Gill‘s ABT run at City Center began this week, with this well-reviewed show on Tuesday. The show Wednesday was also quite good – I even enjoyed Symphony in C, which I’m bit a sick of at this point (second movement notwithstanding). And I’ll be returning next week to catch the Harrison piece.
Category: Arts and Letters
Carville on Stark.
Here’s something else I meant to blog last week and forgot – my old boss is looking to produce a remake of All the King’s Men (It’s below the Hitchens stuff.) I know Carville has some connections with Milos Forman due to his cameoing in The People vs. Larry Flynt…I wonder if he could entice him to direct. At any rate, if this goes down, I may just have to finagle a way to get involved in some capacity, or at least visit the set.
Faulty Math: B-.
Slate answers Harvey “C-” Mansfield on the subject of grade inflation. I agree with the former, as noted here (2/7).
Gambling man.
The good doctor returns for another NFL season. Not a very good effort this time around, but with HsT, you never know.
Different Seasons
Is Stephen King hanging it up? Like everyone else, I’ll believe it when I see it.
DC Down, Marvel Up.
While Superman continues to languish over at Warner Brothers, Sony gets Michael Chabon to punch up the script for The Amazing Spiderman. Since so much of Spidey’s appeal is his internal monologue, Chabon sounds like a great choice.
Hope he’s got a towel.
The long-awaited, much-delayed film version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy gets a new scribe. Hopefully he’s more hoopy frood than Vogon poet.
I wonder if he read Dune too…
Does Osama Bin Laden have a Hari Seldon complex? This article examines the (possible) links between Al Qaeda and Isaac Asimov‘s Foundation series. (Via Julian’s Jabberings.)
Go West, Young Man.
The Washington Post checks in with Cornel West upon his move to Princeton. (Via Random Walks.) Sure enough, Larry Summers comes off as a jackass. As I’ve said over here, West was easily one of the most committed professors to undergraduate life on campus. To accuse him of playing hooky because he has a number of high-profile side projects is both unfair and untrue. All I know is I hope someday I’m both respected and culturally relevant enough as an academic to appear in the Matrix sequels (or their fanboy equivalents.)
An Oxford Stroll.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford, interactive. Also, those well-to-do folks out there looking for a more substantive piece of Middle Earth’s history should go here. (On a related note, how great is it to finally have Fellowship legitimately on DVD? No more “Property of New Line blah blah blah” scrolling over the best parts.)