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☆ Young at heart: England's Royal Shakespeare Company redefines age
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Sarah Mills | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

STRATFORD, England, June 29 (Reuters) - Celebrated British actor Geraldine James thought it was a joke when she was asked to take the lead in the Royal Shakespeare Company's latest production of "As You Like It", a comedy of young love. Playing at the Royal Shakespeare Company's home in Stratford, central England, until Aug. 5, the production is in step with a trend for experimental casting - last year Britain's Ian McKellan, now 84, played the student prince Hamlet. She brings her craft "to a role and words that in more kind of traditional casting, we wouldn't be able to hear". Her one criticism of Britain's greatest playwright is that his best female roles, such as Rosalind, are young. Reporting by Sarah Mills; writing by Barbara Lewis, Editing by William MacleanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Geraldine James, Shakespeare, Omar Elerian, James, Ian McKellan, Richard Attenborough’s, Rosalind, Elerian, Lear, Prospero, Sarah Mills, Barbara Lewis, William Maclean Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: STRATFORD, England, British, Italian, Stratford ,

☆ Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Zachary Woolfe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

With tolling bells, grim chords and an uneasy melody, the opening immediately brings to mind Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” another tale of a king gone mad. This first section, “The Divided Kingdom,” shows Aucoin’s talent for creating orchestral textures that are simultaneously granitic and flickering, like fast-shifting storm clouds. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, deserves credit for consistently leading this richly gifted composer’s works with both organizations over the past few years. (Aucoin is currently working on an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s “Demons,” planned for the Met.) The Tchaikovsky lacked the passionate opulence that is this score’s reason for being.

Persons: “, “ Boris Godunov, ”, Kurosawa’s, —, Yannick Nézet, Dostoevsky’s, Bernstein, Tchaikovsky Organizations: Metropolitan Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, hiccups Locations: “ Heath, ”

☆ 'Dahmer' producer Ryan Murphy plans to leave Netflix for Disney, Bloomberg reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 20 (Reuters) - Hit television writer and producer Ryan Murphy is planning to leave Netflix (NFLX.O) to join Walt Disney (DIS.N), Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Murphy is known for his creation of hits from "Glee" to "9-1-1" and "American Horror Story" and serial-killer series "Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story," which became one of Netflix's most-watched series of all time. He left Fox in 2018 to join Netflix in a five-year deal valued as high as $300 million to produce a new series and film exclusively for the online giant. The TV show creator has been negotiating a new deal with Disney over the past year. Disney and Netflix did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

Persons: Ryan Murphy, Murphy, Dahmer, Jeffrey Dahmer, Carol Burnett, Burnett, Ellen DeGeneres, Norman Lear, Samrhitha, Maju Samuel Organizations: Netflix, Walt Disney, Bloomberg, Fox, Disney, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Golden Globes, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru

☆ Glenda Jackson, British actor turned politician, dies aged 87
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Elizabeth Piper | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Raw-boned, pallid and angular, with striking, sharp eyes, she had starred on stage, television and film before quitting to take up politics, declaring: "An actor's life is not interesting". Jackson also won two Emmy awards for her portrayal of England's Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC's 1971 television series "Elizabeth R". After more than three decades on stage and film, Jackson quit acting and took her no-nonsense, straight-talking style into politics. In 1992, at the age of 55, Jackson won a seat in parliament representing the left-of-centre Labour Party in a constituency in north London. In parliament, Jackson was vociferous in her condemnation of the Conservative Party which she accused of instilling a "dreadful, dreadful moral malaise" in Britain.

☆ Has America Ignored the Workplace for Too Long?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In that context, watching Sheila’s meeting spiral out of control feels almost as subversive and revelatory as Terkel’s book. The problem arises when the show attempts to explain what, specifically, has gone wrong to make that eruption possible. The series wants to hang around working people, as Terkel did, to understand their hopes and dreams and contradictions. This issue goes unaddressed, but the series does touch on the idea that popular media has long neglected the workplace. Neither are developments like the erosion of job security, the rise of erratic scheduling, the invasive workplace surveillance — changes that marked Obama’s very own era in the White House.

Persons: Obama, Milton Friedman, Terkel, Norman Lear, ”, Reagan, “, Henry Mayhew, London “, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dwight Macdonald Organizations: Television, “, Morning Chronicle Locations: ‘, London

☆ ‘Dalíland’ Review: Landscape With Vipers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Manohla Dargis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

One of the best things about “Dalíland,” Mary Harron’s amused and amusing fictional look at the singular Salvador Dalí, is that it isn’t a cradle-to-grave exhumation. An anodyne pretty boy, James serves as a proxy for the viewer, a wide-eyed tourist in a seductively foreign land. James isn’t all that interesting, either, and there’s too much of him in the movie. This isn’t Briney’s fault; he’s pleasant to look at, and he manages his transition from tourist to accidental Dalí-wood guide well enough. The relationship provides tension and mystery that the well-matched Kingsley and Sukowa complicate with gargoyle masks and shocks of vulnerability.

Persons: “, Mary Harron’s, Salvador Dalí, Dalí’s, James, Christopher Briney, who’s, Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Dalí ’, Captain Moore, Rupert Graves, Alice Cooper, Mark McKenna, Amanda Lear, Suki Waterhouse, James isn’t, grubbing, Kingsley Locations: York, Regis, New York

☆ US set to issue $362 mln loan for vehicle wiring production
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Energy Department on Friday said it intends to loan California startup CelLink $362 million to help finance construction of a U.S. manufacturing facility to improve key vehicle wiring components. The conditional commitment from the government's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program is for the development of lighter, more efficient flexible circuit wiring harnesses for automotive and other industries. Once fully operational, the Georgetown, Texas facility is expected to produce flex harnesses to support some 2.7 million electric vehicles per year, the department said. CelLink, which already has products installed in more than a million vehicles on the road, currently operates a manufacturing facility in San Carlos. The new Texas facility will eventually hold up to 25 manufacturing lines that will be brought online in stages over the next several years depending on demand.

☆ Why Researchers Turned This Goldfish Into a Cyborg
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Kate Golembiewski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To keep the computer from weighing the fish down and impeding its ability to swim, the researchers attached buoyant plastic foam to the device. The closer the fish swam to the tank’s edges, the more the navigational cells in their brains lit up. The fish’s brain-computer helped reveal that goldfish use a system of navigation that is subtly different from what scientists have found in mammals. For humans (and other members of our class), navigational cells specialize in pinging our precise location within our environment and building a map around that spot. Mammals have specialized neurons that create these “you are here” pins in their mental maps; the researchers didn’t find those cells in fish.

☆ ‘Unscripted’ Review: Sex, Lies and Viacom
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Edward Kosner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Sumner Redstone, who died in 2020 at the age of 97, was one of the killer whales thriving in the swirling currents of the modern media. A hulking old man with dyed red hair and a maimed right hand, he was a mega-billionaire with a ravenous appetite for power, riches—and sex. At his peak at the turn of the century, he controlled Viacom; Paramount Pictures; the National Amusements movie-theater chain; the CBS network, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon; and the Simon & Schuster publishing house. Then the end came in a crescendo of recrimination, litigation and family turmoil. Imagine a mash-up of “King Lear” and “Weekend at Bernie’s,” the 1989 movie comedy about two scamps who prop up a cadaver so they can enjoy a weekend at his beach house, with Redstone starring in both title roles.

☆ These midcap stocks are cheap and expected to see booming earnings growth in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In a year when corporate earnings are broadly expected to deteriorate , some midcap names with cheap valuations are forecast to see strong earnings growth. However, the blended S & P earnings decline for the fourth-quarter is -5%, per FactSet. Midcap stocks are faring slightly better, with the S & P 400 MidCap up nearly 8% year to date. Each is also expected to post earnings growth of at least 20%, per FactSet. Earnings growth at $8.3 billion market cap company is expected to expand by nearly 32% and it has a P/E of 10.4.

☆ Here comes the biggest week of earnings. Plus an AI ode to the Dow
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

While only six companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average are reporting next week, about 20% of the S & P 500 reports, making it the biggest week of earnings this season. The Dow and the S & P 500 gained 2.2% and 2.9% this week, respectively, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 4.7%. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.

☆ Winners and losers in electric vehicles as Tesla possibly ignites a price war
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Yet Tesla has the upper hand when it comes to being able to afford those price cuts, suggested Jefferies analyst Philippe Houchois. Both Murphy and Wells Fargo's Langan see a more challenging time ahead for Ford and General Motors as a result of Tesla's price cuts. However, Societe Generale believes Tesla price cuts remove some of the mystery that has surrounded it, and could refocus attention on positive moves by legacy automakers. One clear winner from stronger EV demand is auto suppliers, Bank of America's Murphy wrote. 'Torn' on TSLA Analysts were also quick to point out that Tesla's price cuts will no doubt affect its own bottom line.

From start to finish, Tuesday's 80th annual Golden Globe Awards was a very queer affair. Here are some of the evening's queerest (and gay Twitter meme-worthy) moments. Jerrod Carmichael apologizes to Jennifer Coolidge 'on behalf of all the gays'Jerrod Carmichael hosted the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday. The 26-year-old actor, who already has two Emmy awards for the same role, was not present to accept her Golden Globe. The Burnett award was started in 2019, with its namesake, comedian Carol Burnett, being its first honoree.

☆ Goldman Sachs reveals the stocks set to benefit from an EV boom, giving one over 100% upside
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Ganesh Rao | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Shares of legacy automakers and parts manufacturers will attract new investors as they transition toward electric vehicles and green technologies, according to Goldman Sachs. As a result, the bank expects the company's stock to rise by 116% to $19 over the next 12 months. The Wall Street bank believes such stocks will begin attracting ESG investors as an increasing proportion of their parts are used in electric vehicles. Shares of Visteon rose by 17% last year, and Goldman expects the stock to rise a further 15% to $160 in the next 12 months. Goldman Sachs expects GM's stock to rise by 20% over the next 12 months and reverse some of last's year 44% decline.

☆ Golden Globes to honor 'Glee' creator Ryan Murphy with lifetime achievement honor
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Television writer and producer Ryan Murphy, creator of hits from “Glee” to “9-1-1” and “American Horror Story,” will receive a lifetime achievement honor at Hollywood’s Golden Globes ceremony next month. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that votes on the Golden Globes, said it would celebrate Murphy’s contributions to television with its fourth Carol Burnett Award. Murphy, 57, won fans for his musical TV series “Glee” from 2009 to 2015. His other credits include anthology series “American Horror Story,” drama series “9-1-1” and “Pose,” a show that broke ground with a large transgender cast. The HFPA also said this week it would honor comedian Eddie Murphy with the Cecil B. DeMille award, a lifetime achievement award for film work, at the January ceremony.

☆ Golden Globes to honor 'Glee' creator Ryan Murphy with TV award
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Co-creator and director Ryan Murphy participates in the panel for "Glee" during the Fox summer Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, California August 2, 2010. REUTERS/Phil McCartenLOS ANGELES, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Television writer and producer Ryan Murphy, creator of hits from "Glee" to "9-1-1" and "American Horror Story," will receive a lifetime achievement honor at Hollywood's Golden Globes ceremony next month. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that votes on the Golden Globes, said it would celebrate Murphy's contributions to television with its fourth Carol Burnett Award. Murphy, 57, won fans for his musical TV series "Glee" from 2009 to 2015. The HFPA also said this week it would honor comedian Eddie Murphy with the Cecil B. DeMille award, a lifetime achievement award for film work, at the January ceremony.

☆ Here are Wednesday's biggest analyst calls: Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Exxon Mobil, Nike, Best Buy & more
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Morgan Stanley names Exxon Mobil a top 2023 pick Morgan Stanley said Exxon Mobil is one of the best-positioned stocks heading into 2023. Morgan Stanley reiterates Apple as overweight Morgan Stanley said concerns about App Store competition are overdone. Bank of America downgrades Best Buy to underperform from neutral Bank of America said the environment is too challenging right now for Best Buy. Bank of America reiterates Nike as neutral Bank of America said it's cautious going into Nike earnings next week. Bank of America reiterates Alphabet as buy Bank of America said it's sticking with its buy rating on Alphabet but that investors need to hear more about the Google parent's cost-cutting initiatives.

☆ Kevin Conroy, longtime voice of animated Batman, dies at 66
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

He played Batman in over 60 productions, according to DC (which shares parent company Warner Bros. His first and most enduring addition to the Batman canon is “Batman: The Animated Series,” which ran from 1992-1996, according to DC. To find the character, he turned to his Shakespearean training, saying he saw a bit of Hamlet in Bruce Wayne. One of the men he served recognized him, but a colleague didn’t believe that Conroy really was the voice of Batman. For many fans of Batman, Conroy was the first iteration of the Dark Knight they ever knew and loved.

☆ Goldman Sachs just dropped the names of its biggest partner class since David Solomon took over as CEO. See the full list here.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | Dakin Campbell | Alex Morrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

David Solomon had been shrinking the size of Goldman's partner ranks to make it more exclusive. On Wednesday, the firm named 80 new partners, its largest class since Solomon became CEO in 2018. Goldman Sachs promoted 80 people to partner status on Wednesday, marking the largest class since David Solomon took over as CEO in 2018. Goldman's partner class has been steadily shrinking since David Solomon took over as CEO in 2018. Last year, Goldman gave its roughly 400 partners special one-time payments that added millions of dollars to their already generous year-end bonuses.

☆ This Pulitzer Prize-nominated columnist interviewed dozens of aging people. Here's what he learned about the 'spiritual side' of retirement
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

He interviewed a priest who said he was going to retire "in the graveyard" and a winemaker who said they'd retire "in the vineyard." CNBC Make It chatted with Lopez about how to face retirement and find purpose after working. 'Be ready to adapt'Aditi Shrikant, CNBC Make It: You interviewed dozens of people on retirement. This pandemic was serving us a preview of what our retirement would be when I'm spending more time at home. I'm still working three-fourths of the time, but I'm working mostly from home.

☆ 'Revealing' teen costumes, on-set massages, and a gender-discrimination complaint: Inside Dan Schneider's 'disgusting' Nickelodeon empire
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-30 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

For many Nickelodeon actors, life at the network was surreal, the "Amanda Show" actor Raquel Lee told Insider. Schneider set up a meeting to discuss the situation. On the one hand, the success of Schneider's shows provided rare stability in a chaotic industry. None of Schneider's shows credited more than two female writers in the entirety of their runs; "Zoey 101" and "Drake & Josh" had zero. The writer wrote that Schneider once pressured her into simulating "being sodomized" while she was telling a story about high school, to her embarrassment.

☆ Participă online la lansarea volumului Emilian Galaicu-Păun „sanG d’encre”
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-15 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +7 min

Luni, 19 aprilie, ora 19.00, va avea loc lansarea online a volumului Emilian Galaicu-Păun. Discuția va fi transmisă live, pe pagina Facebook a Editurii Cartier și pe pagina Librăriilor CărtureștiÎnregistrarea va fi disponibilă ulterior și pe canalul Editurii Cartier de pe YouTube. Acesta e miezul iradiant – și inexorcizabil, de fapt – al poeziei lui Emilian Galaicu-Păun: coincidența dintre naștere și moarte, inseparabilitatea, indistincția lor. Editorial, în 1987, cu Poezie și livresc (Editura Cartea Românească, București; Premiul „G. A alcătuit și a îngrijit antologia: Mircea Ivănescu, Versuri (Editura Humanitas, București, 2014).

Persons: Emilian, Păun ., Roman, Păun, ., M . Gorki, Jean, Michel Gaillard, Anthony Rowley, Robert Muchembled, Mario, Michel Pastoureau, Michel, Roland Barthes, Edward Lear, Scrippius Pip, Negru, Ilarie Voronca, Eugen Cioclea, Cartier, Șincai, Ion Pillat, Universității „ Petru Maior, G . Călinescu, Pillat, Mircea Ivănescu, Mircea Zaciu, Marian Papahagi, Aurel Sasu, Cardinal Tomas Spidlik, Alex . Organizations: Facebook, Cartier, YouTube, Uniunii Scriitorilor, Radio Europa Liberă, USR, USM, Universității „ Babeș - Bolyai, Universității „ Petru, Dacia, Fundației Culturale Române, Curtea, Literaturii Române, Filialei Locations: Republica Moldova, Chişinău, Moscova, România, Basarabia, Târgu - Mureş, Hyperion, Dacia, - Verlag, Ludwigsburg, Cartier, Londra, străinătate, Aruncuta, jud, Cluj, Târgu - Mureș, București, Brașov, Târgu - Lăpuș, Chișinău, Pitești, Filialei Mureș, Târnava, Argeș

☆ Опубликован список самых крупных предприятий Молдовы в 2019 г.
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-04 | by ( Super User | ) mybusiness.md time to read: +5 min

Оборот отрасли в 2019 г. оценивается в 22,59 млрд леев. На пяти из 457 предприятий занято почти 32,6% работников этой отрасли, оборот составил 3,04 млрд леев, а общее число работников – 8,58 тыс. Третье место по уровню концентрации предприятий – в секторе информационных технологий и связи. В этих компаниях трудоустроено 17,1% из 16412 сотрудников этого сектора с оборотом в 4,47 млрд леев. человек, а ее оборот составляет 5,27 млрд леев), а в сфере предоставления прочих видов услуг – 19% (оборот 0,6 млрд леев, 4,1 тыс.

Persons: monitorul.fisc.md Organizations: Energy, Orange, Moldova, Avia, Lear, GG, Национальное бюро статистики, НБС Locations: Moldova, Orange Moldova, din Moldova, Молдова

☆ At 82, Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater
▼ + stars: | 2019-03-27 | by ( Parul Sehgal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The Broadway play as envisioned by the director Sam Gold, however, is lush; the set, a jewel box, with brassy, Trumpian accents. “Glenda is so lean, and I don’t just mean that physically,” the actor Elizabeth Marvel, who plays Goneril, told me. Jackson is the smallest person on stage, but you won’t notice it — she arrives cascading over the language, dominating it. “Glenda is going to do something very intense, very special, very big,” he said. Glenda Jackson is going to endure this, and you’re going to witness it.”For most of its history, this ritual has been considered too traumatizing for the stage.

Persons: “ King Lear, ”, Deborah Warner, Jackson, Sam Gold, Lear, — “, ” Jackson, Glenda, Elizabeth Marvel, Goneril, Shakespeare, Ophelia, Prince of, ” Gold, Lear I’ve, Gold, “ Glenda, You’re, Glenda Jackson, Charles Lamb, Samuel Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Edmund, Gloucester Locations: Prince of Stratford, ”

☆ Mary Gordon and Glenda Jackson Talk Poetry, Theater and the State of Feminism
▼ + stars: | 2018-03-21 | by ( Boris Kachka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Finally, and just as surprisingly, Jackson returned to acting. Just after turning 80 two years ago, she won raves in London as a gender-blind King Lear. One morning in January in Manhattan, Gordon finally met her idol for a long conversation, which covered poetry, film and theater, but most significantly the state of feminism today. GLENDA JACKSON: It doesn’t have that effect on me at all. We’d played it in London to totally silent audiences, but in New York, they applauded the songs; they shouted, “Encore!”MG: Yes, I remember it.

Persons: Mary Gordon, Glenda Jackson, ” Gordon, Jackson, “ Marat, Sade, ”, Gordon, John Schlesinger, Alex, Peter Finch, —, King Lear, Edward Albee’s, MARY GORDON, it’s, GLENDA JACKSON, We’d, Lear Organizations: Company, Women, New York, Broadway Locations: America, London, Manhattan, New York

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