Culture At 18, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is Still Revolutionary No show since has empowered its teenage heroine in such a subversive, engaging way. March 10, 2015 Saved Stories Eighteen years ago, Buff
In 1992, Archie Karas, then a waiter, headed out to Las Vegas. By 1995, he had turned $50 into $40 million, in what has become known as the biggest winning streak in gambling history. Most of us would
The idea of the virtuous early bird goes back at least to Aristotle, who wrote, in his Economics, that “Rising before daylight is … to be commended; it is a healthy habit.” Benjamin Franklin , of cour
This story first appeared in the Dec. 12 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. In the winter of 2013, just a few days after turning 28, Damien Chazelle slogged through the snow in Park City for hi
Brian Hunt and I sat under a redwood tree in his rutted, gravel driveway in a rural part of Sonoma County, California. We were somewhere around Santa Rosa, but I couldn’t say where, and nor could my d
The “Stupid manager theory of company failure” (and its corollary, the “Smart manager theory of company success” 1 ) remains the most popular, perhaps even the most universally accepted theory of mana
Freud asserted that daydreaming is essential to creative writing — something a number of famous creators and theorists intuited in asserting that unconscious processing is essential to how creativity
“I think I’ve only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing,” Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Katherine Anne Porter confessed in a 1963 interview . “The other ninety percent went to keeping my
‘One coward may lose a battle, one battle may lose a war, and one war may lose a country.’ This was Rear-Admiral and Conservative MP Tufton Beamish speaking to the House of Commons in 1930, giving voi
L ooking west from the scrub and boulders of the Sandia Mountains, the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, sprawls across the valley of the Rio Grande, surrounded by the vast openness of the high desert.
From the very beginning—which I guess is also the middle and the end if you follow the bent logic involved and arrange events by some scheme other than strict chronological order—there was never any w
W hy are we still so obsessed with the Nazis? Hardly a day goes by without a television programme or a newspaper article about them. Movies featuring them continue to pour out of the studios, from Tar
The Equalizer manages to be fun despite its heavy-handed power fantasy premise. Released September 26th. Stars: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz. Director: Antoine Fuqua. Distribu
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The iconic repeated image of a Michael Mann film is a man with a gun, which sounds like a ridiculous statement–men and their guns have been an iconic part of many if not most films, going back to The
A decade ago, the primary focus of independent horror moviemakers was making a good horror movie , knowing that if they did their job well, they were virtually guaranteed to find an audience and make
Modern Love To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This Credit... Brian Rea More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer,
Estimates set the death toll for Mexico's War on Drugs as more than 120,000 killed and a further 27,000 missing. But how close is victory? Mexican military hold Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera,
Written by an actual teen Published in Backchannel · 14 min read · Jan 3, 2015 -- I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience,
LA Confidential could have been the title for True Detective , as L. A. Confidential , more James Ellroy’s novel than the Curtis Hanson film, serves as a good example of this kind of story. There’s a
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.” –Frank Costello (played by Jack Nicholson), The Departed The Academy may have selected a silent film, The
In six seconds, you’ll hate me. But in six months, you’ll be a better writer. From this point forward – at least for the next half year – you may not use “thought” verbs. These include: Thinks, Knows,
Pronounce the word artist , to conjure up the image of a solitary genius. A sacred aura still attaches to the word, a sense of one in contact with the numinous. “He’s an artist ,” we’ll say in tones o
What is music? There’s no end to the parade of philosophers who have wondered about this, but most of us feel confident saying: ‘I know it when I hear it.’ Still, judgments of musicality are notorious
Work, friendships, exercise, parenting, eating, reading — there just aren’t enough hours in the day. To live fully, many of us carve those extra hours out of our sleep time. Then we pay for it the nex
Scientific talks can get a little dry, so I try to mix it up. I take out my giant hairy orangutan puppet, do some ventriloquism and quickly become entangled in an argument. I’ll be explaining my theor
There’s nothing like a riot to bring out the amateur psychologist in all of us. Consider what happened in August 2011, after police killed Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old man from the London suburb of Tott
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In the middle of every month, when the moon is full, and straight after payday, Louise meets Tom in a smart hotel in north Sydney to indulge in what she calls ‘my little ritual’. She lays out a bottle
Imagine you’re a traveller in a strange land. A local approaches you and starts jabbering away in an unfamiliar language. He seems earnest, and is pointing off somewhere. But you can’t decipher the wo
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in December 2014. We’ve selected it as one of the posts we’re republishing for our 10th anniversary celebrations in May 2017. Earlier this year, John
At the opening night of the Victorian College of the Arts graduate film screening season this month, keynote speaker Clayton Jacobson (writer/director of Kenny , 2006) mentioned to the audience his be
This story first appeared in the 2014 Women in Entertainment issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. For the past year, I have been the director/executive producer of Homeland season four on Showtim
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Comcast CFO Michael Angelakis held an investor conference this morning where he shared this nugget : "The studio will have the most profitable year this year in its history. We will have the most prof
Photo by Benjamin Thompson A FEW WEEKS AGO, I went to a hotel in West Hollywood for a dinner in honor of playwrights working in film and TV. The event was hosted by the screenwriting organization The
W hat do we call this time? It’s not the information age: the collapse of popular education movements left a void filled by marketing and conspiracy theories . Like the stone age, iron age and space a
The Secret Life of Passwords Howard Lutnick had to rebuild Cantor Fitzgerald after losing nearly 700 people on Sept. 11, 2001, beginning with a search for the passwords only they knew. Credit... Lesly
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