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Clueless, desperate-to-fit-in, optimistic foreigners are a classic comedy trope--the Clouseaus, Cousin Balkis, Morks, Two Wild and Crazy Guys--because they spotlight the ridiculousness that we accept. When he's at a rodeo, driving the crowd into a frenzy with anti-Iraqi, pro-war cheers, Borat demonstrates how much aggression is intertwined with patriotism. And his attempts to be American pinpoint exactly how the world sees us: garish, violent, nouveau riche, a land of Donald Trumps and 50 Cents...
...brothers revere, writes about "the stickiness factor" but never fully fleshes out what makes an idea sticky. That's where Chip and Dan come in. Finding insight in fields as disparate as psychology, politics, screenwriting, economics, folklore and epidemiology, they deconstruct sticky ideas--from Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign classic "It's the economy, stupid" to the way Jane Elliott taught the civil rights movement to third-graders in an all-white Iowa town (see next page). At the same time, they lay out a blueprint for engineering your own sticky ideas, whether your goal is to stop teen smoking...
...charismatic dreamer with inexhaustible curiosity and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Herzog, 64, might be a character from one of his own classic movies--Fitzcarraldo, or Aguirre, the Wrath of God--in which a man is seized by some outsize ambition and just about kills himself trying to realize it. But those were fiction films, which constitute less than half of Herzog's output. In his documentaries he is just as driven to make film heroes out of real men with their own crazy dreams...
...Chorus Line,” but it is anything but a chorus line. It should be called 17 stars, because each performer has their number, everyone shines for one number. We had 17 leads to cast.For these two friends “A Chorus Line” remains a classic, and they are confident that the show will resonate with the Harvard audience.Noyer: Well it was originally written in 1976. You’d think that between 1976 and 2006 the stories would have lost their ability to relate to a mass audience, but really, the fact that the characters...
...some artists, merely succeeding is equivalent to betraying your roots. For others, it’s what you do with your success that counts. “I’m blowin’ up like you thought I would,” the Notorious B.I.G. rapped on the classic track, “Juicy.” “Call the crib, same number, same hood / It’s all good.” Biggie knew that he would only be seen as a sell-out if he didn’t give back to the community...