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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

The Weird and Wonderful Daniel Radcliffe

The mark of a good profile, at least for me, is making me interested in a person whose work I hadn’t thought of as being particularly interesting. (This is the part where I tell you I’ve never read a Harry Potter book, and only seen one film, which I fell asleep halfway through.) But Jeremy Gordon — along with Radcliffe himself, of course — accomplishes just that.

Mere numbers cannot capture the tonnage of attention dumped on Radcliffe from all sides over the last 20 years. Forget the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or even Tumblr: Harry Potter was the launching pad for the dynamics of modern fandom that now animate any successful cultural franchise, and by extension all of popular culture. In layman’s terms, somewhere between “a lot” and “a whole fucking lot” of people have wondered what Radcliffe is doing or thinking at any given moment of his life. But if it’s strange to be synonymous with the cross between Luke Skywalker and Jesus Christ, in person he demonstrates a studied conscientiousness. 

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A “musical fisticuffs” at Griffith Stadium between Louis Armstrong and Charlie Barnet excited thousands of jazz fans - but when attendees couldn’t hear the music, the "fisticuffs" ended up in the audience: #DCHistory https://t.co/34wu2MPkK8 A “musical fisticuffs” at Griffith…


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Gazawood Dreams

Journalist Paul Fischer’s detailed and evocative piece at Hidden Compass profiles Tarzan and Arab, twin brothers from Gaza who make acclaimed feature films after growing up in a place where all the cinemas in their war-torn country closed the year before they were born. To have their first cinema experience at age 24 in 2011, the brothers were smuggled out of Gaza to visit the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin Texas. Tarzan and Arab were eventually forced to flee Gaza from persecution sparked by their trip, deemed blasphemous by the Ministry of Culture. Condom Lead, a film they made in exile, “became the first short film by Gazan filmmakers ever selected in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.”

In 2012 — the year after I first met them, and the year after their brief trip to Austin — Tarzan and Arab fled Gaza. Hamas in Gaza, and Hamas-affiliated militants, had been harassing them and their family for months.

The aggressors were upset at being tricked, both in the making of Colourful Journey and in Tarzan and Arab’s smuggling themselves into Egypt. They were upset at Tarzan and Arab’s flamboyant clothes and public celebration of the movie house, a place the fundamentalists considered little more than a temple to pornography.

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They Were Labeled Witches. They Just Had Dementia.

“Do you know any witches?” This is a question Berrie Holtzhausen asks when out and about in Namibia. After once caring for a man with advanced Alzheimer’s, the retired pastor researched all he could about the disease, and turned to a life of advocating for people with dementia, who are often accused as witches in Namibia’s tribal populations. “Most Black Namibians,” writes Shara Johnson, “have been raised in communities where witchcraft is as real and relevant to their world as Jesus is to Christians.” Ndjinaa Ngombe, a Black Namibian of the Himba tribe, is but one example: Her family had her locked up in chains for 20 years — until Holtzhausen arrived at her village and removed the shackles. Johnson writes a compelling narrative of an extraordinary man who seeks justice for a “misunderstood demographic.” Sadly, Johnson also reports that Holtzhausen himself has been diagnosed with advanced Alzheimer’s, but she ends on a somewhat hopeful note that others will follow in his footsteps — including Andrias Mangundu, the son of another accused witch, Frankilde Haingura — to continue educating Namibia’s communities about dementia, as well as the destructive role that witchdoctors have played in the region.

Ngombe wasn’t bewitched: Her behavior was changing in ways that match typical symptoms of early onset dementia. But she lived in a cultural landscape shaped by a deeply ingrained belief system that blames everything from heart attacks to poor harvests on the supernatural evildoings of witches and wizards. A witchdoctor had told Ngombe’s brother that his life was tethered to hers — if she died, he would die three days later. Therefore, he didn’t want to let her out of his sight. And so time passed — five years, 10 years, 20 years, and she remained alone in the hut.

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If you guessed Sushi-Ko you're correct! Kojiro Inoue opened the restaurant sometime in the late 1970s to the delight of the District. Read more about his journey here: https://t.co/AIx5Ry9YDe If you guessed Sushi-Ko you're correct! Kojiro Inoue opened the restaurant sometime…


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"What the President called a walk was a run: No stop, no breathing time, no slacking of speed…” One man who could keep up with President Roosevelt's hikes was French ambassador Jean Jusserand - and from these hikes, the two formed a close friendship: https://t.co/xSuR5KUWzK …


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Detail from a stereoview of Pennsylvania Avenue, taken from the grounds of the Treasury Building in the early 1890s. Lots and lots of activity in the street in those days. The bunting on the Willard Hotel (white building on the left) may be for the GAR encampment of 1892. …


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