Channeling [i]Carrie[/i]
When I spoke with director Kimberly Peirce, AB’90, about her third feature film, Carrie, she was busy with postproduction. “You’re watching a terrible print of the movie with great sound, and then...
View ArticleRevisiting War of the Worlds
On October 30, 1938, millions of Americans turned their dials to CBS’s accounts of a nation in flames and under attack by Martians, and they didn’t take it well. The New York Times reported a “wave of...
View ArticleSign language
The pictographs from Japan known as emojis, downloadable to your smartphone, add visual pizzazz to your text messages—or make them into tiny rebus-like puzzles.What would the autumn 2014 course catalog...
View ArticleOld friends
It’s obvious why many University of Chicago alumni fall for Rob Reiner’s 1989 film When Harry Met Sally: the title pair doesn’t just meet cute; they meet on Harper Quad. Is it the ultimate UChicago...
View ArticleHow one UChicago alum turned LOLs into $$$
Adam Levine, AB’12, AM’13, has been interested in comedy writing pretty much since he can remember. But before he started work as one of the original staff writers at ClickHole, a division of the...
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