I don’t have a problem with rich people, per se. Some of my favorite people are wealthy!They only get annoying when they walk around believing their wealth is a product of virtue instead of dumb luck. But I don’t even blame rich people for that too much—thinking, “I have this yacht because I am essentially better than the people in rowboats” is an understandable and (maybe the inevitable) result of privilege. How else could you sleep at night, right?
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A new corporate scheme: hijack vocational programs to meet narrow, immediate needs, leaving students with short shelf-life skills.
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Anyone who believes that it’s possible to cleanse “science” of error through brute force censorship has no understanding of how science works or how accurate, unbiased evidence is accumulated in the first place. The idea of arbitrators who select what is correct and dismiss what is incorrect is the most alien possible concept to science. Without the ability to make errors or make (and improve on) inaccurate hypotheses, there is no science. The irony is that scientists understand (or at least should understand) and embrace (or at least should embrace) the fact that we all float in a sea of nonsense; it is the opportunist influencers and pundits, lacking in any understanding of the scientific method, who believe in the possibility of pure, unconflicted “truth.”
EVERYTHING AL PACINO WOULD BE IS RIGHT THERE IN ‘THE GODFATHER’
The film’s 50th anniversary is a perfect time to marvel all over again at how a rising young actor improbably brought one of cinema’s great antiheroes to life, shaping the rest of his career in the process
In 1919, Herschel Greenbaum (Rogen) falls into a vat of pickles and winds up preserved by the brine. A century later, he emerges to find the world completely changed. Luckily, researchers are able to locate his great-grandson Ben (also Rogen), a Media Dragon type mobile-app developer, who takes Herschel under his wing as he learns to navigate the 21st century.
Gentle, man-out-of-time comedy in which Seth Rogen plays Herschel Greenbaum, an Eastern European migrant to America who looks and behaves as though he’s just stepped out of Fiddler On The Roof.
He gets a job in a New York pickle factory, falls into a vat of brine and is found alive a century later. He’s taken in by Ben, also played by Rogen who is his great-grandson and last living descendant/relative.
Depending how much weed you’ve smoked, the notion of a Jewish Encino Man crossed with a drolly humorous spin on Fiddler on the Roof might sound like the best or worst pitch you ever heard. Either way, the oddball mix of goofy ’90s-style comedy with a big fat sentimental heart makes An American Pickle a tough movie to dislike. What elevates it above the often haphazard plotting of former Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich’s script is the captivating dual-role performance of Seth Rogen, playing relatives divided by rivalry and misunderstanding before ultimately rediscovering the comforts of their shared heritage.
An American Pickle’: Film Review
Nami Melumad is the most prolific composer you’ve never heard of, but that’s about to change.
Over the past decade she’s amassed over 130 credits covering a wide range of short films, feature films, and TV shows, including the last two seasons of popular Stana Katic led crime drama, Absentia.
Her latest and biggest project is An American Pickle, a comedy drama
Nami Melumad on Scoring 'An American Pickle'
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