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...Congress members to appear on BKAD. Crews from “The Colbert Report” were on hand at the Forum interview, and certain moments seemed potentially staged for the camera. At one point, a “Report” crew member handed Colbert a large portrait of conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly, who holds a Master’s of Public Administration degree from the Kennedy School. Colbert held it aloft and demanded that the school hang it in the building. “Certainly one of the pictures of JFK could come down...
Cameras supposedly don't lie, yet in this lovely, wordless story the photos from a camera found by a boy on a beach are hard to believe--fantastical creatures, underwater realms, seashell cities. What to do with such a magical device? One shot gives the clue: a self-portrait of a child holding a self-portrait of a child, and so on, back through the generations. The boy tosses the camera into the ocean, to become flotsam on the imagination of another youth on another shore...
...There is an inevitable poignancy to a 42-year group portrait - all those possibilities unfulfilled, all those roads with dour detours. Beyond that, the Up series has created, across classes, a community out of these children, who seem figures from a fairy tale: blessed, or cursed, when they were seven, and emerging every seven years thereafter to endure another public challenge. It's almost Harry Potterish. By overcoming their natural desire for privacy, by revealing themselves unsparingly, these septennial TV celebrities have become, in a modest but modern way, true movie heroes...
...point, a “Report” crew member handed Colbert a large portrait of conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly, who holds a Master’s of Public Administration degree from the Kennedy School. Colbert held it aloft and demanded that the school hang it in the building...
...album that many, including the Jiggaman himself, claim to be his best work. It is, however, on par with more recent albums like “The Blueprint” and “The Black Album.” And like the latter, it’s a portrait of a matured, introspective man, though not one who is above his usual sense of self-importance or bravado...