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...their O Brother, Where Art Thou?), and he's working on a movie about the founder of est and a comedy about the 1979 Tehran hostages who escaped. The next movie he directs and co-stars in is Leatherheads, a screwball comedy about pro football in the 1920s that comes out April 4. "After Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck I was offered the Richard Clarke book and every issues movie," Clooney says. "I didn't want to be the issues guy because if the issues change, you're done. The Facts of Life is a good example...
...decade, their typical American town (Muncie, Ind.) was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile. A team of sociologists, reassessing Middletown from 1976 to 1978, concluded: "The Middletown studied by the Lynds during the 1920s was in the throes of a sexual revolution as far-reaching as the one we have experienced during the past two decades." There were differences, of course. Many women in the 1920s stopped short of intercourse. Those who "went all the way" often convinced themselves that they were in love...
...Measure Merit?To the business-minded people who are increasingly running the nation's schools, there's an obvious solution to the problems of teacher quality and teacher turnover: offer better pay for better performance. The challenge is deciding who deserves the extra cash. Merit-pay movements in the 1920s, '50s and '80s stumbled over just that question, as the perception grew that bonuses were awarded to principals' pets. Charges of favoritism, along with unreliable funding and union opposition, sank such experiments...
...same bawdiness appeals to modern college audiences; the DHO performed “Cosi fan Tutte” as recently as 2004. In keeping with its mission to make opera that is “youthfully innovative,” the DHO decided to set the production in the 1920s and all songs are performed using Andrew Porter’s English translations. Despite these concessions to a lay audience, the actors are talented and the production is polished and professional. Turning the Dunster House dining hall, grand as it is, into a useable venue for opera is no small...
...show and can really say what you want to say: you have so much control over the design scheme, the movement, and the costuming. For example, Spellberg opted to stage Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” in an English country house during the 1920s rather than the original 18th century Italy. The show makes use of gramophones and cameras to make the production authentically anachronistic. Spellberg: It’s a darkly funny show and lends itself to a certain kind of flamboyance. It’s an opera that enjoys a touch...