Archives for: February 2009
By Richard Amada on Feb 27, 2009 | In General | Send feedback »
This weekend I’ll be attending a playwrights’ conference that focuses on self producing one’s own plays. I’m also one of the contributors, my contribution consisting of a hand-out with some general notes on legal issues that confront the playwri…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 25, 2009 | In Visual Arts | Send feedback »
What do you do if you’re one of the world’s most renowned photographers and you need a lot of cash fast? Well, you could try taking a new, breathtaking photo that all the world will clamor to see and bid the selling price through the roof. But, of…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 23, 2009 | In Literary, Music, Cinema, TV, Radio | Send feedback »
Avast, ye lubbers, and batten down the hatches for a swashbuckling battle over copyright infringement on the Internet. A Swedish file-sharing web site, called the Pirate Bay, is on trial in Stockholm on charges that it’s helping people illegally downloa…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 20, 2009 | In Cinema, TV, Radio | Send feedback »
Just in case we needed to be reminded that even big celebrities claim they get taken advantage of by the production companies they sign with, in the news now is a story that actor Don Johnson is suing three entertainment companies that he says haven’t…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 18, 2009 | In General | Send feedback »
The economic stimulus package that President Obama signed into law will include $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts. If my math is correct—okay, if my calculator’s math is correct—that’s about .00006 percent of the total $800 bil…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 16, 2009 | In Cinema, TV, Radio | Send feedback »
Like a soap opera that keeps revisiting the same scene over and over with little to no plot development, the digital TV switch seems to be stuck in a place where the same issue just keeps getting rehashed.
The latest change to the rules extended the d…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 12, 2009 | In Literary, Cinema, TV, Radio | Send feedback »
Here it is, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the popular media are all abuzz with Lincoln-themed stories and dramatizations. It's to be expected. Here in America, it would be difficult to find a more frequently depicted politi…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 11, 2009 | In Cinema, TV, Radio | Send feedback »
Well, you've probably heard the news...perhaps on your analog TV. Congress reversed an earlier position and voted to delay the mandatory changeover to digital television. And today President Obama signed it into law. The new mandatory transition date…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 9, 2009 | In Visual Arts | Send feedback »
It wasn't terribly long ago that I posted to this blog some musings about the copyright issues that could potentially get an artist into hot water if he does a painted version of someone else's photograph. Well, in current events the issue has gone from…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 6, 2009 | In Literary | Send feedback »
From the country that brought you the Taliban and its proclamation that statuary offends God and needs to be destroyed, now there's a furor over, of all things, a published book of the Quran.
One might think an Islamic nation would have been pleased w…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 4, 2009 | In Visual Arts | 1 feedback »
Has anyone else been wondering about the sofa-sized sculpture of a shoe, a work of art that was created in Iraq to commemorate the shoe-throwing journalist who chucked his footware at President Bush? I don't mean I'm wondering about the subject matter o…
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By Richard Amada on Feb 2, 2009 | In Literary | Send feedback »
In the wake of Joe Torre's new tell-all book about his years as manager of the Yankees, now the word is that the Yankees are considering putting a "non-disparagement" clause in future contracts for its players and coaches.
You might think a baseball t…
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