Posted on March 18th, 2011 by Lindsay Rothfeld
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It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s [insert actor’s name here]. The Superman character has been portrayed by over five actors (cartoons not included) on television and in film, and soon there will be another name added to the list.
While my favorite Superman will probably always be Tom Welling’s Clark Kent on [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2011 by Slope Staff
Photo courtesy of Universal Motown and Derrty Entertainment -
Your questions have been answered. The Slope Day Programming Board announced at the Student Assembly meeting that hip-hop extraordinaire Nelly will grace Cornell with his presence on May 6th, Slope Day 2011. Picture this: You’re lounging on the slope, basking in the glory of the annual event, [...]
Posted on February 16th, 2011 by Lindsay Rothfeld
Mann Library, sometimes an arena for my most productive hours…but currently this comfortable couch chair and the dim lighting is helping me channel my counterproductive side. Thus, a blog post ensues.
I am not able to read books for pleasure very often, but when I do I become extremely enveloped in plot lines. I visualize every [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2010 by Lindsay Rothfeld
“Here was the evidence that the past is a sustaining force in present life and that the present itself is only a segment of an endless continuum,” Thornton Wilder, famed and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Our Town, said. The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts’ production of Our Town portrayed Wilder’s notion that every moment [...]
Posted on November 2nd, 2010 by Lindsay Rothfeld
Any Californian in hopes of finally being able to possess marijuana legally was surely disappointed when the “Regulate, Control & Tax Cannabis Act” was defeated by 53.9%. Did the bill fail because of voter apathy, fear of change, or lack of clarity in the proposition? While this may never be known, the debate over whether [...]
Posted on October 31st, 2010 by Lindsay Rothfeld
The ability to summarize an entire friendship on public display: Facebook Friendship pages. “What is this?” you may ask yourself when you see “View you and [insert friend’s name here]” underneath your peer’s profile picture. Facebook created this new feature on October 28th, which allows users to view the history of interactions between two people, [...]
Posted on October 30th, 2010 by Lindsay Rothfeld
So, there’s The Jersey Shore and The Real Housewives, The Bachelor and The Real World. It’s called reality, but its goal is entertainment. In any case, from this base of absurd television has evolved a sort of psychological experiment genre that exists under the Reality Television umbrella. Shows in this category use the television medium as a way to investigate a [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2010 by Lindsay Rothfeld
“I was driving down the street with my wife, when she gasped and pointed up to the large advertisement for Mel Brooks’ new film SpaceBalls, which displayed in huge letters ‘May the Schwartz be with you.’” Alan Schwartz ’53, a famed entertainment lawyer, returned to Cornell on October 22nd to speak in the Munschauer Career [...]
Posted on October 14th, 2010 by Lindsay Rothfeld
Music Videos. Emotion pouring through your veins. Heart beating fasting, smile or tears. An interactive musical experience.
So what got me thinking about visual depictions of the auditory? There’s this experiment that I read about for one of my classes, which explored the relationship between emotion and song selection. This experiment discovered that individuals who were [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2010 by Lindsay Rothfeld
A timeless tale of the complexity of love, of the complexities embedded in life, Big Love juxtaposed comedy with tragedy through extensive representations of gender roles. The play, adapted from the Greek tragedy The Suppliants, infuses traditional elements of Greek theater with modernized references and outlandish comedic stunts. The director of the play Beth Milles [...]