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Saakashvili is fond of saying his time in the U.S. taught him about liberty and idealism. For me, he had a more prosaic story, about the time he and his in-laws were chased by hoodlums near his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He has an appreciation not just for America but also for American-style politics, possessing all the tools of a seasoned American pol: consultants, pollsters and genuine enthusiasm for working a crowd...
...clown. And like those masters, he knew that a pie in the face was the visual equivalent of a rim shot. Set up the joke, do the punch line, get a goopy Soupy face. He explained this precise, predictable rhythm in a 2002 interview with Ed Grant on the Manhattan cable-access show Media Funhouse: "Guy says, 'Where's the watercooler?' I say, 'Alaska,' and get hit with...
...America is about making…it’s the popular mechanics side of America,” he says. “When they were making the George Washington Bridge between Manhattan and New Jersey, the New Jersey and New York governments who designed it had a plan to cover the iron ore with marble. Somehow the general population heard about this and they said, ‘Just leave the steel exposed.’ It’s a basic American feeling to want to see how something was made...
...Diggers” and R.E.M. in the “Shiny Happy People” video—attempts to remedy this fact with her new film, “Motherhood.” The film marks a departure for Uma Thurman, who plays the protagonist, Eliza, a harried Manhattan mother who struggles to throw her daughter’s birthday party and compete in an essay contest during the same difficult day. In a recent roundtable interview, both Dieckmann and Thurman shared their thoughts on the importance of honestly depicting everyday family life, the challenges of parenting...
...film, Eliza meets with many similar roadblocks, from getting her car towed to schlepping groceries by bicycle through the streets of Manhattan. To create these moments, the director drew on experiences from her own life. “I went through almost everything in this film,” Dieckmann attests. “Magnolia Bakery did misspell my daughter’s name on her birthday cake, and refused to fix it, and film crews did disrupt traffic to film on my street...