Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that it is putting pressure on the performers it is meant to serve. Rickie Lee Jones doesn't much like what she sees on MTV ("The videos are like old Monkees shows. They're nonsense, a real waste of time and money"), but she is now writing a new album "as it should be done. I'm writing the video as I write the songs." Olivia Newton-John actually hired a video writer to run up a script for an album that will be planned around the resultant scenario. Songwriters will receive...
...that Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was rejected by an editor who urged him instead to write a book about pigeons? ("Everyone is interested in pigeons," said this expert. "The book would be reviewed by every journal in the kingdom...
When is a Mel Brooks film not a Mel Brooks film? When he produces but does not direct, when he stars but does not write. And perhaps when he is more interested in paying tribute than in parody. To Be or Not to Be is a remarkably faithful adaptation of Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 comedy about a troupe of ungood actors asked to take parts in a real-life espionage plot set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Lubitsch was contrasting the egocentricity and generosity of show people with the boorishness of their oppressors, representatives of a politics that monstrously parodied...
...book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond." So wrote Oxford Don C.S. Lewis, author of the immortal Chronicles of Narnia. The statement is true enough, but the ability to write a children's book that will last decades is granted to few. Of the hundreds of juvenile volumes published this year, only a handful will endure to New Year's Day. Among those that have a chance of surviving...
...secular 20th century, the religious impulse that in the past produced such musical masterworks as Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis has been in short supply. Many contemporary composers, it seems, regard themselves as too sophisticated to write frankly sacred music, or are simply unmoved by the realm of doctrine or liturgy. At a time when nothing is too shocking to be put onstage, spirituality has replaced sexuality as the last taboo...