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Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction

The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood’s heart, reviving John Travolta’s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and Uma…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2013
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9048 words)

The Man Who Made Star Wars

Modesto is a small California town that gains its livelihood from its shops and its farms. Beyond its few streets lies the walnut ranch where George Lucas was raised. The town has one cinema on its…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5033 words)

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.

Photograph by James West.IT'S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since I've been inside a prison cell. Now I'm back, sort of. The experience is eerily like my dreams, where I am a prisoner in another man's cell. Like…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2271 words)

An Inquiry Into the Very Public Private Marriage of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise

What Was That? Part I Four months before Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, the couple walked into the Mark Taper Forum, in downtown Los Angeles, to see a performance of Clybourne Park.…
PUBLISHED: July 22, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5089 words)

Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad

The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws. When workers in the cafeteria ran…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 25, 2012
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5250 words)

Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic

The business environment for newspapers continues to be grim. Pew recently reported that advertising revenue rebounded in 2010 for all forms of media, except newspapers.* This might just be a…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2691 words)

Child Brides

Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1510 words)
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