And they all break down to make other chemicals and intermix with other chemicals.

Forman’s comical look at the decathlon is scored with bell ringers and yodelers, while Schlesinger’s intense “The Longest” intermixes the marathon with the attack by Palestinian terrorists on the Israeli quarters in the Olympic Village.

“But we do know that methane is a solvent, meaning that a variety of chemicals can be intermixed and be dissolved into it.”

That mindset informs the New Orleans setting of "Parish," offering a means of examining that city’s international and intermixed culture, as well as the racism permeating its political and social fabrics.

“Especially on the east side, we have so many intermixed plans, so we want to be as consistent as we can be while knowing that we have different agency plans and missions.”