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...spreading into every dining room and parlor and respectable street. There were also the laughably large new panes of plate glass that amounted to architectural magician's tricks, erasing the old boundary between indoors and out. And the unearthly rays of light beaming from burning lime that transformed any actor on a stage into a shining angelic or demonic figure; the magic-lantern shows of Halley's comet; the new, exceptionally yellow yellow paints and bright red printer's inks, all mixed up by chemists in laboratories; the telegraph wires that sparked and blushed against the night skies like grapevines...
DIED. Herman Brix, 100, Olympic shot-put medalist turned Hollywood actor, best known for playing the lead in 1935's The New Adventures of Tarzan; in Los Angeles. Brix was not the most famous Tarzan--an injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce...
...effaced regional differences among Africans, 9/11 lumped together widely disparate people: many Arab Americans are not Muslim, and many Muslim Americans (Iranian, South Asian, black) are not Arab. Pop culture, to put it mildly, has paid less attention to these nuances. Maz Jobrani, an Iranian-American Axis comic and actor, says he's often cast as "Unspecified Foreign Guy" and plays an Indian cabdriver on The Knights of Prosperity...
...joke. Amidst scenes of elephants stomping through crowds and bare-chested men throwing each other off cliffs, the movie, a reimagination of the fifth-century B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, also attempts to address issues of duty, reason, and human freedom.ROCKY BEGINNINGSIn the process, it brings together filmmakers and actors with vastly different backgrounds, most notably Gerard Butler, a Scottish actor with a history of playing Gothic villains (“Dracula,” “Phantom in the Opera”); Brazilian indie film veteran Rodrigo Santoro, who also played Laura Linney’s love interest...
...evangelical voters who were baptized into politics in 1976 when one of their own ran for President - that would be Jimmy Carter - were more than ready to abandon him when he turned out to be, of all things, a true believing Democrat, in favor of a divorced Hollywood actor who was elevated to political sainthood. Ronald Reagan's divorce and estrangement from children were not disqualifying - adding yet another motive for candidates of both parties to invoke him as their icon...