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Americans are more socially isolated today than we were barely two decades ago. The latest evidence of that comes from a topflight team of sociologists who, after comparing national surveys in 1985 and 2004, report a one-third drop in the number of people with whom the average American can discuss "important matters...
...Southern illusions colliding with postwar urban brutishness. The young Marlon Brando made Stanley Kowalski a manifesto for sexual menace that defines American acting to this day. The 1951 film version, with Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois, restores equilibrium without neutering Brando--a great play revitalized. It's in a topflight pack of six Williams adaptations that includes chats with surviving co-stars, TIME critic Richard Schickel's Kazan documentary and an early, quirky Brando screen test...
...Columbia University Film School, had been kicking around for months. Liman had already passed on it once. It's the story of a seemingly conventional suburban couple facing two very big problems. One, their marriage is arid and joyless. And two, they both, each unbeknownst to the other, are topflight assassins at rival agencies. When professional circumstances pit the Smiths against each other, a hilarious fire fight between two trained killers ensues ("I missed you, honey" becomes a double entendre), which somehow, mysteriously, becomes a portrait of a marriage rediscovering its lost flame. It's Who's Afraid of Virginia...
...state, in effect, that the networks, with a surplus of eager sponsors to accommodate, are selling horsemeat to the public in the guise of steak. How true. Most of the material that nowadays insults the intelligence and is billed as topflight entertainment is a combination of ham and sow's ear, with neither guise, nor, worse, apology. The blame for this does not belong to the consuming public, whose sense of taste and discernment, once fairly encouraging, has been hammered into near oblivion by several years of Gleasons, Godfreys and giveaways. It belongs to the producer networks, who, like their...
Forget boxes on wheels and tacky subdivisions. Prefab is now just plain fab. Once the poor stepchild of residential construction, so-called systems-built housing is now the province of topflight architects, who are reinventing the genre with innovative designs, new building components and environmentally friendly approaches. In September, Lindal (2003 sales: $50 million) begins offering two versions of the Graves-designed kit house on its website, where it already sells a prefab home created by James Cutler, the architect behind the home of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. New Jersey architect-cum-performance artist Adam Kalkin is taking orders...