Unlike every other scribe in the blogosphere, I’m not vacating my post for Labor Day. On the other hand, don’t expect me to engage in any deep thinking: I’ll save my analysis of Heidegger’s lectures on Holderlin for another day.
Meanwhile, here’s a slightly easier topic: … Read more »
Tom Cruise has finally started talking about his currently filming role as a German colonel who tried to kill Adolf Hitler. “All I can say is, ‘Save your comments until you’ve seen the movie,’” the 45-year-old Cruise tells the German magazine Bunte. He was responding … Read more »
Here’s the scoop, from Reuters:
A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the currently in-progress Venice Film Festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears.
“Redacted,” … Read more »
Princess Diana was a well-known backer of the arts, ballet in particular. But there was little sign of her cultural preferences in the service held today, August 31, to mark the tenth anniversary of her death in a car crash in Paris. The cultural sphere … Read more »
You’ll never catch me griping that video games are the Death of Civilization: I don’t want to turn into an Old Fart just yet. The movie critic Roger Ebert, on the other hand, has no such qualms. He recently pooted that “video games represent a … Read more »
According to Billboard.com, there’s been some discussion going on about a Black Sabbath reunion. But it hasn’t been emanating from the rock band’s members themselves. Guitarist Tony Iommi says that though “everybody’s been talking to me” about the much-reported reunion, “there’s nothing in stone at … Read more »
I’ve seen a lot of weird and complicated sets for opera productions, but I have to say that a recent version of “Tosca,” at the Bregenz Festival in Austria, sets new standards in the dropped-jaw department. The festival has the built-in-advantage of its backdrop: the … Read more »
Twenty-five years after the death of the virtuoso pianist Glenn Gould, I came across a report about a secret five-year affair this Bach specialist had. As I write this post, I’m listening to an insightful Bach recording by a 34-year-old Brooklyn native and major Gould … Read more »