Irresistible
“The Oscars mean something because, and this of course is what sets them apart from other awards that shall go nameless, they are given by a cross section of people from different crafts who actually make movies.”
“Out of My Mouth Comes Unimpeachable Manly Truth”: Gary Shteyngart Watches Seven Days Of Russian TV
“Here is the question I’m trying to answer: What will happen to me – an Americanized Russian-speaking novelist who emigrated from the Soviet Union as a child – if I let myself float into the television-filtered head space of my former countrymen? Will I learn to love Putin as 85 percent of Russians profess to do? Will I dash to the Russian consulate on East 91st Street and ask for my citizenship back? … Or will I simply go insane?”
Larry David Hates Working With Scripts
“It’s one of the reasons I didn’t like acting. I don’t like not being able to interject. I don’t like waiting to talk. You have to wait for the other person to finish with his lines.”