COVER STORY
Scale
Kurt Andersen and actor Liev Schreiber talk about scale and how actors, artists, and musicians choose the right size for the work they do.

Powers of Ten
A 1977 short film called “Powers of Ten” by the great designers Charles and Ray Eames is a unique demonstration of that principle of scale. The Eames are best known for a famous mid-century modern chair, and had a rule to always look at something from the next biggest or next smallest frame of reference. “Powers of Ten” shows how our view of something changes radically according to our distance from it. Produced by Chris Spurgeon.
Go to the Eames Office website
Go to the Powers of 10 website

Does Size Matter?
At some point in the middle of the last century, almost all the important painters were working big. Canvasses grew too big for even some of the rich patrons’ walls. Matt Holzman of KCRW tried to find out why, and how, modern painters went monumental.
Go to the Pat Faure Gallery
Go to the Rosamund Felson Gallery
Go to a website with Karen Carson's work
Go to the LACMA website

Stew
Songs don’t take up any physical space, but musicians and their producers have to make a lot of choices about scale, like the number of instruments used and even the size of the studio. Los Angeles-based musician Mark Stewart records under the name Stew. He writes elegant pop songs and good old-fashioned rock. He and his writing partner Heidi Rodewald talked to us about making those choices between simple and complex. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.
Go to Stew’s website

SPECIAL GUEST
Liev Schreiber
Liev Schreiber is one of the most acclaimed young actors today. His portrayals of Hamlet and Iago on stage thrilled critics, and he’s appeared in films from indie (The Daytrippers, Big Night) to blockbuster (The Sum of All Fears, Kate and Leopold, and the Scream trilogy). He stars in Jonathan Demme’s forthcoming re-make of The Manchurian Candidate. Schreiber is currently shooting his first film as a director, Everything Is Illuminated. He also wrote the screenplay from Jonathan Safran Foer’s book.
Go toLiev Schreiber’s website

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The Dumb and the Bland
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E-Cyrano
The New York Times Magazine reported last year that 40 million Americans had visited at least a dating site in a single month. And with 40 million people competing for dates, somebody’s going to want an edge. Enter screenwriter Evan Katz. He turned his talent for writing plausible, lovable fictional characters – into a for-profit business getting real dates for real people. He calls his business e-cyrano, as in Cyrano of Bergerac. Although Katz doesn’t have the giant nose. Lori Gottlieb tells the story.
Go to the E-Cyrano website
Go to an online dating photo service
Go to another online dating photo service that hooks you up with local "Internet dating photographers”

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