That was followed by "Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest," whose five installments were completed from 2003 to 2007 and received raves at two Venice Biennales.
The dignified judging is one of the best things about this show, whose third installment is on Wednesday night.
King also wrote a serial novel, The Dark Tower, whose first installment, The Gunslinger, appeared in 1982; an eighth volume was published in 2012.
THE Sundance Film Festival, whose 2010 installment started here on Thursday, went from boom to gloom almost as fast as the rest of America.
The series, whose next installment is on July 14, offers classical singers a chance to drop in and perform under the direction of one of a select group of guest conductors from New Jersey and New York.
December promises "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," the second chapter in the Oscar-winning fantasy series, whose first installment, "The Fellowship of the Ring," recently surpassed $300 million at the American box office.
MAC Cosmetics, for one, doesn't use marketing scores when selecting its outspoken celebrity collaborators, like Rihanna, whose first installment of her makeup collection with the brand has its debut this spring, said James Gager, senior vice president and creative director of the company, whose ambassadors have included hardly uncontroversial personalities like Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj.
"The Hunger Games" trilogy, whose first installment appeared in 2008, has to do with economic inequality, but, like all Y.A. dystopian fiction, it's also addressed to readers who feel betrayed by a world that looked so much better to them when they were just a bit younger.
The holiday season often arrives with a movie villain, and this year, in the tradition of "It's a Wonderful Life Old Man Potterer) and "Bad Santa," comes "War on Greed," a series of Internet shorts whose first installment focusses on the putative Scrooge-like misdeeds of Henry Kravis, the private-equity man.
