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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 something most of us have known for a while: that despite all of the innovations that have come with the ve...

  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-quarter results that sent the Crocs craze to an all-time high, we just couldn’t bring ourselves to give...

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 Day's 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. Ringo's variation of the phrase took the edge off the heavy philosophical lyrics. Working titles for the song before Ringo gave them inspiration were "Mark I" and "The Void." It was inspired by Timothy L...

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 the comedy improv duo Nichols and May, he directed a string of successful and acclaimed Broadway pla...

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 their best aspects is the chemistry between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Marc Webb is really good at ...