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Swide's column about the masters of Italian Renaissance recounts why it's impossible not to fall in love with Michelangelo Buonarroti...
Carine Roitfeld, W Magazine and Couture sound like a dream team. W Magazine has commissioned a documentary style video where Carine Roitfield "shops" around the famed couture ateliers of Paris for looks to include in the magazine's a couture shoot.
Vogue UK Jewellery Editor, Carol Woolton's latest books about jewels is as beautiful as it is informative.
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Dolce&Gabbana presents Dolce&Gabbana Jewellery video by Giampaolo Sgura starring Bianca Balti and Simone Nobili
With the German Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale awarded the Golden Lion award for Best National Participation, featuring the work of the late Christoph Schlingensief, and exhibits of German Installation Art popping up, Swide wanted to see what all the fuss was about…
"I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show". Scarlett Johansson reveals to Arianna Huffington her humanitarian and political personas.
Swide went backstage at the Dolce&Gabbana in Milan (FW 11) and caught up with Chinese superstar model Liu Wen, who spoke to us about her modelling career, her home and background, travelling and plans for the future.
The archetypal British rose, Felicity Jones has been tapped by Italian fashion house Dolce&Gabbana to front their Khol Make up collection campaign.
We always knew Chloë Moretz was destined for greatness and this is the moment she takes to the biggest stage of all with the release of Christmas family-friendly fantasy extravaganza Hugo. Legendary director Martin Scorsese plays against type here in directing this 3D adventure flick in what is his most accessible and far-reaching film yet.
Dolce&Gabbana have just recently launched their first fine jewellery collection, however, preciousness and embellishments as themes have fascinated the design duo since their first forays into the world of fashion.
From microdermabrasion to laser hair removal, medispas, have popped up all over the globe to satisfy the aesthetic needs of women (and men) always on the go.
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Lucia Giacani, a fashion photographer who is based in Milan, has really captured my heart with her wonderful images. Her style is very surreal and dreamy and her images will forever stick in your mind once you have your first glanced on them.
This week Mood Swings senses that things are shaking up on the club scene once again and he is not one to let an opportunity to embrace the beats pass by.
Kevin-Prince Boateng is a phenomenon. The all-action, tough-tackling, midfield hard man possesses silky skills and lightning-fast feet that have made him a firm favourite amongst the fans of A.C. Milan. After plying his trade in the Bundesliga, the Premiership as well as playing internationally with Ghana he seems to have found his footballing spiritual home with the Milanese giants with dazzling form both in Serie A and in Europe.
The Journey to the East video is an evocative behind the scenes testimony of the Prestige HK shoot which has taken place in Beijing's China Club.
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The Christmas lights have gone up all over the high streets, the shop windows are decorated with snow flakes, and Christmas Carols are blasted from loudspeakers as you do your shopping. Yes Christmas is upon us.
Snapped smiling on the Empire State Building in New York, Justin looks like he's on top of the world.
Ivan Olita is an eclectic artist and is able to turn his hand to almost anything. From fashion to communication, cinema to television, a blogger for Rolling Stone Magazine and from artistic performance to the editorial world, he does all this with the witty confidence typical of one who wants to change the world. Follow Ivan as he investigates The Fashion Show.
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Fashion Editor Yuri Ahn accompanied designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana to the event at the Seoul boutique. In a suggestive setting, awash with Korean celebrities, Italian lights from the Spring Summer 12 fashion show and historic corsets, the design duo received a heroes' welcome.
We have seen the roast and now we can say without a doubt that Spiga2's emerging designers for FW 12 are not only talented, but creative people we personally want to get to know.
We have selected 12 stunning pieces of jewellery from the Dolce & Gabbana Jewellery collection which are tell-tale signs of the inspiration and themes of the fine jewellery line.
We are in the middle of November and this can mean only one thing… only two weeks left of Movember. All over the world gentlemen are keeping their upper lips warm by adopting a moustache. Are you stuck for style? Then Swide has some celebrity suggestions…
Swide have picked out a bunch of frozen festivals that are happening from now through to the early months of next year that might tickle your fancy… see if there is something happening in your part of the world.
D&G's signature young and playful style is epitomised by the brand's choice of prints for FW11. Coca Cola and Mickey Mouse are timeless images, and it's fitting that D&G transferred these brands into the fashion sphere.
The memorable photographs shot by Ferdinando Scianna sculpted in the world's imagination an icon of sensuality, strength and Mediterranean beauty. Marpessa Hennink, the girl who gave a body, face and soul to that timeless muse, the Dolce&Gabbana woman, speaks about her role.
To celebrate one of the landmarks of Milan join the initiative of Consorzio Navigli: Navigli Golosi invites you to dinner in Milano province…
When I first encountered Ashley Lebedev's photography works, I instantly fell in love with her "Faerieland" series. Her photography style is very soft, elegant and at the same time, it has this mysterious element which makes you to think about the story behind the photos.
Kirsten Dunst needs no introduction. Ever since she starred in An Interview With A Vampire she has gone from strength to strength. With the release of Melancholia there have been rumours of an Oscar Nomination. So, what makes her so loved?
From all corners of the world to win the WSB, The Milano Thunder boxing team are ready to win. Tonight is the first home match and they are going to be pitched against the Los Angeles Matadors.
Strip tease artist, burlesque ambassador and world-renowned fashion icon Dita Von Teese is courted by many top designers world wide. But why is the marriage between Dita Von Teese and Dolce&Gabbana so spot on?
Mood Swings is back and this week he is struggling to accept the vocals of children in popular music and decided it was time to confront it head on.
Whilst many of the world's holiday makers opt for warmer locations at this time of year, some of us are clinging on to the cold and finding icy escapes to be their choice for this seasonal snap, finding refuge in an Ice Hotel.
It's the right time of the year for skiing. But where to do it glamorously? Swide has picked 7 spots between Italy, United States and Spain where snow awaits…
"There is a new energy in the air, an energy which made us crave a different kind of fashion: down to earth, transversal and relaxed". Italian monthly publication, Amica, published an open letter written by designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in their November 2011 issue.
Twilight 'Breaking Dawn – Part 1' has finally hit the cinemas and we felt it was about time that we heard what the readers of Swide and lovers of Dolce&Gabbana thought. We did a poll on Facebook and the results are in… it's Taylor Lautner
One of the few filigree artisans left in Italy worked on the Dolce&Gabbana Jewellery collection: my day with them reveals a historic workshop where craftsmanship and passion meet…
With all the excitement that followed the leak of Madonna's new single 'Give Me All Your Love', we were all on comedown this week. Well, enter Madonna and Martin Solveig at the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project in New York…
D&G for fall winter have brought to the fore the layered look. Typically young, sexy and fun, the collection challenges occasion wear to the max.
A Sicilian Island, a local family, a boat with illegal aliens that recounts Italy, but not only…
We have seen the roast and now we can say without a doubt that Spiga2's emerging designers for FW 12 are not only talented, but creative people we personally want to get to know.
Souvenirs. Love 'em or hate 'em, everyone loves the chance to get their hands on something to remind them of good times. Dolce&Gabbana hosted a Private Gala Dinner in Los Angeles with the stars of Italian Film, Terraferma - Emanuele Crialese, Beppe Fiorello, Donatella Finocchiaro and Filippo Pucillo.
Gerhard Richter (1932-) is one of the most important artists to emerge after the second Worldwar (or even, as many say, the best living painter).
In an interview to Hong Kong magazine Prestige, the Italian design duo open up about their relationships with each other, with their celebrities, with their creativity and with the world's second largest economy: China.
The Dolce&Gabbana FW11 collection was based on the contrast between masculine and feminine. Role-playing, fabric swapping and silhouette challenging designs dominated the catwalk. To concretise the distinction between the masculine and the feminine, the duo decided to hang their perceptions on a print, an icon, a symbol as old as the world itself- the star.
Twilight's 'Breaking Dawn – Part 1' arrives 16th November, with its soundtrack enlisting the help of some familiar faces. Bruno Mars' 'It Will Rain' got its release and it appears Bruno has his own Bella…
When I can, I love to go to Teatro Massimo to see an opera, a ballet or to listen to a concert. There is something inspiring, humbling and exciting about an evening at the theatre and the end of October seemed like the perfect opportunity.
In 2006, Übermodel Gisele Bundchen graced our screens as the archetypal modern diva in the spot for Dolce&Gabbana's The One fragrance.
Surreal, bold and edgy are the words I can use to describe the works of Dimitris Theocharis. I have become a fan of his works sometime ago and this week I have decided to feature this amazing fashion photographer on Swide.
Restaurant, cafè and much more: discover Sicily in the heart of Milan at Gold…
This week our Columnist Mood Swings feels the pull of the Royal Family and heads for old England to embrace its quirks, locals and public transport.
You may not have heard of Wye Oak, but you soon will. The Baltimore Duo's triumphant third album, Civilian, is primed for a spot on many of the 'best of 2011' lists that will be soon appearing throughout the press and blogosphere. I met the band and received some very honest answers...
The Italian brand's first foray into fine jewellery is attracting much attention from the world's press.
This weekend sees the return and the 15th edition of Paris Photo; a collection of 135 exhibitors from 23 countries, displaying talents old and new. With so many photographers in town, Swide wanted to discover another perspective of Paris.
Madge's new track 'Give Me All Your Love' is no secret and has kept the internet abuzz with excitement, but she was spotted in New York City keeping something under wraps.
Wrap up warm in cosy knitwear this winter. Luxurious kits all rigorously horizontally striped represented the vast majority of the casual vein in the Dolce&Gabbana FW11 eccentric menswear collection.
Today, sneakers are not just for the gym- from skater boys to preppy princes, jocks or businessmen on a break and fashion forward tend setters trainers have permeated casual wear and sometimes even formal wear.
The premier of Emanuele Crialese's latest screen play got the red carpet treatment this weekend at the 68th Venice Film Festival and Donatella Finocchiaro, Beppe Fiorello and Filippo Pucillo joined the director.
Directed by Jonas Akerlund, Duran Duran called upon supermodels to act as the members of the band. Naomi Campbell covered the role of Simon Le Bon, Helena Christensen as Roger Taylor, Eva Herzigova interpreted Nick Rodhes and Cindy Crawford was John Taylor.
Harper's Bazaar UK are celebrating the Women of the Year in their December 2011 issue, and they roped in the talents of Dolce&Gabbana to assist Yasmin LeBon, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, Eva Herzigova, and Naomi Campbell.
Anna Dello Russo is one of these fashion nomads who is going to be living out of a stylish suitcase for the next few weeks, from NYC to Paris. We can only imagine the trauma of leaving that gorgeous Milan home behind... Curious to know what we are talking about? Here is an exclusive private tour!
He is the man who created the Piss Christ and shot the Morgue series. Now on show the new serie Holy Works reveal a new point of view of the artist
Knitted skirts, shorts, tops and cardigans. The D&G collection spoils you for choice when it comes to knitwear. Whether you like bright and brash or monochrome, make sure you make a knitted statement this winter.
Morocco was one of Saint Laurent's true loves and it is no wonder the man owned some highly impressive properties in Marrakech and Tangier. Swide peeked through the arched door.
In occasion of the Millenium, Dolce&Gabbana let loose their creativity and gave life to an era of "hedonistic maximalism".
The end of October is always full of surprises, first of all there is Andrea's birthday and we never know what the celebrations will entail, and then there is Halloween, and what better place to celebrate these two occasions, than in Milan.
How can I possibly get the new SS12 collection? The customers of my mini-laundrette have gone ballistic over onions.
I am very excited to present you Jonathan Bartlett this week on Swide as I think he is a very gifted illustrator. Because of the composition, I always find a mysterious vibe in his works.
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Jewellery and makeup are two of women's favourite things. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana know women well and know what they want. With the help of make up artist virtuoso Pat McGrath, the new Dolce&Gabbana Make up Holiday 2011 Precious Stones collection is a dreamy mix of the two.
With all the fuss that follows the Twilight phenomenon, it can be easy to think that it revolves around Lautner, Pattinson and Stewart. Well, this week, Rome embraced other favourites from the cast…
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In Seoul you can visit ancient temples or be surrounded by the skyline. Past and future of Asia, here are the spots picked by our Fashion Editor that you can't miss if you are visiting it …
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Anything can happen on a red carpet and, at the 6th International Film Festival in Rome, Francesco Scianna became a new face of this ethos when he took the red carpet for "L'Industriale".
Have you ever wished to take a master class with a world famous make up artist? Well, here is the next best thing.
The notion that classic is boring and urban is kooky is not always accurate. The Dolce&Gabbana FW11 collection, actually, turns this mantra on its head.
A personal chat with emerging designer Daniel Vosovic his first encounter with fashion, his passions, inspirations, and intimate notes, as well as style advice. We have seen the roast and now we can say without a doubt that Spiga2's emerging designers for FW 12 are not only talented, but creative people we personally want to get to know. Childhood memories, his fashion heroes and inspirations make for a compelling read, to discover an up and coming designer divided between futurism and grunge.


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Reviews by ScreamForMe:More User Reviews:gr0gNew Jersey 3.65/5 rDev -1.4% look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5 Bottle from November 2011. For reference, my notes from drinking this fresh described it as a hot, boozy mess. You won't be finding any fresh Monster anymore, so let's see how this has fared after two years. Dark copper, guess you could call it mahogany. Not much of a head (not quite a finger tall), nor much lacing, but this is a big, malty brew so it's understandable. The big time fusel alcohol note on the nose has faded to near nothing. There's some ripe fruit and rich toffee character, but they're both fairly muted. Booze has mellowed considerably on the palate as well. Malty sweetness amid a rich bouquet of fruity esters leads off, while there's still a touch of alcohol on the finish. Much more drinkable and also quite balanced, even dry for a barleywine. Ripe fig and date flavors. Barrel-aged barleywines have spoiled me as I find myself sorely missing the cherry and vanilla character they offer. Syrupy mouthfeel with a bit too much carbonation. Age does Monster Ale quite a favor, turning it from a barely-drinkable mess into a solid, if unspectacular beer. Serving type: bottle 11-23-2013 03:30:29 | More by gr0g BEERMILER12Maine 3.75/5 rDev +1.4% look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75 2012 Vintage A: Pours a dark amber color with a fingernail's worth of head that slowly pushes to the edges of the glass S: Sweet malts, a bit of fruitiness, some raisin and fig, and caramel all stand out. Alcohol is fairly restrained for being over 10% T: Follows the nose. Starts off with the sweet maltiness. Darker fruits, raisin, fig, and a bit of spiciness are all present, as well as a well-contained alcohol presence which lends more spice and fruit M: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Nearing on a fuller body O: A nice sipper for the colder months. Definitely a bit nicer and less harsh after a year of age. Some nice complexities come out as it warms. Better snatch some up if you still see it around, because it's retired and gone for the time being Serving type: bottle 11-20-2013 18:27:27 | More by BEERMILER12 |
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In a back booth at Canter's, Seth Rogen is digging into his matzah ball soup with gusto as his close friend, screenwriter Will Reiser, sips a glass of club soda. In person, Rogen — who has emerged as one of the leading comic actors, writers and producers of his generation — offers up the same rumbling laugh (think a Jewish Santa Claus) and humorous banter as the stoner-slacker characters he plays in such films as "Knocked Up" and "Pineapple Express."
Reiser, part of Rogen's "Jew Tang Clan" entertainment posse since the two met on "Da Ali G Show" eight years ago, is quieter and thoughtful, even as he and Rogen seamlessly finish one another's sentences on this late afternoon.
The same dynamic appears in the best friends who make up the heart of their new movie, "50/50," which is loosely based on how Reiser's life and relationships — including his friendship with Rogen — evolved after he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor of the spine in 2005.
In "50/50," which is by turns poignant and hilarious, Adam Lerner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a 20-something writer for public radio who has an artist girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard) and a pothead-jokester best friend, Kyle (Rogen). But early on, it's clear all isn't well with Adam, when he fatigues while jogging and complains of worsening back pain. When Adam finally visits a doctor, the news is shocking: A tumor is snaking alongside his spine, with the almost unpronounceable name of neurofibrosarcoma, or malignant schwannoma. And his MRI — actually based on Reiser's own MRI — indicates he has only a 50 percent chance of survival. A life-threatening surgery is his only option.
Adam is by nature emotionally repressed and stoic, and as he struggles to come to terms with his cancer, his friends and relatives respond in disparate ways: His girlfriend is unable to deal with the illness and cannot even bring herself to drive Adam to his chemotherapy sessions. Kyle, after an initial freakout, wants to use Adam's sympathy card to score chicks. Friends say exactly the wrong things, and Adam's mother (Anjelica Huston) is supportive but smothering.
As Adam's health deteriorates, help arrives in the form of a novice oncology psychotherapist (Anna Kendrick) assigned to him by the hospital. "She is young and unable to face what she is dealing with — just like Adam — which creates a strong connection between them," said the film's director, Jonathan Levine (whose credits include "The Wackness").
There is levity amid the drama, much of it akin to the raunch-fests-with-heart for which Rogen, and his comedy mentor, Judd Apatow, are known. In the scene where Adam shaves his hair before it can fall out due to chemotherapy, Kyle reveals that his razor has been used on hairs other than from his head. "It's inevitable, it's just where my head goes," Rogen said of the joke.
Online, some individuals have critiqued Rogen for even attempting to make a comedy about cancer, stating that their experience with dying loved ones was anything but funny — some even went so far as to write, "F—- you, Seth Rogen."
"I'm used to people hating all my s—- before they watch it," Rogen said. "But I think we did the movie honestly and respectfully and based it on our own experiences."
Levine, who has helped care for relatives braving cancer, agreed: "It's not just because I'm Jewish and I own a bong that I relate to this," he told the producers while lobbying to direct the movie.
"What this film does with character and pushing the boundaries of comedy is incredibly resonant and important. The salient theme is: What does it mean to be young and facing this disease? What does it mean to be facing the end of your life before you've really lived it?"
Rogen, 29, and Reiser, 31, met when they were the two youngest staff members on the American version of Sacha Baron Cohen's "Da Ali G Show." "I remember feeling threatened that there was another young dude working on the show," said Rogen, who was recently named by Forbes as "the hardest-working man in Hollywood."
At the time, Rogen shared an office with his current writing and producing partner, Evan Goldberg ("Superbad"), a friend since being in the same bar mitzvah class at their Reform synagogue in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Reiser, who had his bar mitzvah at a Jewish community center in White Plains, N.Y., remembers being envious of Rogen and Goldberg, who were staff writers while he was an associate producer. "Our office was divided by just a window, so we could see each other all day long," Reiser said. "In their office, they'd be joking, imitating Sacha's accents, shouting in Kazakhi [a reference to Baron Cohen's character of "Borat"] and running back and forth, and I would be on the phone, really stressed out, on the verge of having a nervous breakdown, trying to book guests."
Rogen and Reiser quickly bonded, however, in part because of their similar ages; they were the only staff members who smoked (both have since quit). Since they couldn't light up in the show's skyscraper offices, they'd have to trek down to the parking garage, which provided a nice break from the office intensity. "You needed a reason to leave, and the only reason to leave was to smoke, so we would go smoke cigarettes all the time," Rogen said.
Reiser, who at 24 was already a workaholic and always the first person in the office at 7:30 a.m., initially dismissed his early cancer symptoms as stress-related. "I had no energy and my knee kept swelling up with fluid," he recalled. "[Eventually], I could not stay awake, and I was having these horrible night sweats, where I would wake up and my shirt would be drenched, like I had just gone swimming."
"Your skin just got bad," Rogen said of the "Ali G" days. "It was like 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' when those people were melting. … Will began looking worse and worse, but of course we had no idea how sick he was; we just thought he was working too hard. We'd always joke, 'The hours are killing him.' Sacha would say, 'Should we tell him to go home?' "
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When Sam Worthington ("Avatar," "Terminator Salvation") walks into an interview at the Four Seasons Hotel, he looks nothing like the tormented Holocaust survivor and Mossad agent he plays so soulfully in the spy thriller "The Debt," opening Aug. 31. His short-cropped hair and clean-shaven mug has given way to long, scruffy locks and a wild reddish beard he's grown to shoot "Drift," a surfer drama set in the 1970s in Australia. When asked about the bracelet he's wearing, embossed with the letters "C-H-E-W-Y," the Aussie actor laughs and explains, "It's because I'm hairy, like Chewbacca [in "Star Wars]."
He adds of the "Drift" filmmakers: "They said to grow everything out. So I look like Zach Galifianakis at the moment."
In "The Debt," 35-year-old Worthington plays David, one of three Mossad agents sent to East Berlin in the 1960s to kidnap and bring to Israel for trial an infamous Nazi doctor, dubbed the "surgeon of Birkenau" (Jesper Christensen). His comrades are Rachel (Jessica Chastain) and Stephan (Marton Csokas), an ambitious agent who hopes the mission will boost his career.
David, who lost his entire family in the Holocaust, is motivated by the debt to the 6 million; he is determined to bring the war criminal to trial, in a civilized fashion, so that the entire world can learn of his deeds. But when the plan to kidnap Doktor Dieter Vogel goes wrong, the repercussions haunt and threaten to destroy David. When a lie the agents tell about the mission threatens to emerge in Tel Aviv in 1997, another kind of debt must be paid.
Each character is played by two sets of actors: Worthington, Chastain and Csokas are the agents in the '60s, while the older thespians Ciarán Hinds, Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson, respectively, portray the characters three decades later.
Worthington is best known in this country as an action star, but "The Debt's" director, John Madden, saw the actor differently when he flew to the "Terminator" set in Albuquerque to convince him to play David. "James Cameron's 'Avatar' had not yet come out, nor had 'Terminator Salvation,' although the Cameron film was breaking a lot of ground and bringing Sam a lot of attention," Madden recalls of the time. "But I had seen Sam in this little Australian film called 'Somersault' [2004], and he popped into my head for 'The Debt' because he has this unusual quality that you don't see very much in the movies he's made since. He is very masculine; he's got a very powerful, heroic presence, but he's also got a hidden kind of emotional fragility about him, which he is not noted for, particularly, but it's definitely there. That was what I noticed immediately about him in 'Somersault,' and I thought you needed both sides of that coin for the character of David.
Worthington was impressed that the British director had traveled all the way to New Mexico to pitch his film: "I thought, 'Any man who's willing to fly to f——-g Albuquerque, how could I not sign on?' John is an eloquent man and a great storyteller; his work is quite diverse, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'The Debt,' which I found interesting. So it was quite an easy sell, to be honest. And so I said, 'Why not?'"
When I asked Worthington about the so-called "Holocaust fatigue" experienced by moviegoers, given the plethora of such films, he said he doesn't view "The Debt" as a Holocaust movie. "It's about guilt," he said, "and carrying a weight and a burden, and the ramifications of your actions when you harbor something like this secret and live off that secret for the rest of your life. Can you get away with it? And when it does bite you in the butt, how do you handle it?
"You can read a mountain of books on the themes of the Holocaust and tracking down war criminals," he added, "but the movie is much broader and bigger than that. It's a taut thriller that delves into the repercussions of one's actions, whether it's a Nazi war criminal or a brilliant African drug lord. It's about any kind of event that ripples throughout your life."
Here are more excerpts from the interview:
Q: How did you prepare to play the role of David?
A: I tend to do my research off the scripts; everyone's process is different. Me and Ciaran [Hinds, who plays David as an older man] met, and I said, 'Here's how I'm looking at the character: He's a ticking time bomb; he's the quiet one of the group, he holds his losses inside of him, but he has the most passion. Therefore when he lets Vogel get to him, and they can't finish the mission, that starts him on a downward spiral.'"
Q: You rehearsed and shot the scenes in which the agents hold Vogel hostage in an East Berlin apartment on a set inspired by the paintings of Francis Bacon.
A: We had a very intense rehearsal period and then actually shot those scenes in order, like on a stage, so it felt like a little play. But by the time we finished we felt like rats kind of crawling to get out of the house. We all wanted to knock the whole place down, which kind of helped, because the characters are supposed to feel claustrophobic. We'd been in there for five weeks; we'd gone from playing happy family to this guy is sh—ing and peeing on the floor. So the reactions are true, and that's what I liked about it. I wanted out; I didn't like being there.
Q: What was your approach to the scenes in which the Nazi doctor taunts your character as a Jew?
A: John [the director] said, "Just keep it really contained, don't do f—k all. Whatever you're feeling, whenever this guy's attacking you, don't move a muscle; just sit still. You do stoic better than any other f—ing actor, so we might as well exploit it instead of you getting burned for it for once—we'll try and get you commended (laughs).
Q: You learned the Israeli martial art, Krav Maga, for the role.
A: They trained us a lot but I find any physical action quite easy, to be honest. I found it interesting that Krav Maga is an attack form of defense. You fight people who are going at you; you might get struck in the head four times but it doesn't matter. If you are taking on a guy with a knife, the chances are you're going to get knifed. Krav Maga is a forward-thinking action, and that, to me, is also a way of understanding how the Israelis think. It's a forward way of thinking; it's what they believe in; they believe their belief is correct and they go straight for it, so I found that parallel interesting.
Q: What was the biggest challenge for you on this film?
A: The accent. I always struggle with accents and everyone bags me for it, but that's something you just keep learning. It's a weird accent because we're doing German dialect with an Israeli accent on top of an Australian accent in my case. So the voice coach got us all together and we found a kind of solid, universal sound we could all aspire to.
Q: There's a remarkable story about how you accidentally became an actor – as a result of accompanying someone to an audition for drama school.
A: I was a bricklayer; I built houses. And I did go an audition with this person for moral support, except that I got in, and she didn't. In hindsight, it's because I was willing to do anything. And it beat mixing cement for the day.
Q: Where does the future of the new "Avatar" films stand right now?
A: Jim [James Cameron] has told me the idea for films two and three, and it's fu—ing huge. I think the plan is to shoot both at the same time, because then everything's in place, but it's massive. At the moment, I know he's doing a lot of other things. But this is monumental, and he's not going to start it until he knows he can really push the envelope again.
Q: When you do something like "Avatar," with all the special effects, and then something like "The Debt," which is so gritty and tactile – which kind of experience do you find more rewarding?
A: Each movie is its own beast, its own kind of journey. I don't mind green screen, I don't mind working with nothing, and I don't mind doing smaller movies like this that I grew up on in Australia. Each job has its own challenges, and its own kind of joys.
Q: Was it easier working with Jessica Chastain in the upcoming film, "The Texas Killing Fields," after acting with her on "The Debt?"
A: In "The Debt," we're scared young lovers, in the beginnings of a potentially blossoming romance. And in "Texas Killing Fields" we're at the end of a relationship; we're divorced. Jessica and I have had this film kind of relationship, and we've also become friends, so it was easier for me.
Q: What is John Madden like as a director?
A: He has an ease with direction. He lets you do your work, he trusts you, he hires you for a reason. Some directors hire you and then try to mold you, which is ridiculous. I was hired because of 15 years in this industry and 30-odd movies, so I know what I'm bringing to the table. John lets you do it and if he does have any sense of direction, he does it in such a tactful, easy way that you kind of don't even know he got you there. It's like a cat with a bit of tin foil: it's beautiful.
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As Jessica Chastain was preparing for her role in the Mossad thriller "The Debt," her voluminous research led her to the story of a survivor who witnessed the destruction of her entire family in the Holocaust. "It was a woman's memory of something she had seen as a young girl," said Chastain, a 30-year-old Juilliard graduate who has turned heads for her performances in "The Tree of Life" and "The Help."
Chastain used the memory as the back story for her "Debt" character, Rachel, a Mossad agent sent in 1966 to kidnap and bring to trial in Israel a notorious Nazi, dubbed the "surgeon of Birkenau," who was living in hiding in East Berlin. "Because the memory was so devastating, and because it is real, it helped me understand a character who essentially is willing to martyr herself for her country," Chastain said. "Rachel wonders why, if her family was killed, does she get the opportunity to live? And because she has that opportunity, how must she live to be worthy of that gift?"
The debt owed the 6 million haunts the film, which follows Chastain and her fellow agents, David (Sam Worthington of "Avatar") and Stephan (Marton Csokas) as they stalk the Nazi Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen) in decrepit East Berlin. The action cuts back and forth from those events to Tel Aviv in 1997, when the agents — in these scenes played by Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkenson and Ciarán Hinds — are forced to confront a secret they have long harbored about Vogel.
Based on a 2007 Israeli film, "HaHov," "The Debt" is the latest drama to delve into the emotional aftermath of the Holocaust, joining such recent films as Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Sarah's Key," in its exploration of survivor's guilt.
"Debt" director John Madden (who is British and earned an Oscar nomination for "Shakespeare in Love"), was as daunted as Paquet-Brenner by the so-called Holocaust fatigue that has affected moviegoers: "I was very aware of not wanting to hitch a ride on those horrendous events in order to make a revenge thriller," Madden said. But when he first viewed an early English-language adaptation of "HaHov," "the material shot off the page at me," he said. "While it worked like a thriller, it also had an emotional and moral complexity and could raise issues about justice, which seemed especially relevant at a time when we were seeking to kidnap and assassinate people like Osama bin Laden."
Madden, 62, was born in 1949 in "the shadow of the war" and admits to having had as a boy a "grim fascination" with the Jewish experience. He was well aware that the Jewish students segregated into one entire house at his English school were victims of casual anti-Semitism. Madden is married to a Jewish woman and previously tackled issues of war and remembrance in his 1989 television mini-series, "After the War."
Like that earlier project, "The Debt" "is not a film about the Holocaust," he said. "But clearly, every single thing in it is governed by the notion of how people try to come to terms with that event and what that kind of extreme behavior says about us as human beings."
As Madden reworked the script, a moral dialectic emerged between the male leads: There is the more cavalier and ambitious Stephan, who does not have the same painful history as his comrades, and there is David, who like Rachel is the sole survivor of his family and is obsessed with bringing Vogel to trial. "His motivation is standing for what Israel is and wanting to shape that nation and ideology into something that is a worthy recompense to the 6 million," Madden explained.
"David is like a ticking time bomb," Worthington said of his character. "He feels his debt to his people, and his family, and hopes to lay all those demons to rest. So when the plan goes awry, his demons explode."
As research, Madden read about Peter Malkin, the agent who captured war criminal Adolf Eichmann on a street in Buenos Aires in 1960. "Eichmann was like a hunted animal," said Madden, who brought that quality to his fictional war criminal. "My conversations with Jesper were about, how do we portray a person who is capable of these monstrosities? What arrangements has he made with himself, how does he continue to justify his actions, in a way that allows him to not just live but to be involved in a branch of medicine that is enabling rather than withholding life?"
Some of the most harrowing scenes are those in which Chastain spreads her legs in the stirrups in Vogel's fertility clinic, pretending to be a patient while surreptitiously snapping photographs with a camera hidden inside her necklace. "Her position is not only physically humiliating, it's terrifying, because he is a man who represents the destruction of her people — he is like the boogeyman," said Chastain, who read about Nazi medical experiments and studied the Israeli martial art Krav Maga to prepare for the role.
For the claustrophobic sequences in which the agents are holed up with Vogel, who sits tethered and is force-fed gruel that frequently covers his body, the actors spent five weeks on a decaying apartment set inspired by the paintings of Francis Bacon. "We really did feel like rats in a cage," said Chastain, who conferred with Mirren to "match" the older and younger Rachels.
"Perhaps more than any other character I have played, Rachel broke my heart," Chastain added.
It was Chastain who brought Rachel's heartbreaking back story to Mirren, who agreed to use it in her own performance. "I don't want to be too specific about it, because I believe an actor must have secrets," Chastain said. "And also because it is someone's real story, which I don't want to betray.
The film opens Aug. 31.
August 9, 2011 | 6:23 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Daphna Edwards Ziman was in her Tudor-style Beverly Hills home, speaking urgently into the telephone to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Ziman's organization, Children Uniting Nations, was about to hold its sixth annual conference in Washington, D.C., gathering lawmakers across the political spectrum, from Nancy Pelosi to Michele Bachmann, to battle the sex trafficking of children in the United States.
"Connie Rice, you can help change this with me," said Ziman, who has been an indefatigable advocate for foster kids and abused children since rescuing her own daughter Michele, now 23, from a homeless shelter 18 years ago.
The philanthropist and activist recently has employed a novel technique to educate the public about minors forced into prostitution: She has written a thriller, "The Gray Zone," about a fierce young woman who, after her mother's murder, has survived horrific foster homes and sexual slavery. Now 24, the fictional Kelly Jensen has become a daring and seductive criminal — a master of disguise and identity theft — in order to protect the lives of her own two children and to bring down a ruthless operation subjecting foster children to sexual slavery. Ziman's debut novel has made The New York Times and USA Today best-seller lists, among others, and she has appeared everywhere from CNN to LA Weekly to promote the book and her cause.
On a recent afternoon, she fielded calls in a den filled with photographs of her two adopted daughters, Michele and Ashley, as well as photos of herself with the rich and powerful — including Ziman presenting a copy of her book to former President Bill Clinton. On the walls behind her, almost incongruously, are two artistic renderings of Marilyn Monroe: "Marilyn was a foster child," she explained. "It's a reminder as to how vulnerable she was, and how vulnerable foster children are, and how they need love and support. At the end of her life, Marilyn had nowhere to go — even with all of her fame and fortune — and that's what it's all about for me."
Ziman's passion for the disenfranchised goes back to her childhood in Israel, where she learned that her late grandfather, who had been the mayor of a village near Vilnius, Lithuania, had been murdered during the Holocaust. "Actually, they chopped off his hands and legs and hung him in the gateway to his little town," she said. "So my heritage is about the lack of consciousness that can develop when people lose sight of their humanity."
Her awakening to the foster care crisis came, almost two decades ago, as she walked through a shelter in Santa Monica, to which she had written checks but had never visited. "There were these tiny cubicles, and in each cot there was either a mother with children or just children," she recalled. "Then they took us into the kitchen, and amid the stench of cooking oil there was a little girl, with her hair in dreadlocks, sleeping on a bench. I looked at her and she opened up these piercing green eyes and stared at me. And she jumped off the bench and grabbed my hand."
The girl was Michele, then 5, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother, whom Ziman initially hoped to help by sending to a rehabilitation clinic. "Michele had bruises all over her body, and at first I believed the mother when she said the child was clumsy," the philanthropist recalled.
Then one night a call came from a hospital emergency room: Michele's mother had nearly choked the girl to death. Ziman was able to take Michele home with her, but at the subsequent court hearing, a judge ordered the girl returned to her mother. "I said, 'No way,' " recalled Ziman, who contacted every politician she knew who might help, from Hilary Clinton to Zev Yaroslavky. After much legal wrangling, Ziman was able to become Michele's foster parent and, eventually, her adoptive mother.
Along the way, she became a major force on Capitol Hill, successfully lobbying to amend the Family Preservation and Reconciliation Act to ensure safety for foster children returning to potentially abusive birth parents. Ziman also founded Children Uniting Nations, a nonprofit that pairs thousands of foster children each year with caring mentors.
During a recent interview, Ziman peppered a conversation with stories about children she has known, both heartbreaking and inspirational: When she once asked a roomful of foster kids how many of them had ever had a birthday party, for example, not one of them raised their hand.
In Los Angeles, she added, 65 percent of foster children emancipate at 18 with no place to live, making them vulnerable to recruiting pimps and drug dealers; 40 percent of people in homeless shelters in California are former foster children.
Ziman incorporated these statistics into "The Gray Zone," which she began writing as her 20-year marriage to billionaire real estate mogul Richard Ziman was unraveling several years ago. The Israeli émigré — a former model, record company founder, filmmaker and MTV consultant — was a widow when she met Richard Ziman in the 1980s; her first husband had died of leukemia when she was 23. "I really thought Richard and I would be together forever," she said.
After they separated, she said, the pain was exacerbated when a number of Jewish organizations she had long supported virtually dropped her: "They would send invitations to Richard but not to me," she recalled. "There is a tendency in the Jewish community to believe that the men matter and the women don't."
Feeling abandoned by the community, and in the midst of "a horrific divorce," she said, she immersed herself in writing "The Gray Zone," in part, "as an escape, and in order to live vicariously through my character. It was like therapy."
The fictional Kelly faces challenges not only from without but also from within: "Severe childhood trauma impacts the vortex of the brain, which controls cognition and how we make judgments," said Ziman, who has supported neurobiological research in the area. "Foster children are taken from their families and moved from foster home to foster home, through no fault of their own. Those who are more resilient are able to take risks more easily as adults, because they have adjusted to working with the unknown. The flip side is that they can develop an inability to create permanent bonds."
Now that "The Gray Zone" is a best seller, Ziman notes, the Jewish community and other groups have come calling. "If you're successful, then suddenly, you're great," she said, with an ironic laugh. "Everyone says, 'I knew you could do it; I've always loved you.' "
According to Ziman, several movie studios are in a bidding war to buy the book rights, and actress Radha Mitchell has expressed interest in the central role.
Meanwhile, Ziman is planning to write her next book, a comedy-drama titled "How to Divorce a Billionaire." "It's a fictional novel based on a whole bunch of women that I am friends with who have divorced billionaires, and their stories are so similar it's bizarre," she said.
"The minute you divorce a billionaire, you become an industry. Within a day, every family lawyer you're ever heard of in your entire life becomes your best friend. You now have forensic attorneys and accountants, therapists for your children, therapists for you, and the longer the divorce goes on, the longer everyone gets paid."
Ziman said she hopes women will take inspiration from her own new career as an author: "There is life after divorce," she said.
For more information about the novel, whose proceeds will help at-risk children, visit www.daphnaziman.com.
August 5, 2011 | 6:09 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Eric Greene is a civil rights activist and the regional director of the Progressive Jewish Alliance & Jewish Funds for Justice. But I didn't first meet him as a result of my job at the Jewish Journal. Rather, it was the late 1990s and Eric was lecturing on the original five "Planet of the Apes" films at the Midnight Special book store in Santa Monica. My husband, Ron Magid, is an "Apes" and sci-fi aficionado, and we had arrived to hear Eric speak about his 1998 book, "Planet of the Apes as American Myth:" "Race, Politics and Popular culture (Wesleyan University Press). His 187-page tome is an analysis of the original films—made in the 1960s and 70s—as an allegory of racial strife during that time.
Eric was both an engaging and erudite speaker, and afterwards he was not above geeking out a bit by transforming himself into an "Apes" chimpanzee via a cool makeup demonstration.
As Ron and I got to know him over the years, I was surprised that Eric was also quite involved in his Judaism, and even saw some Jewish values in "Apes." The character of Caesar from the fourth film, for example, is a kind of Moses figure; and the chimpanzee class itself (compared to the gorillas and orangutans) embodies a liberal Jewish perspective, mirroring the Tribe's participation in the civil rights movement.
Eventually, Eric went off to Stanford law school, then became a senior policy advisor at the ACLU of Southern California, where he worked on liberal social justice issues such as opposing the death penalty. About a year ago, he accepted his current job at the Progressive Jewish Alliance & Jewish Funds for Justice.
The Journal last wrote about Eric and "Apes" in 2001, when we asked him about Tim Burton's adaptation, starring Mark Wahlberg, Paul Giamatti and Helena Bonham Carter. Even if it was not the most successful movie, it demonstrated how the Apes myth can be adapted to comment on the changing socio-political landscape, Eric said. In Burton's version, it's possible to see lingering concerns stemming from the beating of Rodney King by LAPD officers, and the ensuing Los Angeles riots, in the 1990s.
"The sense of putting yourself at risk for your principles isn't only a very Jewish principle, it's a very 'Planet of the Apes' principle, and I'm proud to embrace both," he said last week, when we approached him for some modern Midrash about the latest "Apes" saga, Rupert Wyatt's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," which opened on Aug. 5.
The new film stars James Franco, Freida Pinto and John Lithgow, as well as Andy Serkis in a motion capture performance as Caesar, a chimpanzee born super-intelligent as the result of experimental drug testing. This new movie uses the "Apes" myth to reflect current anxieties about animal cruelty and scientific experimentation, among other issues. Here's what Eric had to say after viewing the film for the second time.
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August 3, 2011 | 2:47 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
After a screening of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" (opening Aug. 5), my husband, Ron Magid, and I, were discussing Rupert Wyatt's new film as Jewish parable – specifically a retelling of the biblical story of Moses—with Eric Greene, the Southern California regional director of the Progressive Jewish Alliance & Jewish Funds for Justice.
It might seem incongruous at first – a top Los Angeles civil rights activist (previously with the ACLU) who is also an internationally renowned "Apes" expert. But Eric is the author of "Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics and Popular Culture," and has widely lectured on how the original five films of the 1960s and '70s served as an allegory of racial politics too taboo to directly address at the time.
Before you accuse us of geeking out, note that Entertainment Weekly, in its laudatory review of Eric's book, advised readers to "Feel free to harrumph like Dr. Zaius, but Greene supports his arguments in interviews with the creators … after 187 well-considered pages, you'll be scratching your head in humbled agreement."
The post-screening discussion on the Fox lot was more tribal, since I asked Eric what Jewish values, if any, he perceived in the new film starring James Franco, Freida Pinto and Andy Serkis ("Lord of the Rings"), who portrays Caesar, a chimpanzee born hyper-intelligent—the result of laboratory testing of a new Alzheimer's drug—who embarks on an epic journey.
Eric opined that "Rise" could be perceived as a retelling of the Moses story, with Serkis as a stand-in for the prophet. Like Moshe, Caesar is raised as a kind of pampered slave (in this case, by the scientist Will Rodman [Franco], who frequently leashes him), and is isolated from his own kind. He is horrified and enraged when he first witnesses the brutality with which humans treat apes (think Moses killing the Egyptian), and ultimately chooses to remain with his brethren rather than return to his previously comfortable life.
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There's a moment in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" in which Caesar actually turns his back on Franco: "It's like Charlton Heston in the movie version of 'The Ten Commandments,' saying, 'My place is with my people,' " Eric said, quipping that "as a Jewish community professional, I should note that the Book version is better." (Heston, incidentally, played Taylor, the captured astronaut in the original 1968 film.)
"Caesar as a Moses figure is also a direct parallel to the character of the chimpanzee, also named Caesar, in 'Conquest of the Planet of the Apes' [1972], " Eric continued, referring to the fourth of the five original films. "The filmmakers clearly studied that movie well, because the action mirrors a lot of what goes on in the new movie."
"Caesar in 'Conquest' is basically a pampered slave who lives with a human. When he sees the condition of his fellow apes as slaves he has to make a choice: whether to return to his former life or to stay with his enslaved brothers and sisters. He chooses to turn his back on privilege and throw in his lot with them, becoming a liberator and eventually leads a revolution. The character embodies Moses' story, and 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' depicts the same evolution of the character."
"Conquest" and "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" may appear cheesy to non-"Apes" fans, but as EW said, "In [Eric's] eyes, those violent, militaristic flicks symbolize the rise of the black-liberation movement and the resultant anxieties of white liberals. How's them bananas?"
As we were walking out of the Zanuck Theater, one reviewer was loudly dissing the first "Apes" film as campier than Charlton Heston shouting, "Take your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Ape!" I pointed this out to Eric, who shrugged, and said, "Some people vote Republican."
Stay tuned to The Ticket for a video interview with Eric on "Apes" in the popular culture. You can purchase "Planet of the Apes as American Myth" at http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6329-3.html.
August 3, 2011 | 2:07 am
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Many people know Bruce Eric Kaplan as BEK, the longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker. But he's also worked as a writer on the iconic TV shows "Six Feet Under" and "Seinfeld," where he penned the episode in which Elaine was enraged by a cryptic New Yorker cartoon.
To say that Kaplan, 46, is versatile is an understatement: In his spare time he's authored eight books, most recently his whimsical black comedy "Everything is Going to Be OK: A Book For You Or Someone Like You." The tome is, in his words, a "little picture book for adults" —specifically college graduates freaking out about their future – or anyone else battling existential crises.
In the sparely drawn tome – which Kaplan dedicates "to the human race, who will sit through anything, especially nowadays," an office drone named Edmund is inexplicably asked to give the commencement address at a graduation ceremony. After an OK start, he literally can't stop talking, as his wife, Rosemary watches in horror. Days and then months pass, as Edmund tries too hard to be profound, babbles parables and clichés – and finally reaches an unexpected epiphany.
I caught up with Kaplan, who lives in Los Angeles, by phone from New York, where he is a writer and co-executive producer on "Girls," Judd Apatow's upcoming HBO half-hour comedy, starring Lena Dunham ("Tiny Furniture"), about five young women in Brooklyn who sound like they could use a nice pep talk from Edmund. "It's about girls out of college trying to figure out what to do with their lives," Kaplan said. "The connection for me between the book and the show is the questioning: 'Why are we here? What are we doing? And how do we make our time here meaningful?'"
Kaplan jokes that one could "blame Judaism" for his penchant for almost Talmudic questioning. His New Jersey childhood was "high-end Conservative," he said, and his parents' bookshelves overflowed with cultural touchstones such as "The Chosen."
"I've tried psychotherapy, yoga, meditation, and the questioning goes away to a degree, but I'm still kind of plagued by it,'" he said.
Kaplan was bored and hot during his own graduation speech at Wesleyan University in 1986. But in his 20s, he was mesmerized by the commencement speeches he saw broadcast one after the other one day on a cable channel. "It was so beautiful watching these individuals who were in a way sending a message out to people in the world," Kaplan said. "What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment," said Kaplan, who admitted, "I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds."
What was Kaplan up to after his own college graduation? "In my 20s, what I most recall is obsessing over, 'I want to be something, but what should I be?'" he said. "I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then to support myself I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business."
That's when Kaplan decided he should be a cartoonist for The New Yorker, despite his utter lack of experience. But he had loved New Yorker cartoons as a child, and had enjoyed drawing. So, armed with little except his own conviction, he checked out a book on how to be a cartoonist from the Beverly Hills public library; a chapter on The New Yorker informed him that prospective artists should send 10 to 15 drawings plus a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the editors for consideration.
Kaplan promptly did so; he figured he could succeed with James Thurber-esque, single panel cartoons—and was astonished when his drawings were returned with a form letter. "I was really hurt, but I was crazy in my 20s," he said. "Part of me was always sure I would get everything, and another voice said, 'This will never happen.'"
Yet Kaplan persevered, turning out hundreds of drawings (all of them rejected) over the next few years. His cover letters went from polite to well, not: "Here are 10 cartoons that any other f—-ing magazine in the world would publish except for you ass——-s," he said by way of example.
Around the same time Kaplan got his first television-writing job, however, a Federal Express envelope with an offer arrived instead of the usual rejection form. "A letter inside said, 'I know you think we haven't been looking at your stuff all this time, but we have,'" he recalled.
Kaplan has now published three volumes of his New Yorker work from over the past 20 years. When the "locovore" (eat local) movement became all the rage, his cartoon featured a shark, chomping on a human arm, telling another shark: "I'm trying to eat more locals."
Kaplan's witty and mordant sensibility came in handy when he worked as a scribe and co-executive producer on "Six Feet Under," Alan Ball's acclaimed series about the trials and tribulations of the Fisher family and their Los Angeles funeral parlor. Kaplan wrote the episode in which the teenaged Claire Fisher loses a foot (yes, a foot) stolen from the mortuary; he also penned the one in which a friendless woman chokes on her TV dinner and is only discovered dead in her apartment a week later. Titled "The Invisible Woman," the 2002 episode explored the quandry, "Does a life have meaning if you can't pinpoint the meaning?"
"Actually I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way," Kaplan said. "While one is funny and seems to deal with minutia, and the other is more somber and deals with larger issues, they're both concerned with an examination of our lives. You can have a classic Seinfeldian conversation about that or you can have the Nate and David [Fisher] argument, but ultimately they're the same thing."
Kaplan is tackling more existential angst on "Girls:" "I've been rewriting an episode that is all about the lead character questioning her ability to be a writer and if she even deserves to be a writer," he said. And how will Kaplan make that humorous? "She's upset, and any time anyone is upset, it's funny," he said.
You can order Kaplan's book at http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Going-Be-Okay-Someone/dp/1416556923. "Girls" will premiere on HBO in 2012.
July 28, 2011 | 4:53 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
It's hard to name a screenwriter in Hollywood right now who is more successful than Dan Fogelman. Yet I found him to be unassuming and even slightly self-deprecating in an interview about his new comedy, "Crazy, Stupid, Love"—starring Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling—which he sold to Warner Brothers for an astounding $2.5 million. And, of course, he was hilariously funny.
Fogelman not only talked about "Crazy, Stupid, Love" opening July 29, but about growing up on the East Coast with a dad who helped found Babies"R"Us: "He was in the baby schmatte business," Fogelman quipped. The screenwriter also discussed his predominantly Jewish summer day camp, Blue Rill in Monsey, NY, where he made the core adolescent friends who remain his best friends today; and the script that got him an agent—titled "Becoming a Man: The Horrifying Ordeal Otherwise Known as Robbie Levine's Bar Mitzvah."
Almost three years ago, Fogelman's beloved mom, Joyce, died at 60 after being diagnosed with a massive tumor; she is the inspiration for Barbra Streisand's character (also named Joyce) in Fogelman's upcoming film, "My Mother's Curse," which just wrapped production.
"It's completely about my mom," Fogelman told me of the movie, which stars Seth Rogen as Barbra's son, Andy, an inventor. "I took a cross-country road trip with my mother four years ago, before she got sick, as research for a film I wanted to do about a mother and son going on [such a] trip together. We drove from New Jersey to Vegas, so it was basically being locked in a car with your mom for two weeks.
"The autobiographical parts of the movie are two-fold: One, the character Barbra plays—not her story, but her character type—is very much based on my mom. She collects frogs almost religiously (my mom had always collected frogs); she's obsessive about drinking six bottles of water a day and about Weight Watchers; and she's got a group of yenta friends that she relies on heavily—that kind of stuff. And then the road trip itself is very much modeled after things that happened to my mom and I on the road. Like, we didn't think that it would snow in Tennessee, but it did and we got stuck in a blizzard.
"The movie's theme is basically when you discover that your parent isn't just a parent but is actually a human being who had a life before you, and the same goes for a mother or a father. It's the point in their lives when they realize their child is actually a grownup and they have got to let go a little bit.
"My mom and I were exceptionally close and I really, really dug her. But I couldn't necessarily start in that place at the beginning of the movie, or the characters would have nowhere to go. So creative liberties were taken with the relationships, as in any movie."
"Crazy, Stupid Love" opens July 29; "My Mother's Curse" will hit theaters in 2012.
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Debian Founder Murdock Now Sun's Cloud Strategist
Debian Linux founder and former OpenSolaris chief Ian Murdock is taking over the role of chief strategist for cloud computing at Sun Microsystems.
The result of a restructuring at Sun last November has given Ian Murdock the new role of VP of Cloud Computing Strategy, which Murdock recently announced in a video interview with his former Sun colleague Barton George. George, now at Lombardi Software, had met Murdock, his previous boss, at the Cloud Connect event in Mountain View CA and asked him his reason for being there. Murdoch told him that he was there on business to get some clarity on cloud computing in general and Sun's upcoming role in it. As he says in the interview, "Obviously I have a deep background in Linux distributions," and he compared his move to the work he had put into the origins of Linux since 1993. He was looking for a "Linux distribution equivalent in this cloud computing industry" and saw a similarity especially in the development of open standards, "given the role that Sun has played in the industry for the past 25 years around open standards." As he predicts, "I think this is going to be a pretty big part of Sun's contribution to cloud computing."
A day after the video interview Murdock followed up with a blog to explain things a bit more. As he writes, "Over the years, facets of cloud computing have had many names: ASP, grid computing, utility computing, Web services, SOA, mashups, SaaS, Web 2.0." For him these trends combine into one thing: cloud computing.
He recalls the term "Internet operating system" that Tim O'Reilly (founder and head of the publishing company) came up with in his 2002 "Inventing the Future" article. Murdock then formulated some strategic ideas in the form of questions: "Who, then, will come along and similarly stitch the pieces of the cloud together into a cohesive platform?... And what will be the equivalent of package management for the cloud, the technology that weaves all the independent pieces maintained by those thousands of hands together...?"
No coincidence that platform visionary Murdock is now playing a decisive role in Sun's cloud strategy. Only a few weeks ago Sun acquired the Q-Layer cloud computing company. A significant part of Q-Layer's product palette is NephOS, which provides a data center abstraction layer over existing hardware and virtualization solutions. Dave Douglas, senior VP for cloud computing at Sun since the summer of 2008, has his own take on the cloud computing presence in a video presentation.
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This all sounds pretty abstract to me. Both this article and the cloud computing itself. I don't see any utility in my relying on a fuzzily defined cloud and entrust it my data.
I am not sure if this is not a bubble which bursts in five years or disappears silently.
May be some visionaries see more.
Can anyone describe the utility of such a cloud in more obvious terms?
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