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...with each film, Smith introduces himself to a new people, often piggybacking on a local event that will attract worldwide attention. For Men in Black II, he toured in South Korea during the World Cup; for Hitch, he hit Brazil during carnival; for next year's fallen-superhero tale Hancock, he's trying to get into Beijing during the Olympics...
That's what a handful of Writers Guild of America strikers were doing the day before Thanksgiving in a Spanish home belonging to actor-writer-director Kamala Lopez in Los Angeles' Hancock Park neighborhood. At Lopez' dining room table, Factory Girl director George Hickenlooper, TV writer Jill Kushner and actor-writer Joel Marshall were editing dozens of short black and white public service announcements featuring actors like Holly Hunter, Sean Penn, Laura Linney, Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jenna Elfman, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Benjamin, Ed Asner, David Schwimmer and the cast of Ugly Betty. Each...
Chicago Architecture Foundation From the birthplace of the skyscraper come wooden miniatures (from $25.95) of the cake-slice Wrigley Building and the Gothic Tribune Tower - both built in the 1920s - as well as the John Hancock Center, above left, a squared-off, tapering tower, which wouldn't look out of place in Beijing. And architects don't just do buildings: for desktop tulips there's an elegant Frank Lloyd Wright vase in jade or nutmeg ($110). www.architecture.org...
...owes much to personal inclinations. “Sometimes it’s a case where somebody else comes to you and says, ‘Who are you?’—and you don’t know how to answer,” explains Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages Peter B. Machinist. “In other cases it’s a strong family sense, particularly if your family originated from another country and speaks another language...
...Center project didn't work out as planned. The developer who held the lease on the Twin Towers had ideas of his own. He brought in another architect, David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an outfit famous for providing corporations with prestige headquarters, like the Sears Tower and John Hancock Building in Chicago, that are still within their aesthetic comfort zone. For a while Childs and Libeskind collaborated on the Freedom Tower, but the final design, which is now in the first stages of construction, was so unlike Libeskind's original vision that he removed his name from...