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A Tour of Terminal 5 The New York Times (Multimedia)A sneak preview of JetBlue Airway's sleek new 26-gate, $750 million terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Rock's Newest Hall-of-Famers The New York Times (Multimedia)Madonna and Mellencamp among the group of artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes The New York Times (Arts)Daniel Walker Howe, a professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, has won the third annual New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford University). The award, which carries a $50,000 prize, will be presented on April 4, when Mr. Howe will also be named American historian laureate.... Francine Prose, having finished her one-year term, has re-upped for another as president of the American center of PEN, the international writers organization, The Associated Press reported. Ms. Prose runs unopposed in a vote to be held this week. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Fix It Up, Give It Away Brian Stelter (Arts)Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Oprahs Big Give vaulted ABC to first place for Sunday night, according to Nielsen. Extreme Makeover was the most-watched program with 12.4 million viewers, and the second week of Oprahs Big Give averaged 11.8 million, down 3.7 million from the week before, Nielsen estimates. Helped by an audience of 11.6 million for 60 Minutes, CBS finished second for the night in total viewers but finished in fourth place in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic. A two-hour 100 Most Outrageous Moments of All Time on NBC added viewers every half-hour, peaking with 10.6 million viewers at 8:30. But a Law & Order repeat at 9 garnered just under seven million viewers for the hour. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit delivered 8.5 million at 10. On Fox, the animated comedies The Simpsons and Family Guy averaged more than seven million viewers. Fox was fourth overall but second among the 18- to 49-year-old set. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Heath Ledger's Will The New York Times (Arts)Heath Ledgers will left nothing to his former girlfriend and their 2-year-old daughter because it was filed in Australia in 2003 and never updated after they became part of his life, The Associated Press reported. A copy of the will, filed in Manhattan Surrogates Court, shows that Mr. Ledger, a native of Australia, left everything to his parents and three sisters. The will offers no hint at the size of the estate, but papers filed with it value the actors New York City assets at $145,000, including $100,000 in miscellaneous bank accounts. Mr. Ledgers father has said the family would provide for the actors former girlfriend, the actress Michelle Williams, and their daughter, Matilda Rose. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: No. 1 Detective Agency Goes From Book to TV The New York Times (Arts)HBO, the Weinstein Company and the BBC have announced a partnership to create a television series from Alexander McCall Smiths The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency books. A two-hour pilot was filmed on location in Botswana, directed by Anthony Minghella, and 13 one-hour episodes will begin filming this summer. Jill Scott plays Precious Ramotswe, the proprietor of the only female-owned detective agency in Botswana; Anika Noni Rose plays her secretary, Grace Makutsi; and Lucian Msamati is Ramotswes devoted suitor, J. L. B. Matekoni. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Britain Seeks to Silence a Former Secret Agent The New York Times (Arts)The British government is trying to prevent a former MI5 member from publishing a book on the inner workings of the secret service, The Daily Telegraph in London reported. The 300-page manuscript is said to reveal some successes, failures and recruiting techniques of the covert organization. The author reportedly penetrated the Irish Republican Army and organized gangs and recruited agents to infiltrate jihadist groups plotting terror attacks in Britain. Legal proceedings, to be held in secret, are expected to begin at the High Court in London this week before a senior judge, who will rule on whether publication would breach national security. The controversy is reminiscent of the Spycatcher scandal of 1987, when the government unsuccessfully tried to prevent Peter Wright, another former MI5 officer, from publishing details of his work to uncover a traitor within the security service. Attempts to ban Spycatcher failed, and the book went on to sell more than two million copies. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Oliviers Go for Big Hair The New York Times (Arts)Londons Olivier Awards proved a triumph for the West End production of the musical Hairspray, which won best new musical as well as the awards for best actor in a musical for Michael Ball, above right; best actress, Leanne Jones, above left; and best supporting actress, Tracie Bennett. Kristin Scott Thomas won best actress in a play for her role in The Seagull, and Chiwetel Ejiofor was named best actor for the title role in Othello. The latest production of George Bernard Shaws Saint Joan won for best revival, and Rory Kinnear was best supporting actor in a play for his performance in The Man of Mode. The Magic Flute was named best musical revival, and Simon McBurneys production of A Disappearing Number was named best new play. Rupert Goold won the best director award for his production of Macbeth, which is now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Andrew Lloyd Webber was honored for lifetime achievement. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: Summerstage Concerts Ben Sisario (Arts)Crosby, Stills & Nash; Mavis Staples, above; the experimental Brooklyn rockers Battles and Black Dice; DanceBrazil; and the Mexican pop singer Julieta Venegas will be among the performers at Central Park SummerStage this year, the City Parks Foundation has announced. Crosby, Stills & Nash will play on July 29 in one of the six paid benefit concerts during this 23rd SummerStage season. The other performances, along with the Afro-funk scion Seun Kuti and the vintage-soul revivalists Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, are free, beginning with Ms. Stapless concert on June 13. The complete lineup will be announced in April. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Arts, Briefly: A Painful Commemoration in Vienna The New York Times (Arts)An exhibition at the Vienna State Opera house that opened on Monday details how its Jewish employees were purged under Nazi rule, Reuters reported. Few of the 92 who lost their jobs and survived the war were reinstated. The exhibition is part of a national commemoration of Austrias willing acceptance of annexation by Hitlers Germany, whose forces took control on March 12, 1938. The Opera is one of the institutions ready to face up to its past even if it was painful at times, the Austrian chancellor, Alfred Gusenbauer, said in opening the exhibition. Such institutions in Austria in 2008 are sadly still the exception. The anniversary has prompted a wave of reflection, with special television programs and an appeal by the Roman Catholic Church to learn the lessons of the past. A candlelight vigil will take place on Wednesday, the anniversary, at the citys Heldenplatz (Heroes Square), where jubilant Austrians gathered to greet Hitler days after the annexation, and both houses of Parliament will hold a special joint session on Wednesday morning to mark the anniversary. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Gloria Shayne Baker, Composer and Lyricist, Dies at 84 Margalit Fox (Arts)Ms. Baker composed the hit Christmas song Do You Hear What I Hear? 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Malvin Wald, Creator of Naked City, Dies at 90 Dennis Hevesi (Arts)Mr. Wald conceived and was a co-writer of the 1948 crime film The Naked City, a prototype for modern police dramas. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Fabulous Divas of Broadway': Wigs, Wit and Eyelashes of Theaters Great Ladies Pat Ryan (Arts)So many divas: 32 in Alan Palmers one-man show. Thats about 2.7 minutes per diva. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Music Review: As Mallets Fly, Bells Ring, Woodblocks Knock, Drums Beat Bernard Holland (Arts)The stage of Weill Recital Hall became a crowded playpen of percussion instruments for Martin Grubingers evening of new and recent music on Friday. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Dance Review: Flexing Those Mind and Body Muscles Claudia La Rocco (Arts)On Saturday, as part of the sprawling survey WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens honored a choreographic firebrand, Yvonne Rainer. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | '27 Rue de Fleurus': Alice in Charge Rachel Saltz (Arts)The creators of 27 Rue de Fleurus, a misguided new musical at Urban Stages, want to give Alice B. Toklas a chance to shine. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Dance Review: Mysterious Creatures in a Laid-Back World of Dance Jennifer Dunning (Arts)There are dances that seem to open a door and welcome you into another world. Laura Pawels pieces beckon from rocking chairs on a front porch, where old friends are engaged in murmured, antic conversation. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'Six': Plays by Numbers Neil Genzlinger (Arts)Six, an evening of one-acts by Asian-American writers, has its highlights even if it is a bit too long. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Theater Review | 'The Scariest ': Stage Frights Jason Zinoman (Arts)The title of this shrewdly produced series of nine spooky short plays raises a question: Who is the scariest of The Scariest? 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Music Review: Soprano Returns, Bellini and Komitas in Tow Allan Kozinn (Arts)On Saturday evening, the Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian was in fighting trim, or at least fine voice, in a recital at Zankel Hall. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Music Review: In a Pianists Expanding Repertory, Currents of Energy, Humor and Drama Allan Kozinn (Arts)When Garrick Ohlsson played in the Peoples Symphony Concert at Town Hall on Sunday afternoon, he made a point of demanding quiet. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Music Review: Perspectives on Nature, After a Storm Steve Smith (Arts)This adventurous amateur chorus, founded by the conductor Clara Longstreth in 1968, celebrated its 40th anniversary with the New York premiere of Ronald Pereras Why I Wake Early. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Dance Review: A Seasons Worth of Splashes From Paul Taylors Rich Reservoir Alastair Macaulay (Arts)Everything in Paul Taylor's dance theater has its opposite and underside. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
Critics Choice: New DVDs Dave Kehr (Arts)The Forbidden Hollywood Collection is devoted to the frank and racy films that emerged from Hollywood before the strict enforcement of the Production Code in 1934. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
At MSNBC, Tucker Is Out, and David Gregory Is In Jacques Steinberg (Arts)Tucker, the struggling early-evening talk show led by the often bow-tied Tucker Carlson, was canceled on Monday by MSNBC and replaced by a new politically oriented program featuring David Gregory. 08AM Mar 11, 2008
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