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Discussing how the U.S. lags behind China on energy efficiency, in the New York Times...
Nonetheless, I played along when Kudrow had Ancestry.com look up my family history. I found out through the 1930 Census that my father's father's parents paid $45 a month for a one-room New York City apartment for six people and they were the only ones on the block without a radio. My great-grandmother, when asked what country she grew up in, wrote "Poland," crossed it out and then wrote "Austria." These are countries that don't even border each other. I come from stupid people. You know how I know that? Because I had to look...
...grandfather Reuben and his brother left Russia instead of serving in the army. This, it seems, is where I get my bravery from. But later, when Reuben's dad was looking to get the rest of the family out of Russia, he sent family members to scout out New York, Brazil and Argentina and wound up ditching my great-grandfather and taking his eight other kids to Argentina, where they made a lot more money than their American siblings. All my cousins there are rich artists. Which means, according to everything I know about family histories, my son will become...
Scorsese won his great renown for films about the brotherhood of deranged machismo: Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York. But as his documentaries about American and Italian cinema show, he is also an encyclopedic connoisseur, scholar and rescuer of old movies - a video savant - who makes occasional forays into genre territory. He's done romantic comedy (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Merchant-Ivoryish period drama (The Age of Innocence), a musical (New York, New York) and a thriller remake (Cape Fear). Even The Departed is an American version of a Hong Kong cop movie...