The Shins
Remains of the Day: Natalie Portman, Wes & Owen, Edward Albee
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Go to Myspace at midnight! Or, don't.
- Natalie Portman pretends she’s important and makes fantastically obvious picks for a charity CD. A Shins remix? No way!
- Nice guy/every-mid-20s-to-30s-something girl’s dreamboat Ron Livingston will break out of Office Space’s shadow and into more dramatic roles in his movies opening this weekend. Damn it feels good to be… Richard Pimentel?
- An interview with Owen Wilson conducted by his bud Wes Anderson will be posted on MySpace at midnight tonight. Synchronize your watches.
- Right afterward, you can see 80-year-old playwright Edward Albee discuss his new works on Channel 13 at 12:30 a.m. and get your culture fix for the weekend. Make sure you watch some dumb VH1 shows and drink a bottle of whiskey right afterward. Good night!
Huddled Masses, Yearning to Skip Orgo
The New York Times today has a piece about wealthy immigrants moving to the U.S. to take advantage of our sub-par schools.
Meet the Shins: 40's, married with children, well-off and well-established back home in Seoul. But the problem was the academic grind their kids would face if they stayed.
Mrs. Shin tells Times reporter Paul Vitello a few things you didn't know about Great Neck:
"Here are many Asians. And here my children have more ... more ... chance to live normal." The chance to live normal is a relative value and might mean many different things to different people. But among a growing group of monied Chinese and South Korean newcomers arriving in this community of 40,000 in Nassau County, there is a strong feeling of what it means: the chance to spare their children the grinding competition and unrelieved pressure of scholastic life in their homelands.- Tom McGeveran
