Though he and his partner Yoram Globus were best known for action and exploitation films such as The Delta Force, Enter the Ninja, the Death Wish series, and The Happy Hooker, Golan also produced such prestige projects as Cassavetes’s Love Streams, Godard’s King Lear, the Meryl Streep vehicle A Cry in the Dark, and Altman’s Fool for Love. (Not to mention his extensive career in Israel that included several foreign-language Oscar nominations.)
Author: Matthew Westphal
Even Dogs Get That Eureka! Feeling (And So Do Cows)
Recent research from Sweden found “that when dogs solved the problem and earned a reward they wagged their tails more and were more eager to repeat the experience than if they were just given a reward.” The study was inspred by earlier research showing a similar effect in cattle. (How could they tell?)
Spanish Government Wants Four Famous Old Master Paintings Back From The Prado
The canvases, which include Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, have technically been on loan from the royal family’s collection ever since the Spanish Civil War. But now the National Heritage Office is building a new museum to house the Royal Collections, due to open in 2016.
Who’s The Brazilian Guy Who’s Buying Up The Entire World’s Vinyl LPs?
Zero Freitas, 62, is a São Paulo transportation magnate “who, since he was a child, has been unable to stop buying records. ‘I’ve gone to therapy for 40 years to try to explain this to myself,’ he said.”
“The Versailles Of Latvia”, Now Restored After 50 Years Of Work
Art historian and Painter Imants Lancmanis first came to Rundale Palace, a grand 54-room pile completed in 1740 for the Duke of Courland, in 1964, while he was an art student in Riga – and he spent the next half-century renovating it. (During the Soviet years, of course, work went very slowly.)
The Tragedy Of Stefan Zweig
Unlike his near-contemporary and fellow suicide Walter Benjamin, Zweig had safe haven (first in London, then the U.S. and Brazil) from the Nazis and the ravages of World War II. Even so, he had his reasons for not being able to go on …
Your Brain Needs Vacations (Seriously)
“If you’re feeling overwhelmed, there’s a reason: The processing capacity of the conscious mind is limited. This is a result of how the brain’s attentional system evolved.” (Simple daydreaming definitely counts as brain vacation, but it’s not. enough.)
The Japanese Literature Trend That’s Half Cupcake, Half Decapitation
“A load of laundry, a batch of cupcakes – followed by a child murder, a matricide, and an attempted school bombing, all with a cherry on top. … Why has this particular brand of violence, half cupcake and half decapitation, so thoroughly captured the Japanese imagination? In part it is because there are so many delectable Japanese cupcakes to corrupt.”
A Big Red Barn Or A Red Big Barn? The Secret Rules Of Adjective Order
“An intuitive code governs the way English speakers order adjectives. The rules come so naturally to us that we rarely learn about them in school, but over the past few decades language nerds have been monitoring modifiers, grouping them into categories, and straining to find logic in how people instinctively rank those categories.”
Met Opera Rejected Pay Freeze Offer From Union: Report
“Sources tell NY1 that a letter from James Claffey, the President of Local 1, sent to members in the stagehands union earlier this week, said the Met rejected a proposal to freeze union wages for the next five years. Instead, opera management pushed for a 14.5 percent cut in pay and benefits.”