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...despite all his fame and glory, he still has one unfulfilled desire: To be a member of the Tenenbaum family. Growing up as the boy next door to the titular dysfunctional family, he still longs to be one of them even as his success seems to grow proportionally with their failures...
Anderson’s deadpan artistry helps this tale of literate, elitest characters make their way through their upper-class milieu. Recalling Rushmore’s opening yearbook sequence, Anderson starts the film off with an expanded, hilarious prologue introducing the young geniuses and documenting their rise to fame and the insane treatment they were afforded by their father. The look of the pages at each chapter title gives the feel of a highly stylized story, a fantastic aspect that is further accentuated by Alec Baldwin’s tart narration as he guides viewers chapter by chapter through...
...permanent symbol of that creation? This is the central question of Windshield: Richard Neutra’s House for the John Brown Family, the current exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The house, named Windshield after the large amounts of glass used in its construction, has achieved more fame for its ill-fate than its revolutionary design. Completed in 1938, the house stood as a beacon of modern design for a mere week before it was significantly damaged by a hurricane. The house was rebuilt by 1939, but was consumed by a fire on New Year?...
When the audience first meets the main characters, they have long since abandoned the innocence of their youth. Franklin Shepard, (Patrick W. Hosfield ’05), the protagonist, is a successful but unhappy Hollywood producer, who has succumbed to the lure of fame and fortune, abandoning his true love, songwriting. His “old friend” Mary Flynn (Sarahn M. Wheeler ’03) has become a bitter alcoholic, unable to write another best-seller or suffer the A-list crowd that surrounds her. The last member of the central trio is Charley Kringas (Christian...
...founding fathers there,” Mary mentioned.), but there also seem to be European locations involved. “It may very well be connected to the Olympics,” she noted, explaining that this is where Vicky’s 15 minutes of fame will be. Just in case the general public is unaware of this, Vicky involved with athletics, playing athletics, watching athletics, really, doing anything involving athletics at all is extremely humorous...