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If there are any real-life inspirations for “Parks and Recreation,” they aren’t necessarily the bold-faced political names you might expect. One of Schur’s personal heroes was the superintendant of schools in the town where he grew up — a man who worked on making the schools better for 46 years.
“There’s a real nobility in that, and I think TV has, at some level, trained people to believe that the only noble choice in life is to be the biggest, best, fastest, strongest — the most famous, the biggest deal, the ‘American Idol’-winning person,” Schur said. “One of the themes of this show is to kind of celebrate the nobility of working really hard for your little tiny slice of America, and doing as well as you can for that part of it in a way that tangibly helps people.”
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“The brutal reality is that Iranians had entrusted their national destiny to a man, Khomeini, who had spent far more time thinking about the religious penalties for fornicating with animals than how to run a modern economy.” — The Ayatollah Under the Bed(sheets), by Karim Sadjadpour
“In an ironic twist, the producer of a movie about mutants cautions against undertaking any genetic experiments with a franchise’s genome. Instead, to avoid losing broad, inter-generational appeal, Shuler Donner emphasizes the need to refresh what she calls the “tone” of the franchise regularly. “You don’t want people to go and say, ‘Ugh! Saw that already!’” she says, “You have to reinvent and give them a different tone. For example, The Wolverine [directed by Knight and Day’s James Mangold] will be an altogether different tone [than 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was directed by Gavin Hood]. And so you’re not going to see Wolverine fight with his claws in any way that you’ve seen him before. This [one] is very different; there’s sort of a noir, Chinatown flavor to it.” —
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I am going to go out on a limb and say that nothing about “The Wolverine” will have a “‘Chinatown’ feel to it.” Just a hunch.
“What person who actually has a job and a reputation… would give a f*** about getting some little badge like they’re in high school? It’s patronizing.” —
I ask some version of this every time I read an Internet comments section. The mind boggles.
“a list that was improbably poignant, and even, in its way, literary.” — What We’re Reading: Buzzfeed
nickdouglas: Thank you, Reddit
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