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Through a process which Beibin describes as “cultural appropriation,” filmmaker Mike Norris created one of the festival’s more memorable moments, reorganizing a political speech given by President Bush by linking his words into three main familiar themes: terror, Iraq and weapons...
The sheer number of times these words appeared in the speech was overwhelming, as the echoed “buzz” words pounded into shape a concise political critique. Its point was clearer than other films at the festival that indiscriminately linked new and old television footage to mock...
"Who has the world's longest mustache? Who was the world's most productive mother? No standard reference book troubles with such trivia, but an offbeat guide called the Guinness Book of Records answers such questions with gusto ... [It is] the world's greatest grab bag of mosts, leasts, longests...
Superlative Selection What book has a warning in its pages that "attempting to break records or set new records can be dangerous"? You don't have to look that one up. Of course, it's the Guinness compilation of world records, which has inspired innumerable competitors to win a place...
DIED. NORRIS MCWHIRTER, 78, who with his identical twin brother Ross co-founded the best-selling Guinness Book of Records in 1955 after being commissioned by the head of the Guinness brewery to create a reference for settling arguments between drinking buddies; in Wiltshire, England. The brothers--Oxford graduates, track...