3-D, 3-D, 3-D, in All Directions
In the midst of all this tech hoopla which seems to be gaining currency at high end as well as amateur levels, I have found the voice of the professional cinematographer to be curiously muted, even pensive. Admittedly, we are not a group who clamors for attention inside the media buzz whenever a new technology emerges, especially a re-cycled one like 3-D. We are more inclined to step up to new technology and the equipment that implements it— and just figure out in a hands-on encounter, what it is exactly that we are facing. We have learned through hard experience that the imperatives of the box office and manufacturers do not necessarily mesh with our creative aspirations.
Razing Arizona
Deep in the desert Southwest, a battle is raging between an ex-maverick presidential nominee and a defeated congressman with a checkered history (and a penchant for bad jokes). In any other election cycle, this contest would be a laugher. But this year: Arizona’s voters are royally pissed! Robert Draper goes inside the most entertaining race of 2010
Who’s Afraid of Steve Jobs?
Not Consumer Reports. Over the past year the 74-year-old magazine has carved up Apple and made Toyota roll over. Pretty good for a lab in Yonkers
I Was With Coco
A year ago, Todd Levin got the job of a lifetime—writing for ‘The Tonight Show.’ Nine months later, he was packing his desk. Now he recounts what it was really like: helping reboot a fifty-six-year-old franchise; watching his boss, Conan O’Brien, get screwed; and saying good-bye to the funniest late-night show to barely exist
Eat No Evil
Thanks—or no thanks—to the new high priests and hipster philosophers of the food world, lately it feels like everything on the menu comes with a heaping side order of guilt: Is that mâche local and roof-raised? What’s the carbon footprint of your burger? Was your salmon farm-slaughtered or delicately line-caught? It’s enough to put a man off his meal. But not Alan Richman. The man who’s always been the Defender of the Appetite makes a thirty-day pilgrimage from perfectly sustainable farm to perhaps unsustainable sea to, uh, chicken coop in search of what it means to eat ethically—and still savor the pleasures of eating—in the twenty-first century
The Web Means the End of Forgetting
Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption “Drunken Pirate.” After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school told her the photo was “unprofessional,” and the dean of Millersville University School of Education, where Snyder was enrolled, said she was promoting drinking in virtual view of her under-age students. As a result, days before Snyder’s scheduled graduation, the university denied her a teaching degree.
The secrets next door
National Security Inc.
Bill Murray Is Ready To See You Now
He is one of the greatest comic actors alive. A man who’s navigated his career with a peerless instinct for quality and self-respect. The man behind movies—from Caddyshack to Stripes, from Rushmore to Lost in Translation—that seem to have defined a dozen different moments in our cultural life. But he is also a man beholden to no one, not the studios, not the audience, not even an agent. And as he sits down with Dan Fierman to discuss everything from the lameness of Ron Howard to the genius of Kung Fu Hustle, you can be pretty sure he’s going to tell you exactly what he thinks
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