Taika Waititi: The Kiwi Clown Prince Selling Genocide Jokes to a Streaming Planet
Taika Waititi and the Art of Globalized Schadenfreude By Our Correspondent Who Has Spent Too Long in Airport Lounges Somewhere over the Pacific, halfway between a volcanic eruption alert and an in-flight credit-card pitch, Taika Waititi is probably grinning. The 48-year-old Māori-Jewish-New-Zealander-of-many-hyphens has become the world’s favorite court jester: a man who can sell genocide…