He is known for writing the films Go (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and Frankenweenie (2012), the Disney live-action adaptation of Aladdin (2019) and the novel Arlo Finch in the ...
I expect that just like in the U.S., the inclusion of a foreign language in advertisement can give the messaging a certain coolness factor, and after many years living and working in the region, I find it even more so the case in East Asia. I would have thought for a high-context ...
When Hitchcock sent John Gielgud belting around a chocolate factory in The Secret Agent, he was obviously enraptured by the aesthetic possibilities of its staircases, mixing machines, and plain girls in mob caps, but that's where his interest stopped. There were sentimental treatments of factory...
(Fantastic Voyage 1966, Willy Wonker & The Chocolate Factory 1971 also un-credited set design on A Midsummer’s Night Dream 1935,The Life of Emile Zola 1937, Sergeant York 1941, Casablanca 1942) and set direction by Emile Kuri (It’s a Wonderful Life 1946, The Paradine Case 1947, Rope ...
Another recent culture-war hoo-hah has to do with the publisher editing children’s books by the late Roald Dahl to eliminate a few words and phrases that present-day readers might find offensive, like saying that Augustus Gloop (in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) is “enormous” instead ...
Superdawg: Chicago's Iconic Drive-In Experience In Illinois, the other drive-in we all need to check out isSuperdawg. Located in Chicago, Superdawg is not only one of the best spots for a hot dog in America, but Taste of Home now says it's one of the best for drive-in food, perio...
We found one of the top most filmed movie locations in the world, and it’s in the wide open spaces on the borderline between Washington and Oregon.
Several Hardee's locations in Illinois have closed this year, and so we are now wondering about our Southern Indiana locations. According toFood Business News, there has been some restructuring of the company and the separation of the Carl Jr. brand from Hardee's. The company's new leadership...
South across the Vistula River from Krakow’s original hipster hood, Kazimierz, Zabłocie (pronounced, roughly,zab-what-che) isn’t a place unknown – the exhibits ofOskar Schindler’s Factoryhave long been one of the city’s musts. But the addition of the strikingly brutalist Museum of Co...
Born in Tamms, in Southern Illinois, he moved to Chicago at an early age and got his band instruction from the redoubtable Captain Walter Dyett. He toured with many Swing bands and combos, including Andy Kirk and Duke Ellington (he appeared on several airshots with Ellington in 1943, as a...