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When Sarah Palin was asked about Tina Fey’s Memorex-quality impersonation of the GOP vice-presidential candidate, she responded that she thought it was great, but admitted that she had watched the sketch on mute. When I tried a similar tactic with the trailer for “An American Carol,” David Zucker’s new film parody of Michael Moore, I thoroughly enjoyed the visual likeness to the filmmaker, which seemed to me spot on. It wasn’t until I reprised the trailer with sound that I realized that...
...Hammer said. Though he knew the local idiom, Hammer chose to write only structural dialogue and nailed down the actual script in a three-month-long rehearsal period with the actors. “We talked about each scene,” Hammer said. “I would ask them, ‘Do you believe this?’” Hammer believes that because the actors were not given a concrete set of lines to memorize, the intimidation of being in front of the camera was largely eliminated. “They welcomed the idea that...
...Beijing and Shanghai today, the famous rhetorical question posed by a British textile tycoon before the Opium War—what if every Chinese added just one inch of fabric to their clothing?—has found new meaning as a generation of Chinese artists now ask What if every European collector bought just one of my paintings? As Zhu Qi, author of the essay Art Capitalism in China writes, showings of Chinese art have become an “assessment index of artist’s position in art scenes and of his market price...
...over the table!” she exclaimed with mock regret, tracing the lines with a suggestive finger.The Prince stood very close to her, turning the piece of chalk in his hand. “There’s one thing I’ve long wanted to ask you,” he said in a low voice.“Please do,” she replied huskily.He manipulated the chalk with firm fingers as he traced out a series of letters. “D...Y...W...T...F.” There was no likelihood that...
...changed from year to year are the Ivy League games on the Crimson schedule, and with the 2008 season comes a renewed set of challenges that Harvard is more than ready to face. By now, the fearsome foursome knows exactly what the slate of Ivy games will ask of them.“I think it also comes down to playing with heart and playing for the passion of the game, because a lot of the time the Ivy League doesn’t come down to skill,” Wylie said...