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Entertainment is a leisure activity consisting of an event and an audience that views the event and participates. This participation can be subtle, as in Theatres: Film, Opera or stageshows, or Orchestral symphony concerts wherein the applause due the performance or performing artists would be bad manners. In contrast, the sports entertainment industry feeds off audience participation— who can imagine the strange event attending a pro-wrestling bout, basketball or baseball game without cheering or booing the participants would experentially being happy.
The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry, and one distinction between what is meant by the term is the voluntary participation of the party being entertained, which may be passive (Opera) or active (Frantic shoot-em-up computer games) and the whole gamut of industry supported diversions in between (Baseball, Concerts, Football, Books, Television, film , striptease, and events like Karaoke).
Recreation, play, reading, and art appreciation may in some instances be confused with entertainment, but the difference is elementary—entertainments take two or more— even if one of the participants is a programmer for the obsolescent Amiga computer system who now happens to be deceased. Without the 'performance' of the artist and the participation of the viewer the event would and could not occur.
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Wrangle over site for Chinese garden
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:00:00 +1200
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NZ artists shine in Venice
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:30:00 +1200
Two New Zealand artists have had international success at a top Italian art exhibition. More than 114,000 visitors saw Judy Millar's installation, Giraffe-Bottle Gun, and Francis Upritchard's Save Yourself at the 53rd International...
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newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:50:00 +1200
CAIRO - Egypt's antiquities chief said Sunday he will formally demand the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti from a Berlin museum after confirming it was sneaked out of Cairo through fraudulent documents.Zahi...
Dictator's crude scrawls laid bare for all to see
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:00:00 +1200
The pictures are almost all reproductions of male nudes sketched by 19th-century Russian painters; the crude and ominous captions scrawled beneath them in red or blue pencil are unmistakably in the hand of Joseph Stalin.The set...
Festive plays cause offence
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:00:00 +1200
A play in which Santa molests and rapes his reindeer has been postponed until after Christmas for fear of shocking festive-spirited families.Reindeer Monologues was to be performed in Whangarei but was postponed when producers...
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Watchmaker 'stands with Tiger' amid new cheating reports
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:55:18 +1200
PALM BEACH, Florida - A new report has emerged that Tiger Woods and New York showclub host Rachel Uchitel have resumed their relationship.In Touch magazine reported on its website on Tuesday that Woods, who turns 34 next week,...
Jennifer Hudson pregnant again - report
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:56:02 +1200
Actress-cum-singer Jennifer Hudson is pregnant with her second child, according to US tabloid reports.The Dreamgirls Oscar winner, 27, who gave birth to her son David Jr. just four months ago, is believed to have discovered...
Quaid pleads not guilty in fraud case
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:37:33 +1200
SANTA BARBARA, California - Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have finally appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to felony charges of defrauding an innkeeper.Randy Quaid is best-known for supporting roles in films such as...
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