What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts. | | | | Christian Bale delivers one of the most remarkable acting debuts in Steven Spielberg's "Empire of The Sun". 1987.
(Warner Bros.) | | | | |  | “What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.”
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| | rantnrave:// I knew something was wrong at home when I was around 7 years old. By 12, my father had left and that was the end of the family unit I thought I wanted. At the time, I don't think I understood the impact. I started to withdraw from family and went deep into music, movies and television. Those were my escapes. And I was very influenced by them. I wanted THE BRADY BUNCH. Or the world to be like a FRANK CAPRA movie. The movies painted a picture of how I wanted life to be. TV often showed the perfect family. I used to sleep over at my childhood best friend's house, ANDY STEIN. He had the kind of family I wanted. THE STEINS did it right. As a family. Even when the kids misbehaved, they had to go in the den and talk to MOM and DAD. I loved that because I didn't have it. They knew it and always welcomed me. These sadnesses shaped me and created some my greatest strengths, survival techniques and also my greatest weaknesses like the ability to trust. Many of the movies I lost myself in were the brainchild of director STEVEN SPIELBERG. Back then, it was about CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND with aliens and hanging with E.T. or the adventures of a child caught in war in EMPIRE OF THE SUN. They were epics and that was the attraction. After watching the HBO doc, it becomes clear that the real draw was different. The narratives of a broken home, the resulting loneliness and visuals and sentiment on how life should be is what moved me. Spielberg's family went through the same thing. In fact, very similar: his mother left his father for his best friend. It was reverse in my family. Those experiences gave him a sensitivity. Especially with and for kids. We spend a lifetime getting over the pains of youth. It's worse when you realize it later in life, but still healthy to realize it. Spielberg wanted a FATHER KNOWS BEST family. He didn't get it, but what resulted brought comfort, entertainment, inspiration and maybe most important, aspiration to the whole world. If you didn't think those films were deep, rewatch all of them with this through line... I started my first business in high school. I started promoting "parties" for teens in NYC schools. We all tried to go to bars and clubs, but after a tragic murder there was a crackdown. I mostly did it to meet girls and make some extra money. I was serious about it for a few years. But never took it to full-time business level. The generation after me did. Two of my old friends in particular. NOAH TEPPERBERG and JASON STRAUSS of THE TAO GROUP. What they've built with their partners MARC PACKER and RICH WOLF spans the globe and has become a club, restaurant, and lounge empire. From great food at places like LAVO, BEAUTY & ESSEX and AVRA ESTIATORIO to huge clubs like TAO and MARQUEE to celebrity-lined lounges like AVENUE. They went from "promoters" to owners. And their experiences are the best in the world. Just check out the entire city block they just built out in HOLLYWOOD. Tao, B&E, DREAM HOTEL, THE HIGHLIGHT ROOM (a rooftop lounge that is breathtaking at night) and their new pizza joint concept, LUCHINI. And now a new members-only suite at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, SUITE SIXTEEN. I truly love when my friends do well. Especially, the creative ones. They even lecture at HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL each year. These guys and their partners and impressive... BRAVO!... Every founder CEO is a hypeman/woman. OK, not CRAIG NEWMARK but mostly. The degrees vary. Truth gets in there sometimes too... Happy Birthday to TOM GLOCER, LISA SUGAR, STEVE SAVOCA, DIANE VAN HORN, and ANDREW STALBOW. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| A litany of scandals in recent years have made the corruption of college sports constant front-page news. We profess outrage each time we learn that yet another student-athlete has been taking money under the table. But the real scandal is the very structure of college sports, wherein student-athletes generate billions of dollars for universities and private companies while earning nothing for themselves. Here, a leading civil-rights historian makes the case for paying college... | | |
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 | Lawfare |
| Incentivizing ethical hacking, rather than pursuing only traditional forms of regulation, could help prevent major breaches. | | |
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 | Data & Society: Points |
| In 1998, two graduate students at Stanford decided to try to “fix” the problems with major search engines. Sergey Brin and Larry Page wrote a paper describing how their PageRank algorithm could eliminate the plethora of “junk results.” Their idea, which we all now know as the foundation of Google, was critical. But it didn’t stop people from trying to mess with their system. In fact, the rise of Google only increased the sophistication of those invested in search engine optimization. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Every day it’s something. Or 10 somethings. Can we really live with three more years of this, let alone seven? | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| From artificial intelligence to cheap smartphones, Google is on the frontline of technological development. But is it growing too big and moving too fast? A rare interview with Google’s boss | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Kesha opens up about beating a life-threatening eating disorder, and how her personal struggles informed her new Number One LP, 'Rainbow.' | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| The company’s operation in Michigan reveals how it’s dominated the industry by going into economically depressed areas with lax water laws. | | |
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 | kottke.org |
| Like many of you, I awoke this morning to the news of a single person killing more than 50 people in Las Vegas last night. While this is an outrageous and horrifying event, it isn't surprising or shocking in any way in a country where more than 33,000 people die from gun violence each year and guns that can fire dozens of rounds a minute are perfectly legal. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| The Terminator is suiting up for a new adversary: Donald Trump. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Ignore "Jerry Maguire" -- you don’t need someone to complete you. | | |
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 | Salon |
| Salon talks to the Midwest Director of the Anti-Defamation League about the emboldening of hate by the right | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| With a veteran television exec, talent like Demi Lovato and Google's $86 billion in cash, the platform known for skateboarding videos and tween vloggers wants to join the battle to become a prestige TV player. "I want our shows to resonate in a big way with audiences," says content head Susanne Daniels. "And once that happens, we'll be on that list - like it or not." | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| In political debates we assume wisdom resides with us and not our opponents. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with that; it's the reason we hold the views we do. | | |
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 | Lapham’s Quarterly |
| How Ludwig II's love for Richard Wagner inspired the world's greatest work of fan art. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Leading neuroscientist Matthew Walker on why sleep deprivation is increasing our risk of cancer, heart attack and Alzheimer’s -- and what you can do about it. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| In an era when standing pat means losing ground, the defending champs got serious about taking a chance on one of the NBA’s silliest players-and are actively encouraging Swaggy P to look for his 3-point shot. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| "I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy, strawman tech cos" wrote Facebook.. | | |
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 | Project Syndicate |
| We are living in a brave new world of disinformation and propaganda, and as long as only its purveyors have the data needed to understand it, the responses we craft will remain inadequate. Because they are also likely to be poorly targeted, they may even end up doing more harm than good. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| A year on from its controversial elections, Gabon is still feeling the social, political and economic effects, as is its rap scene. | | |
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 | Nature |
| Hany Farid discusses how to detect image manipulations - and the increasing sophistication of forgers. | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| The cyberthreat from China is one more of espionage than destruction. And it's changing -- perhaps even lessening. | | |
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 | A.V. Club |
| According to WhoSampled, that endlessly useful resource for determining which artists should probably be sued, bits of "Blade Runner" have been paid homage to-and straight-up pilfered-more than 80 times in the past 35 years, turning up in works from everyone from Ryuichi Sakamoto to Sigue Sigue Sputnik. | | |
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