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Cirque du Soleil Performer Falls to Her Death in Las Vegas
7 hours ago
Sarah Guyard-Guillot, a 31-year-old performer in Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas show Ka, fell nearly 50 feet in a fatal high-wire accident on Saturday. "Guyard-Guillot was one of the artists suspended by a wire from the show’s vertical stage in the show-closing Final Battle scene. As she ascended to the top of the stage, she slipped free of her safety wire and dropped to the open, unseen pit below the performers." It's the first show-oriented death in Cirque du Soleil's three decades as a company. Guyard-Guillot was the mother of an 8-year-old and a 5-year-old. Ka performances have been suspended indefinitely. »
- Zach Dionne
A Potential Heir to the Hunger Games Franchise Emerges
8 hours ago
Maybe with Hunger Games movies still dropping through 2015, it's a little early to predict the next young-adult trilogy movie messiah. But whatever, here's one: DreamWorks has acquired The Fire Sermon, a post-apocalyptic series that hasn't even published its first installment yet. It's about a technology-less society where everyone is a twin. "One of each pair is physically perfect, and they are called Alphas, while the other, the Omega, bears some mutation. The apartheid society forces the mutated twins to settlements, even though when one twin dies, so does the other." Sounds like the birthplace of your next Katniss and Peeta/Ron and Hermione/Edward and Bella. Good luck learning about the author, Francesca Haig, though — she's got Twitter, but Amazon and Wikipedia aren't acquainted with her yet. »
- Zach Dionne
John Mulaney's Comedy Pilot Heads to Fox
10 hours ago
Before NBC said "thanks, but nahhh," SNL writer and producer John Mulaney had a pilot that some were calling the next 30 Rock, and that others were calling the next Seinfeld. Now Mulaney's back in the mix at Fox. "If the network likes the new version, the project will receive a six-episode series order," Deadline reports. "I hear Fox brass are big fans of Mulaney and were interested in the project with some script and potential cast adjustments." Martin Short is still in, although Nasim Pedrad and Elliot Gould may not stick around. »
- Zach Dionne
Jay-z Announces Magna Carta Holy Grail Guests, Kanye Plans Yeezus Single
10 hours ago
Kanye West's thus far promotion-light Yeezus — which managed to top the Billboard charts regardless — is about to go mainstream with the release of "Black Skinhead" as a single. There will be an edited radio version and a music video as well. Meanwhile, Jay-z released the lyrics to one of his new songs, "BBC," from Magna Carta Holy Grail, set to debut on July 4 for owners of a certain kind of cell phone. But atop the lyrics is a little snippet that mentions that, oh yeah, the song will just feature, um, Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Pharrell, Timbaland, Swizz Beatz (no one's really excited to hear Swizz Beatz talk over another Jay-z record, but it's okay), and Nas. Nas!! So that will be a good song for your summer and your life. »
- Zach Dionne
Saltz's Postcards From the Venice Biennale
11 hours ago
I arrive two weeks after the opening of the 55th Venice Biennale. By then the art world is in Basel, and it’s safe to see the 88 national pavilions and 158 artists in curator Massimiliano Gioni’s show, “The Encyclopedic Palace,” on my own. Advance word is the most glowing I’ve ever heard. We’ll see. Click through the gallery ahead to see me navigate the good, the bad, and the overhyped in a suddenly empty Venice with my new digital camera.*This article originally appeared in the July 8, 2013 issue of New York Magazine. »
- Jerry Saltz
Jenji Kohan's Week in Pop-Culture Consumption
11 hours ago
The creator of Weeds and Netflix’s new Orange Is the New Black tells us everything she watched, read, listened to, and clicked on in a week.Monday, June 10 Watched: 9 p.m.: The Source Family documentary. 11 p.m.: Mad Men. Midnight: The Daily Show. “I miss Jon Stewart. John Oliver’s accent gets to me after a while. There’s something cutesy about it that I’m not in love with.” 12:20 a.m.: House Hunters International. Clicked on: 1 a.m.: Indifferent Cats in Amateur Porn, Tumblr. “There’s no sex with cats, just cats in the background. When I watch this stuff, it’s not for titillation, it’s for fascination. But I do watch porn for titillation—don’t get me wrong.” Tuesday, June 11 Clicked on: 10 a.m.: Dangerousminds.net. “When you’re at work, you need to take breaks to see things »
- Jennifer Vineyard
The Nine Lives of Michael B. Jordan
11 hours ago
Where’s Wallace at? It’s hard not to think of that famous line from HBO’s The Wire on this rainy afternoon at the Cannes Film Festival while waiting, and waiting, for Michael B. Jordan, the 26-year-old actor still best known for playing that show’s sweet, cornrowed teenage drug dealer Wallace, who was—spoiler alert—heartbreakingly offed in season one. Jordan is “delayed,” says the publicist for his new movie, Fruitvale Station, even though he’s staying at the hotel where we’re supposed to be having lunch. All becomes clear when he finally materializes, a half-hour later, and buries his head in the publicist’s shoulder. “I’m hurting,” he groans, making no attempt to hide his hang-over. “What are you making me do now?”Jordan still bears traces of the kid who played Wallace: He’s wide-eyed and affectless, but now also handsome, buff, and a decade older. »
- Jada Yuan
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