![]() Deagan (Allison Janney in the Jane Lynch role). Bowman (Philip Baker Hall) and his officious aide Dr. In the acrid script by first-time screenwriter Andrew Dodge, Bateman’s Guy finds loopholes in the rules of Bowman's fictional spelling bee run by the esteemed educator Dr. (READ: Mary Pols on Jason Bateman in Identity Thief) Nice Guy, Bateman signed on as the star and director of the verry-R-rated Bad Words. He's been the go-to actor for beset normal people on TV ( Arrested Development) and in movies ( Identity Thief). And though he has said he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction in his twenties, he emerged from kid stardom as an intact adult - a slightly spikier Michael J, Fox. He appeared as a regular in a dozen TV series, which may be a record. In 1981, when he was the age of most of Guy's innocent victims, Bateman was playing Michael Landon's adopted son on Little House on the Prairie. He springs the guetapens of reverse psychiatry on his opponents, until children whose only ailment may be logorrhea suddenly break out in emotional eczema and psoriasis, are struck mute by odontalgia, suffer antediluvian xanthosis and finally require therapy in a sanitarium. In one vignette after another, this insouciant spoliator applies a serrefine or incisor to his opponents' self-confidence. Like a kamikaze on a luge, he has a pococurante knack for creating a promiscuous fracas among his young rivals. To snag the top guerdon at a fake National Spelling Bee, Guy relies on his photographic memory and a certain prospicience about the vulnerabilities of spelling prodigies. ![]() Yet in Bad Words, 40-year-old Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman) is interning in that milieu. (READ: Our coverage of the 1925 National Spelling Bee by subscribing to TIME) The rules, though, remain constant: participants must be no older than 15 and must not have graduated from eighth grade. In the 90 years since that first Bee, the number of contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee has grown to 11 million, and the words have become considerably more abstruse. Young Frank, as his New York Times obit noted, prayed for sunny weather. The champion among the 2 million contestants was 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser, whose stonemason father helped him study obscure words on weekends when it wasn't raining. was featured in more than 1,200 books - more often than Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.The winning word in the first National Spelling Bee, held in Louisville in 1925, was gladiolus. Italian models in slicked-back hair would frolic poolside in Valentino ads). (Tim Allen was abducted by aliens here in Galaxy Quest Greg Kinnear would make it his bachelor pad in Nurse Betty. It appeared as backdrop in many movies, TV series and advertisements. Some called it the most iconic building in LA. 22 into the forefront of national consciousness. Indeed, the photo captured excitement and promises the house held, and propelled Case Study No. Result was the photo Sir Norman Foster termed his favorite “architectural moment”. Then, lights inside were quickly switched on to capture two posing women. Although they were not models (but rather girlfriends of architectural students), they were asked to sit still in the dark as Shulman exposed the film seven minutes to capture lights from LA streets. Wide-angle photography belied the actual smallness of the house furniture and furnishings were staged, and as were the women. Yet this view was created as meticulously as the house itself. “The vertiginous point of view contrasts sharply with the relaxed atmosphere of the house’s interior, testifying to the ability of the Modernist architect to transcend the limits of the natural world,” praised the New York Times. ![]() In the photo, the cantilevered living room appears to float diaphanously above Los Angeles. 22 (also the Stahl House), which showed two well-dressed women conversing casually inside. Fittingly for Shulman, one of the first architectural photographers to include the inhabitants of homes in the pictures, his most famous image was the 1960 view of Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House No. Thus this experiment in residential architecture was gloriously captured by Shulman in his iconic black and white photographs. The sponsor of this ambitious project was the Californian magazine Arts & Architecture, which engaged an architectural photographer named Julius Shulman to dutifully record them. Between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s, major architects of the day were invited to design affordable and efficient model homes, and some thirty of them were built, mostly in Southern California. Architecture is nothing more than a practical combination of arts and science, and nothing symbolized this triumphal combination more than Case Study houses, a high point in modern American architecture.
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