There's no profit in the anger business. | | | | Matt Bomer is Hollywoood wunderkind Monroe Stahr in Amazon's "The Last Tycoon"
(Amazon) | | | | | | “There's no profit in the anger business.”
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| | rantnrave:// That healthcare vote was high drama. I stayed up to see it. I think we should watch Senate votes more often. But then I couldn't sleep. So I decided to start watching AMAZON's THE LAST TYCOON. Thus, late publish today. Based on an unfinished novel by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD which was adapted into a movie in 1976. This is the show version. The story follows MONROE STAHR (based on IRVING THALBERG) and his ascent in HOLLYWOOD and the relationships and tragedy surrounding him. I love the history and folklore of Hollywood and it's inner workings. Gossip and all. I'm 5 episodes in. It's not a perfect show but one with great promise. And it gets better each episode. MATT BOMER, LILY COLLINS, SAUL RUBINEK, JENNFIER BEALS, KELSEY GRAMMER and the entire cast are very good. Grammer has many scene stealing lines ala SER BRONN of GAME OF THRONES. He's perfect in the role. So is Beals. There's a huge opportunity here for the show to take the window into the universe it's set in (like FARGO and HANDMAID'S TALE) and go beyond where the book and film did. Incorporating historical figures and events that trace the rise and battles of HOLLYWOOD. Of note are the battles the studios had with NAZI GERMANY around content and film distribution. I'm in and sticking with it. Congrats to my friends at Amazon on this... Did you know ROBERT DE NIRO’s TAXI DRIVER monologue was ad-libbed? Or that the TRAINSPOTTING actors had to re-record their lines so American audiences could understand them? Learn more secrets from the set from those who were there in MediaSET: "Movie Oral Histories, Vol. 2". WARNING: Huge awesome time suck... Audiences and artists love SOUNDCLOUD. Is any music streaming service as beloved? So is the revolutionary service in trouble? And what can be done about it, why does it matter and why does everyone love it so much in the first place? MusicREDEF's MATTY KARAS takes a look in MusicSET: "SoundCloudy Future"... Happy Birthday to RICHARD GREENFIELD, RUZWANA BASHIR, AMANDA MARKS, LILY NEUMEYER, BILLY PARKS, CHRISTOPHER M. SCHROEDER, and DAVE SMITH. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| A 28-year-old law student takes on the “Everything Store” by questioning whether antitrust law is ready to deal with a winner-take-all economy. | | |
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| The beauty of Saguache County can be inconvenient, particularly in the 21st century. | | |
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| The US government ruled Mikhail Lesin’s death an accident, but multiple intelligence and law enforcement officials suspect it was a Russian hit. The government is withholding information so today Buzz | | |
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| Why doctors are turning to a club drug for treatment. | | |
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| A mysterious assault. An unsolved murder. And a ship that hasn’t given up all its secrets. | | |
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| Tastemade’s Larry Fitzgibbon and Eater’s Helen Rosner talk with Recode’s Peter Kafka on the latest Recode Media. | | |
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| "Got crack all in my drawers, I'm just honest." - Future, Are you an honest person? I'll bet that you answered "yes." If you did, who else do you know that's completely honest? I'll bet that was much harder to answer. | | |
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| Charlize Theron discusses her new action film 'Atomic Blonde', auditioning with a poor English accent, Johnny Depp’s presence, Tobey Maguire's gambling, chatting with De Niro, consulting Patty Jenkins on 'Monster', overcoming a neck injury, working with Seth MacFarlane, and the loss of irony. | | |
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| Vintage shopping in New York City has come a long way since the 1960s. A look back on how we got where we are today. | | |
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| George Foster had been a professor at Stanford's business school for about a dozen years, long enough to be established after moving to the States from Australia, when the sports bug tugged at him hard enough that he thought about developing a sports management course. Fond of the co-teaching | | |
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| The dark origins of Peter Pan cast the whole story in a different light. | | |
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| Meet Gaston Grant, one of the very few black owner-trainers in horseracing-and almost certainly the only one who also works full-time at UPS. | | |
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| If you're a Facebook user, you've probably used your Facebook account to log into another site or app, or clicked the Facebook share or like button on a news site. If you're a developer, you're no doubt familiar with Facebook Open Graph, mobile app ads, App Links and the Facebook Audience Network. | | |
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| Hollywood is aggressively adapting material that doesn’t have a narrative or even any characters. But not all intellectual property is created equal. | | |
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| The social platform was in bad shape last year, but it found an unlikely support system in an antihero. | | |
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| Robert Pattinson talks about getting expelled for selling porn, dating & fame, how he was almost fired from "Twilight" for not smiling enough, and more. | | |
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| As the ultra-Orthodox pass new measures governing prayer at the Western Wall and religious conversion, a rift is growing between Israel and American Jews. | | |
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| The cost of tech-heavy enhancements to a car’s interior are only rising, but OEMs aren’t able to recoup those costs. | | |
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| Columbia Journalism Review |
| "I go among people who are in some way involved in lifestyles or belief systems that are outside the mainstream, but also have a profound moral dimension to them where their view is often questionable, controversial, sometimes hateful, and I attempt to build relationships with them and get to know them ideally over a period of days or even weeks." | | |
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| Tom Snyder sat down with Howard Stern in 1991. It did not go well. | | |
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| An in-depth story about Sheer Mag, a rock group from Philadelphia that reached cult status before they’d ever put out an album. | | |
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| As the recent Lawrence Field Day Festival illustrates, indie rock may be artistically benefiting from an increasingly marginalized status in the music world. | | |
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| What did it take for the most famous and widely read American film critic ever to hand out his lowest possible rating, issued only a few dozen times in a 10,000-plus review career? | | |
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| All of the pieces are coming together for Apple to sell glasses. Using fashion and luxury lessons learned from selling Apple Watch, Apple will enter the glasses industry and in the process launch its first product category designed specifically for the augmented reality (AR) era. | | |
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