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Meet the Nate Silvers of the Oscar race
Casual awards-season fans may be debating over whether Anne Hathaway is a lock for her performance in “Les Miserables,” or whether a dark horse like “Moonrise Kingdom” can sneak into the best picture race. But among Oscar bloggers, the debate’s already about next year.“I’ve written out a list of films that are almost certainly going to be best picture nominees” in January 2014, said Jeff Wells, blogger for Hollywood Elsewhere, where he prognosticates about everything pertinent to Oscar season. He’s among a coterie of bloggers who track every change in a race that, this year, has been unusually volatile.Oscar prognostication and reporting online is hardly a new phenomenon — the zeitgeist-tracking website Gold Derby went online in 2000, and media reporter David Carr was in the game for a while at the New York Times’ Carpetbagger blog. Other grandees include Kris Tapley at Hitfix, Dave Karger at ticket-sales site Fandango’s new editorial arm, and Mark Harris at Grantland. (Harris is taking the season off to avoid a conflict of interest, as his husband, Tony Kushner, wrote the screenplay for “Lincoln.”)Continue Reading… … Read More
Spain dances with chaos
Among the global superbrands radiating out from Madrid’s famous Puerta del Sol, the real growth industry is also Spanish history’s cornerstone commodity: gold. There are about 15-20 guys, none of them white, wearing sleeveless yellow fluorescent waistcoasts over their winter sweaters, plastered all over with the all-caps legend COMPRO ORO. I buy gold. Five hundred years after Spain subjugated large portions of the world and built its palaces on plundered gold and silver (by the 16th century, the equivalent of US $1.5 trillion’s worth), selling the family jewels has become a grim zeitgeist boom economy through bitter necessity.pictures by authorContinue Reading… … Read More
Ian McEwan, novelist-historian
EVER SINCE HE EVOLVED out of producing what he describes as ‘staring-at-the-wall’ fiction — those slender stories such as The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers set in no tangible time or place —Ian McEwan has become England’s premier documentarian, the chief recorder of her near past in novelistic form.Moving seamlessly between time periods, from the Second World War to the liberation of Iraq, McEwan’s attention is drawn not towards the deeds of great men that flavor the works of say Hilary Mantel or Robert Harris. McEwan, while oftentimes anchoring his works in the past, is by no means a historical novelist. Rather, his novels attempt to reflect the Zeitgeist, how the ever-changing political, social, and cultural climate impacted or impacts the lives of ordinary or at times extraordinary people.Continue Reading… … Read More
George Heymont: Change Is the Only Constant
The word zeitgeist frequently gets bandied about in Christopher Chen’s new play, The Hundred Flowers Project, which received its world premiere a week before Election Day from the folks at Crowded Fire Theater Company.Read More…
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Larry Page on Regulation, Maps and Google’s Social Mission
In his first public appearance since the company said he lost his voice for undisclosed health reasons, Larry Page, Google’s chief executive, answered questions about antitrust and privacy investigations, Google Maps on the iPhone and Google’s company culture. … Read More
The Future, as Imagined by Google
At Google’s Zeitgeist conference, its chairman, Eric E. Schmidt, described a long-term future in which life is managed by robots — and one a little bit closer to reality in which billions more people can access information with new devices and connectivity. … Read More
