I'm not a huge fan of confrontation, I have a business, and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals. | | | | Kevin Costner stars in YELLOWSTONE.
(Paramount Network) | | | | | |  | "I'm not a huge fan of confrontation, I have a business, and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// As WIKIPEDIA explains, "A dye pack is a radio-controlled incendiary device used by banks to foil a bank robbery by causing stolen cash to be permanently marked with dye shortly after a robbery." An analogy for those tarnished by the current administration. On Oct. 7, 2016, the dye didn't explode on the thief but on the security guard that let him get away. That was the day THE WASHINGTON POST's DAVID FAHRENTHOLD broke the monster scoop known as "P***YGATE." DONALD TRUMP having a lewd conversation with ACCESS HOLLYWOOD host BILLY BUSH. The off-air recording was around 11 years old and never aired until then. Within days of the story, Bush was fired by NBCUNIVERSAL. The other guy went on to destroy brand U.S.A. Go figure. Why fire Billy, who had just joined the TODAY SHOW on Aug. 8? Presumably as a long-term plan to lead the show after MATT LAUER. Was the offense a career killer? At first, I was interested in the Trump of it all, the mechanics of the leak, and the firing. It led to bigger issues. Billy may seem like an odd entry point, I get that. But I follow media for a living. A fascinating situation for many reasons. The nascent movements addressing sexual harassment, professional behavior, and accountability. The politics in the office and on the national stage. Internal rivalries. The fact that it was 11 years ago. The debate over degrees. Mistakes or offenses? How a company deals with these issues. Who stays and who goes? Employee training. Should someone lose their livelihood as a result? How long should the punishment be? Do we forgive, rehabilitate, and improve? I take a look and ask questions in "rantnraveXL: Thinking About Crimes, Punishments, Redemption and Billy Bush"... I walked up to TAYLOR SHERIDAN at SUNDANCE 2017 to tell him what an exceptional writer I thought he was. He penned the films SICARIO, HELL OR HIGH WATER (one of the best films in the last five years), WIND RIVER and SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO. He tells great stories about people and areas of our country foreign to me. His timing was prescient and now of the moment. His latest, which he also directs, is YELLOWSTONE, the first original drama series on PARAMOUNT NETWORK. "Follows the Dutton family, led by patriarch JOHN DUTTON (played KEVIN COSTNER). The Duttons control the largest contiguous ranch in the U.S. and must contend with constant attacks by land developers, clashes with an Indian reservation and conflict with America's first national park." The 2-hour debut episode was great. Almost every other line is a shareable quote. Check it out... My childhood friend TRACEE ELLIS ROSS on the changing landscape of inclusivity, solving pay disparity & directing 'Black-ish'... Happy Birthday to FERNANDA NIVEN, ANDREW WALLENSTEIN, DESIREE GRUBER, ERIKA SHEIN MARSH, JOHN FLANAGAN, ROGER VAKHARIA, and RODERICK ALEMANIA. Belated to ALEX MAGHEN, MILES FISHER, ANDREW MARCUS, CHRISTINE AUBALE GERSCHEL, GEOFF KEIGHLEY, BHUPEN SHAH, JOHN RICHARDS NOGAWSKI, CHRISTINE ELIA, and THOMAS NEAL | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator | | | |  | REDEF | | Shenanigans around the leak of a lewd 11-year-old tape. Questions about accountability, second chances, and an incomplete conversation. | | | |  | Bloomberg | | At 10 p.m. on June 23, 2016, Sky News projected the words "IN OR OUT" across the top of a London building as an orchestral score ratcheted up the tension. "In or out-it is too late to change your mind," declared Adam Boulton, the veteran anchor, seated in a makeshift studio across from Big Ben. | | | |  | The Guardian | | This month sees the 100th edition of the famed (and still bestselling) album. How do you capture musical moments - one Bieber track at a time? | | | |  | Teen Vogue | | "The FLOTUS office saying they're confused about why the media is covering the jacket is gaslighting 101." | | | |  | BuzzFeed | | This week, a few Fox employees tried to draw attention to larger corporate responsibility, and the protest did not catch on - but it was notable. | | | |  | Benedict Evans | | We're now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it, and every big company is working on projects around 'AI'. We know this is a Next Big Thing. I don't think, though, that we yet have a settled sense of quite what machine learning - | | | |  | Salon | | Veteran "Simpsons" writer Mike Reiss gets candid about Apu, becoming Homer and the secret to the show's longevity | | | |  | Robert Reich | | Trump's most lasting legacy might be his impact on the federal court system. It must be stopped. | | | |  | Columbia Journalism Review | | In a 2016 address to propaganda cadres and state-run media personnel, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed dreams of instilling a new international media order "wherever the readers are, wherever the viewers are; that is where propaganda reports must extend their tentacles." | | | |  | CityLab | | The hardest thing about living in an eco-friendly master-planned metropolis? Meeting your neighbors. | | | | | | | on the plans you had tonight | |  | MIT Technology Review | | How CeCe Moore is using her genetic knowledge to expose murderers. | | | |  | The Outline | | Facebook enabled ethnic-cleansing-related hate speech in Myanmar; many died and thousands fled. Rather than take responsibility, it's turning away. | | | |  | MEL Magazine | | And other findings from the largest domestic study of sexual desire ever conducted. | | | |  | Wired | | It's that World Cup time of the year-so that means it's also time to talk about soccer physics. What about the impossible kick? The "impossible" kick has a ball leave the ground and then take a curved path while in the air. Of course it's not actually impossible, but it is difficult to pull off. | | | |  | CNBC | | The week Danny Sullivan started working at Google's headquarters in Mountain, California, he felt like someone was going to throw him off campus. He noticed a handful of double takes as he walked around unattended and would half-jokingly start meetings by assuring other participants of his good intentions. | | | |  | Quartzy | | The legalization of recreational marijuana is unleashing a wave of creativity amongst package makers. | | | |  | Vulture | | A comedy series is only as funny as its script. You can have a talented cast and a keen director, but if the jokes aren't there, it won't matter. That's what separates the bad sitcoms from the good ones, and the good sitcoms from the classics. | | | |  | The Daily Beast | | While feminism is dominating the zeitgeist worldwide, the Basque Country is progressing with region's general pace of life: natural, flowing, like the changing of the seasons. | | | | | Salon | | Twenty-five states saw a rise in suicides by more than 30 percent since 1999, federal health officials report. | | | |  | io9 | | Mainstream superhero continuities encourage readers to remember every step of every journey a character has taken. Marvel's "What If" series was one of the first to capitalize on fans' obsessive attention as a jumping-off point, resulting in stories that ran down wildly unpredictable paths. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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