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...1930s, how threatened and angered men were by workingwomen after World War II and how uncomfortable Americans were with the growing ubiquity of television in the '50s. Cartoons with a freshly showered woman inside her home hiding her breasts from the gaze of a newscaster on a TV screen were huge...
Kyoji Takubo gazes at the spectacular screen paintings surrounding him?201 floral studies on a field of luminous gold?and declares that this was the place where he decided to become an artist. Growing up in Kotohira, a backwater town on Shikoku island in southern Japan, he rarely gave any thought to art. But one of his best friends was the son of the head priest of Kotohira-gu, commonly called Konpira, an important Shinto shrine that is the town's great pride and that is said to date back more than 2,000 years. So Takubo spent...
...both." And so she does: this spring, she and her organization, Braille Without Borders, launched a farm some 300 km from Lhasa, where blind adults are taught animal husbandry, forestry and vegetable cultivation. She wrote a book about her work, and soon she'll hit the big screen in a documentary called Climb Higher. The film follows her, Kronenberg and six teenagers from the Lhasa school as they accompany Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind climber to summit Mount Everest, on a three-week climb of Lhakpa Ri, a 7,000-m peak north of Everest. Says producer Sybil Robson...
...socialite, Guy is the wide-eyed British schoolboy with a conscience, and Mia is the long-suffering martyr who has made it through the school of hard knocks and is turning around to take another long lap. Even real-life lovebirds Theron and Townsend fail to make their on-screen relationship believable. It’s impossible to either identify or sympathize with their tumultuous affair...
...Something bigger than us.” That was the theme evoked again and again by the cast and crew of the new firefighter film, Ladder 49. With a marquee led by the recently A-listed Joaquin Phoenix and buoyed by screen veteran John Travolta, the movie captures a lifetime’s passage of firefighting for the members of one ladder in the Baltimore Fire Department as seen through the eyes of Phoenix’s character, Jack Morrison. A sweeping timeline highlights the brotherly bond formed by the men in the firehouse, where duty takes precedence, but often...