It was here that Benny created his trademark persona of a miserly, vain man who always claimed to be 39 years old, elements that would become central to his comedic identity. As television emerged, Benny effortlessly transitioned his popular radio program to the new medium in 1950. His ...
I wrote a four book series because I feel that this is the length of Jordan’s journey as a character, but the supporting cast does have the potential to be explored as well. Don’t get too focused on just one thing. Most successful authors have a couple of novellas, short stories or...
wrote, produced or animated many productions – both live-action and animated – including Design for Death, which later won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.After the war, Geisel returned to writing children's books, writing classics like If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton ...
I think a lot about where you put people [when listening to a song]. On that song, I wanted to put you in a room with me and her, so I left a lot of the elements of us being in the room writing it, messing around. We kept singing back and forth like, "She's my alma ...
book except Exodus. Only four or five years ago a Genovese explorer unearthed, near the route of the Suez Canal, this very city; found several ruined monuments with the name of the city plainly inscribed on them, “Pi Tum,” and excavating still further uncovered a ruin of which the ...
2020). The Toxic Titties also deliberately infiltrated the sexist and racist as well as class exploitative work of Vanessa Beecroft—two of them auditioned for and received roles in the Italian artist’s 2001 VB46 project at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, then the trio co-wrote a savage ...
In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls. On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck ...
What added potency to the 'ethnographer's magic' (ibid.: 6) was his unique ability to mediate between the 'natives' and the reader to whom the book was consistently addressed – 'we Europeans'. Discussing Trobriand canoes, for instance, Malinowski wrote: We Europeans . . . accustomed ...
It has a very disturbing premise and the opening sequence holds true to that. But it does not take long for the disturbing elements of the movie to lose their scariness. In his book, On Writing, Stephen King stresses the importance of ‘situation’ in his stories; for example, what if ...
A blogger, identity unknown to me, wrote a piece which excoriates LIW’s parents and accuses them of virtually “pimping” their second daughter to work outside the home in various capacities for the sole benefit of alleviating their (as the blogger perceives it) financial ineptitude. Further,...