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Award Central: Indutry icon to receive Cinematic Imagery Award -- The Art Directors Guild has selected Warren Beatty as the recipient of its Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award.
Saga (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
How did you become the dance model for Snow White?
Pilton Sucks dotCom (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Friends and readers. The clock struck the midnight hour some 15 minutes so by the writers amazing powers of deduction, that makes it Monday morning. It’s quite inside and outside and just the hum of the computor tower for company. The clock above has it’s pendulum going back and forth. It dosen’t work to well but then it was bought in [...]
WJZ Baltimore, Maryland News Weathe (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Launching its comeback in perilous financial times, the New York City Opera might well have played it safe with a surefire crowd-pleaser, like its production of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly." But Puccini's lush melodies will have to wait until spring. Instead, the company opened its season Saturday night by reviving an atonal opera that it premiered back in 1993 — Hugo Weisgall's "Esther."...
Judeopundit (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The New York City Opera is putting on a work featuring Mordechai, Esther, Haman, and 12 of your favorite tones! . . . the company opened its season Saturday night by reviving an atonal opera that it premiered back in 1993 — Hugo Weisgall's "Esther." A bold move, but far from a foolhardy one. "Esther," based on the biblical story of the Jewish queen of Persia who saved her...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Launching its comeback in perilous financial times, the New York City Opera might well have played it safe with a surefire crowd-pleaser, like its production of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly."
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Yesterday, William Leith analysed the role of goats in literature for our Jon Ronson takeover. Today, cinema comes under the spotlight Think about the movies you watch in your local cinema: how many goats do they feature? I don't think it's stretching credulity too far to suggest that there are shockingly few. Spider-Man has an alter ego, a girlfriend and a nemesis, but does he have a pet goat? He...
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
It is reported that there is to be a $150m Hollywood blockbuster biopic about the life of Mohammed. About time. Barrie Osborne, part of the Oscar-winning team behind The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, says the new production is ‘an international epic production aimed at bridging cultures. The film will educate people about the true meaning of Islam’. But no actor will be in line...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Remarkable movie star Claudette Colbert was always considered at the very top of her game over a film career that lasted 34 years, 50 if you count an extra TV movie appearance. A consummate professional, she played the game her own way, neither fighting to be the best-regarded actress nor the most desired lover. Stories about her on-set demands never reached...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Behold Bruce Feiler's optimism. You and your relatives, he says with conviction, can talk about religion and politics at Thanksgiving and survive.
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Bruce Feiler deftly explores the unexpected connection between Moses and America in this outstanding book. Sponsored Topics: Moses - Arts - Literature - Kids and Teens - People and Society
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Michigan Opera Theatre opened its 2009-10 season Saturday with the first of three performances of Verdi's "Nabucco." The production represents MOT's first crack at the opera in 39 seasons, and the results proved so satisfying that it would be a shame to wait another four decades for a revival.
Codex: Biblical Studies Blogspot (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
20th Century Fox has announced that they will be remaking The Ten Commandments in the style of “300“! I am not sure of what to make of this. “300″ was a visually stunning — if not ultra violent — film, but I can’t imagine what they would do to the story of the Exodus from [...]
FilmChat (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Variety reports that 20th Century Fox is developing a new movie about Moses. While there have been numerous cartoons and TV movies about Moses over the last few decades, this will presumably be the first major live-action version of the story produced for the big screen since Cecil B. DeMille's second version of The Ten Commandments (1956). Like every other ancient epic being made these days, the...
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Sure, it's right in the path of wildfires and mudslides, but it's got barns. And grass pastures. And tennis courts. Meet Middle Ranch in Little Tujuga Canyon, which hit the market in 2007, listed at $11.95 million. According to Luxist , Middle Ranch was formerly Cecil B....
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