Mike Wallace: “But what is philosophical about driving in a car full of cauliflowers or lecturing inside a diving helmet?”
“Do you know who Steve Blass is?” Sarah asked.
“Never heard of him,” Henry lied. Steve Blass was an all-star pitcher for the pirates in the early ’70s. In the the spring of 1973 he suddenly, inexplicably, became unable to throw the ball over the plate. He struggled for two years to regain his control and then, defeated, retired.
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
“This video shows Yosemite National Park in all of its glory. Watch as darkness descends over Half Dome after a gorgeous sunset. Then, looking to the heavens, we observe the brilliant sky and the millions of stars visible. It’s Yosemite like you’ve never seen it before.”
‘Citizen Kane’ gets inside the castle: Seventy-one years after real-life press baron William Randolph Hearst tried to derail Orson Welles’ famous film about a newspaper tycoon, it will be shown at the sprawling hillside estate that bears his name. The parallels between Hearst and the movie’s Charles Foster Kane character are obvious — but so, too, are the differences, said Steve Hearst, who manages the family’s ranches and other business interests.
Photo: Orson Welles, left, and Joseph Cotten in Welles’ 1941 film “Citizen Kane,” which will be shown March 9 at the Hearst Castle Theater.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
The Epic, Crowd-Sourced ‘Star Wars Uncut’ Releases Director’s Edit
The Emmy Award-winning Star Wars Uncut project, in which hundreds of Internet users recreated scenes from the Hollywood classic, is now available online in all its feature-length glory.
I want people to feel without resorting to drama
— Yasujirō Ozu on Late Autumn/秋日和 Akibiyori (1960)
(via missingozu)
Locker rooms, in Schwartz’s experience, were always underground, like bunkers and bomb shelters. This was less a structural necessity than a symbolic one. The locker room protected you when you were most vulnerable: just before a game, and just after. (And halfway through, if the game was football.) Before the game, you took off the uniform you wore to face the world and you put on the one you wore to face your opponent. In between, you were naked in every way. After the game ended, you couldn’t carry your game-time emotions out into the world — you’d be put in asylum if you did — so you went underground and purged them. You yelled and threw things and pounded on your locker, in anguish or joy. You hugged your teammate, or bitched him out, or punched him in the face. Whatever happened, the locker room remained a haven.
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
Sampsons Did It of the Day: Continuity announcers at Channel 4 have apparently been having some fun “mispronouncing” The Simpsons for some time now. Someone caught on and made this self-explanatory supercut.
FACT: Every channel should be doing this for every show all the time.
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The Birds of America by John James Audubon, the “world’s most expensive book,” hits the auction block tomorrow. Click through for a look at some of the hand painted prints from the book.
The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach
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The S**T Says meme collides with Downton Abbey. I do believe my life is quite complete now.
Ding dong! —A.P.
Are you having a Pooh day or an Eeyore day?
Happy birthday to A.A. Milne — born today in 1882.
(Source: iamdonald)
