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More recent films, like Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, have also inspired the somber palette. "We're seeing a lot of dark movies these days, and they definitely influence the color story," says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. "Black is always the color people rely on most often in tough times, especially if they're going to spend on big-ticket items." Eiseman, who prepares an annual color forecast for the fashion and home markets, says black will most likely be included in Pantone's selection of the top 10 colors of 2008. "Psychologically...
...emerged out of a collective folk culture, like the Star of David or a nursery rhyme. But in fact it can be traced to a single inventor, Gerald Holtom, whose story is woven into two new histories, Peace: The Biography of a Symbol by Ken Kolsbun with Michael S. Sweeney (National Geographic; 175 pages) and Peace: 50 Years of Protest by Barry Miles (Reader's Digest; 256 pages...
...Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Actor Johnny Depp; dark leather trench (produced for the movie...
Though foreign-language talent gets short shrift from American studios and movie theaters, they are often honored with Oscars. Italians won for Original Score (Dario Marianelli, Atonement) and Art Direction (Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo, Sweeney Todd); two Frenchmen won for Makeup (Didier Lavergne, La Vie en Rose) and Live Action Short (Philippe Pollet-Villard, the director, writer and star of The Mozart of Pickpockets.) But one reason the Academy often gives Oscars to foreigners is that they seem really to want one. "Thank you, life, thank you, love," Cotillard exclaimed, as effusive as Sally Field or Halle Berry...
...direct participation (as in “Falha” by Renata Lucas, a grid of plywood sheets that can be rearranged to create a temporary stage, or another structure). One of the most thematically successful pieces is Mario Ybarra Jr.’s “Sweeney Tate,” a room containing a re-creation of a barbershop. Teeth are framed on the wall outside, with barbershop chairs and daschund statues lined up neatly inside. The room hints at antiquity, and yet everything inside is new and sterile. As a whole, the piece prompted consideration about...