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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 15, 2009, 01:08:54 pm --- How about other subscribers?
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Well, here's an article I found enjoyable and memorable for reasons I can't fully explain:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/10/15/011015fa_fact_macfarquhar
(Actually, that's just an abstract of the article -- to see the whole thing, you have to register, which I haven't gotten around to doing yet.)
It's a profile of the producer Brian Grazer, who often teams up with director Ron Howard. Grazer is kind of interesting, but probably not all THAT wildly fascinating. Yet for some reason, memories of the piece stuck with me. So now Brian Grazer is just about the only Hollywood producer I am familiar with and pay attention to. I always perk up when I see Grazer on TV, or any mention of Grazer in print, am likely to see any Howard/Grazer movie (most recently, Frost/Nixon). Also, I am likely to read any profile by Larissa MacFarquhar.
It's funny, the articles that stay with you. Maybe it was just that I read it while sitting outdoors on a beautiful afternoon or something. I'd probably better not reread it, because then instead of remembering it fondly I would probably wonder why I found it so interesting in the first place.
I'll see if I can think of other memorable articles. I don't clip them, so I have to rely on my unreliable memory.
Front-Ranger:
Then you might also like:
Big Pictures: Hollywood Looks for a Future
which discusses currently successful producers including James Shamus!
serious crayons:
I just discovered that if you are a subscriber, you can register on the New Yorker site and access all of the magazine's articles going back to 1925.
I saw David Grann, the author of "The Lost City of Z," on Colbert. Grann is a staff writer who wrote an article in 2005 about an explorer who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925 (there's that year again!), and recently published a book about it. So I looked it up and, voila.
Wow, this could be a serious time-vacuum.
Front-Ranger:
Hopefully it should be a good research resource!!
Front-Ranger:
This week's issue is outstanding IMO. There is a Gladwellesque article about the success of children who learn to put off gratification, a lovely short story by Salmon Rushdie, and an excellent but long article about the economic crisis. Does it seem to you like there have been more books and articles written about the economic collapse than about 9-11, even though we're still in the thick of it? Another article profiles Fred Franzia, an Archie Bunker type who has shaken up the Napa Valley with Two Buck Chuck.
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