Theater Director and Cultivator of Playwrights, Is Dead at 87: “Lloyd Richards, one of the most influential figures in modern American theater and a pioneering director who brought the plays of Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson to Broadway and championed several generations of young playwrights, died on Thursday in Manhattan. It was his 87th birthday…
In the 1980’s, as dean of the Yale School of Drama, as artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theater and of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, and as a director of commercial theater on Broadway, Mr. Richards was in a position of rare power in American theater, rarer still for an African-American.” (New York Times )A light has certainly gone out of the world. I have never enjoyed theatre more than my years living in New Haven and attending the Yale Rep, when Richards was the artistic director in the early ’80’s.
Daily Archives: 2 Jul 06
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Is the US Already Using Brainscan-Based Lie Detection?
I have already writtten here about this technology as if it is a thing to come. But the ACLU suspects that the technology is already being used in interrogations abroad and has filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request to find out. Hasn’t the ACLU learned yet that the Bush administration, to protect us from the world terrorist conspiracy out there, also has to protect us from freedom of information?
Pity the Poor Penny
Soon to be a thing of the past? “For the first time, the U.S. Mint has said pennies are costing more than 1 cent to make this year, thanks to higher metal prices. ‘The penny is going to disappear soon unless something changes in the economics of commodities,’ says Robert Hoge, an expert on North American coins at The American Numismatic Society.” (Yahoo! News)
Wasn’t There a Parable About This?
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"______ is the new ketchup"
Ask MetaFilter thread from someone who loves french fries but is uncomfortable dipping them in ketchup any more because it is such a heavily processed food, thus offends his current eating philosophy. How’s that for congruity? In any case, he asks what he should use instead, and there are some interesting responses. The suggestions are pretty well divided between exotic, mostly Asian, sauces, which I suspect are often as industrial as American ketchup; and some surprising simple alternatives.
$450,000
That’s how much the US Air Force will spend on a three-year research project on the value of weblogs to war-fighting and intelligence efforts. The study is entitled “Automated Ontologically-Based Link Analysis of International Web Logs for the Timely Discovery of Relevant and Credible Information.” (DefenseLink via Think Progress) One of the chief investigators is quoted as saying, “It can be challenging for information analysts to tell what’s important in blogs unless you analyze patterns.” My guess is that FmH readers are always sorting out what’s important from what’s irrelevant here through your sophisticated pattern analysis tools. Do you think the researchers want any subcontractors?
Lloyd Richards, R.I.P.
Theater Director and Cultivator of Playwrights, Is Dead at 87: “Lloyd Richards, one of the most influential figures in modern American theater and a pioneering director who brought the plays of Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson to Broadway and championed several generations of young playwrights, died on Thursday in Manhattan. It was his 87th birthday…
In the 1980’s, as dean of the Yale School of Drama, as artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theater and of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, and as a director of commercial theater on Broadway, Mr. Richards was in a position of rare power in American theater, rarer still for an African-American.” (New York Times )A light has certainly gone out of the world. I have never enjoyed theatre more than my years living in New Haven and attending the Yale Rep, when Richards was the artistic director in the early ’80’s.
