Jon Miller is a Hall of Fame broadcaster who did the play-by-play on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball for 20 years. He is a former radio and television announcer for the Baltimore Orioles and has been the voice of the San Francisco Giants since 1997.
We've invited Miller to play a game called "You gonna eat that?" Three questions based on science writer Mary Roach's new book, Gulp: Adventures in the Alimentary Canal.
Rachel Weisz plays the witch Evanora in director Sam Raimi's upcoming Oz: The Great and Powerful. The film is one of nine upcoming Oz adaptations and tackles more frightening and adult themes than those that came before it.
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The type of fantastical enemies in fairy tale remakes like Jack the Giant Slayer show the protagonists, and their problems, getting older and more complicated.
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Jeremy Renner's Hansel (from January's Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters) was himself a grown-up fairy tale character gone rogue, using guns and firepower to take revenge on witches everywhere.
Adaptations of fairy tales are everywhere you look. The TV show Once Upon a Time and the police procedural Grimm are in their second seasons. Hansel and his sister Gretel are at the cineplex hunting witches with machine guns. Jack, of beanstalk fame, starts slaying giants today. And those aren't the only bedtime stories that have been redesigned to keep 20-somethings up at night.
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Miami Parking Garage, Robert Law Weed and Associates, Miami, Fla., 1949
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Olivetti Underwood Factory, Louis Kahn, Harrisburg, Pa., 1969
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Philip Morris Research Center Tower, Ulrich Franzen, Richmond, Va., 1972
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Salk Institute of Biological Research, Louis Kahn, La Jolla, Calif., 1977
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Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, New York, N.Y., 1958
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Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, New York, N.Y., 1958
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Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, New York, N.Y., 1958
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TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, N.Y., 1962
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TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, N.Y., 1962
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TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, N.Y., 1962
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United Nations, International Team of Architects Led by Wallace K. Harrison, New York, N.Y., 1952
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United Nations, International Team of Architects Led by Wallace K. Harrison, New York, N.Y., 1952
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United Nations, International Team of Architects Led by Wallace K. Harrison, New York, N.Y., 1952
Credit Ezra Stoller / Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery
Life Savers Factory, Port Chester, N.Y., 1956.Although he is most well-known for his photographs of architecture, Stoller was also often assigned to photograph stories about innovations in technology and man's relationship with machinery.
Comedian Joshua Walters, who's bipolar, walks the line between mental illness and mental "skillness." He asks: What's the right balance between medicating craziness away, and riding the manic edge of creativity and drive?
Originally published on Fri March 22, 2013 9:00 am
"People need depth, and depth means the possibility of unhappiness and frustration and sometimes torment — though hopefully not madness." -- Oliver Sacks
We've all had that moment. The moment where you might see or hear something and you wonder: Am I going crazy? In this hour, TED speakers share their experiences straddling that line between madness and sanity — and question if we're all in the gray area between the two.
Johannes Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring is easy to fall in love with — she's young, dewy, beautiful (Scarlett Johansson played her in the 2003 movie about the painting), and she looks right at you. But the 17th-century Dutch master's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter is different — her face is shadowed and she stands in profile, totally absorbed in her letter.
Our next book club adventure takes us on a journey that is familiar to people across generations: We will be taking a trip down the yellow brick road with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, first published in 1900. It is one of the most beloved stories in popular American culture, but over the decades, the book has taken a back seat to the wildly successful Wizard of Oz film.
