I said this expecting a boiler plate #AllCommunitiesMatter-style answer which really means “rich kids in Ballard get the symphony brought to them.” and I would have sighed and that would’ve been that. But she paused and said “You know I’ve been told I can say this, because this is very important to me,” and then I proceeded to get schooled.
The Breakthrough Moment: Performers, Artists, Writers, Chefs, And Even A Poker Champ Explain When They Realized What They Were Meant To Do
“The moment when: George Clooney did Sid & Nancy; Don Rickles discovered heckling; George Saunders transformed a dream and a bottle of Boone’s Farm into a short story; Dan Barber tasted his first soft-scramble; Errol Morris learned to listen; Dita von Teese realized she wasn’t Pamela Anderson; Jon Favreau’s all-nighter paid off; and other creative epiphanies.”
What Orson Welles Really Thought Of Ernest Hemingway
“Welles lived in Spain in the 1960s, returning there throughout the last 20 years of his life, but became exasperated by what he saw as the touristic legacy of Hemingway’s work.”
Programming A Linked Series Of Plays And Events To Get People Back To The Theatre
“Parsons noted that the social justice program has ‘sort of done what I hoped it would do, which is get people going a little bit. I didn’t have anything to accomplish except to get people in. And it’s worked. You gotta get a gimmick. That was in Gypsy right? You gotta get a gimmick. That was my gimmick.'”
David Bowie Was Practically Invisible In The New York He Loved So Much
“‘He traveled with this cloak of invisibility — nobody saw him,’ Mr. Guare said. ‘He just eradicated himself.'”
The Art Market Bubble Will Burst Soon, Experts Say
“The author says conditions are remarkably similar to the bubble of 1990 and the market is still inflating, in what they term the ‘mania phase of its formation.'”
A Choreographer And A Director Walk Into A Pub …
Christopher Wheeldon on making Shakespeare into ballet: “If you knock away the language and boil it down to the bare essence, there is a really a great story there.”
Two Different, Formerly Competing ‘Theories Of Everything’ May Merge
“‘Loopy people go to loopy conferences. Stringy people go to stringy conferences. They don’t even go to ‘physics’ conferences anymore. I think it’s unfortunate that it developed this way.’ But a number of factors may be pushing the camps closer together.”