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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

NBC Gives the Golden Gate Bridge an Extra Tower

Posted By on Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:40 AM

Something doesn't look quite right - REDDIT/NBC

A Redditor with a good eye caught this still from NBC's Sunday night pregame show Football Night in America, where if you look closely, the Golden Gate Bridge has an extra tower. Also in this redesign of the bridge, the suspension cables just drift into space from the three towers (No need for those! They're just decoration!).

We're not sure who is photo shopping like mad over at NBC, but one would hope that the person in charge would know the Golden Gate only has two towers. And if they didn't know, maybe they could look it up? It's only the most photographed bridge in the world.

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Sam Shepard's Buried Child Comes Home to the Magic Theatre

Posted By on Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:00 AM

Vince's (Patrick Alparone - in air) homecoming is not what he hoped for in Sam Shepard's Buried Child. Also pictured are Bradley (Patrick Kelly Jones - on couch) and Dodge (Rod Gnapp - foreground). - PHOTO: JENNIFER REILEY
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  • Vince's (Patrick Alparone - in air) homecoming is not what he hoped for in Sam Shepard's Buried Child. Also pictured are Bradley (Patrick Kelly Jones - on couch) and Dodge (Rod Gnapp - foreground).
Loretta Greco calls the Magic Theatre, where she is artistic director, "the house that Sam built," referring to Sam Shepard, who she considers America's greatest living playwright - possible the greatest of all time. So opening the season with Buried Child, Shepard's Pulitzer-Prize-winning play that premiered at the Magic in 1978 when Shepard was playwright in residence there, has her so excited her feet might not actually be touching the ground. When Greco first saw the play, the production that didn't capture her imagination. Then she read it, and her opinion changed dramatically.

"It so shook me to my core about the promise of the American dream and the promise of the American family. I thought it was kind of Greek in its size and mythology." Greco said. "Its poetry is so evocative, and I don't mean that in a precious way because it's hilarious too. And then the fact that at its core it's dealing with two cultural taboos- infanticide and incest. I love the Greeks, and I just thought, 'Holy shit.'"

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