There is no such thing as a wrong note. It is always the note that follows that will define whether the first note was wrong or not. | | | | Yuri Gurka, V.M. Varga, and Meemo terrorizing us in 'Fargo'
(FX) | | | | |  | “There is no such thing as a wrong note. It is always the note that follows that will define whether the first note was wrong or not.”
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| | rantnrave:// Hello from LAS VEGAS where it's 107 degrees and ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL is in full swing. Not sure how excessive heat, dehydration, dance music, and god knows what else makes sense but I'm old. Be careful kids. Hope they have free water and not those $10 Vegas-schmuck bottles... FARGO on FX is so exceptional that I hyperventilate when watching it. When I first heard the pitch for the show I have to confess, I didn't get it. It wouldn't be based on the movie narrative. None of the same characters. Each season would be self-contained. And get this, new actors every season. But that's why professionals create the show and I watch it. What the team did say to me was, "Think of it as a state of mind. The Fargo state of mind. The world of Fargo." Got it. Now, to be fair, there are little easter eggs all over the series from locations to character names that are tips of the hat to the film. But adaptations don't need to be rehashes of movies or books. TODD VANDERWERFF nails this concept in his VOX piece, "The best TV adaptations aren't direct translations. They're windows into worlds". HANDMAID'S TALE, THE LEFTOVERS, and THE MAGICIANS all succeed in this regard... AMAZON. BEZOS and his team are just super impressive. And now what? They buy WHOLE FOODS. You may not see the through line between organic HASS avocados, AWS and TRANSPARENT. But I do. "I'm smart! Not like everybody says." And If this means that being a PRIME member allows me to get first dibs to the pre-cut cantaloupe and broccoli florets before they're sold out, well, awesome. Amazon shooting for that full gig economy stack. Hours after the deal was announced, OATH bought GRISTEDES :-)... APPLE hires two real deal executives from SONY to develop shows for them. That's a big sign that EDDY CUE and his team are serious. I called this about 2 years ago. To laughter, I might add. You want to have a video service you need to make originals. Period. The general reaction for the past few years in HOLLYWOOD is that tech companies don't know how to make content. At one time or another, I've heard that from everyone out there. In fact, a few times, I've floated to the streaming services that they should take a look at buying companies like ENDEMOL SHINE to jump start their global production. But most of these companies are too smart. They don't want the culture clash issues. Do they know how to make content at first? No. Guess what, they go out and hire the best people to do it and let them run without the legacy issues they contend with at traditional media companies. The only thing stopping these executives would be the shock they feel when they see their great budgets and runway... Good guys win sometimes. So happy for my friend CONNOR SCHELL and his new gig as ESPN's EVP of Content. Well deserved. He's a special talent. And a big shoutout to JOHN KOSNER who leaves after 20 years of stellar work. If you worked in TV-related companies but on the digital side, his team's work was the standard you aspired to. He's a great guy and has shown me many personal kindnesses over the years and I'm excited to see what he does next... Happy Birthday to GEORGE WHITE, DAVID THOMPSON, TRACY SWEDLOW, and DAVID TISCH, CARMI ZLOTNIK. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | USA TODAY |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| Whole Foods' eccentric founder changed the way Americans consume food. Can he survive the Wall Street forces that now want to consume him? | | |
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 | Y Combinator |
| Tim Hwang is the Global Public Policy Lead on AI and Machine Learning for Google. What that means is Tim interacts with governments to inform Google's opinions on policy. He also helps educate governments on what things like machine learning actually mean and what the implications might be. | | |
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 | Real Time with Bill Maher |
| Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow joins Bill for a conversation about right-wing media, Russian meddling, and free speech. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Michael Thevis made his fortune by selling porn to millions of Americans in the 1970s. Then a campaign of bombings, murders, and a prison break brought down his peep-show empire. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| He might be the most consequential vice president ever. He could well be the next commander in chief. And the one person in America he can’t have thinking about that is his boss. | | |
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 | CNET |
| A benchmark for "futuristic" sci-fi, 2002's "Minority Report" is still a wild ride. But how does it hold up? | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Thom Yorke and the band look back at their 1997 masterpiece in honor of its 20th anniversary. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| From El Paso to Pittsburgh, cities once considered “drive-through” are undergoing a rebirth, with chic new hotels strengthening local tourism and culture. | | |
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 | Vice |
| VICE meets members of the region's thriving indigenous trans community and follows along as they work through family struggles, hormone treatments, and organize a public beauty pageant. | | |
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 | Revisionist History |
| In the middle of Los Angeles — a city with some of the most expensive real estate in the world — there are a half a dozen exclusive golf courses, massive expanses dedicated to the pleasure of a privileged few. How do private country clubs afford the property tax on 300 acres of prime Beverly Hills real estate? RH brings in tax assessors, economists, and philosophers to probe the question of the weird obsession among the wealthy with the game of golf. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| "It would be great to get it back," says the late actor's archivist of the lost statuette for 'On the Waterfront' - given as a gift to Leo by his scandal-plagued friends at Red Granite Pictures - as the Academy refuses to discuss its reigning best actor's misbegotten award. | | |
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 | The Bill Simmons Podcast |
| HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Will Ferrell to discuss the NBA Finals, the cable TV domination of 'Step Brothers', the amount of denials before 'Anchorman' was made, working on 'Old School' while on 'SNL', his favorite 'SNL' sketch, the way his kids act with Will Ferrell as their dad, Lonzo Ball on the Lakers, and the chance LeBron comes to L.A. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Olutosin Oduwole was a college student and aspiring rapper when he was charged with "attempting to make a terrorist threat." We explore how perceptions of rap music may have played a role. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| "I’m not looking to portray you as a bogeyman," Kelly said in the published audio. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| Formats like 4DX are more theme park than movie. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The godfather of exclusivity with Studio 54 and boutique hotels is turning populist with the Public, a new “luxury for all” hotel. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Turner is building a 21st Century media company, Super Deluxe, in downtown Los Angeles to "future-proof" TV. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| This Latino immigrant moved to 1920s New York with nothing and took on the sports establishment. Then the establishment took him down. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| No matter your political leanings, it's accurate to say that the 2016 presidential election has affected American popular culture -- and Hollywood -- more profoundly than any in U.S. history. | | |
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 | ProPublica |
| The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border -- and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it. | | |
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 | Reason.com |
| "There's not a lot of space for libertarianism in politics right now," says Wash Post's David Weigel. Is he right? | | |
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