MCN Curated Headlines Archive for July, 2019
To commemorate Harold "Hal" Prince's life and work, the Committee of Theatre Owners will dim the lights of #Broadway theaters in New York for one minute tonight https://t.co/mBG4Vyzofh
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 31, 2019
Bruce Lee’s Protégé Recalls His Humility Amid ‘Once Upon a Time’ Criticism https://t.co/cRvf2mpZdS pic.twitter.com/Jrc32OZNRP
— Variety_Film (@Variety_Film) July 31, 2019
While I’m not a fan of QT, nor am I happy about the fact that he portrayed Bruce Lee in a manner that hurt his daughter Shannon, I’m a huge fan of @mangiotto’s writing and this one is a particularly personal piece: Film Freak Central https://t.co/5kCnX5HHQ0
— Lexi Alexander (@Lexialex) July 31, 2019
“In terms of director and cinematographer, he can tell me what he wants or show me examples and then I try to create what’s in his head. The highest level of praise I can get is when he sees a scene and says to me that’s exactly what I had in my brain.”
Robert Richardson
Farewell Hal
Not just the prince of musicals, the crowned head who directed two of the greatest productions of my career, Evita and Phantom.
This wonderful man taught me so much and his mastery of musical theatre was without equal.
– ALW pic.twitter.com/CJomXUFUyp
— Andrew Lloyd Webber (@OfficialALW) July 31, 2019
RIP Hal Prince💔
What a sad day— Bernadette Peters (@OfficialBPeters) July 31, 2019
Thank you, Hal.
— Sondheim Lyrics (@sondheimlyrics) July 31, 2019
Hal Prince was one of the fucking gods of musical theatre. If you haven’t seen the recorded version of his 1979 Sweeney Todd production, fix that immediately!!!
— Ira thee Third (@ira) July 31, 2019
Beyond heartbroken to find out that #HalPrince has passed away💔Working with Hal was one of the greatest honors of my artistic life-I'll never forget his kindness,generosity& brilliance as an artist & as a human.Sending love & condolences to Judy,Daisy,Charlie &all loved ones💖💫
— Donna Murphy (@DMurphyOfficial) July 31, 2019
RIP our dear Hal Prince. You inspired. You will ALWAYS inspire.
— Kristin Chenoweth (@KChenoweth) July 31, 2019
Whether your consider yourself a Sondheim person, or an Andrew Lloyd Webber person, or a Kander and Ebb person, you're a Hal Prince person.
He bestrode all of 20th-Century Broadway like a Colossus in a Dance Belt.
— Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) July 31, 2019
A common thread running through all of the beautiful eulogies of Hal is the fact that he wrote kind and supportive letters to so many young theatre artists. Including me, when I greatly needed the encouragement. Who does that anymore? I could go on – we all could go on. A giant.
— Robert Falls (@RobertFalls) July 31, 2019
Amazon S-Team member Jeff Blackburn, who heads up Entertainment, Prime Video, Business Development and Advertising, is taking a year-long sabbatical. Story coming to WSJ
— Dana Mattioli (@DanaMattioli) July 31, 2019
Whether your consider yourself a Sondheim person, or an Andrew Lloyd Webber person, or a Kander and Ebb person, you're a Hal Prince person.
He bestrode all of 20th-Century Broadway like a Colossus in a Dance Belt.
— Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) July 31, 2019
“Films like Silent Running and Outland and Ridley Scott’s Alien, they were telling stories about people. The science fiction was really the environment these people were contrasted against. It’s how people were affected by, or how they were able to protect themselves from these future environments, or alien environments in science fiction settings. It was always about people, and they were always quite smart.”
Revisiting A 2009 Conversation With Duncan Jones About Moon
BDG postpones Gawker relaunch, lays off entire staff https://t.co/bagUGH7T2k pic.twitter.com/uensCVz3MD
— New York Post (@nypost) July 31, 2019
Prediction: this Bustle strategy of buying dying media properties, while getting lotsa press right now, won’t move the needle for the company and will be abandoned in a year or so. And parent company would be better for it. https://t.co/ycbB75qw8U
— Rafat Ali, Media Operator (@rafat) July 31, 2019
I saw ‘Once Upon A Time…’ this past weekend so I could comment intelligently to the press that is asking to speak with me about the portrayal of my Dad in Tarantino’s new film, here are my thoughts:https://t.co/vbk6Uz0hev
— Bruce Lee (@brucelee) July 30, 2019
Damn RIP to the office where I interned in 2010 https://t.co/SysP9vdgt8
— Dan Schindel (@DanSchindel) July 30, 2019
I don’t say this in pursuit of gainsaying Shannon Lee, but I didn’t see Bruce/Cliff bout, which ends in a draw, as belittling to Lee (who’s shown as kind and considerate when coaching Tate). Just a shit-talking episode between bored idle fight performers that got out of hand.
— Glenn Kenny (@Glenn__Kenny) July 30, 2019
How Hiram Garcia Keeps The Rock’s Blockbuster Movies on Track https://t.co/j6iXGbuSrx pic.twitter.com/tDS886EfrJ
— Variety_Film (@Variety_Film) July 30, 2019
#HBD, Richard Linklater!
“More than most filmmakers, Linklater takes quite literally Andrei Tarkovsky’s concept of cinema as sculpting in time.”
Dennis Lim: https://t.co/7VmZsF4XpD pic.twitter.com/TdGeKdeaPC
— The Daily (@CriterionDaily) July 30, 2019
Brad PItt and his partners in Plan B have exceptional taste. Even more important? THEY GET FILMS MADE. https://t.co/Kjc5GLNbJj
— Ray Pride (@RayPride) July 30, 2019
R.I.P. Jack Davis, illustrator for MAD magazine and Tales From The Crypt https://t.co/Y3kdl4Vsv1
— Malice Intended (@Renaissance1977) July 29, 2019
Scorsese's #TheIrishman to premiere at New York Film Fest https://t.co/z6LDWlAZ7W @netflix @filmlinc
— Thelma Adams (@thelmadams) July 29, 2019
#KyotoAnimation arson attack: Death toll rises to 35, reports that the attack was carefully planned https://t.co/KmVBWoC7vO #KyoAni pic.twitter.com/jTTz33cS6z
— THR International (@THRGlobal) July 29, 2019
"Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers" Looking just at the titles of Les Blank's filmography, one sees the America one wants to live in. RIP.
— Glenn Kenny (@Glenn__Kenny) April 7, 2013
How Yesterday Became The Hit Of Today
“You’ll never get the fucking rights for that. It’s not an obvious one – it would either work well or wouldn’t work at all. Three things needed to happen for Richard Curtis to write it: the historic side with the previous writers needed to be sorted out in an honourable way, Universal would board to develop it, and that we would visit Apple Corps and Sony and verify the rights were not going to be an issue. You’re not going to sit around and tell Danny Boyle what to do – he never sits down, not even at the monitor. It’s a pleasure to be a part of it.”
Packaging Yesterday
…. something that, given their post-release requests, they don’t seem to see as a problem!
— Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) July 28, 2019
around why we laugh at a dead on impersonation of Bruce Lee (like my spot on perfect Chinese accent); and why we shiver like the bogeyman's in your closet when we see a dead on impersonation of little Charlie Manson. Cultural baggage. It's a good thing to interrogate.
— Walter Chaw 周瑜 (@mangiotto) July 28, 2019
Take a second to audit what your first response is to seeing anyone on screen. How have you been conditioned to respond to… a black man, a black woman, a young Asian woman? an old Asian woman? We all mean well, right? Yet we are all loaded down w/this cultural weight of bias.
— Walter Chaw 周瑜 (@mangiotto) July 28, 2019
Hollywood is playing younger than expected, 60 percent of ticket buyers between 18-34. https://t.co/HTMlAbQLkx
— Matthew Belloni (@THRMattBelloni) July 28, 2019
Author @StephenKing predicted the rise of Trump 40 years ago — but he says the reality is scarier than anything he’s written pic.twitter.com/ecAWOgFXnE
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 28, 2019