Bernardo Bertolucci, Jeanette Winterson and Paul Weller also among 75 public figures revealing favourite works
BBC Radio 4 is lining up 75 leading public figures, including film director Bernardo Bertolucci, singer Paul Weller and novelist Jeanette Winterson, to reveal their most treasured cultural influences for what the station claims will be one of the most comprehensive arts events broadcast.
The network has already confirmed 30 names for the project, Cultural Exchange, which will see individuals selecting a single item to talk about, with the choices ranging from the King James Bible to an obscure 1960s album.
It will feature every weekday on Front Row until the end of July.
Artist Tracey Emin will launch the series on 22 April with her insights into a Vermeer painting – Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid. She describes Vermeer as "one of the first feminists", pointing to the unusual and fascinating way he depicted women. "He showed that...
BBC Radio 4 is lining up 75 leading public figures, including film director Bernardo Bertolucci, singer Paul Weller and novelist Jeanette Winterson, to reveal their most treasured cultural influences for what the station claims will be one of the most comprehensive arts events broadcast.
The network has already confirmed 30 names for the project, Cultural Exchange, which will see individuals selecting a single item to talk about, with the choices ranging from the King James Bible to an obscure 1960s album.
It will feature every weekday on Front Row until the end of July.
Artist Tracey Emin will launch the series on 22 April with her insights into a Vermeer painting – Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid. She describes Vermeer as "one of the first feminists", pointing to the unusual and fascinating way he depicted women. "He showed that...
- 4/17/2013
- by Ben Dowell
- The Guardian - Film News
Looks like Willie Hantz is looking to do what his nephew Brandon Hantz couldn't: live up to Russell Hantz's reality TV legacy!
Russell, who first appeared on 2009's Survivor: Samoa, immediately established himself as one of the most cunning and capable reality TV contestants in decades. His born-again Christian nephew Brandon tried to restore honor to his family's name with 2011's Survivor: Redemption Island only to drag their surname through the mud in a much worse (read: unhinged, annoying, totally idiotic) way.
Now, Big Brother has cast Russell's little brother Willie in this summer's fourteenth edition and I'm intrigued to see which way he tries to play this game. Although judging from the three adjectives he uses to describe himself on the Big Brother website -- serious, hostile and docile -- I think we're given a clue.
Video - Go Inside The Big Brother 14 House!
But Willie won't be the only one with reality TV ties...
Russell, who first appeared on 2009's Survivor: Samoa, immediately established himself as one of the most cunning and capable reality TV contestants in decades. His born-again Christian nephew Brandon tried to restore honor to his family's name with 2011's Survivor: Redemption Island only to drag their surname through the mud in a much worse (read: unhinged, annoying, totally idiotic) way.
Now, Big Brother has cast Russell's little brother Willie in this summer's fourteenth edition and I'm intrigued to see which way he tries to play this game. Although judging from the three adjectives he uses to describe himself on the Big Brother website -- serious, hostile and docile -- I think we're given a clue.
Video - Go Inside The Big Brother 14 House!
But Willie won't be the only one with reality TV ties...
- 7/5/2012
- TheInsider.com
Word came down the pipe today (via TMZ) that the producers behind the Gremlin-like Real Housewives franchise are seeking out good Christian… uh… ladies for a reality series based on ABC’s Gcb. In the era of reality proliferation, it’s become a go-to to rip off the hard work of TV writers and reproduce their ideas cheaply by training the lens on a coterie of overindulged, under-restrained aspiring singers and actresses. Indeed, it’s exactly how Real Housewives was born: the smal-screen version of Athena springing from the head of Zeus, only replace the goddess of wisdom with Vicki Gunvalson...
- 4/16/2012
- by Lanford Beard
- EW.com - PopWatch
By Piet Levy
Religion News Service
Seattle (Rns) Jim Henderson has a pitch for Hollywood: "The 700 Club" meets "Real Time with Bill Maher" meets "Big Brother."
Henderson, a 63-year-old self-proclaimed failed Christian pastor and "spiritual anthropologist" living in Seattle, believes he may have found his real spiritual calling in reality TV, and has turned to YouTube to drum up interest in his idea.
From his experiences creating and running Off The Map, a 12-year-old organization that produces events exposing Christians to non-Christians (it has even paid outsiders to critique Christian churches and purchased the soul of an atheist on eBay in exchange for his assessments of church services), Henderson has developed a potential TV show called "Save Me!" that would put passionate believers of different faiths under one roof.
"Every day they go out individually and independent of each other to try and save people, and then they come...
Religion News Service
Seattle (Rns) Jim Henderson has a pitch for Hollywood: "The 700 Club" meets "Real Time with Bill Maher" meets "Big Brother."
Henderson, a 63-year-old self-proclaimed failed Christian pastor and "spiritual anthropologist" living in Seattle, believes he may have found his real spiritual calling in reality TV, and has turned to YouTube to drum up interest in his idea.
From his experiences creating and running Off The Map, a 12-year-old organization that produces events exposing Christians to non-Christians (it has even paid outsiders to critique Christian churches and purchased the soul of an atheist on eBay in exchange for his assessments of church services), Henderson has developed a potential TV show called "Save Me!" that would put passionate believers of different faiths under one roof.
"Every day they go out individually and independent of each other to try and save people, and then they come...
- 9/10/2011
- by Jahnabi Barooah
- Huffington Post
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