It's been bugging me for some days after seeing Reese Witherspoon saying 'Hollywood has to change because of the dearth of quality scripts featuring women in lead roles, etc.' (Paraphrased)
My reaction then and now is if you want a better script then write one.
Rather than focusing on the whiners, our focus is on those who do not.
No-one would direct a movie Salma Hayek wanted to present so she directed it herself and the result was "Frida" which was an exceptional telling of an extraordinary life.
Lady Gaga has been hooted frequently for doing outrageous things but she may well be the most versatile and talented singer in America today. I've heard her in some interviews and she's a highly literate and intelligent woman. She also doesn't roll over for Hollywood's idea of beauty and it makes her all the more beautiful, not just because it makes her more real but rather she is a beautiful woman.
Most singers avoid any kind of real controversy but Pink takes it on straight-up when she does a duet with her father on a song he wrote while he was stationed in Vietnam. The work is deeply-personal, deeply-moving, and highly-intelligent throughout her repertoire.
I did not know "Dear My President" previously but Cat told me about it and she said her mother appreciated Pink. Cat played various performers for her including Katy Perry and Mariah Carey but she was not impressed whereas she was with Pink for her talent and her versatility. Her mother was a lifetime professional opera singer and, yes, she did Wagner. While Pink's music was not to her taste and she would not buy it, as a singer she admired her versatility.
Note: I'm not personally familiar with Wagner and his operatic work but I understand it presents some of the most arduous challenges an opera singer can attempt.
We have heard so much insufferable whining from Q-libs since the Clinton crack-up that we thought we might drown it if the Ten-Day-Monster did not get us first. The motivation to find something real and certainly not that has been high.
Another place it was found was in the sculpture of an Englishman, Jason deCaires Taylor, who creates his sculptures and then places him under the sea. In one of his moving works, he created many figures of drowned refugees but they take on a life underwater where coral and other life grows on them.
- TED seminar
We have been getting strangled with horror and the U.S. attacked Libya with B-2 bombers yesterday; the simple savagery of it is so appalling we need to find humans doing better than that and a whole lot better.
So we did.
Here is another article, auf Deutsch, which has a video specifically of the sculptures rather than a TED interview. (Arte: Mahnung im Meer)
Note: the TED seminar is in English and don't worry about German for the article; just click the link on its embedded video to watch.
My reaction then and now is if you want a better script then write one.
Rather than focusing on the whiners, our focus is on those who do not.
No-one would direct a movie Salma Hayek wanted to present so she directed it herself and the result was "Frida" which was an exceptional telling of an extraordinary life.
Lady Gaga has been hooted frequently for doing outrageous things but she may well be the most versatile and talented singer in America today. I've heard her in some interviews and she's a highly literate and intelligent woman. She also doesn't roll over for Hollywood's idea of beauty and it makes her all the more beautiful, not just because it makes her more real but rather she is a beautiful woman.
Most singers avoid any kind of real controversy but Pink takes it on straight-up when she does a duet with her father on a song he wrote while he was stationed in Vietnam. The work is deeply-personal, deeply-moving, and highly-intelligent throughout her repertoire.
I did not know "Dear My President" previously but Cat told me about it and she said her mother appreciated Pink. Cat played various performers for her including Katy Perry and Mariah Carey but she was not impressed whereas she was with Pink for her talent and her versatility. Her mother was a lifetime professional opera singer and, yes, she did Wagner. While Pink's music was not to her taste and she would not buy it, as a singer she admired her versatility.
Note: I'm not personally familiar with Wagner and his operatic work but I understand it presents some of the most arduous challenges an opera singer can attempt.
We have heard so much insufferable whining from Q-libs since the Clinton crack-up that we thought we might drown it if the Ten-Day-Monster did not get us first. The motivation to find something real and certainly not that has been high.
Another place it was found was in the sculpture of an Englishman, Jason deCaires Taylor, who creates his sculptures and then places him under the sea. In one of his moving works, he created many figures of drowned refugees but they take on a life underwater where coral and other life grows on them.
- TED seminar
We have been getting strangled with horror and the U.S. attacked Libya with B-2 bombers yesterday; the simple savagery of it is so appalling we need to find humans doing better than that and a whole lot better.
So we did.
Here is another article, auf Deutsch, which has a video specifically of the sculptures rather than a TED interview. (Arte: Mahnung im Meer)
Note: the TED seminar is in English and don't worry about German for the article; just click the link on its embedded video to watch.
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