Word: griffith
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...charming as such anecdotes are, they leave the reader unsatisfied. It seems that Chandler was so intent on staying in the good graces of her interviewees that she never contradicts them or pushes them further than they wished. For example, Hedren’s daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, describes Hitchcock as “a motherfucker” because of how he treated Hedren. Chandler quotes the line, gold to any reporter, but never explores why it was said...
...Griffith offers a romantic—though rabidly racist—vision of what it means to be an American; against this backdrop, Miller’s alternative of “panhumanism” is only vaguely defined...
Today, such an apologetic defense of First Amendment rights would likely be taken as irony or outright sarcasm. But in 1915, when director D.W. Griffith took on a social, moral, and artistic crusade of propagandistic historical revisionism through film it was taken very, very seriously. So much so that the film grossed $18 million, an extraordinary sum for its time, setting a box office record that remained uncontested until 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...Though Griffith insisted that his was “not a racist film,” objectors have pointed to his upbringing in rural Kentucky as the son of a Confederate veteran as indication of a questionable agenda...
...Zipcar ad put it, "350 hours/year having sex. 420 looking for parking. What's wrong with this picture?" In Boston, New York and Washington, almost all of Zipcar's 32,000 customers are within a seven-minute walk of a company car. "Our members are savvy," says CEO Scott Griffith. "They don't need to own a car to enjoy mobility...