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"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday it had received 'a cordial, handwritten note' from 79-year-old Godard in response to its notification that he would receive a statuette." The note "indicated that, schedule permitting, he would come to Los Angeles for the November 13 Governors Awards event."...
"The appeal of a blonde-wigged and warbling Elle Woods shimmying through Legally Blonde in the Philippines, say? Or the interest in seeing Billy Elliott's gritty northern mining town replicated in South Korea? Major British productions no longer just travel back and forth across the Atlantic; they're franchised across the planet."...
"It's hard to say whether American re-enactors would allow a digital camera on the 19th-century battlefield. But in the U.K., rules are a bit more casual. Because there's little personal connection to the Civil War, the British can have more fun with it."...
"What do Marcel Duchamp's readymades have to do with a Chinese mandarin's robe? And what is the link between the crowns of African kings and a synagogue in South America? These are some of the questions raised by three contemporary artists who were asked by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to select pieces from its vast collections to create their own special exhibitions."...
"Gold earrings made for an Assyrian queen, a sacred 4,000-year-old statue, and 540 other looted pieces of Iraq's ancient history were formally returned to Iraq on Monday … [But] a previous shipment of 632 stolen pieces recovered in the US [went] missing after being delivered to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office last year."...
"[The] media has mythologised her as a diva who sometimes uses a megaphone in her Clerkenwell [London] office, and who hobnobs with A-list friends such as Karl Lagerfeld. She encourages it, playfully: today her toenails are the colour of Greek lemons, to match [her] chic canary-yellow coat."...
BoaC executive director Kenny Savelson: "It's a melting pot. We're a bit like mad scientists putting all of this in a room with the audience and creating a new experience." BoaC co-founder Julia Wolfe: "Philadelphia is such a beautiful old historic city that, in a way, it's more radical to bring this into that environment."...
Later this month, the Opera of the Future Group at the MIT Media Lab will premiere Death and the Powers, an opera more than 10 years in the making. Featuring life-sized singing robots and a musical chandelier, the opera could redefine how technology can enhance live performance and help reestablish opera’s spirit of innovation.
Created by composer and MIT Media Lab Professor...
Created by composer and MIT Media Lab Professor...
The serial Ma Malakat Aymanukum (a Quranic phrase meaning "what your right hands possess" or "what is rightfully yours"), broadcast nightly on Syrian TV during the holy month, directly tackles such touchy subjects as the veil, corruption, religious extremism, "honor killings" and the violent repression of women....
"In this Baghdad version of Punk'd, famous Iraqis - actors, singers and sports figures - are … [stopped] at a routine checkpoint. Hidden cameras then capture the reaction as soldiers accuse the passenger of carrying a homemade bomb. … But this is Iraq, not MTV. Here, it gets ugly fast."...