Word: suburbia
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...elder brothers have also become writers. Joshua wrote a novel about Jersey, The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, which will come out in September. And Adam was hired with Zach to co-write an adaptation of the kids' book Andrew Henry's Meadow, about a boy who escapes suburbia by building a Utopia in the trees. "We describe it as Brazil for kids," says Braff. It's hard not to suspect he really wants to call it Citizen Kane for kids...
...humdrum, confused life of mid-twentysomethings has a ready accomplice in the sprawling shopping malls and freeway-bound office parks of New Jersey, the stuff that nightmares and dreams are made of for the expanse of anonymous, white-housed suburbia that hums between the on-ramps. The staples of quiet, middle-class Garden State living are all here, sans the last PATH train back from the city. Like those who’ve never been, Largeman (we can imagine him telling his L.A. friends he grew up in New York) has no inclination to go back, only an obligation...
...Outside, his alcoholic father (Kevin Spacey), his girlfriend (Jena Malone) and others in the community grapple with the repercussions of this terrible act of violence. What does it mean for their community? Although many critics have mocked the film as a now predictable execration of the darkness behind modern suburbia, in this time of school shootings and anti-depressants, Leland at least stands out as an interesting and intentionally boundary pushing work...
DIED. PIERRE KOENIG, 78, pioneering California architect who shocked suburbia with modernist glass-and-steel-frame homes; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. His cantilevered Case Study House #22, below, remains one of the most photographed residences in the world. A San Francisco native, Koenig created more than 50 eye-popping homes, most of them in Southern California, including his own magnificent, multilevel Brentwood abode, where he lived out his life. "Modernism was not a style, not a passing fancy," Koenig told TIME in 1998. "It was a social movement...
...Outside, his alcoholic father (Kevin Spacey), his girlfriend (Jena Malone) and others in the community grapple with the repercussions of this terrible act of violence. What does it mean for their community? Although many critics have mocked the film as a now predictable execration of the darkness behind modern suburbia, in this time of school shootings and anti-depressants, Leland at least stands out as an interesting and intentionally boundary pushing work...