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...dark was for him what sunlight was for Monet, an astonishment, an eternal element that his chosen medium had never been able to "get" before. In 1933 he published Paris at Night, a book that instantly secured his reputation and remains one of the milestone volumes of 20th century photography. A picture like L'Avenue de l'observatoire in Autumn is about nothing so much as just dark and light. Its unsentimental main "subject" is a car-headlight beam. A bit as Weegee did in New York City, Brassai hit below the beltways of Paris. What he liked best...
Network executives are supposed to say things like that, but an early 50-page script for the Family Guy pilot makes it clear that MacFarlane, at just 25, is a prodigiously talented writer. Family Guy, which is set in a sleepy Rhode Island city, falls squarely within the medium's venerable archetype of familial dysfunction, which is to say that Mom, Lois, is a saint; Dad, Peter, is a boob; the kids are mutants (baby Stewie, for instance, is an evil genius plotting world domination); and the voice of reason is Brian, the family's talking dog. The early plots...
...small to medium-size U.S. companies that want to get into Asia, joint ventures with comparable local firms are the way to go, say many experts. "There are really a lot of bargains available," says David Emery, Dun & Bradstreet's managing director for Southeast Asia. He cites one example of a Swiss company that bought a large share of a major Thai Internet provider at roughly half what it would have had to pay only a little earlier...
...Porter Square, for example, one Dunkin' Donuts donut costs $0.57. At the Harvard Square location on Mass. Ave., it costs $0.67. A No. 1 Value Meal--two donuts and a medium coffee--costs $1.99 at Porter; at Harvard Square, $2.63. As for coffee, in Harvard Square, a medium cafe blend is $1.50; at Porter...
...Lasseter's sensibility that pervades both Toy Story and A Bug's Life. "He truly gets it. He has both the kid's perspective and the filmmaker's perspective. The childlike charm and the maturity, that's John." The payoff is that animation, long considered a kiddie medium, is attracting adults. Some 35% of the Bug's Life audience on the Friday after Thanksgiving were teens or adults--without kids...