Trailer: The Great Gatsby - Dec 25th
Directed by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire, Amitabh Bachchan, and Isla Fisher.
This might not be the Gatsby you remember from high school english class, but it’s surely the Baz Luhrmann you’ll remember from Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet. This spot is equally as stylized as those and relies just as much on modern, popular music, but there’s some undeniable je ne sais quoi that sells it. Though I expect the stylization to be turn off to many.
(via Cinema Blend)
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SNL: Digital Short - Jonas Brothers: Property of the Queen
AFRICA! I’ve been to Africa.
AFRICA! I broke a sweat.
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Barack Obama Being Adorable with Adorable Children
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I feel so embarrassed and I can’t explain it.
“if women are so smart, why hasn’t there been a woman president?”
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“Hip Hop Marmalade spic and span,
Met you one summer and it all began.
You’re the best girl that I ever did see,
The great Larry Bird Jersey 33”
Get out the way, Shakespeare. LFO is my bard of choice.
It’s SUMMER!!
We’ve been hearing a lot about the war on women, which is real enough. But there’s also a war on the young, which is just as real even if it’s better disguised. And it’s doing immense harm, not just to the young, but to the nation’s future.
Let’s start with some advice Mitt Romney gave to college students during an appearance last week. After denouncing President Obama’s “divisiveness,” the candidate told his audience, “Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”
The first thing you notice here is, of course, the Romney touch — the distinctive lack of empathy for those who weren’t born into affluent families, who can’t rely on the Bank of Mom and Dad to finance their ambitions. But the rest of the remark is just as bad in its own way.
I mean, “get the education”? And pay for it how? Tuition at public colleges and universities has soared, in part thanks to sharp reductions in state aid. Mr. Romney isn’t proposing anything that would fix that; he is, however, a strong supporter of the Ryan budget plan, which would drastically cut federal student aid, causing roughly a million students to lose their Pell grants.
So how, exactly, are young people from cash-strapped families supposed to “get the education”? Back in March Mr. Romney had the answer: Find the college “that has a little lower price where you can get a good education.” Good luck with that. But I guess it’s divisive to point out that Mr. Romney’s prescriptions are useless for Americans who weren’t born with his advantages.
… What should we do to help America’s young? Basically, the opposite of what Mr. Romney and his friends want. We should be expanding student aid, not slashing it. And we should reverse the de facto austerity policies that are holding back the U.S. economy — the unprecedented cutbacks at the state and local level, which have been hitting education especially hard.
Yes, such a policy reversal would cost money. But refusing to spend that money is foolish and shortsighted even in purely fiscal terms. Remember, the young aren’t just America’s future; they’re the future of the tax base, too.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste; wasting the minds of a whole generation is even more terrible. Let’s stop doing it.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times, “Wasting Our Minds.”
Go read the whole damned thing.
(via inothernews)
