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Snuffing Out Anachronisms, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
February 26, 2014
On the Shelf
Not so fast, Abe. Image via Anachro.net.
“
The Cotton Club
was also shooting in New York. The night we were shooting the Marshmallow Man, some guy said to me, ‘This is insane, what’s this movie?’ I said, ‘
The Cotton Club
, man. That guy Francis, you can’t stop him.’” In honor of Harold Ramis,
an oral history of
Ghostbusters
.
What do you do when your students’ literary touchstone is
Law and Order: SVU
?
Online, Steven Soderbergh has released
Psychos
, “a feature-length mashup of Hitchcock’s original 1960 movie and Gus Van Sant’s controversial shot-for-shot 1998 remake.”
At last, screenwriters can stop anachronisms in their tracks with the
Anachronism Machine
. “It maps the script’s words and phrases against a Google database consisting of the full texts of six million books and spits out a graphical rendering of the likely anachronisms the script is guilty of.”
The first entry in
an A to Z of forgotten books
: “When it appeared in 1923, André Maurois’s
Ariel
was one of a new breed of what reviewers of the time took to calling ‘romance biographies.’”
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