![Barry Sonnenfeld explains why Justin Biber is an alien, and other celebrity cameos in MIB3.
“There are a few people that you’ll see up on the surveillance board including Lady Gaga, Tim Burton, who probably knows more about aliens than I do, and let’s see who else… Justin Bieber.”
“My theory behind Justin Bieber is that he’s from Canada.” The director then explained a larger theory behind aliens in Canada, in which an undisclosed alien species was planning to come down and live in the U.S., and therefore sent spies here – but when they tried to transmit the data back to their home planets, “3 percent of it got scrambled in the transmission” so the settlers got the wrong coordinates and ended up in Canada instead. “Canadians are 97 point something percent like Americans,” he joked, “except that they’re way too nice and if you go into their homes, you’ll go, ‘Interesting! Fireplace in the bathroom.’” Therefore, he said, certain Canadians are quite possibly aliens.”
Tim Burton might seem like an alien, but despite his presence on the board, the MIB aren’t sure about him. “He knows enough aliens that they keep surveillance on him,” Sonnenfeld said. “He may be procreating with an alien,” meaning Helena Bonham Carter. “I’m not saying she is an alien,” he clarified, “but the Men in Black aren’t sure [about her].”
“I like that Lady Gaga’s alien name is also Lady Gaga,”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n310rj2J1qfri4io1_500.jpg)
Barry Sonnenfeld explains why Justin Biber is an alien, and other celebrity cameos in MIB3.
“There are a few people that you’ll see up on the surveillance board including Lady Gaga, Tim Burton, who probably knows more about aliens than I do, and let’s see who else… Justin Bieber.”
“My theory behind Justin Bieber is that he’s from Canada.” The director then explained a larger theory behind aliens in Canada, in which an undisclosed alien species was planning to come down and live in the U.S., and therefore sent spies here – but when they tried to transmit the data back to their home planets, “3 percent of it got scrambled in the transmission” so the settlers got the wrong coordinates and ended up in Canada instead. “Canadians are 97 point something percent like Americans,” he joked, “except that they’re way too nice and if you go into their homes, you’ll go, ‘Interesting! Fireplace in the bathroom.’” Therefore, he said, certain Canadians are quite possibly aliens.”
Tim Burton might seem like an alien, but despite his presence on the board, the MIB aren’t sure about him. “He knows enough aliens that they keep surveillance on him,” Sonnenfeld said. “He may be procreating with an alien,” meaning Helena Bonham Carter. “I’m not saying she is an alien,” he clarified, “but the Men in Black aren’t sure [about her].”
“I like that Lady Gaga’s alien name is also Lady Gaga,”
![“I haven’t said this publicly, but the new season is set in the sixties and Chloë Sevigny, for example, plays a character who was put in an asylum because she was a woman who likes sex, so her husband sends her away. At the time, you were able to put people away for that. Another character is institutionalized for being a lesbian. […] I knew the first season was about a very contemporary haunted house, and I knew the second season was gonna be — if we were lucky enough to be picked up — about an insane asylum done in a very different way. I pitched it in the very beginning, and FX said, “Good. We hope the first season works ‘cause we love the second season.” I even know what the third season would be. There are very, very many different kinds of haunted houses in our culture. And there are a lot of different social topics that you can weave through that sort of prism. ” -Ryan Murphy](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jevbK4BC1qfri4io1_500.jpg)
“I haven’t said this publicly, but the new season is set in the sixties and Chloë Sevigny, for example, plays a character who was put in an asylum because she was a woman who likes sex, so her husband sends her away. At the time, you were able to put people away for that. Another character is institutionalized for being a lesbian. […] I knew the first season was about a very contemporary haunted house, and I knew the second season was gonna be — if we were lucky enough to be picked up — about an insane asylum done in a very different way. I pitched it in the very beginning, and FX said, “Good. We hope the first season works ‘cause we love the second season.” I even know what the third season would be. There are very, very many different kinds of haunted houses in our culture. And there are a lot of different social topics that you can weave through that sort of prism. ” -Ryan Murphy
Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864), René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy, 1850
The two Dassy brothers, Jean-Baptiste (left) and René-Charles (right) dressed in the height of 1850s men’s fashion. Jean-Baptiste wears an outdoor costume, notably a redingote, and carries gloves and a riding crop or a thin walking stick, a stylish accessory often found illustrated in fashion magazines of the period. René-Charles wears an indoor outfit of embroidered black velvet in an exotic mode known at the time as à la Grec. The clothing of the two brothers indicates both elegance and refinement, and clearly asserts their social status. Their intimate pose also suggests their close relationship, emphasised by their matching signet rings, and the affectionate placement of the older brother’s hand on the younger brother’s shoulder. (x)
