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1 Year in which
Salieri was born
6 Spunkmeyer of
cookie fame
10 Sports __
13 Key artery
14 Seattle’s __
Place Market
15 Hazmat suit
hazard
16 Nail the Miley
Cyrus
impression?
19 “Madam
Secretary” star
20 “Family Feud”
source
21 Stately tree
22 “... __ the set of
sun”: “Macbeth”
23 Disney title girl
from Hawaii
24 Permanently
deleted electronic
message?
30 Cinch
32 “Ah, broken is the
golden bowl! the
spirit flown
forever!” poet
33 GPS suggestion
34 Prod
35 Michaels et al.
36 End notes?
38 Pay extension?
39 It goes around in
winter
40 Antarctic transport
41 Minor trade
adjustment?
45 Majestic quality
46 Playboy
nickname
47 Kentucky
Colonels’ org.
50 “The Caine
Mutiny” Oscar
nominee
53 Genealogical
record
55 “The spasm
preceded the
other symptoms,
Doc”?
57 Used to be
58 Hendrix hairdo
59 Royal __:
scheduled 2016
British Open site
60 Unmatched
61 The Taj Mahal,
e.g.
62 Garden plant that
thrives in shade

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2 Wooden pin
3 Vanilla treats
4 Key not used
alone
5 Bass Islands
locale
6 Wrote an essay,
maybe
7 Polynesian
carving
8 Turner of
entertainment
9 Vacation area
10 Oregon State
athlete, for short
11 Rather red
12 Legion
15 Lose illegally
17 Winner of six
David di
Donatello acting
awards
18 __ film
23 Some August
babies
25 Be selfish about,
in a way
26 Low grade
27 Fox
commentator
who was the
1992 N.L. Rookie
of the Year

28 Singer James
29 Try
30 Self-appointed
expert
31 Online TV giant
35 Moreover
36 Common liquor
purchase, once
37 Scary squeezer
39 Homburg, for one
40 Nobel, for one
42 “__ when that
happens”

43 Buster?
44 Tough syndicate
48 Get drunk
49 Insurance giant
50 USAF stealth
plane
51 Due
52 Prepare, as for
action
53 Chicken __
54 Early copter
56 One may be a
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Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

‘Living with Lincoln’
lacks cohesive style

By SOPHIA KAUFMAN

Daily Arts Writer

The problem faced by historical

documentaries is the difficulty in
capturing the three-dimension-
al
complexity

of the figures
involved. Abra-
ham
Lincoln

is one of the
most polarizing
figures of the
19th
century;

it’s difficult to
find the balance
between recog-
nizing him as a
mogul for social
and
political

change, yet not perceiving him as
the revolutionary spearheader for
racial equality. He must be ana-
lyzed critically through the lens
of his time — not retrospectively.

HBO documentary “Living

with Lincoln” didn’t face that
problem; it barely mentioned
slavery at all.

“Living with Lincoln” is the

story of its director Peter Kun-
hardt’s family, and their relation
to Lincoln — not by blood, but
through an intense family obses-
sion which began at the time of
Lincoln’s presidency and has
trickled down to the present.
Kunhardt narrates the entire
piece, explaining why his fam-
ily (previously under the name
Meserve) has the largest collec-
tion of Lincoln photographs and

memorabilia. He speaks espe-
cially of his father and paternal
grandmother and how their lives
revolved around preserving Lin-
coln’s memory. Their family col-
lection continues to play a role
in developing Lincoln’s image
in American society; the images
used for the penny, the five dollar
bill and Mt. Rushmore were cho-
sen from their collection.

The most interesting parts of

the documentary are the shots of
Kunhardt family’s rooms — over-
flowing with research, faded let-
ters, crumbling journals, old glass
plate negatives, daguerreotypes
and salt prints, and more of the
same packed away in boxes. The
documentary was aesthetically
pleasing in terms of cinematogra-
phy, but that’s the most that can
be said for it. While this family
does have a unique and intimate
knowledge of Lincoln, they seem
to have forgotten what is most
interesting for us to see. Instead,
we’re given personal family back-
ground that often feels extrane-
ous. Kunhardt juxtaposes the
“darkness” surrounding Mary
Todd with his own grandmoth-
er’s depression, making for an
awkwardly forced comparison.
Had the documentary been solely
about Dorothy Kunhardt instead
of Lincoln, or only about Lincoln
without the extra family back-
ground, it would have felt much
more grounded.

While it’s true that the pur-

pose of the documentary isn’t to

tell Lincoln’s story but how his
story intertwines with that of
the Kunhardt family, the lack of
historical details and nuances is
still surprising. There’s a lack of
new information, give or take a
couple amusing anecdotes. Kun-
hardt doesn’t even say the word
“slavery” until halfway through
the documentary. He refers to
the Emancipation Proclamation
and the 13th Amendment in one
breath, too simply referring to
the latter as the measure that
“abolished slavery forever.” This
is a gross simplification of what
actually happened, as the Eman-
cipation Proclamation wasn’t just
a precursor to the 13th Amend-
ment. It had its own stipulations
and didn’t actually set all the
slaves free as is so often assumed.
It was just as much a military
maneuver as it was a social state-
ment, and all of this is completely
glossed over in the documentary.

The point of “Living with Lin-

coln” would have been easier to
grasp if Kunhardt had chosen a
style and stuck to it, like he has in
his other works — either as strong
a visual presence on screen, or an
auditory presence or a completely
distance from the story. His nar-
ration sounds too practiced and
detached when talking about
his own family and too familiar
when speaking about Lincoln.
His attempt at being both pro-
fessional and the single voice
of authority in a family project
doesn’t work.

Waiting on his lap dance from Mary Todd.

C

Living with
Lincoln

HBO

Documentary

Special

FILM REVIEW
Banal ‘Unfriended’

By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY

Daily Arts Writer

There’s that moment when

your few-years-too-old laptop
stutters and you impatiently
wait for it to
get it together
so
you
can

continue
trolling
BuzzFeed,
the
depths

of Reddit or
whatever your
weird Internet
obsession
is.

You want so
desperately to walk away and
do something productive, yet
you sit and pray for the situation
to get better. “Unfriended”
feels like this, except it never
gets better and your computer
murders you and your close
friends.

It’s a fear that most normal

people have at some point.
You’ve
said
something

unflattering about a friend and
if they hear about it, it is not
going to be pretty. Only in this
case, you’ve posted a video of
your passed-out-drunk friend,
covered in her own feces,
and anonymously told her to
kill herself online. And now,
instead of some throwing some
serious shade, she comes back
to murder you and your friends
via Skype.

The video chat originates

with some typical teen horror
film Skype-stripping between
good
girl
“virgin”
Blaire

(Shelley Hennig “Teen Wolf”)
and her wants-to-have-sex jock
boyfriend Mitch (Moses Jacob,
“LITERALLY
NOTHING?”).

Not
before
long,
slightly

overweight gamer Ken (Jacob
Wysocki,
“Pitch
Perfect”),

slutty party girl Jess (Renee
Olstead, “The Secret Life of
the American Teenager”), sexy
trust fund baby Adam (Will

Peltz, “The Collection”) and
the bitch that for some reason
everyone keeps around, Val
(Courtney Halverson, “General
Hospital”), crash their cyber
date.

Over the next 80 minutes,

a daring game of “never have
I ever” ensues, led by an
anonymous Skype creeper —
revealed
through
Facebook

chat to be Laura Barnes, their
“friend” who killed herself a year
ago to the day. Slowly, fingers
are put down, computer screens
go black and every character
is revealed to be equally awful
human beings; so much so, that
it is hard to feel any remorse for
their gruesome deaths.

Stylistically, the movie is shot

99.9 percent as a screenshot of
Blaire’s computer. Original? Yes.
Enjoyable? Meh. She takes an
annoyingly long time to click

buttons, retypes messages more
than any person should and her
messages to her boyfriend are
borderline painful. Secondhand
embarrassment
is
rampant

throughout, not to mention that
her computer freezes and caused
audible groans throughout the
theater.

The trend of modern horror

movies focusing on technology
isn’t a revolutionary idea (see:
“One Missed Call,” “Pulse” or
“The Ring”), but for whatever
reason
“Unfriended”
chose

to ground its cinematography
in technology, yet its story
explicitly outside of technology.
The take-away isn’t focused on
how Internet bullying is a tragic
occurrence, but rather simply
to not be an asshole. Don’t steal
money from your friends; don’t
start rumors about them; don’t
have sex with your boyfriend’s
best friend. You know, the simple
things in life. Oh, and don’t
anonymously tell your friend to
kill herself on the Internet.

Do these things really need to

be said? No. Did “Unfriended”
really need to be made? No.
However, if you’re looking for
some cheap thrills, a good hate-
watch or enjoy hearing a middle-
aged man scream at a computer
screen projected on a movie
screen, this is it.

C-

Unfriended

Universal
Pictures

Rave and

Quality 16

Creative ‘Face Off’

By KIM BATCHELOR

Daily Arts Writer

The season eight finale of Syfy’s

“Face Off” did not disappoint. Each
year, it seems like the quality of
work improves.
This means a
finale
full
of

detailed
and

imaginative cre-
ations.

This
sea-

son’s final epi-
sode
brought

the three final
contestants: Darla Edin (28, Min-
nesota), Emily Serpico (18, Florida)
and Logan Long (29, Utah) up
against the biggest challenge to
date. The three, along with a team
built from eliminated contestants,
were charged with creating four
complete looks. The challenge was
inspired by blockbuster movies such
as “The Avengers” and “Guardians
of the Galaxy.” This meant the four
looks must have been the products
of a cohesive team and fit within
the genre of a film — certainly one
of the most daunting tasks required
of contestants to date. Additionally,
their creations were put on display
for the general public at a special
viewing event. This is also unprec-
edented in the history of “Face Off.”

Darla was given the theme

of “fantasy,” and created a set of
characters based off of the four
major elements. Emily received
“post-apocalyptic” and decided on
an imagination of “The Wizard of
Oz,” choosing to fuse the charac-
ters with four different materials
— wood, glass, leather and metal.
Logan created a “Science Fiction”
space team of humanoid animals.

The results were some of the

most detailed and unique creations
ever produced on the show, and
certainly some of the best quality.
Darla’s fantasy spirits were delicate
and detailed with swirled filigree
and attention to makeup. Emily,
the youngest contestant to make
the final round, shone in her color
work. All her characters were well
painted, and she demonstrated
ingenuity in her creation of shat-
tered glass by mixing plastic and
silicon. Logan created the most
cohesive and charismatic team.

His animal teams each had their
own personality and you could
almost hear the witty banter that
would ensue between the charac-
ters if given their own movie. He
was praised by the judges for creat-
ing something that would inspire
potential actors. Additionally, his
team showed strong fabrication
work on the shell of the armadillo
character.

The most tense part of this “Face

Off” finale was not any crazy lights
or neon dance routines, but the way
which the artists’ work was put
under intense scrutiny, allowing us
to get up close and personal. Unlike
some seasons, there was no clearly
superior or favorite work. This kept
the audience in suspense. Addi-
tionally, another layer was added
through this season’s implementa-
tion of alumni mentors. These men-
tors were the team leaders of one or
two of the final three contestants,
and were competing to become a
two-time winner of “Face Off.” This
meant that the audience was not
only rooting for one winner, but for
two.

The one aspect that lacked was

the slow, underwhelming nature
of the public gallery. It would have
been more interesting to see these
big blockbuster characters acting
out scenes from their would-be
movie. In the past, the costumes
and designs have had to stand up
under glow lights, battle conditions,
circus performances and even
water elements. The finale would
have benefited from a little more
grandeur, especially on a show
all about pushing the limits of the
imagination.

In the end, it was Darla’s team

who won, though all teams were
impressive this season. The judges
picked hers in large part due to
a standout piece which stole the
show. Her wind fawn showed
incredible finesse and thought. Her
decision to include an element of a
wind instrument into the design of
the fawn’s horns was unprecedent-
ed, yet still integrated well in her
design. It is impossible to fault the
judges for choosing the team that
showed the most technical skill,
craftsmanship and imagination.
She received the audience’s vote
for a reason.

UNIVERSAL PICTURES

“What’s your away message?” “***Blender-slaughtered. Ded.***”

Original?

Yes.

Enjoyable?

Meh.

TV REVIEW

A-

Face Off

SyFy

Season 8 finale

TV REVIEW