Bernie Madoff in his penthouse apt watching TV, 18 Dec ‘08, 9:00pm (newyorksocialdiary.com).
The Jewish Daily Forward (Weiss, 18 Dec ’08) on how Madoff worked his shtick.
Apropos:
The original Broadway production of The Producers opened at the St. James Theatre on April 19, 2001 and ran for 2,502 performances, closing on April 22, 2007.
Preenactment:
No one saw it [...]
How the Ali G crew stage-manages an interview:
We were then kept waiting for an hour, a delay for which we were given a variety of production-related excuses. The interviewer disappeared. We had other engagements and were beginning to study our watches and complain. By the time the interview began, we were preoccupied with our scheduling [...]
So says Paul Ekman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at UCSF and an expert on facial expressions, according to Errol Morris in “The Most Curious Thing” in the NYT. As prosecutors become more media-savvy with all their perp-walks, PR campaigning leaks, and the like, it follows to reason that filmmakers would become the new prosecutors: forensics [...]
NYT’s review of Speed Racer, with original links preserved:
Back in the early years of this century, it was possible to pretend that the grim-faced expository noodling of the later “Matrix” movies was the vehicle for profound insights into — well, something. Go look it up on Wikipedia.
“Wikipedia” points at the NYT Business section’s description.