Op-Ed Contributor Smartphones Don’t Make Us Dumb Credit... Adam Maida AS much as we love our digital devices, many of us have an uneasy sense that they are destroying our attention spans. We skitter f
“People skills” are almost always assumed to be a good thing. Search employment ads and you will find them listed as a qualification for a startling array of jobs, including Applebee’s host, weight-lo
Vinay Gupta: disaster consultant and global resilience guru "You know that scene in Jurassic Park where they're being chased by the Tyrannosaur? And Jeff Goldblum is in the back of the Jeep watching t
Syfy ’s upcoming drama “ The Expanse ” has the potential to change the game in a major way for science fiction on television: The series, starring Thomas Jane, Shohreh Aghdashloo and an intriguing ens
Brett Ratner ’s name conveys memories of big Hollywood productions ranging from the “Rush Hour” series to “X-Men: The Last Stand.” But there’s another side to Ratner that fewer people recognize: With
Published in But what was the question? · 24 min read · Nov 3, 2014 -- This is the in-depth version of my column posted in Dezeen o n 30 October 2014 , around the impact of predictive analytics on cit
There’s a growing segment of the American population that earns a decent salary but lives paycheck-to-paycheck: the income-rich and asset-poor. Empty bank balances are often associated with those on t
Shortly after Jill Alexander Essbaum’s novel Hausfrau was published in the spring, the New York Times book critic Janet Maslin dismissed the novel on the basis of the main female character being an “i
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Tuesday | June 1, 2010 open printable version The Puffy Chair (2005) . Mark: [The actors] need to improvise. They need to find the moments, and we don’t let them lean on the script too much. We want t
O ne night in late 1932, a Philadelphia businessman named Charles Todd and his wife, Olive, introduced their friends Charles and Esther Darrow to a real-estate board game they had recently learned. As
Basic toys without sounds or lights, like blocks, may be best for a child's development. Yana Paskova for The New York Times Baby laptops, baby cellphones, talking farms — these are the whirring, whiz
Sunday | December 13, 2015 open printable version Panic in the Streets (1950). “It’s where you put the camera and what’s in front of you [that’s important],” Deakins said . “There’s too much obsession
One day, Gregor Samza woke up to discover he had been transformed into a giant cockroach. Many years later in a galaxy far, far away, his further-mutated heirs colonized the planet Arieka and establis
Empty nests make for empty streets and shopping malls. When children grow up and need to move away, they leave ghost suburbs behind. The retired, and the retiring, are holding on to family homes in sp
A 26-year-old MIT graduate is turning heads over his theory that income inequality is actually about housing (in 1 graph) Published in The Ferenstein Wire · 3 min read · Mar 25, 2015 -- Source: Matthe
What do you say when you pick up the phone? You say "hello," of course. What do you say when someone introduces a friend, a relative, anybody at all? You say "hello." Hello has to have been the standa
The author lost a truck to an impound lot like this because she couldn’t pay the storage fees. Photo by tsuacctnt via Flickr Excerpted from Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado.
Maya-Anaïs Yataghène Showing scant respect for the many victims of the Paris attacks, government officials and pundits have been quick to exploit public anger and fear to advance their own agendas. As
image: Shutterstock There’s this thing that happens whenever I speak about or write about women’s issues. Things like dress codes, rape culture and sexism. I get the comments: Aren’t there more important things to worry about? Is this really that big of a deal? Aren’t you being overly sensitive? Are…
If you want to meet the smartest man in Hollywood, head east from Grauman's Chinese Theatre until the Walk of Fame fades into a barren stretch of dental clinics and Filipino restaurants and enter a ta
Fall 2015 The Director’s Chair Taylor Hackford’s great enthusiasm for music, dance, and life comes through in such far-ranging films as An Officer and a Gentleman , Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll , and Ray
It’s a movie classic. The lovers are out for a walk when a villain dashes out of his house and starts fighting the man. The woman takes refuge in the house; having seen off his rival, the villain re-e
Who works for a company? That may seem like a simple question, but the reality is that companies collaborate constantly with people who are not their employees. There are ad-hoc collaborators, contrac
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After 23 studio releases, master filmmaker Ridley Scott begins each new project the exact same way. The iconic director, whose fall blockbuster “ The Martian ” has earned Scott his best reviews in yea
Creating a TV show based on 12 Monkeys is a daunting prospect. There's the closed-ended movie storyline, plus all that twisty time-travel. Luckily, the showrunner of 12 Monkeys , Natalie Chaidez, was
50 Ways Happier, Healthier, And More Successful People Live On Their Own Terms 1. Stop consuming caffeine Although people think they perform better on caffeine, the truth is, they really don’t . Actually, we’ve become so dependent on caffeine that we use it to simply get back to our status-quo. When…
T he rope swing looked inviting. Photos of it on Airbnb brought my family to the cottage in Texas. Hanging from a tree as casually as baggy jeans, the swing was the essence of leisure, of Southern hos
One. Zero. One. Zero. One. That is the number of women of color who directed episodes of television in the 2014-2015 TV season at AMC, FX, HBO, Netflix and Showtime, respectively. Only one zero is nee
This story first appeared in the Nov. 20 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe . Did Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Revenant really cost $200 million? “Oh
Director and producer Thomas Schlamme has come to define a certain substrain of television dramas: those shows about the very human people who do great work, whether that’s running the country in the
Navy SEALs possess extraordinary mental toughness. Getty Mental strength isn't often reflected in what you do . Advertisement Advertisement It's usually seen in what you don't do. In her book, " 13 Th
I t’s interesting to think about the things you want to accomplish in life and work towards those goals. This is, after all, what we’ve been taught to do since birth. But over time we accumulate other
Summer 2006 Power Pilots With TV networks demanding bigger and better programs, the pressure on pilot directors is greater than ever. Nowadays, it takes skill, cunning and luck to launch a successful
I recently wrote a for Indiewire about why every actor (or filmmaker, for that matter) should make a web series , but before you take the plunge, there are some basic things you can do to ensure that
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