It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. | | | | Jessica Chastain plays my old friend Molly Bloom, who ran one of the most exclusive high-stakes poker games. "Molly's Game" was a hit at The Toronto Film Festival.
(STX Entertainment) | | | | |  | “It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”
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| | rantnrave:// What's up NEW YORK CITY?... I don't do it lightly. No one should. When you use your goodwill, respect and position to recommend something or someone and they turn out to be a disappointment or disaster, don't be shocked when those same people come back to you and say WTF! That's reality. In the mafia, they call it "vouching." And when a vouch doesn't work out, you know what happens? You get a dirt nap. Stumping or recommending is a responsibility. Own that s***... People who deliver gain status and enhanced reputation. They become a brand that screams quality. Good brands are important. They're navigators of the infinite. I don't go to a movie because it's a SONY movie. But I'd go for A24 or MIRAMAX (back in the day). In music: MOTOWN or SIRE or CREATION or SUB POP. In TV: HBO, SHOWTIME, NETFLIX, FX, AMC. They delivered. A person can be a brand too. And that is what KEN BURNS is. I would watch anything he's involved with. His PBS specials are events. RECODE's PETER KAFKA sits down with him to discuss his new VIETNAM project, how to tell a story, and how to learn from history. "One of my favorite interviews of last 2 years." I don't recall that kind of praise for my sit-down with Kafka. That said he did make fun of me for wanting to go longer than an hour. I could have gone on without him... JOHN OLIVER calls it “maybe the most influential media company that you've never heard of.” SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP is the largest broadcast company in AMERICA. They believe in local news and they're heavily partisan. Conservative. The current WHITE HOUSE loves them. Conservatives think media is liberal and biased. So they'll buy up more. And when the studios and networks start to trade, and they will, will they go after those? Should we be afraid? We take a look in "The Death Star of Conservative News?"... He was THE sitcom horse of the '90s. He's not anymore. And it kills him. One of the most critically acclaimed shows out there is a dark, animated comedy from NETFLIX. Big issues, big laughs and "lots of easter eggs." See what everyone is neighing about. "The Dark and Funny Genius of 'BoJack Horseman'"... "TRUMP's ethics chief" is the funniest job title since CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER... Sometimes you need some light escape to exotic locales. Like DYNASTY on the RIVIERA. Now on SUNDANCE NOW... Happy Birthday to OREN AVIV, ANDERS KLEMMER, and CHRIS ROOKE. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The California Sunday Magazine |
| What happens when tech leaders, like Y Combinator’s Sam Altman, believe our system is broken? They treat it like a startup. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| More than a dozen mentees of the late journalist remember the lessons he imparted. | | |
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 | The Marshall Project |
| In prison for 20 years, Michelle was chosen for Harvard's elite graduate history program. Then she was unchosen. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| Jean Pigozzi is well known for his eclectic art collection, but for four decades-well before camera phones and telescoping poles-he was the selfie king, posing with socialites, athletes, and Hollywood’s finest. Now he’s sharing those photos with the world in a new book, ME + CO, that proves his selfie-pioneer bona fides. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| How do you cool 7.5 billion people on a warming planet? | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Dr. Francesca Coppa and author of "The Fanfiction Reader," spoke with Billboard about how fandom allows young women to grow and socialize, how teens and girls are the ones really dictating what we see in culture and why this is only the beginning of Styles’s ascent to super stardom. | | |
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 | Refinery29 |
| Angling to get your street style picture taken is an important piece of the blogger-industrial complex. Just as Zanita Whittington. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| As the rules prohibiting the use of force are crumbling, we risk returning to a world where might is right and war is legal. | | |
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 | POLITICO |
| The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Elon Musk thinks it’s the most likely cause of WWIII. | | |
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 | ProPublica |
| After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring. | | |
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 | Variety |
| If music companies were brands, which labels did record nerds trust most? The results are in via an informal poll of critics, influencers, music industry veterans, and vinyl enthusiasts. | | |
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 | A.V. Club |
| "GLOW" opens with a dynamic and evocative introduction to the world of women's wrestling. Set to Scandal's "The Warrior," the title sequence uses rotoscoped, neon imagery to visualize the distinctly feminized spectacle that the Netflix series both captures and subverts over the course of its first season. | | |
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 | The Miami Herald |
| As evacuees try to return home but are stuck in traffic, scrambling for information on fuel, flooded roads and evacuation routes, the governor’s office controls the release of information, delays the release of bad news, and wants the governor to be the primary voice. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Take an inside look at the White Sox’s experiment with Justin Jirschele, the youngest coach in professional baseball. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| In Houston’s career twilight, when dew had turned to sweat, it was to her “black” voice and her black life that her instability was attributed. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| The study of languages has long been prone to nonsense. Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots? | | |
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 | Quartz |
| A migrant-run design workshop offers a grassroots solution to the immigration crisis. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| When top Yakuza leaders die, many funerals follow. On Tuesday a ‘revolutionary’ member of the organization was targeted. He lived. His bodyguard didn’t. A missed hit? Or a message? | | |
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| The Atlantic |
| Starting in the 1970s, a cohort of enterprising women set out to bring feminism and sex-positivity to the adult-toy industry. | | |
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 | Roads & Kingdoms |
| One man is building an entire industry from the ground up in a remote region banking big on a new superfood. | | |
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