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But at least they have some involvement, and take part in a climactic sequence where they endure recreations of all of Culkin’s murderous traps. Poor Alex Brooker, meanwhile, doesn’t even get to do that. Instead, he is flown out to the US to interview Stern and a stuntman, then sort of creep around the real-life Home Alone house, filming himself on his phone because cameras aren’t permitted, like the worst kind of stalker. In fairness, Brooker has fun – he’s a Home Alone superfan, we are told with punishing frequency – so it’s a shame that his bits come off as filler.
When he was growing up in New York, he had terrible asthma. His father was ill with a set of ailments, ultimately done in by a bad heart. Studs grew averse to sleep, fearing he may never wake up. Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love.
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The book is not just about people who have faced death – those people are rare. More often people think about death with some first-hand experience with it. Ira Glass, the host of the radio program This American Life, says in the book he thinks about death every day, and this encourages him to live a fuller, more satisfying life. Because, while The Unofficial Science of Home Alone is a perfectly fun – if a little haphazard – way to spend a couple of hours, you have to agree that Mythbusters would have turned this premise into a masterpiece. And while Acaster and Khan are two of the funniest men in the country, no one would describe them as scientifically rigorous.
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
A year after this book came out, Roger Ebert was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and was open and frank about his illness in order to avoid a similar situation. In 2006, Ebert underwent a series of operations – and was even declared dead on the operating table at one point – which resulted in him being unable to speak. According to Ebert’s recent memoir Life Itself, he is comfortable with death, and grateful that Chaz is with him for the time being. Instead, their job here is to largely react to an actual engineer, in the form of Dr Zoe Laughlin.
Meh but to the north when I was on location were pretty dramatic! Though I took several other shots, a few shooting into the setting sun and a couple other angles but I still liked this one the most. It lit up the field and myself enough that with one single shot I was able to capture the entire dynamic range from the ground and sky.
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Ida had undergone another heart surgery a few years earlier, which nearly shattered Studs. Chaz Ebert, Roger Ebert’s wife, is also interviewed about death. She considers herself an atheist, but talks about the grim reaper – who she didn’t believe in – visiting her when her ex-father-in-law died.
Can the human body withstand a blowtorch to the head, like the one that Macaulay Culkin used on Joe Pesci in the film? Laughlin gets out a Christmas turkey, draws a face on it, attacks it with a blowtorch then starts muttering darkly about necrosis. She does all of this, then Acaster and Khan go “Woah” for a bit. Same with the stunt where Culkin slams a tin of paint into Daniel Stern’s face. It’s Laughlin who does the legwork here, making a ballistic gel head from agar then slamming a tin of paint directly into it with the force of several hundred kilograms, while the comedians stand on a balcony and wince. Well after today I'll be working the afternoon shifts at my new job so might be tricky for me to keep up with my 365, and by that I mean the quality of work will most likely suffer.
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken is a book about death, and our relationship to it. He interviews Delbert Lee Tibbs who looked at death head on. Tibbs, a black man, was sentenced to death row for raping and murdering a white woman in Florida, but he was later found innocent and released. Tibbs talks at length about his experience facing possible death at the hand of the state, and how difficult it is being a black man in America. The interview is even more relevant now considering the recent firestorm concerning the shooting of Trayvon Martin, whose murder some people are comparing to the murder of Emmett Till.
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Kurt Vonnegut is interviewed in the book and has some things to say about death. He was interviewed not long after he was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. He had just published God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, where the premise is that Dr. Kevorkian gives him a near-death experience. Vonnegut says that everyone has had a near-death experience, called sleep. Studs Terkel had death on his mind ever since he was a little kid.
She wonders about what happens to people when they die, and whether she’ll die suddenly. She mentions at the end that Roger is more pragmatic about death – people are born, people die, and he doesn’t expect to be reunited with them. Kid Pharaoh is also interviewed – the last time he’ll appear in any of Studs’ books. It’s here that Studs reveals that Lucy Jefferson’s real name was Lucille Dickerson. Jackson was interviewed in Race under the name William Freeman.
Obviously that can’t be recreated in full, but Laughlin does at one point hook Acaster and Khan up to a Tens machine, and makes them jerk about like a couple of fleshy puppets. More of this – more sense that the hosts are active participants, rather than wisecracking observers – would have made the show sing. This is because Old Man Marley reminds us that, for all the ribbons and celebration, most adult Christmases come laced with an indelible streak of melancholy.
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While this version of the song isn’t part of the game proper, it is included in the official soundtrack. During the game, Elizabeth and Booker perform the chorus as an easter egg. The game’s end credits feature a video of the two voice actors rehearsing the song live. Ebert’s interview came shortly after Roger’s longtime television colleague Gene Siskel passed away. Siskel had kept his illness private even though it took an obvious toll on him, and when he passed it was a hard shock for everyone .
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