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...Highlight Reel: 1. On the first Scarface, Howard Hawks' 1932 adaptation of the Armitage Trail novel: The film faced considerable censorship challenges from the Hays Office, which oversaw the industry's Production Code. In fact, two different cuts of the film were eventually created, and individual states could decide which version should play on their screens. "Accused of being too violent, plagued by censorship problems, scripted by a flamboyant writer, and starring an actor who sometimes went over the top on his accent - remind you of a movie we know? The 1932 Scarface both dovetails and diverges from its sequel...
...this weekend's excess seems inordinate fuss for a hotel re-opening, it's because the Fontainebleau is more than just a hotel. Built in 1954, "it's still a timeless and iconic showcase of the style and energy of the Beach," argues Howard Karawan, the Fontainebleau's chief operating officer. "The Fontainebleau made Miami Beach." That's not hyperbole. Even more than the art deco splendor of Ocean Drive, Lapidus' wavy edifice and quirky interior design - the Stairway to Nowhere, the Swiss Cheese Wall - define Miami the way the Plaza once epitomized New York and the Ritz embodies Paris...
...Theodore Roosevelt built a rectangular room on the ground floor of the new West Wing, replacing offices on the second floor of the White House. William Howard Taft made it into an oval in honor of a symbolic feature of George Washington's Philadelphia residence: a room with a bowed end where the first President would stand surrounded by a circle of guests, allowing him to democratically greet each visitor from the same distance. The office was moved to its current location in the southeast corner of the White House...
...mobilization of the youth vote was complemented, and perhaps in part generated, by its Web savvy and sophisticated use of online organizing tools, the fellows said. “The Internet is a tremendously collaborative, engaging media,” said Nicco A. Mele, the former chief of Howard Dean’s Web operations and the founder and president of EchoDitto. “It has a central and critical role in this coming administration.” Mele cited Obama’s e-mail database, which contains over 10 million e-mail addresses, and Obama?...
...doing a play in New York and I was assigned to talk about it on his radio show. "Howard Stern" didn't mean anything to me; I didn't know him from Adam. Here's a skinny, wild-haired guy with owlish glasses. I can verbally fence, and he kept asking me back. I talked earlier about free speech as a core value in our democracy. He not only believes in it, he exercises it. We need people like that, particularly at a time like this...