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...digital-movie piracy, "Hollywood Robbery" [Jan. 26], left out one of the biggest reasons for the black market in bootleg copies of films. People are sick of getting ripped off at the theater and the DVD store. When we see movie stars getting millions for making one film and studio execs living like movie stars, the purchasers of bootleg DVDs say, "Who's getting ripped off? I'm the one paying a bundle when I spend $20 to see a movie and buy a bag of popcorn." Who cares if the industry loses a few billion dollars? It wouldn...
...Forbidding Talent Stage actress and acting teacher Uta Hagen performed on Broadway for more than 60 years. Although her death [Milestones, Jan. 26] will leave a vacuum in the theater world, the many talented students from HB Studio, the acting school she and her husband Herbert Berghof co-founded, carry on her legacy. After Hagen won the Tony Award as 1962's best actress, we described her stage presence...
...show was created by Robert ?Shad? Northshield, a CBS producer who brought Kuralt into the studio on West 57th Street. The reporter had been ?on the road? for a dozen years, filing stories on ?those gentler subjects? (rural eccentrics, unicyclists, small-town sages, long-time friends, a high-school team with a record number of consecutive losses). What Joseph Mitchell achieved in his New Yorker profiles of Bowery ticket-takers, Staten Island oystermen and Mohawk skyscraper steelworkers, Kuralt approached, more fondly, in his reportorial visits...
Self-Portraits begins with a shot of Alcalay performing his most arduous daily task: the morning climb to his third-story studio. Alcalay mounts the stairs with a cane, one hand gripping the rail. The artist himself is narrating, as he does for most of the film, describing painting, in this moment of hardship, as the “pinch...
...retired from teaching in 1997 and since 1986, the VES department has awarded the Albert Alcalay Award to the best student in a workshop studio...