Honestly, it makes a sick sort of sense in football. Most guys who get to the league have been playing the sport or training for it year-round for anywhere from 11-15 years before they even hit the NFL. A year sabbatical must do wonders for healing the body.

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*stares in Frank William Abignale Jr.*

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*puts tinfoil hat on* Might be a good time for Americans to learn that the biggest development in the world of petroleum over the last 15 years was the discovery of massive reserves in Guyanese waters, and that the US government is attacking Venezuela because both want Guyana's petroleum.

Off the top of my head? Everything, Everywhere, All At Once SINNERS Killers of the Flower Moon Puss N' Boots: The Last Wish Prey The Zone of Interest Top Gun: Maverick Dune Pt. 1 The Brutalist The Boy and the Heron Triangle of Sadness Not been a terrible decade for film, just a lean one.

I'll beat this point into the ground again and again if I have to, but watching young kids losing their whole paycheck to gambling addictions today feels like watching the tragedy of my generation destroying itself with opioids all over again. I hate sports betting apps deep in my soul.

As someone who's driven the Oresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmo, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway can fuck off

Best Bond Film Per Actor: Connery: Thunderball Lazenby: On Her Majesty's Secret Service Moore: The Spy Who Loved Me Dalton: License to Kill Brosnan: Goldeneye Craig: Casino Royale

I'm not huge on college football, but they have the right overtime rules for the sport and have for some time now.

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Perfect time to re-up Rolling Stone's excellent reporting from two years ago:

I don't live in the Triangle and can't do a whole lot to actively protest this decision if it's made, but I will deny the Canes my eyeballs, my money, and my attention if they do choose to move forward here. Moreover, I will encourage every other Canes fan outside NC to do the same.

In related news, I would like to sell Sally Roberts a bridge

*old man voice* Back in my day, they would hand you a Game Boy with a copy of Tetris and either Pokemon Red or Blue, and you figured it out from there! (Jokes aside, OP is 100% onto something)

At best, you could theoretically place high shipping costs on equipment rented from American production houses which films often do ship abroad for principal photography, but even in that case, productions will just rent from houses abroad as the default.

Not the first time Trump has floated this idea, and it's pretty much impossible to enforce, frankly. What're you gonna do, big man, seize the digital assets at customs? Tax incentives, rebates, and other measures are widely understood to be the answer to attracting more productions back to the US

Controlled Opposition: A party or group that stands as a placeholder for the opposition, but who are ultimately completely ineffective and therefore everything is "controlled" by the ruling parties, without necessarily a direct conspiracy taking place.

Couple notes: 1. There is no way to create an enforcement mechanism for this 2. Even were there a mechanism to enforce this, it's impossible to make that enforcement mechanism effective in a digital environment 3. Even if points 1 & 2 are wrong, all film production would just move out of the US

What boggles my mind is that people like Wright either don't realize the race to lead the energy transition is over (the Chinese have lapped us several times) or they do, and they think the proper economic response to losing is the equivalent of challenging Microsoft with a new typewriter.

The first rule of Project Mayhem is that you do not ask questions

I have witnessed many comedians find the right stage for their craft in the most uncommon of places, but I never expected a generational comedic talent to find their niche via becoming NYC's mayor. Eric Adams is a titan.

Sometimes I think headline writers wake up every morning, take a long look in the mirror, and say to themselves, "I'm going to ruin Ian Betteridge's day today."

Words fail. Suffice to say, I fully endorse fans withholding their hard-earned money if Dundon goes on this pathetic crusade.

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Claudia Cardinale was simply remarkable. It's a rare actor who can put on a compelling performance when paired with the likes of Burt Lancaster, Marcello Mastroianni, or Peter Sellers, but she brought something special and enigmatic to the screen every time. A legend. May she R.I.P.

Setting usual ironic detachment aside: give me this version of masculinity

The Thick Man Touchdown: quite simply the greatest play in all of sports

Smoothest. Operation. Ever. VAMOS CARLOS!!!

What movie do you consider perfect? I always throw out Apocalypse Now (because it is), so let me go into my bag for a different choice this time around: The hardest part of parody is commitment. Airplane is a marvel in that regard. A full cast committed to the dumbest gags ever written (laudatory)

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First artists who come to mind are Steely Dan, Dire Straits, Bonnie Raitt, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Buffett and James Taylor

The one thing Gene Kelly is always going to do is dance the motherloving FUCK out of a scene. A legend.

The Canes fuck more shit up while I’m in flight without internet access? They sign any if those 5 shitbags and we’ll have a new podcast for sure. No morality in the face of money, no ethical standards at all.

2 Thoughts: Either we're getting the Mad Hatter OR Reeves is pushing through with his desire to do "Heart of Ice" as a film, and he's giving us True Neutral Mr. Freeze.

There's an engineering adage I love that I feel applies here: "The thing does what it is supposed to do" Might be time to stop asking whether these demos sell people on a product and to start asking if these demos are simply for other grifters to enable them to keep the carousel spinning.

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Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score This film is not Citizen Kane. It has no revelations on the condition of being to offer you. It is mindless, but it is free. It exists only for itself, and is therefore art.

Let me tell y'all about a magical place on the Upper East Side of Manhattan called Ethyl's that has run this movie on no fewer than three times I've been there.

Darren Aronofsky did a guest lecture in one of my entertainment business classes during college and answered a question I had about producing.

Who needs modern technology when you already know how to fly?

Football is BACK

I'm just glad the ACC is giving everyone weekly reminders now that it will always and forever be a basketball conference

Somewhere out there, a college coach is looking at this formation and salivating over the thought of calling a weak-side power run off the right tackle.

Make a band singular: He Might Be A Giant

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In 1984, neo-Nazis in Denver hunted down and assassinated Jewish radio host Alan Berg, a pundit known for his fiery debates with right-wing extremists on-air. The incident is largely credited as being the first in a wave of political violence that has now persisted for 41 years.

Age verification: The first smartphone was released after my junior year of high school

"Son, we live a world that has grains, and those grains have to be protected by men with yeast. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg?"

I will need to play Silksong on my own to make my own determination, but this is in line with a lot of critiques I've heard about the game. It sounds to me like a carryover of how popular SoulsBorne games have become in the last decade. To which I say, the majority of games should be forgiving.