Embed from Getty Images Paying Attention: Every year, the Cannes Film Festival, held on the French Riviera, grabs lots of press for the parties, red-carpet fashion shows, and celebrities attending. But it’s what goes on in the background that is really the most important for the movie industry. Cannes is not only where new …
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Clay Court Clinic: Toni Nadal (Rafa’s coach) on Opening The Court
Paying Attention: The French Open is on and perhaps you’d like to try a little clay court tennis yourself. First, please note that Clay Court tennis is a very different type of tennis from hard court or grass. It requires more stamina, better and more consistent ground strokes, and the ability to work a point, not …
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Secretariat
Paying Attention. The Kentucky Derby is behind us. The Preakness and Belmont in Front. And even further back is the legendary horse that overshadows the sport: Secretariat. Generally considered the greatest race of them all and winner of the Triple Crown in 1973 (first time in 25 years). Time, now, to look back at the legend …
Putin’s Nukes
Embed from Getty Images Editor’s Note: The CSIS link in this piece has moved and darn if we know where it went. The CSIS moved it. We’re pretty sure it wasn’t a conspiracy….however, we will try to find it and renew the link. And, one other thing: CSIS is a very good source of solid …
Paula Creamer on Nerves
“Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care and really want to do well….”
Porque 4K?
Paying Attention: Wired has a new post about the inevitability of the economic model for electronics: what once was expensive soon becomes cheap. In this case, it’s the 4K flat screen, specifically the 4K flatscreen from Vizio. Vizio has always been a company that provides a big bang for the buck. They’re not afraid of …
The Art of the Movie Trailer: Snowden
Paying Attention: Oliver Stone doesn’t do safe movies. Never has. Never will. From Platoon to JFK to Born on the Fourth of July, he has pushed and prodded truth and fiction into continuously compelling narratives. His latest is Snowden, a film about the most famous hacker in modern times. Agree or disagree, makes no difference. …
Sunshine from Eyore
“It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine….”
Nation Building
Press Clippings: For more than a decade, American Politicians have used the term “nation building” to imply a form of outside assistance to a “failed state” that would help to rebuild it. Sometimes this assistance was delivery by the military, after a despotic regime was deposed; sometimes the aid came in the form of a …
Doves Cry
Embed from Getty Images Transitions: Prince (1958-2016). Prince Rogers Nelson, know to his fans throughout the world as Prince (when he wasn’t going by the title of “the artist formerly known as Prince”) was found unconscious in an elevator at his Paisley Park estate/recording studio complex outside Minneapolis today. Attempts to revive him failed; …