“There’s a very strong correlation between having the confidence, going up and talking to a woman, and being quick on your feet and having some personality and confidence and being articulate and confident, than it is walking into a high school and recruiting a kid and selling him.”
James Franklin obviously did not get that the point of that scene in Moneyball was that the stodgy old scout was stodgy and old.
Vanderbilt Football Coach Will Not Hire Assistants Until He’s Seen What Their Wives Look Like
THE Golden Record | The Fox Is Black
Not the last RIM job headline we’ll see, I suspect | JIMROMENESKO.COM
![“The shame is that [Will] Smith had the perfect role for a comeback in his grasp, written precisely for him by one of our most respected filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino had conceived the title role of Django Unchained specifically for Smith … but Smith, at this level of global fame, didn’t have the fortitude to take the risk of playing a slave battling an evil plantation owner (played by Leonardo DiCaprio; imagine, DiCaprio vs. Smith, in a Tarantino movie!).”
Emphasis mine.
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“The shame is that [Will] Smith had the perfect role for a comeback in his grasp, written precisely for him by one of our most respected filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino had conceived the title role of Django Unchained specifically for Smith … but Smith, at this level of global fame, didn’t have the fortitude to take the risk of playing a slave battling an evil plantation owner (played by Leonardo DiCaprio; imagine, DiCaprio vs. Smith, in a Tarantino movie!).”
Emphasis mine.
Will Smith Has Left And Gone Away
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SO COOL: A cinematic timeline of the Marvel Universe.
Where is the “Misadventures in Filler Text” Tumblr?
Switching from Google to Bing is “on the order of switching from Tide to the supermarket brand. There are some differences between the two, but only obsessives will notice that anything is off.”
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“The most divisive finale of recent years (outside of maybe Battlestar Galactica’s), would have to be Lost’s, which tends to cleave people based in part on what they really want from a finale: to be comforted or chilled. I could make the case for Lost’s finale on a meta level. I could talk about Lost as a ‘story about stories’—as I often did when I was writing about the show—and talk about how satisfying ‘The End’ is for the way it acknowledges the significance of these characters as characters, connected solely by the power of a narrative. But on a more basic level, I have to acknowledge that the Lost writers did flinch a bit. They looked for a way to deliver a sentimental, Friends/Frasier kind of ending—by reuniting most of the main characters in a kind of purgatorial dimension, before sending them off to the afterlife together—and in so doing they backed away from some of the tougher ideas that the show had bandied about for the previous six years.
“I still like the Lost finale. I think it works as an episode of television, if not necessarily as the ending to an epic tale. ‘The End’ is funny at times, exciting at times, and moving at times, and who knows? When I finally get around to re-watching the entire series (as I hope to do someday soon), I may even find that it finishes the story more suitably than I currently believe. For now though, I’ll stick with what I wrote in 2010: ‘If you consider Lost to be one long story, I’m not sure that anyone was thinking after the first chapter, ‘I wonder what happens to these people after they die?” The Lost creative team went in the direction they did because they were more interested in character arcs and redemptive spiritual journeys than in mythology and mysteries, which is fine. It doesn’t make me think any less of ‘Ab Aeterno,’ or ‘Jughead,’ or ‘The Constant,’ or ‘The Man Behind The Curtain,’ or ‘Walkabout.’”
What do we want from a TV finale? | TV | For Our Consideration | The A.V. Club
The Avengers Inside Hopper’s Iconic Nighthawks Painting
Ginsberg is the Silver Surfer and Megan Draper is Galactus. This is one of the best pop culture analogies I’ve ever read.
How Much Would The Avengers New York City Damage Cost? | NewsFeed | TIME.com
I’ve always wondered this. In the comic books, New York gets destroyed at least once per year.
“Four years ago, Twitter was in relative infancy and just 1.8 million tweets were sent on Election Day 2008. Now, Twitter gets that many approximately every eight minutes.”
Twitter plays outsize role in 2012 campaign | www.kirotv.com
Shut Down Your Abandoned MySpace Account Using This Humiliating Trick