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...When I sit down to write, my inner life isn't driven by these people," she said. "When I'm writing, my only responsibility is to myself...
...aims to get at-risk kids academically up to speed with 90 minutes of daily intensive reading. The founders specify that 80% of a school's teachers must vote to adopt the program by secret ballot. Once they do, Success for All micromanages everything down to telling teachers to write questions for the class on Post-it notes to themselves ("What do you think this word means?"). The specificity allows understaffed schools to use all faculty members, including art teachers and librarians, as teachers and to reduce class sizes...
...what's on tap for this morning, Day 111 of the school year. He begins the class with grammar exercises and then discusses a short story. All the while, Estes consults his lesson plan, which prods him with very specific instructions, from what to put on the board ("Write 'Realistic Fiction' on the chalkboard") to assignments for the class ("Invite students to determine point of view of the story...
...write your Oscar-acceptance speech just yet. The iMovie software is designed to let you dabble in an amateurish fashion. It's fine if you want to make Budweiser commercials; less so if you want to make Battleship Potemkin. Try to deal with more than 20 min. of clips in a file, and iMovie chokes. At least that was my experience during the making of Carnival...
...this happen? Lippa says he discovered the poem in a bookstore in 1995 and saw it as a chance to write "my Cats," referring to the soon-to-close Andrew Lloyd Webber show based on T.S. Eliot's poetry. LaChiusa says he first read the poem even earlier--1994, so there!--though he didn't start to work on it for nearly three years. Lippa's version was the first to be staged, in a workshop production at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut in the summer of 1997. (LaChiusa's had its first reading a few months...