Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. | | | | Will Ferrell's under-appreciated 'Big Earl' cameo in "Starsky & Hutch"
(Warner Bros. Pictures) | | | | |  | “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
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| | rantnrave:// If you're like me, you've sat through many (and almost exactly the same) banker presentations on the media space. So you've seen the size of APPLE, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, and AMAZON compared to the companies we used to say were huge like DISNEY, VIACOM and 21st CENTURY FOX. So when I read about issues with the AT&T/TIME WARNER deal I have to ask myself whether anyone that deals with anti-trust in our government actually uses the internet. Do they understand the need for consolidation to compete?... MARVEL, STAR WARS, DC, etc. All great IP franchises. But they're old. In less than 20 years there have been no fewer than 3 SPIDER-MAN reboots. Who is investing in the next killer IP that we'll be remaking in the next 20 years? This is important. They have a "universe" of characters. These franchises have rabid fans. Fans that are willing to shell out time and money to stay connected with that universe in between film releases and TV seasons. A great example of this being done well on TV? THE WALKING DEAD. The biggest show on TV or one of them. Doing great in mobile gaming with SCOPELY. Live events at MSG with fans. TALKING DEAD, a popular talk show with fans. And now a rewards program and gift box subscription. Just a small example of doing it the right way: The fan as the center of your IP universe... How will football be played in 20 years? Will eSports be mainstream? How will we watch the NHL? Will unicorns roam the NBA? The future is coming sooner than you think. SportsREDEF's MIKE VORKUNOV examines in SportsSET: "The Future of Sports"... Streaming music economics. Do price points need to come down for the market to grow more? Do the labels need to give more to the artists? Does the emergence of major players and check writers ultimately mean that these massive services will deal directly with artists? Could AMAZON become a music label of sorts? Platforms are used to decimating the middle of the value chain... Malls live on in memory, pop culture, and massive square footage. While some malls are left aging and abandoned, others are thriving—what's next? FashionREDEF's MINDY MEISSEN takes a look in FashionSET: "Mallpocalypse Now"... Not a fan of traffic cameras. They're like email. They have no context and often hard to understand tone... If LIEV SCHREIBER narrated the tax code it would be worthy of a listen. Loving his guidance on AMERICA IN COLOR on SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL. He doesn't need the work, but this is an open invitation for Liev to record my outgoing voicemail. To boot, he's a good dad... I admire DISNEY as a company. I call many of their execs friends. They've shown me more than a few personal kindnesses during tough times. This story I found on TWITTER is a fantastic example of their special employees ... Oh, man. F*** me... Subtext galore!... Happy Birthday to SAM TOLES, CHARLIE O'DONNELL, URSA PHILBIN, and ALEX HUNTER. Belated to ZANDER LURIE, CRAIG HUNEGS, BRIAN CELLER, CORY TREFFILETTI, LARS MURRAY, MICHAEL MADNICK, STACEY SANNER, MARK LARKIN, AMANDA KRENTZMAN, JEFF DOSSETT, JEFFREY JAMES LINDSAY, and JOHN CABRAL. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Bloomberg |
| A year after the exploding phones, Samsung is embroiled in the mess that brought down South Korea’s president. How is it still thriving? | | |
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 | The Outline |
| How a group of Kendall Jenner stans showed fans of problematic celebs a way out. | | |
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 | Wired |
| To connect to the world, people In Havana have taken matters into their own hands. | | |
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 | Central Intelligence Agency |
| This volume pulls together and republishes, with some editing, updating, and additions, articles written during 1978-86 for internal use within the CIA Directorate of Intelligence. Four of the articles also appeared in the Intelligence Community journal Studies in Intelligence during that time frame. | | |
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 | TED Talks |
| A handful of people working at a handful of tech companies steer the thoughts of billions of people every day, says design thinker Tristan Harris. From Facebook notifications to Snapstreaks to YouTube autoplays, they're all competing for one thing: your attention. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| It used to be that if you liked the music, you got the T-shirt. Now, the band T-shirt is a fashion trend all on its own -- whether you like what it stands for or not. | | |
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 | War on the Rocks |
| In March 1968, a U.S. infantry platoon under the command of 2nd Lt. William "Rusty" Calley conducted a raid of a hamlet called My Lai in Quang Ngai Province of South Vietnam. After taking the hamlet, Calley ordered his men to round up the remaining civilians, herd them into a ditch, and gun them down. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| The world's top ultrarunners fight to compete in the Barkley Marathons, an ever-shifting race designed by a madman to break their spirits through 100 miles of hellish Appalachian Mountains. So far, only 14 people have completed it. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| In the era of peak TV, the thinkpiece as a tool to keep us watching has never been more effective. | | |
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 | 30 for 30 Podcasts |
| How does a professional boxer, convicted of armed robbery in 1975, end up rising in the ranks of the sport -- from inside a state penitentiary? | | |
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 | The Vinyl Factory |
| A track-by-track sprint through the landmark album's most important samples. | | |
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 | GQ |
| When she was serving as a member of SEAL Team 6 in Afghanistan, she was known as Christopher. But the biggest undertaking Kristin Beck has faced? Becoming a woman. | | |
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 | Select All |
| Zoë Quinn spent much of her life playing and designing games. Then she found herself inside one -- a vicious, multiplayer real-time harassment bonanza. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| Donald Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department’s budget is now on the chopping block. But does anyone in the White House really understand what the Department of Energy actually does? | | |
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 | STAT |
| It's become cinematic tradition to treat biopharma as the bad guy, pushing ethical limits in pursuit of profits. Actual industry scientists are not amused. | | |
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 | The Line of Best Fit |
| Terminally uncool and ingenious, Paramore have been at the intersection between the alternative and mainstream for more than a decade. | | |
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 | The Drum |
| While search and discovery sound similar -- and they are -- they are also two distinct concepts in marketing. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| "The Times" correspondent Maggie Haberman discusses covering a chaotic Administration, the rival gangs inside the White House, and more. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| "People have a sort of voyeuristic nature about them ... they want to see someone on the beach in Anguilla or on a yacht and looking amazing and flawless in a bikini." | | |
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 | Waypoint |
| When detainees need relief, they turn to Harry Potter and PS3 games. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The 'Dunkirk' director has been loudly dismissive of the company’s policy on theatrical releases-but he’s really just arguing for a different streaming model. | | |
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 | recode |
| Hot Pod is a widely read newsletter about the podcast industry. You should read it. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| The British army was in full retreat, but suddenly German tanks were halted--twice. Hitler later said he gave Churchill ‘a sporting chance’ of survival. Churchill wasn’t interested. | | |
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