As opposed to the hard-bitten, urban lowlife milieu of male writers such as Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane, “the terror is lurking either in the home, or just outside of it, in the periphery. It makes everything seem unreliable … Even relationships that are supposed to be bedrocks, like marriage, like family, like friendship, or even in some degree, the workplace.”
Reviving A Near-Dead Theatre Through Sharing The Burden Openly
“ARTshare works like this: For an $18 per month membership, people can see as many shows at the Southern as they like. The companies, which range from dance groups to theater and comedy, perform in repertory. Each gets a little money and technical support for shows.”
How Many People Need To Buy A Book To Make It A ‘Success’ In The U.S.?
“Three thousand’s not bad.”
That Other Museum (Re)Opening This Weekend
“The earliest Beaux-Arts building in the United States, the Morgan Memorial was conceived and largely paid for by the financier J. Pierpont Morgan, a Hartford native who named it in honor of his father. In 1915, it opened to the public, 73 years after the museum itself was founded by Daniel Wadsworth. (The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest continuously open art museum in the country.)”
This Woman Has Sung For Actresses In More Than 1,000 Movies
“Is there anyone you’d like to duet with?”
“Barbara Streisand – I’d love to sing with her.”
Brian Sewell, Cantankerous (And Controversial) Art Critic, Dies At 84
“His sharp wit could be cruel, but he was a television natural, a hugely readable television columnist, and an insightful – if sometimes harsh – critic.”
Jackie Collins, Writer Of Sexy Hollywood Novels, Dies At 77
“Long before the emergence of the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ franchise, Ms. Collins dominated the publishing industry’s more lascivious corners. She wrote more than 30 books, many of them filled with explicit, unrestrained sexuality, and sold more than 500 million copies worldwide.”