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You Won’t Believe How Deep in the Ocean Plastic Is Found Angelo Young © Romolo Tavani / Getty Images In the 1967 coming-of-age rom-com “The Graduate,” a family friend tells recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock (played by a young Dustin Hoffman) that he should pursue a future in the plastics industry. In the scene, plastics represent the bland and artificial future of a corporate career that Braddock so desperately wants to avoid. The memorable scene hints at somethi...

  I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics…there’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? That’s what one of his father’s guests advises young Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, and the same advice would have come in handy decades later for anyone considering a career that could survive a pandemic. The Colorado-based company that did the very best — at least financially — over the past year? Crocs. But somehow, despite stellar first-quart...

By Keefer Apr 6, 2021 1966 - The first session of what would become The Beatles album Revolver started in the evening at Abbey Road studios London, with the recording of the basic track of "Tomorrow Never Knows." Like "A Hard Days Night," the title came from an expression Ringo Starr used. The proper idiom is "tomorrow never comes," meaning that when tomorrow arrived, it would become today. Ringos variation of the phrase took the edge off the heavy philosophical lyrics. Working titles for the ...

By Barbara Spindel Correspondent Late in his wonderful biography of Mike Nichols, author Mark Harris describes the director’s life as a “cyclical series of ascents and crashes.” Harris’ book has a cyclical feel to it as well. “Mike Nichols: A Life” is organized chronologically, with most chapters focused on a particular film or theatrical project. Nichols’ early career was a rocket, yielding triumph after triumph. After achieving fame in the late 1950s with Elaine May as ...

Close (L-R) Photo of Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Summer (Zooey Deschanel) in (500) Days of Summer (2009). // Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight. Worth Your Time? (500) Days of Summer and the consequences of the romanticization of romance (500) Days of Summer is one of my favorite films. I’ve seen it more times than I can count. It’s the first film directed by Marc Webb, who also directed the Amazing Spider-man films. If you’ve seen those movies you’d probably agree that one of thei...

Mike Nichols: A Life Remembered February 4, 2021 Few directors have made a significant impact in both cinema and the theater; Mike Nichols was one of them. Like Orson Welles before him, Nichols was a triple-threat: a wunderkind actor, writer, and director treading the boards of Broadway before making in-roads in Hollywood with an impressive string of films ( Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Catch-22, and Carnal Knowledge) all before he turned 40. After 21 films, 29 Broadway pr...

The Turbulent Genius of Mike Nichols Vogue 2/1/2021 The first Broadway play I ever saw was a matinee performance of David Rabe’s Streamers, a shattering tale of masculinity, racism, and homophobia set during the Vietnam War that was playing at Lincoln Center in the summer of 1976. I walked out of that theater stunned and not sure what to do next, so I walked around the city for what must have been hours, trying to absorb what I had just seen. That play was directed by Mike Nichols, a fact...

Penguin Press, 688 pages, $29.99 After six days on the S.S. Bremen in 1939, the little Berliner fleeing the Third Reich disembarked in New York. Igor Michael Peschowsky was seven, “a self-contained, unsmiling child,” and bald as an egg – the unexpected result of a whooping-cough vaccine. At the time, said his brother, they had never seen the inside of a synagogue and were about as un-Jewish as it’s possible for Jews to be. In terms of distinguishing characteristics (no hair, no brows, n...

Mark Harris new lively biography,  Mike Nichols: A Life , includes an anecdote oft-told in interviews by Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman, then an unknown, resisted reading for the part of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, a plum role that could, and later did, make him a star. But at the time he felt he would have been miscast. "This character is so WASPish," he protested to Nichols, who directed the film. Nichols responded, "Maybe hes Jewish inside."  Nichols Jewish identity and his immig...

>> they are in jurisdictions that have massive criminal justice systems where many times kate is lucky, shes an agreement small community where you can do this. in manhattan, in brooklyn, in our city in the bronx, its almost impossible. >> i should point out in the federal system when it comes to plea bargaining, parties do not come up with a sentence. the sentencing decisions to left up to the judge. although the government are the charges to...