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...canyons of a supermarket in the manner of a horror movie, it introduces us to a blank-faced and distinctly unfunny Williams. It's a tiny independent film, but the star had to do some persuading to get the part. "I had said I wanted to do something darker," he says. "I met with the director [Mark Romanek], and I think he thought it was some kind of joke...
Insomnia, due out in May, is even darker. In it Williams plays a stalker who murders a young woman and taunts the detective who flies out to Alaska to find him. "It's two opposite extremes: Pacino playing a cop who can't sleep and me playing this devil's advocate with him." Williams prepared for the role by watching tapes of an interview with Jeffrey Dahmer--"to get his conversational tone; it was so calm." Death to Smoochy is a comedy but not a light one. He plays a TV clown who, incensed at being replaced by Smoochy...
...Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State.” It is the progressive vision of this speech, which—though obscured in these darker times—constitutes the core of Pakistan...
...then moves to Andover, Mass., San Diego, Chicago and Philadelphia--though, oddly, not to New York City. In the exhibition catalog Louis Faurer (Merrell; 208 pages; $65), Tucker notes that Faurer is one of the "missing links" between the Depression-era documentary photography of Walker Evans and the darker moods and more ragged manner of Robert Frank's great 1958 book The Americans. That's exactly right. Faurer, who grew up in Philadelphia, never attended college or art school. He simply started taking pictures during the Depression, the era of socially conscious "concerned photography." But by the time he moved...
...administrators made a lot of sense to everyone else. Suddenly, those same arguments merited a committee, new contract negotiations, and (eventually) major changes in Harvard’s policies. We found out that meaningful discussion began only after direct action brought some light to Harvard’s darker corners...