“I think that one of the things the original Muppet movies did amazingly well, and it’s what Pixar does really well now, is that they don’t condescend to children by feeling like they have to dumb things down to the lowest common denominator. And when you don’t do that, you get a family film in [...]
Edith Zimmerman, who’s an editor at The Hairpin, pretty much blew off her profile of Chris Evans for GQ and ended up just partying with the soon-to-be-famous actor (once Captain America hits theaters) for a few days. Oddly, it’s probably the most honest and naked celebrity profile you’ll ever read … mostly because she all [...]
Tetris has changed the life of James Clewett, the 1999 world champion. He is now on the brink of finishing a PhD in physics. Here he describes his obsession with the game and where it has led him.
Favorite new website alert!: Songwriters on Process interviews various musicians in depth about their songwriting process. Now, normally these types of things are fairly boring because songwriter is limited to folk musician, but this website has an eclectic mix of musicians. They’ve talked to everyone from Brian Fallon (The Gaslight Anthem) to Bethany Cosentino of [...]
Gabe is pretty much spot on with his assertion that there is no difference between Jay-Z and George Clooney, except one’s an actor and the other is a business. Man. (WAIT, before you say ANYTHING, it’s equally fair to say at this point that George Clooney is the white Jay-Z), which is to say that [...]
If your first thought was I smell a “but” at the end of that headline you would be correct. BUT. He may have held it? [????MTV via vulture]
In 1971, Bruce Lee sat down for an interview with Pierre Burton in Hong Kong. It is the film and Kung Fu legend’s only existing interview. It’s a very wide ranging interview, but you get a sense of Bruce Lee, the person, when Pierre Burton asked him about the casting of David Carradine in the [...]
Shortly before his death in 1996, Saul Bass sat down for a series of interviews to discuss “the tradeoff between making money and doing quality work, his legacy, and the fundamental competency responsibilities of young designers.” More on this incredible interview with iconic designer/artist Saul Bass at Brain Pickings.
“I was so struck by Blade Runner when I saw it, and when I look at this film again there’s so much concern with memory and identity that I carried over from that film, because it made such an impression on me. I also see a lot of attempt to do what I saw Terrence Malick [...]
There’s too much to love in this interview with actor Jack Nicholson, so just pop on over to the Guardian and read the entire thing, where he seems to let his guard down and talk honestly about getting old, the vanity of plastic surgery, heartbreak and his youthful hard-partying ways. But, I’ll still give you [...]
