It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten. | | In 1979, a small-budget movie, OVER THE EDGE, was released in just a handful of theaters only to be pulled a few days later due to concerns that audiences would riot. Click here. (Orion Pictures) | | | | “It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.” |
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| rantnrave:// Light today, but some great reading, as I'm exhausted from ENGLAND's Brexit from the WORLD CUP. Congrats to CROATIA. They were the better team with impressive stamina... So SARAH PALIN, the beginning of the sharp decline of the GOP and American politics, claims she was duped by the great SACHA BARON COHEN. How is that now the most meta thing in the history of the universe?... For the first time in years, there's tangible optimism in the music business, and some leading companies are taking that optimism to WALL STREET. Are we in a music bull market? MusicREDEF's MATTY KARAS takes a look in MusicSET: "The Year of the Music IPO? "... For four years, REDEF has been charting how NETFLIX was misunderstood, what it was trying to achieve and what it would take to get there. MATT BALL takes a look back at all our pieces in MediaSET: "Signed Up and Hooked In: Netflix's Misunderstood Path to Domination"... Sat in a banquet at SOHO HOUSE WEST HOLLYWOOD and watched FIFA WORLD CUP and ate. Then worked and ate. And hung and ate. So I had to pay on the elliptical for 2 hours ... My friend JOHN AVLON married his reach school. And oh, FIRING LINE is coming back... Happy Birthday to BRIAN GRAZER, ROB STONE, LEE ROLONTZ, OLIVER LUCKETT, SAMANTHA ETTUS, SAM EPSTEIN, NICHOLAS GRAD, CLAUDIA LEWIS, REBECCA WEINTRAUB MATURA, and STEVEN CUTLER | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| For more than a year, some of the most powerful women in entertainment - including Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, Stacey Snider and a ‘Homeland’ director - have been impersonated by a cunning thief who targets insiders with promises of work, then bilks them out of thousands of dollars. The Hollywood Reporter has obtained exclusive audio recordings of the savvy imposter as victims come forward and a global investigation heats up. | |
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With a summit ahead, Trump works with Putin to cover up Moscow's attack on the US. | |
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Seven years after its secretive launch, X is starting to spawn mind-blowing companies--and show us what an ever expanding Google means for the world. | |
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Moving past "Planet of the Apps" and "Carpool Karaoke," Apple is believed to be spending $1 billion or more on its first high-budget TV shows, which could hit screens as soon as March 2019. Here are the ones we know about so far, and a rolling series of updates including the addition of a new director for one of Apple's shows on July 11. | |
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In today's politicized climate, the band's appeals to "unity" and "this is America" don't make a big impression. | |
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Five years ago, 25-year-old radical libertarian Cody Wilson stood on a remote central Texas gun range and pulled the trigger on the world's first fully 3-D-printed gun. When, to his relief, his plastic invention fired a .223-caliber bullet into a berm of dirt without jamming or exploding in his hands, he drove back to Austin and uploaded the blueprints for the pistol to his website, Defcad.com. | |
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With Trump fighting off scandals, Fox News still needs the "Hillary" villain. | |
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It's the best of the Disney offerings, folks. It deserves a new take on life. | |
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We take another look at how people find ways to play games everywhere. | |
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“Sorry to Bother You” is part of a long tradition of black artists’ critiquing whiteness through vocal imitation. | |
| "Our angle on the current state of journalism is this: The crisis of journalism and legacy news media is structural, and not just a matter of technological challenges or broken business models." | |
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Is meat the muscle of an animal? Or is it the remains of a living creature? If the former, this lab-grown stuff is meat. If the latter, it’s not. | |
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An arbitrary race that many have been following on Wall Street is, which company will be the first to reach a trillion dollar market capitalization? Currently, there are four legitimate contenders: Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft. However, the race to a trillion dollars ends up hiding a much more interesting development that has been unfolding on Wall Street. | |
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Don't need to ask you what you're doing on August 12, 2018. | |
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Because summer TV is all about forcing Jake Gyllenhaal and Yao Ming to jump off of cliffs and eat maggots. | |
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The grand European experiment of a shared currency, economy, and joint governance today faces unprecedented tests. Our panelists discuss NATO, Brexit, nationalism, and other topics. | |
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With the advent of body cameras and ubiquity of smartphones, videos of police shootings have brought the reality of the topic to the general public in a visceral way. Through social media and news reports, we often see these acts take place and make our own judgements on how justified the lethal use of force was. | |
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The new president of the New York City Transit Authority wants to make the trains (and buses) run on time. It won’t be easy. | |
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Troy Carter talks about growing up in Philadelphia, working with Lady Gaga, hip-hop's dominance, and Spotify's approach to working with artists. | |
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In fact, we’re already seeing signs of a new era dawning. | |
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The social credit system being developed by China is more like America's tech-surveillance state than many would like to admit. | |
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For its 65 million unique monthly visitors, the digital literature website/social networking app Wattpad is a kind of internet safe space. It's a nurturing, highly interactive community where its core 13- to 35-year-old readership spends around 20 billion combined minutes per month consuming and critiquing user-generated stories. | |
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