In the chapel at the Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility in Chino, Calif., 12 convicted criminals staged a wedding. The situation was getting tense: The groom had cold feet, the bride’s former boyfriend was causing trouble, the wedding ring was missing and none of the entertainment staff had been paid. The story unfolded with a series of improvised scenes —...
An interview with R.L. Stine, known as the “Stephen King of children’s literature,” who spoke at the master’s tea on Tuesday sponsored by the Yale Undergraduate Magazine. Q:What is your writing process like? A: I write six days a week, usually from about ten to about two-thirty or three. But I don’t really go by time; I go by pages. I set a goal for myself...
“Our new record is about becoming proud of it,” Max Bemis explains to me before hitting the stage at Toad’s last Thursday. “Musically, it shows the development of our band, and I think it was very important for us to embrace the genre. I grew up listening to Sunny Day Real Estate and the Getup Kids, and there’s been a huge backlash against that type of music...
Q: The aesthetic of your film “Darjeeling Limited” is quite vibrant. Where do you get these ideas? A: Well, I think with this movie, all the visuals come from India. So, most of the movie is just shot on location, usually with the people who live in those spots playing the different characters. A third of the movie takes place on a train [and] the way the train looks...
Last night, we fulfilled our fifth-grade dreams: Zac Hanson now has our cell phone numbers. But our attempt to return to the simpler days of crushes, curfews and spelling tests has been made more complicated: Hanson hit puberty, all three brothers married, and the group committed itself to fighting AIDS. Though Hanson will release “The Walk,” their latest album, on...
She stalks her lover, begins an illicit affair with her neighbor in the room next to her sleeping children and walks in on her husband masturbating with a bra strapped around his head. The character of Sarah Pierce — the protagonist of “Little Children,” played by Kate Winslet — epitomizes the dysfunction, frustration and obsession at the heart of suburban...
Anyone who’s seen “The Silence of the Lambs” (and many who haven’t) remember Hannibal Lecter’s most delicious line: “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.” What you may not remember is that the man responsible for bringing that and other equally quotable lines (“It puts the lotion on its skin or else...
“My life has a schizophrenic quality,” says Bob Saget. Considering he’s the guy behind Danny Tanner, “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and the newest game show sensation, “1 vs. 100” — not to mention the ribald comedian whose stand-up comedy routines and wild appearances in “Entourage” and “The Aristocrats” have christened him one of the most...
Art Spiegelman is a paradox. First, he is not smoking. This surprises me, given the long chain of herbal cigarettes he smoked on stage during his lecture, “Comix 101”, which discussed both the evolution of the comic strip and his own career. I would like to think his choice not to smoke during the interview is for my benefit, but I wonder if this is also a break from...
Lewis Black DRA ’77 answers. LB: Hello… hello…helloo… YDN: Mr. Black… Hello… Mr. Black… Lewis? LB: Yeah. YDN: It’s Justin from the Yale Daily News. LB: Call me back at another number. This phone is a piece of shit. LB answers. LB: Hello? YDN: Hi, I’m from the Yale Daily News. I was calling to...
