Remains of the Day: August: Osage County, Google, Silver Jews
Charles Isherwood wrote that August: Osage County is “the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.”
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The Weekly Standard observes Google’s enemies battling them along the rocky road to digitizing 32 million books. “[I]f Google finds a way to realize its dreams, it's unclear exactly how useful the Book Search would ever be for the average user. Is there value in seeing "snippets" of this or that text?”
David Berman’s The Silver Jews have put the finishing touches on their sixth album, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea. The 10-song set is due in late April via Drag City. "It's really different in that the songs have more epic settings. They are faux-heroic. Or rather foe-heroic," said Mr. Berman.
This may not amount to more than a coincidental footnote to the discussion about "August: Osage County", but just prior to the play's opening at Steppenwolf in Chicago, I had the opportunity as the writer of an independent film to work with both Tracy Letts and Deanna Dunagan on a few scenes from the film. Deanna plays Muff Greene, the head of editorial for a failing newspaper, and Tracy plays Jack Derringer, the paper's publisher. Jim True-Frost fills out the cast as Danny Fain, a reporter who decides to turn a tragedy into a news story for his own benefit.
If you have an interest in viewing the footage, it's available on director Scott Smith's site for Fulton Market Films.
To access the excerpt, go to www.fultonmarketfilms.com, click on the DIRECTORS link on the home page, then SCOTT SMITH. Choose FEATURE FILM EXCERPT - "INK" to view 12 minutes from the feature film.
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