Annette Bening is simply glorious as one of the title characters in 20th Century Women. (Note to the Academy, make sure that Best Actress nomination happens.) She plays Dorothea Fields, a divorced mother facing enormous changes, social and personal, at the last summer of the 1970s. Specifically, she has a 15-year-old son to raise – that would be Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), with whom she shares a Santa Barbara boarding house that requires repair and renovation. She doesn't know how to guide Jamie through puberty. So she asks for help. One boarder – Abbie,...
- 12/28/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Author Gay Talese has denounced his upcoming book, “The Voyeur’s Motel,” due to what he considers a credibility crisis. The book chronicles the strange story of Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on guests at his Colorado motel from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. But Talese says he began to doubt Foos after property records revealed that he sold the motel, located in Aurora, Colorado, in 1980 and didn’t reacquire it until eight years later, the Washington Post reported. The time gap raised questions as to whether Foos told the truth about other key facts. Also Read: Alvin Toffler,...
- 7/1/2016
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
Alvin Toffler, the author of the nonfiction best-seller “Future Shock,” has died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87 and no cause of death was given, The New York Times reported. His death was confirmed by his consulting firm, Toffler Associates, which is based in Reston, Virginia. Published in 1970 when U.S. society was in chaos amid riots over the Vietnam War, “Future Shock,” sold millions of copies and was translated into dozens of languages, catapulting Toffler to international fame. The book presciently forecast how people and institutions of the late 20th century would contend with the immense strains and.
- 6/30/2016
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
"I never think of the future — it comes soon enough." – Albert Einstein
Welcome to October 21st, 2015, or as it used to be known: "the future."
Forever memorialized in Robert Zemeckis' Back to the Future Part II, today is the date on which Doc Brown, Marty McFly, and his girlfriend Jennifer Parker step out of the DeLorean and into the Hill Valley of the future (or as it's currently known: "the present").
You may have heard about this. People are pretty excited about. At the risk of being hyperbolic, you...
Welcome to October 21st, 2015, or as it used to be known: "the future."
Forever memorialized in Robert Zemeckis' Back to the Future Part II, today is the date on which Doc Brown, Marty McFly, and his girlfriend Jennifer Parker step out of the DeLorean and into the Hill Valley of the future (or as it's currently known: "the present").
You may have heard about this. People are pretty excited about. At the risk of being hyperbolic, you...
- 10/21/2015
- Rollingstone.com
The best and most telling scene in tonight’s episode of The Americans is the one following the moment that gives “I Am Abassin Zadran” its namesake. Gabriel and Claudia (Margo Martindale, returning the only way she can: triumphantly) meet in a restaurant to discuss how operation Turn the Paige is proceeding. “14 types of omelettes, 20 kinds of hamburgers. How does one choose?” Gabriel wonders, a dilemma Claudia dubs “the paradox of being American.” “Isn’t this a Greek diner?” he continues, a little tilt of his head saying more than he has to about how well they’ve adjusted to their adopted home. Claudia and Gabriel have been doing this job for decades, but the land of too many opportunities is still foreign to them.
The burden of choice was something Alvin Toffler wrote about in 1970’s Future Shock. Toffler theorized that there may one day come a point where...
The burden of choice was something Alvin Toffler wrote about in 1970’s Future Shock. Toffler theorized that there may one day come a point where...
- 4/16/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Orson Welles’s voice is so distinctive that the creators of the '90s animated series “Pinky and the Brain” based the voice of the titular Pinky on the famed director. So yeah, Welles had a great set of pipes and it’s no wonder he started his career on the radio, or why director Alex Grasshoff tapped Welles to drop some narration on a short documentary. Open Culture shared Grasshoff’s 45-minute-long documentary “Future Shock,” and before Y2K, there was this. The short doc is based on futurist Alvin Toffler’s 1970 book on his conjectures of what the future of technology will bring for us as a society—Spoiler: nothing good. Basically, Toffler put forth the notion back then that things were changing too quickly, and that humans simply weren't prepared to deal with such rapid technological growth. Maybe it's a good thing he didn't live to see...
- 12/11/2014
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
They predicted the “electronic frontier” of the Internet, Prozac, YouTube, cloning, home-schooling, the self-induced paralysis of too many choices, instant celebrities, and the end of blue-collar manufacturing. Not bad for 1970.
In the opening minutes of Future Shock, a 1972 documentary based on the book of the same name, a bearded, cigar-puffing, world-weary Orson Welles staggers down an airport’s moving walkway, treating the camera like a confidante. “In the course of my work, which has taken me to just about every corner of the globe, I see many aspects of a phenomenon which I’m just beginning to understand,” he says. “Our modern technologies have changed the degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety and time of stress. And with all our sophistication, we are in fact the victims of our own technological strengths –-...
In the opening minutes of Future Shock, a 1972 documentary based on the book of the same name, a bearded, cigar-puffing, world-weary Orson Welles staggers down an airport’s moving walkway, treating the camera like a confidante. “In the course of my work, which has taken me to just about every corner of the globe, I see many aspects of a phenomenon which I’m just beginning to understand,” he says. “Our modern technologies have changed the degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety and time of stress. And with all our sophistication, we are in fact the victims of our own technological strengths –-...
- 10/15/2010
- by Greg Lindsay
- Fast Company
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