Innehållsförteckning för 11/19/2021 från Newsweek

1977 Newsweek said of Steven Spielberg’s movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, “It’s the first true populist science-fiction film, a blend of the most startling, far-out special effects with the most ordinary human material of the American Heartland. If there really are alien beings buzzing us hesitantly in their interstellar whizbangs, Close Encounters may finally persuade them to come down and rest a spell.” The bright lights in the film have become synonymous with alien ships and on the film’s 30th anniversary in 2007, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. 1993 “Instead of celebrating, much of America’s black privileged class claims to be in excruciating pain,” said Newsweek Contributing Editor Ellis Cose in his examination of why many successful Black Americans felt…

@Carrasquillo WHEN PROTESTERS BEGAN breaking into the U.S. Capitol building during the January 6 riot, Representative Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat and former Marine, instinctively jumped on a desk to give his colleagues advice on how to put on their gas masks and regulate their breathing. In those chaotic moments, he admits now, he wished he had his military-issued gun. “I wanted my weapon, I wanted my Marines around me at that point,” he tells Newsweek. In news stories at the time, Gallego was said to have performed heroically, staying calm and helping his frightened colleagues get to safety as rioters poured into the Capitol. But in his new memoir They Called Us “Lucky”: The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War’s Hardest Hit Unit (Custom House, November 9), Gallego…

“A day without a friend or a martini is incomprehensible to me.”—NOVELIST GARY SHTEYNGART “WE CAN ALWAYS PREVENT THINGS FROM GETTING WORSE. IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO DO AS MUCH AS WE CAN.”—GRETA THUNBERG ON GLOBAL WARMING “The biggest reveal is actually that I’m a big NASCAR fan.”—ACTOR KAL PENN ON COMING OUT “Sometimes I don’t think you should leave it to God. I think God has better things to do than get you that job promotion.”—PADMA LAKSHMI “WE DID IT, BROOKLYN!”—Jay-Z on being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame “The future of art and culture seems bleak. It is not possible for the Taliban to live with art.”—AFGHAN MURALIST OMAID SHARIFI “I’D RATHER BE A BILLIONAIRE AND NOT BE LOVED BY EVERYBODY THAN NOT HAVE ANY…

@writeEILEEN NEWSWEEK’S AUTO AWARDS HIGHLIGHT THE industry's best in 25 individual vehicle and brand categories. This first annual list includes several U.S. companies, a start-up automaker and a number of models that have recently been redesigned. Nearly all of the vehicles we ranked are made in America. We rated vehicles in two ways: by test driving them and by comparing their standard and available features and specifications to those of other vehicles in the same category. Over the last year, the Newsweek autos team drove about 150 vehicles, rating them in seven categories: performance, handling and braking, technology, cargo area, seating, interior appointments and pricing. We focused on how well the vehicles lived up to the expectations of the target customer. Automakers were asked to provide vehicles for testing and…

AFTER STRANGER THINGS, IT AND NOW GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE (November 19), Finn Wolfhard knows a thing or two about ’80s nostalgia franchises. “I think people are really drawn to that [era] because it reminds them of a happy time.” That said, Ghostbusters: Afterlife is still firmly set in the present day. “Ghostbusters is contemporary, but it’s also not throwing the other movies out the window; it’s a sequel.” Nor could it, considering the latest installment is directed by Jason Reitman, whose father, Ivan Reitman, directed the original. “Even though it’s a property that has been around for so long, somehow it still feels new, and that’s because of what Jason brought to it.” Another exciting aspect of the film is what it can do to bring families back to the movies. “It’s…