Sentences with phrase «history of abandoning projects»

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MAD ABOUT MOVIES: Nowhere is the collision of art and commerce more pronounced than at the Cannes Film Festival, and HBO's tantalizing quasi-mock-documentary Seduced and Abandoned (9 / 8c) gives us a ringside seat, courtesy of Alec Baldwin — a Cannes newbie, incredibly — and director pal James Toback, who celebrate the history and glamorous hysteria of this venerated event while purporting to pitch a passion project to investors: an unlikely political sex drama they call «Last Tango in Tikrit.»

Little bits of history like this are lost all the time as projects get abandoned.

According to art historian Lu Peng, the organizer of the project, its original title was to be «Making History», but that was considered too close to «Making Worlds», the title of the 53rd Venice Biennale, and subsequently abandoned.