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For a tiny moment in Chris Smith’s wry 1999 documentary “American Movie,” Hollywood glamour seeps into the film’s wintry Wisconsin gloom. Call it dark fate, then, that “American Movie” found itself at a Sundance, where Borchardt’s dream of discovery did come true — but for someone else. Mark Borchardt, right, and Mike Schank in the 1999 Sundance documentary movie “American …
Nefertiti appears to gaze into the distance, proud and aloof. Nefertiti most likely did have both eyes, but Zorn has a theory about why the famous bust only has one: "It's simply a model. "But so far, Nefertiti's mummy has not been clearly identified, although there have often been attempts," said Zorn. However, you could surely make a Nefertiti out …
Boyle’s new novel, “Talk to Me,” features a love triangle among an animal behaviorist, his assistant and the chimpanzee they taught to communicate. The title story in Boyle’s first book, 1979’s “The Descent of Man,” starred Konrad, a lab chimpanzee fluent in sign language who proceeds to steal the narrator’s girlfriend. “I don’t decide to hold back on something — …
