Word: yorkerism
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...when recognition for the film, and even more so for Brooks, did come, it didn't stop. The Anna Karina character in Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie was based on her, as was Melanie Griffith's Lulu in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild. An adoring 1979 New Yorker profile by Kenneth Tynan (calling Brooks "the most seductive, sexual image of woman ever committed to celluloid") cemented her celebrity, and suddenly the Rochester, N.Y., recluse was up in the silent-movie Pantheon with Garbo and Lillian Gish...
...Washington ’09, the other co-producer. Parks’s works are difficult to perform by any standards. They are “multi-layered, historically aware, and linguistically complicated,” writes Hilton Als in a recent profile of Parks in The New Yorker. “It took a good deal of time and effort to develop the right dynamic and tone for the show,” writes Renee M. Ragin ’10, who plays one of Hester’s children, Bully, as well as a welfare worker. The challenge...
...themed around the very wealthy. It came out back in September and was edited by recent graduates Yalun H. Tu ’06 and Lizzie S. Widdicombe ’06 (who is famous for her recent Talk of the Town article in The New Yorker). One more Mini will be published in the next week or two, bringing the total number in the series to four. No one knows why the Lampoon is doing this. Curious, Doordropped e-mailed the Lampoon leadership: Vice President Samuel M. Johnson ’06-’07 and President Adam...
...getsfiled under country because her songs tell little stories (the title track is about a family reunion that ends with a trip to a grave), but she's really a hybrid of folk and adult pop: equal parts Patty Griffin and Norah Jones. For lyrics, this native New Yorker leans on just a few evocative nouns, and her melodies grow in the wide open spaces between delicately played guitar chords. Her singing on the standouts You Just Forgot and Please Stay is cool and restrained--not from an absence of feeling but from an excess...
...Chast has a husband, two children--one of whom is picking a banjo upstairs--and two very vocal parrots that say things like "Waffles!" and "Look, damn it!" and, for some reason, "What a big toast!" For 28 years, she has sent half a dozen ideas to the New Yorker every Tuesday and then waited to see which would be accepted. True to her characters, she gets very anxious about it. "It does not get any easier. At all. It's horrible...