“They didn’t have a scope lens for the projector and it’s a scope movie and I let them show it anyway. … It gets to the final climax and all of the sudden the lights come up. They go back down, and then almost as if on purpose as far as suspense is concerned, right at the height of the movie … all the power goes out. So, [I thought] ‘OK, that’s what it’s like to watch your movie in public.'”
Tag: 04.29.17
U.S. Composer Mohammed Fairouz Detained At JFK For Four Hours With No Explanation
The 31-year-old New Yorker gives a first-person account of his experience being held by Customs and Border Patrol agents after having scanned his passport and fingerprints.
What People Pay Attention To (Not Necessarily What You Think)
“Because we’re fixated on our coffee stain (or whatever we happen to be self-conscious about), we assume others must be, too. But when nothing in particular draws our attention to ourselves, we neglect the fact that we may nevertheless be an object of other people’s interest. In short, we pay too much attention to what we’re paying attention to.”
People Watch Each Other Way More Than We Think But Also Notice Way Less Than We Think
Half-cool, half-creepy (or maybe wholly creepy): “The problem, in both cases, is that we project the focus of our attention onto others. Because we’re fixated on our coffee stain (or whatever we happen to be self-conscious about), we assume others must be, too. But when nothing in particular draws our attention to ourselves, we neglect the fact that we may nevertheless be an object of other people’s interest.”
How Would A Writers’ Strike Affect TV Shows?
Late-night would suffer first, and badly. SNL? Good luck. Daytime soaps? Probably kill them all, likely forever. The Walking Dead? Well … maybe the strike won’t last that long.
The French Capital Of Lacemaking Has Become The French Capital Of Far-Right Politics, But How?
Of course, Calais only became a lacemaking capital after some British skulduggery: “Lace-making began to flourish here in the early 19th century, after three British weavers smuggled giant looms, called Leavers machines, across the English Channel to evade English restrictions on selling lace to the French. They set up in the textile-making town of Calais. The new industry blossomed, and the metallic click of the Leavers looms vibrated in Calais’s narrow streets day and night.” (Narrator voice: This prosperity was not to last.)
Pittsburgh Symphony’s Runout Performances At Scottish Rite Cathedral Are Ending After This Season
The orchestra said there were two reasons, but they both sound like an absence of dollar bills rubbing together.
Why Are Contemporary Families In Novels So Often Confined To One Or Two Children?
Emma Donoghue says, “My publishers initially choked when I offered them a novel about eight children, with four parents. One editor suggested I trim this down to a ‘big family of five kids.’ But by my standards (having grown up in an Irish Catholic clan in the 1970s), five was a puny total. Also, I needed the kids to outnumber the parents, to create enough pleasurable havoc. So we compromised: I culled the kids to seven.”
What’s It Like To Play Call Of Duty As A Muslim?
It’s … weird. “Does this game want us to consider ourselves, the soldiers, as conquerors? Or sufferers? And what of the casualties? There are minimal depictions of civilians getting killed (except a notable sequence involving a bombing raid from afar), so the game left me with the feeling that I was a hero for having killed all those brown men. I, after all, endured.”