Sunday, January 06, 2019

Worth a Look

Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...

Feds Fine Business $60,000 for Selling Non-Prescription Contact Lenses Without a Prescription

Hit & Run : Reason.com: A California-based online retailer has been ordered to pay a penalty of $60,000 for selling non-corrective, purely cosmetic contact lenses without first obtaining prescriptions for the non-prescription products. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Lawrence Duskin repeatedly violated the agency's Contact Lens Rule, which stipulates that retailers can sell contact lenses only after obtaining a copy of a valid prescription


50 Years of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

Make-Up Artist Magazine: Anybody who had the good fortune of meeting Stuart Freeborn knew he was a born storyteller. Freeborn, who passed away in 2013 at the age of 98, was a frequent visitor to IMATS London, where he was often surrounded by a crowd of spellbound listeners, right up until the moment he was packed into the back of a car to go home. I spent endless hours myself sitting happily on the floor of Stuart’s living room, as he talked about everything from Star Wars to Superman. On one memorable occasion, he discussed his two-year stint working for director Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey. With that now-classic sci-fi film celebrating its 50th anniversary, I’m taking a back seat and letting Stuart Freeborn tell you some of that story himself …


Time’s Up Entertainment Announces Industry Mentoring Initiative

Variety: Time’s Up Entertainment, an affiliate of the Time’s Up coalition of women across industries working to improve workplace safety, has announced the “Who’s in the Room” industry mentoring initiative. The program’s goal is to increase the presence of people of color from diverse backgrounds in the entertainment industry’s executive ranks.


2018 THE YEAR IN LIVE: The Industry Weighs In (And Everything Is Awesome!)

Pollstar: By nearly every Pollstar Boxoffice measure, 2018 was a stellar year for the live industry. We received, inputted and verified more than 44,000 records (thank you Team Brad Rogers, Chad Ivie, Mike Oberg and Arien Fisher!). This included a record-setting total gross of more than $10.4 billion and 152.1 million tickets sold. And for the first time ever, Pollstar’s combined gross of the Top 10 of our Worldwide Top 100 surpassed $2 billion. This jaw-dropping year was led by the highest-grossing single-year tour of all time by Pollstar cover artist Ed Sheeran, whose Divide Tour grossed $432 million and is followed by another record-breaking tour: Taylor Swift’s $345 million reputation Stadium Tour. Both surpassed U2’s eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE run from last year, which now sits at No. 3 all time with $316 million grossed.


CBS Claims It’s Fighting Sexual Harassment. Its Actions Say Otherwise

Variety: At this point, a new breaking sexual harassment case at CBS isn’t exactly a surprise. Over and over again, powerful CBS company men from producers to executives to the ex-CEO himself have made headlines for propagating decades of harassment and abuse, with dozens of witnesses affirming that the pattern was business as usual.

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