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...role of propaganda in dictatorships in “Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State.” Heller pointed to Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin as examples of the first politicians whose photographs were airbrushed extensively by graphic designers. “Mao never brushed his teeth, but in photos his black teeth were always pearly white,” Heller said. Heller also described how Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini both used graphic designers to promote “the cult of the kid.” In Fascist Italy, youth was idealized: posters which depicted...
...Comedy Be Cutting-Edge? Aspiring filmmakers used to cut their teeth on R-rated horror movies; it was a genre that allowed them to show their skills of cinematic technique and audience manipulation (get 'em to scream). But with Apatovian buddy farce currently triumphant, more tyros are turning to R-rated comedy (get 'em to laugh). Here timing, not technique, is required: creating a vibe, working with actors, building a scene, knowing the audience. It's less like movie auteuring than like staging a play, but that's all right. Every film comedy needs a director, and these days there...
...from Penn and worked for Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates before starting his company. He was photographed for Fortune in 2000 dressed like Rocky, which mortifies him now. "They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny." He lives in Philadelphia, despite his constant need to commute to places like Washington and New York City, because that's where he grew up and his family's roots are. He met his wife while she was a graduate student of his father, who brought her home...
...more amusement) from a typical episode of Two and a Half Men. What makes the play tolerable are the four good, and very different, actors - Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels and James (Tony Soprano) Gandolfini - who at least have some juicy, if stereotypical, characters to sink their teeth into. Unfortunately, the play only made me grit mine...
Andrea Wilder, another Cantebridgian, characterized the proposed renovations as akin to “punching out a person’s front teeth...