J.J. Abrams on the original Star Wars, before the sequels and prequels and books and toys and games and everything: “The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Last Year, When ‘The Pope Of Trash’ Hitchhiked Across The U.S.
John Waters: “I last hitchhiked when I was 16. It’s a bit different when you’re 66.”
How Do These Dancers Keep Going Decades After Most Top Athletes Retire?
“They work hard, they have tried and failed at different things, and they know that to get that extra step, that extra movement, that extra shape and that difficult rhythm into stillness, takes work and trust and nuance and subtlety. That only comes with time.”
Want To Fly Through The Streets Of 17th Century London? Try This Animation
“The three-minute video provides a realistic animation of Tudor London, and particularly a section called Pudding Lane where the [Great Fire] started.”
Huge Cache Of Nazi-Looted Art Discovered – And Recovered – In Munich
“The artworks, which could be worth as much as €1bn (£860m), are said to include pieces by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann and Emil Nolde.”
When Everyone But You Knows The Biggest Secret About Your Life
Steve Lickteig’s best friends took him aside the night before high school graduation. Lickteig: “They told me who my mother was and they told me that they had known for basically their entire lives and that everybody I had grown up with had known for their entire lives.”
What’s Good For The Car Battery Is Also Good For The Brain
Low doses of electrical stimulation “will not make you superhuman, but it may allow you to work at your maximum capacity.”
Orson Scott Card Has Written Some Homophobic Tirades, But ‘Ender’s Game’ Is *Exactly* Not One Of Them
“The main reason boycotting Ender’s Game is counterproductive is that the theme of the story itself is the best repudiation of everything for which Card has come to stand.”
Yes, There Is A Musical About The Life Of Jesus Christ Set To The Music Of Britney Spears
“Not one word is spoken, and not one lyric is changed, technically making the musical an opera.”
The Architecture Critic Who Hated Modernism
“Nairn defended the particularities of place, people’s right to inhabit their localities as they wish, and the beauty and character in the spaces around us. He raged against the destructive collusion of corporations and government.”