When You Talk About What You’ve No Business Talking About, People Will Talk
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
What would the Republicans not do to discredit any attempt to use the NEA again for arts jobs?
What would the Republicans not do to discredit any attempt to use the NEA again for arts jobs?
Are there risks for the Women’s Project in hammering away publicly that it was “NEA-rejected”?
The Kirkus Reviews style guide was Soviet in its bureaucratizing of English — an Orwellian nightmare of do’s, don’ts and how-dare-yous.
With deference, to be sure, to the great, if largely forgotten, Charles Caleb Colton.
What if the photo shoot is set for the first week, before any rational actor can claim an internal and external mastery of their role?
We need a little Christmas, as Jerry Herman once wrote. Charles Gross’ show, by that standard, is year-round cheer.
Gerard cheekily characterized Landesman’s visit as “humble-pie time.”
Conservatives sent me email. First, disagreeing. Then, hating.
Will Actors’ Equity join the march toward the 21st century? Or will the American theater be a backwater?
What would we gain by prosecuting George W. Bush for murder?
“We simply see that this situation arose from the lack of knowledge that Rebecca Gilman, the writer, and director Doug Hughes have of our community.”
As NBC’s “artist-in-residence,” Jon Bon Jovi will appear exclusively on the network in many ways. When he guests on “Saturday Night Live,” then, does that constitute product placement?
We must not allow Obama to politicize the NEA, even for the progressive agenda to which so many of his supporters subscribe.
If more newspapers went nonprofit or L3C (low-profit limited liability corporation), how many jobs would be saved? How many created?
Bowl and tweet and raise money for a good cause.
Calling the fiscal-impact-of-the-arts argument “tired and dubious” is waffling, dissembling journalism.
A musical and nonprofit team up for pitch-perfect PR.
How are the arts debased or devalued by studies noticably skewed toward a particular viewpoint?
Should journalists promote podcasts by the same people who snipped critics from the Tony-voting roster?
You can say that paying $45 million for a Duccio painting is pointless if one million people need cataract operations and can’t see it, but isn’t that apples and oranges?
As one commenter writes about the Tonys, “The ratings aren’t even equal to the number of people who attend Broadway each year.”
This is just the kind of promotional tool all Broadway shows should think about.
Google has a controversy on its hands, thanks to Jeff Koons and Bob Dylan.
Plays that raise questions and offer irony, but do not represent a single political point of view.
Naomi Wolf’s language exposes the dangers of not coming together as a community to take action.
The freedom to engage difficult subjects that Hollywood films won’t touch.
Resignations also addresses themes related to women working in an office.
An alternate universe where civil liberties are challenged on the most basic level — the right of an individual to live or die.
As a playwright, she felt challenged to create a character that becomes lost on stage.
Milwaukee is more than Laverne and Shirley, beer and plaid.
I will soon commune with the 20th century’s most famous acting couple.
Teachout’s try at a teachable moment reads as if written by Percy Hammond, a theater critic who died in 1936.
Compared to the Oscars, where speculating about the potential for scandal is not the same thing is identifying it, the American Idol final vote seems ripe for a Bush v. Gore-style decision from the Supreme Court.
American Idol no more a talent contest than the Miss America pagaent is a pure paean to beauty.
I’m amused, to the point of sadness, by the avalanche of ideas to try to save newspapers.
What’s the no-no, Shepard Smith?
What will tomorrow’s hot talkers on The Strategy Room be?
Many songs could easily top “I Dreamed a Dream” for the most horrible song in history. First thing that came to my mind was “Deutchland Uber Alles.”
Crain’s New York Business has published a profile of me and The Clyde Fitch Report.
Steven Brill’s plan to save journalism will either work or fail brilliantly. There’s little in-between potential.
What is going on in terms of the media hoopla surrounding her proves that mass media is still the gatekeeper, yet it is necessarily a partnered gatekeeper.
Well, we finally have the evidence we need. Watch the video.
Collective hope rests on persuading policymakers of Off-Off-Broadway’s economic impact. Is this misconceived?
The New York City Council will hold a public hearing on the question of eliminating the Unincorporated Business Tax, which double-taxes freelancers on their work.
A letter making its way through Hollywood, written by an unnamed CAA agent, says things will get really bad before they get really, really good.
Let’s create a registry or database, if you will, of nonprofit theater companies and for-profit productions that have blogs that really are blogs — good blogs, active blogs, substantive and insightful blogs.
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