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...that the chatter turned out to have a concrete source: Allen's mother was, in fact, Jewish, though Allen took pains to emphasize he was not raised in the faith. "I still had a ham sandwich for lunch," he boasted on the day he finally confirmed his mother's background. "And my mother made great pork chops...
...that Jim is kind of a foster child of the Chicano culture, he can never be entirely accepted.”Bale also said he spoke with “a variety” of veterans in order to get a feel for his character’s military background. “Some of them let me in on very personal stories,” he says, “which I would not and have not repeated to anyone one. Some of [them] denied any of those feelings whatsoever.”According to Bale...
...range of modern ills, including poverty, homelessness, and the exploitation of those less fortunate. “When [many Harvard students] hear about certain challenges people face, it’s hard for them to relate with that person if they don’t come from the same background. What’s great about this play is that it puts the audience in the atmosphere of the characters who face those challenges,” says Christian I. C. Strong ’09, one of the co-producers of the performance.The play chronicles the life...
...scale. The average rating for “beneficiaries of uncontrollable good events” was a 4.8, while the average rating for “victims of uncontrollable bad events” was a smaller 3.2. The second part involved two five-person groups. Children were given background stories on three members of each group. From these stories, the groups were identifiable as being comprised of either lucky or unlucky people. The children’s feelings about unfamiliar members of each group were then gauged. Despite the lack of direct description regarding the new individuals, the preferences were...
...doppelgänger. I don’t know for sure that one day Joel will go to jail for Benji’s hipster-killing spree, but I have my suspicions. What I do know is that, while a video consisting of the band performing against a white background is classic, it is also dull unless either the performance or the filming is particularly arresting. Having a lot of tattoos doesn’t cut it on the first count, any more than filming in black and white, occasional close-ups of faces or instruments, or occasionally switching...