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...gimmicky” videos because he thought that Spike Jonze’s “Buddy Holly’” video was responsible for Weezer’s rise to fame. Only one video was made for Pinkerton—a straightforward three-minute ordeal panning over the geek boys playing “El Scorcho.” But now Cuomo seems to have re-evaluated the art of video—unless he sees the sumo wrestlers in the “Hash Pipe” video as a straightforward expression of a song about...
...whole ordeal was a hallucinogenic nightmare. Principal photography took an exhausting 238 days. A typhoon destroyed some of the sets. The director mortgaged his house to cover ballooning costs. He fired his first leading actor (Harvey Keitel) and found that his second (Martin Sheen) had suffered a heart attack. At one point the director told his wife, "I'm thinking of shooting myself." So when it was all over, Francis Ford Coppola figured he had earned the right to a public primal scream. "My film is not a movie," he told the press at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where...
...Anwar says part of his ordeal took place inside the gates of ExxonMobil's Cluster IV gas field. He says he was dragged, kicking and screaming, past men wearing white uniforms and ExxonMobil hard hats?the company's private security guards. He doesn't know why he was tortured and claims to have no opinion about the Free Aceh Movement (gam), a rebel army fighting for independence from Indonesia. He doesn't want any money from ExxonMobil. But he doesn't have much good to say about the company either. "I hate Exxon," he says, "they have no heart...
...exclusive interview with TIME about her family's ordeal, Levy acknowledged what many may have suspected from looking at her grieved face: Both she and her husband Robert take medication to help them cope. "We take sleeping pills to get to sleep at night and tranquilizers at night so we can get to sleep," she said, "but during the day we're not on anything. It's hard. It's real hard. It's abnormal." She elaborated that "we're not holding up very well. My diet's off. I eat wrong. I'm often sick to my stomach...
...rash of teen comedies that promote adolescence as a frenetic party where every kid pairs off with a comely partner and has fabulous sex, here comes the genre's cleansing, toxic antidote--Ghost World, the Heathers of the new century, the movie that shows how morose and furtive an ordeal growing up can be. Residing both within Enid and Rebecca and at an ironic distance from them, the film allows the viewer to see them--and Seymour, that other displaced person--with a kind of detached sympathy. When Seymour calls himself "an amusingly cranky eccentric curiosity," he might be describing...