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...usually stay up till four or five every morning, but then I don't have very many classes," says Hemsey, whose courses meet only two or three days per week...
...increasingly difficult to produce. What does it mean to produce alternative comedy when mainstream pop culture has become so self-mocking? When Miller Lite commercials do smart send-ups of kung fu movies, when sitcoms like Ned and Stacey make jokes about sitcoms like Mr. Belvedere, when From Dusk Till Dawn wears its crumminess as a badge of honor? Moreover, there is the difficulty of producing intelligent satire in a world in which reality at times resembles a series of lame celebrity-sketch conceits--Sonny Bono in Congress, O.J. Simpson peddling testimony on video that he never gave in court...
...next film, The Magnificent Ambersons, is a magnificent shard in its surviving form; RKO pulled Welles off the film, cut it by a third, hired a hack to shoot a new ending. He was now "Hollywood's youngest has-been," condemned to haunt Hollywood and other film capitals till he died looking for work. People knew him only as the fat man, a butt of lame jokes. Unable to finance his dream projects (including a film about the making of The Cradle Will Rock), Welles earned eating money as a narrator and pitchman. He ended as he began. The Voice...
Though there are only 21 of them, they are being stroked, wooed and courted by all sides till they blush. They even have talks going with the various factions of the House Republican freshman class--a dialogue that California Democrat Gary Condit describes as "very enlightening to us. They're not as rigid as they're portrayed to be." As the White House negotiations broke down, Armey announced that the Republican leadership was ready to turn to Plan B. The scheme: if they couldn't cut a deal with Clinton, they would turn to the Blue Dogs to come...
...luminous world, a place not merely revealed by light but constructed by it. Even his darks shine. The late 17th century in Holland was an age of the eye: optics was a ruling scientific interest, and the telescope and microscope were opening tracts of nature that up till then had been below or beyond normal sight. As an aid to painting his View of Delft, Vermeer probably used the camera obscura--a box with a lens that captures the image of a scene on ground glass. It may be that the circles of confusion--the luminous spots caused by imperfections...