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...amount of work he has done in film, theater, television, stand-up comedy and one-man shows. But John Leguizamo, 44, who stars in the ensemble dramedy Nothing Like the Holidays out Dec. 12, thinks carefully about his performances - training he got mostly from his work on shows like Freak and Mambo Mouth. Leguizamo talked with TIME about the new movie, marriage and the abrupt cancellation of his Broadway show American Buffalo...
...mockable emblem of Eisenhower-era family values, a stand-in for geekiness, a pasttime so decidely unhip that it's hip," former Wall Street Journal reporter Stefan Fatsis once wrote about the best-selling board game Scrabble, which turned 60 on Tuesday. Fatsis would know: while researching Word Freak, his bestselling 2001 book about the game's most fanatical players, he became a self-proclaimed word freak himself, and he's not alone. More than 150 million Scrabble sets have been sold in 121 countries since its creation...
...prickly, so opinionated, that no one wanted to work with him. Why no one tackled it since then I don’t know. I don’t know why the subject has proved so daunting. He was definitely what we would call a control freak in every aspect of his life. There is so much about this man—love affairs, politics, [and] you have his willingness to work with Lenin, Mussolini, Petain, de Gaulle, Nehru, and the American government in the 1930s. There are so many facets to Le Corbusier and at the same time...
...Management in a Mess Detroit's corporate culture is obviously complicit in the industry's deterioration, just as it was guilty of creating an unparalleled manufacturing system decades earlier. The Detroit approach has been plan-command-control, stemming from that original control freak, Henry Ford. At GM, a management hierarchy that had been created by GM's master planner, Alfred P. Sloan, in the '20s - GM's first and most successful restructuring - was still functioning in the '80s. Management's job was to create the products, design the production system and provide solutions if there were problems. Everyone else followed...
...like this.”And I tried. I tried, but Zac Efron’s eyes sucked me in like some crazy, dancing black hole. I wanted the Wildcats to win. I also wanted Vanessa Hudgens’s character to be killed in some freak lab experiment, but I was too entranced by the unnaturally vibrant colors to really care.Most people my age refuse to admit they like anything from Disney. It’s too commercial, too prepackaged. And that’s true. I am aware that a group of Disney employees, likely balding middle-aged...