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...entertainment industry affect your own in Hollywood? LEG: I think I knew what I was getting into. I didn’t have grand fantasies of what Hollywood was like because I had grown up on set and I was very aware of the realities of the work, but it didn’t stop...
13.FM: You are set to work on The Social Network, a movie about Facebook founder Mark E. Zuckerberg. He was a member of your graduating class before he left Harvard. Are you friends on Facebook? LEG: No. (Laughs) I have a Facebook friend policy. I have to know you in the real world before I’m friends with you in the cyber world. So no. Unless I meet him and decide I want to be friends with him at some point in the indeterminate future...
...similarities and differences between Harvard and Hollywood? LEG: (Laughs) This is interesting. Yea, you have a lot of overachievers, a lot of people who think they’re going to change the world, and a lot of people who can work hard and focus but also understand the world at large, which I think is valuable. FM: What about the drama? LEG: Oh man, there’s a lot of drama in Hollywood. And there’s a lot of drama at Harvard so that’s definitely another similarity. There?...
Such self-consciousness is on clearest display in Lévi-Strauss’ lovely travelogue-cum-memoir Tristes Tropiques. Indeed, Lévi-Strauss’ own work can be divided into two categories: Tristes Tropiques, and everything else. Cherished as a formative influence by many established anthropologists, the slim volume sets down in pearlescent prose all the bittersweet joys of the profession, absent in Lévi-Strauss’ more detached volumes of scholarship. This elegiac tone evolved into outright pessimism as he grew older; in one of his last interviews he flatly states that...
...sport. That quality is superior to standardizing the calls of a game. Cameras and computers may very well improve the consistency of balls and strikes—or any other sporting act—but we cannot underestimate the importance of the human element that represents the work ethic and face of the games themselves...