"The Killing of John Lennon"
W. Richard West Jr.
Plot Outline: A dramatization of Mark Champman's plan to murder John Lennon. (IMDb)
W. Richard West Jr.
The portrait of W. Richard West Jr., former director of the National Museum of the American Indian, reportedly cost $48,500. (Washington Post photo via AP)
The recently retired director of the National Museum of the American Indian spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself and selected a non-Indian artist to create it, a newspaper reported Friday.
The portrait of W. Richard West Jr. by New York painter Burton Silverman hangs in a fourth-floor lounge of the museum, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution and is dedicated to the arts and culture of American Indians.
West, a 64-year-old Harvard-trained historian and member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, was hired in 1989 to oversee planning for the flagship museum, which opened in 2004.
He retired last month. His expenses have come under scrutiny following recent reports that he spent more than $250,000 in the past four years on first-class transportation and luxury hotels. (AP)
Berlin Theatre Releases Tear Gas
Audiences at a Dec. 29 performance of Emile and the Detectives at Berlin's Volksbühne Theatre fled the venue when tear gas was accidentally released, according to reports.
According to the theatre's website, the tear gas was released during a scene in which there is a confrontation between two characters (played by actors Milan Peschel and Georg Friedrich). Shots fired from a pistol were reportedly teargas cartridges instead of blanks.
The audience of approximatetly 80 people dispersed and, according to the theatre, around 30 returned to the show. "So far it is unclear whether the incident was [caused by] a faulty cartridge," reads the website. (Playbill\Ernio Hernandez)
Teen Trash Poet Robert Frost's Home
Ada Calhoun posted on AOL's News Bloggers - Homer Noble Farm, a former home of poet Robert Frost, was vandalized over the weekend by some fifty teenagers, who broke into the historic site in Vermont for a drinking party.
According to the report on AOL News:
The intruders broke a window to get into the two-story wood frame building -- a furnished residence open in the summer -- before destroying tables and chairs, pictures, windows, light fixtures and dishes. Wicker furniture and dressers were smashed and thrown into a fireplace and burned, apparently to provide heat in the unheated building, he said.
Empty beer bottles and cans, plastic cups and cellophane apparently used to hold marijuana were also found, according to Hodsden. The vandals vomited in the living room and discharged two fire extinguishers inside the building, located on a dead-end road off Route 125.
"Do Me" Cover
“Everyone wants to read about sex!” Lucia Perillo writes in her essay in “Do Me,” an eclectic literary anthology dedicated to sex in all its glorious — and not so glorious — iterations.
Adolescent lust. Reckless infidelities. Soulful communions. Vacuous fantasies. Off-the-beaten-path eroticism. You name it, you’ll find just about every form of sexual encounter between the pages of this collection. Published by Tin House Books, it includes fiction and nonfiction pieces that have appeared since 1999 in the Tin House literary magazine, published in Portland, Ore. Following suit with old-school institutions like The New Yorker and The Paris Review, Tin House regularly publishes themed anthologies as a way to roll out its greatest hits. (New York Times)
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