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1 1/ Alex 2/ David Walters Bhattacharji ENTERTAINMENT EXECUTIVE EDITOR DIRECTOR

Mavericks task: Mavericks task: Editing and cowriting Cowriting and booking the package the package “I really liked having a “Our goal was to seek cross section of people out the people who are pushing the envelope in actively doing things entertainment—writers, differently. I was re- producers, executives, ally excited to include and obviously actors. Jenny Slate—in addition I’ll admit that talking to being ridiculously 2 to Johnny Depp was funny, I think she made intimidating, but he a pretty bold move this was a true gentleman. I year with Obvious Child. caught him just having I interviewed 14 people completed a whirlwind in all. It’s always a bit in- year of work that I think sane, but you find a sort will add a lot of luster to of rhythm and energy his eclectic career.” that really works.”

3/ Eugene Tong 4/ Andrea STYLE DIRECTOR Oliveri EDITOR-AT-LARGE Mavericks task: 3 Styling the package Mavericks task: “We were going for an Booking the package undone black-tie look— “I think what makes this the way they might look package unique is the after an awards show mix of people. Each one or after a party. As Hol- has a special quality lywood people, they’re and body of work that used to that. There’s a make him or her hard to lot of interesting things define by just one title. happening with evening- Working on this took a wear right now, so we lot of patience and a could play off person- lot of Post-its. Lots and alities. Jim Parsons is a lots of Post-its. Also, little more adventurous, never underestimate Inside 4 so we had him in a blue the transformative silk jacket, and we put powers of good music Hollywood Charlie Day in a choco- and good catering on a Mavericks late-brown tux.” shoot.”

ASSEMBLING OUR PORTFOLIO OF 5/ Jeremy 6/ Ashley Horne Liebman PHOTO DIRECTOR THE 22 INNOVATORS AND RISK- PHOTOGRAPHER Mavericks task: TAKERS WHO ARE CHANGING THE Mavericks task: Producing the package Shooting the package “We did it all this year: ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY “There was a pretty shooting in houses, strong Texas contingent, mansions, hotels, 5 TOOK AN EQUALLY SKILLED CAST which is where I’m from: studios, even a desert Ethan Hawke, Jim Par- town. I was so happy OF PROFESSIONALS. sons, Scoot McNairy, when our creative direc- and Justin Simien. tor, Rockwell Harwood, McNairy and I went to suggested Jeremy rival high schools in Liebman. His energy East Dallas at the same worked perfectly for the time, so it turned out we project, which really is knew a lot of the same a marathon of shooting people. It was fun to and travel.” reminisce about that.”

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Beige might be an interior- design punch line, but it is possible to go neutral without being bland. For an elegant, masculine vibe, think gray. It’s an ideal foil for other colors, and it plays well with all types of wood. “Gray is the new white,” says Vicente Wolf, whose clients include furniture dealer Ralph Pucci and music mogul Clive Davis. “Whether you’re using it CHOOSE THE RIGHT STATEMENT PIECE For the perfect charcoal-colored bed, turn to B&B Italia, which asked star designer Patricia as a fabric, a paint color, Urquiola to extend her popular Husk seating collection into the bedroom. The oversize tufted upholstery of the headboard pro- or a wood stain, the great duces an arresting, modern shape and wraps around you, in the best possible nestlike way. Starting at $6,840; bebitalia.com thing about gray is that it can create the mood of a room.” But when it comes to paint, just be sure to always opt for a gray two shades lighter than the one you actually want—it’ll dry darker than you expect. GET THIS PILLOW

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Aren’t emojis a fad? Remember when the Internet was a fad? Jenna Face It: There’s No Wortham, a technology reporter for the New York Times, says: “They’re fully a part of modern commu- Escaping Emoji nication now. If you don’t know who Beyoncé is and how to use emoji, it’s a sign you’re out of touch.” They’re ubiquitous, addictive, and not the domain of teenage Clearly, Mike Scott is not worried about emojis girls anymore. So surrender your inhibitions—and learn how losing their relevance. The 26-year-old power for- that eggplant you just texted is likely to be interpreted. ward for the Atlanta Hawks has more than 20 emoji tattoos, including multiple faces, the walking guy (3),

DO YOU KNOW A GUY WHO TEXTS WITH EMOJIS, tracker, which tallies the most tweeted emojis. “It the ambulance, and the lips. He says he wants to those little hearts, smiley faces, and hand gestures? keeps going. Ask people their favorite, and there’s a get them all, minus the pile of poo (4), even though Are you of the mind-set that this seemingly idiotic story.” You’ll write your own, but read this FAQ first there are about 850 on the iPhone. “I have a lot of and emasculating way of communicating should to avoid a troubling tale of emoji-ing gone wrong. chest space left,” says Scott, who is six feet eight. be used only by gum-smacking, Bieber-loving tweens—and even then it’s questionable because, Is resistance futile? Can my emojis be misinterpreted? you know, the future of humanity and whatnot? That Pretty much. Fluency in how, when, and why to Emojis don’t convey nuance. Also, it’s easy to be would be a totally acceptable point of view. That is, use emojis is more necessity than luxury—now insensitive, because there’s no non-Asian minority if this were a couple of years ago. especially, since 250 new ones were approved by presence: There are seven emojis representing Each second, the Twittersphere sends about 500 notebooks (5) but no African-Americans and no tweets with an emoji (Japanese for “picture charac- taco, the absence of which enrages people. ter”); in October, we surpassed 6 billion emoji tweets, Will, 27, a trend forecaster for a health-and-well- and that’s just since July 2013, when emojitracker ness website in New York City, says, “One of my .com started keeping tabs. Not all of those tweets friends was having a business meeting with people are by aspiring Mileys or older women who could’ve from Japan, and I wanted to say, ‘Good luck with advised Ms. Cyrus against that inner-lower-lip tat- the people from Japan.’ I sent a sushi (6) and a too of the crying cat face (1). thumbs-up (7), and I realized, ‘Wow, that’s super- Begrudgingly, but inevitably, we’ve let emojis racist.’ Like, ‘Good luck with the sushi people.’ ” infiltrate our lives. And while communicating with them doesn’t always feel right or good, omg, they’re Is it ever appropriate to send an emoji at work? so addicting. We furiously thumb our favorites to “The rule of thumb is to stay away from them,” friends and those we hope to be more than friends says Peter Post, author of Essential Manners for with. At this point, if you don’t use them, you’re Men. But there are exceptions. Eric Ray Davidson, being purposefully pretentious, like the kind of per- a celebrity and fashion photographer, emojis with son who brags about abstaining from Facebook. abandon. He wants clients to associate him with “I’m surprised at how much it’s seeped into the fun, so that they’re relaxed in front of the camera. culture,” says Matthew Rothenberg, who runs emoji- “I’m not a surgeon,” he says. “I get paid to take pictures. Don’t take yourself so fucking seriously.”

Will my emojis haunt me? Almost certainly. Kalin, 33, a graphics designer in the Unicode Consortium, the emoji governing body Savannah, Georgia, was dating a doctor. “He used (yes, there’s an emoji governing body), which stan- emojis a ton while planning our first date,” she says. dardizes characters across platforms. “He’d put three overly eager smiles in a row (8). Even fictional people can’t shake them. In To Rise Things moved into the gaga phase, and I found his Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris’ latest novel, emojis endearing. After it ended, I’d look back on our the protagonist is Luddite dentist Paul O’Rourke, texts and think, Of course he sucks. Look at all of who detests the “shallow shortcuts” but eventually those damn emojis! I claimed I’d never date an emoji succumbs to using them. Ferris says emojis are “a guy again. That lasted until my next date.” „ parable for all technology. Whatever is brought into the world is intended to be used pervasively, and you can withstand it until you find yourself adopting something that you were scorning.” 1324 Why is emoji-ing so addicting? Learning to use emojis is like learning a new lan- guage. There’s a tribalism to it, and proficiency 5 helps you fit in: Just as there’s a wit to how you use words, there’s an intelligence to how you use emojis. Also, it’s the de facto way to flirt. “Men have a difficult time expressing feelings,” says Jonathan Badeen, a Tinder cofounder. “Pictures say things 678 they don’t know how to say.” (Pro tip: Sometimes an

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The Rise of the Digital Prophet AOL’s David Shing, better known as Shingy, made up his own job title and role, which ranges from spokesperson to branding guru to tech oracle. He’s both widely revered and widely ridiculed—but none of that will matter if he CONTINUED

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“COOL! VERY MUCH UTILITY!” EXCLAIMS THE DIGITAL culminates with Shingy raising an arm in trium- Skrillex of the Valley” and asked, “How many people prophet—the title David Shing, better known phant farewell and saying “Cheers!” to sustained, were laid off to keep the Prophet in black nail polish as Shingy, bestowed upon himself at AOL. He is enthusiastic applause. and laminated trend reports?”; the Web culture site preaching to 150 fresh-faced young marketing Uproxx called him “a tech Zoolander.” professionals gathered in the lower-Manhattan ONE NEED ONLY REMEMBER AOL’S ONCE-UBIQUITOUS The backlash from within the tech industry baf- headquarters of Horizon Media to hear him deliver CD-ROM mailers to know why the company sees fled more than angered Shingy. “I love what I do,” a talk entitled “Consumers: The New Renegades.” Shingy as a sine qua non for its renewed rele- he says. “Holy crap!—I wouldn’t be in it for all this Known for his gravity-defying spiked black coiffure, vance. Regardless of what the prophet foresees, time if I didn’t enjoy this industry. And it’s at a point Shingy wears (perhaps even “rocks”) oversize specs, his message is the same: Tech’s least cool giant is, of total inflection and change. When I invented this slim black pants, a paint-spattered button-down, finally, of the moment. To the hip kids of the digital job and title, it didn’t matter what I called myself . . . and Roman sandals. He speaks animatedly of brand scene, the 44-year-old Shingy’s retro goth-emo but that created the crosshairs.” engagement and native advertising as a stream look, which strongly recalls the Cure circa 1985, of vivid images flash and flow across the wall of may seem dated and curiously affected, but amid THE EIGHTH OF TEN KIDS RAISED IN RURAL NEW SOUTH screens behind him: a flask bearing the phrase FUCK the Dockers-clad C-suite crowd Shingy plays to, Wales, Shingy studied in Sydney to be a graphic ROSÉ; a hamburger in extreme close-up; Shingy’s his appearance screams tech chic. (Besides, two designer and then jumped on the Web 1.0 band- upraised middle finger in sharp focus, his black of AOL’s top advertising targets are the deep-pock- wagon. After working his way up to creative director nail polish gleaming against a bleached white sky. eted 50-plus and mom demographics.) at a series of digital ad agencies in Australia, Shingy “Sitting on a beanbag does not make you a cre- Shingy spends most of the year whizzing around moved to New York City to work on an Internet ative!” he shouts in his lively Australian tenor. the globe in a blizzard of presentations at confer- start-up in 1999 and then to London in 2003. He He proceeds to dissect one ad after another, ences (TEDx, CES, SXSW, the Next Web, etc.) and joined AOL in 2007 as the European VP of media for major corporations (Wal-Mart, L’Oréal, AT&T). and marketing and, in 2010, moved back to New AOL’S INSTANT MESSENGER: Among Shingy’s And he is in high demand, attracting what Business York upon being promoted and concocted the title tasks as digital prophet is making branded videos, Insider described as a rock-star-like following. of digital prophet. like this interview with Jason Momoa, ex of Game Twitter searches for @shingy yield one paean after So is Shingy a brand strategist, a spokesperson, of Thrones, for the AOL Build video series. another: “Thanks for blowing our minds”; “inspir- a mascot? Is he a digital Don Draper, Jared from ing presentation”; “Excited to hear @shingy speak the Subway ads, or the Geico gecko? Something today!” But alongside the praise is a little snark: of each, and more—Shingy, an amateur artist (he Often Shingy’s title is the subject of social-media lives in a studio loft with his wife, the performance sniggering (one commenter says, “I must confess artist Lia Chavez ), is even in charge of redesigning I prefer ludicrously self-important titles like Digital AOL’s New York headquarters. There’s an AOL video Prophet, because you don’t have to hear a single of him at work on this—his hair in a loose topknot, word to know they’re not worth listening to”). Other painting an immense Chinese-inspired canvas for times, Shingy himself is the target (“What’s irritating the offices (with the aid of Cabernet Sauvignon—“a about this tryhard is he’s supposed to be a rebel gorgeous bottle of Caymus”). but he’s a PR hack for corporate America”). Even Tim Armstrong is hard-pressed to give a Shingy was thrust onto the national stage last precise job description for his employee: “David February during a brief appearance on MSNBC’s Shing is an explorer of the future. He lives in multi- The Cycle. It wasn’t a softball interview so much as ple worlds and interacts with multiple worlds, and a Nerf-ball one: “It’s an honor to have the brilliant he really goes out into the future and sends us road David Shing at the table,” host Touré said. Shingy maps back. I look at him as mapping the future land- shared a few fairly bland predictions and platitudes: scape, the same way that the early explorers did.” “DAVID SHING IS AN EXPLORER OF THE FUTURE,” SAYS AOL CEO TIM ARMSTRONG. “HE LIVES IN MULTIPLE WORLDS. I LOOK AT HIM AS MAPPING THE FUTURE LANDSCAPE, THE WAY EARLY EXPLORERS DID.”

leading up to a 2012 Adidas promotional video fea- “If you’re a brand that helps calm the noise, then Okay. But in less metaphorical terms, please? “What turing David Beckham surprising a series of people you’re actually able to get in the middle and help if I told you that AOL as a business would make entering a photo booth in London. One little boy, somebody become a better human.” more money if we could influence and communicate overwhelmed, bursts into tears at the sight of his But the day before, AOL’s CEO, Tim Armstrong, to 300 of the most important organizations in the soccer idol. The audience sighs almost in unison; had perpetrated the latest gaffe for a company that world? David Shing does all those things for us, and here and there, eyes are dabbed. “Yeah, if you don’t has had a number of “You’ve Got Fail” moments. it’s a massive asset for our shareholders.” tear up, you’re a hardened bastard,” Shingy remarks Announcing a downgrade in the company’s 401(k) That none of AOL’s competitors have a figure before addressing the efficacy of this tearjerker: matching, Armstrong blamed the benefit cuts on analogous to Shingy is either a very good or a very He points out that every frame delivers an explicit “Obamacare” and on “two AOLers that had dis- bad sign for the company. Despite being seen as Adidas brand message—a calculated risk in this tressed babies that were born that we paid a million a holdover from the days when 56K modems marketing-savvy day and age—“but it just works.” dollars each to make sure those babies were okay.” squealed and crackled their way online, AOL has The polarizing brand ambassador for AOL In the ensuing blaze of anti-AOL sentiment, the gotten serious about trying to reinvent itself. Its doesn’t seem to be breaking any new ground, but press took one look at Shingy and sharpened its original series Park Bench With Steve Buscemi and he does appear to be breaking through. The talk talons. Valleywag’s Sam Biddle dubbed him “Our The Future Starts Here from CONTINUED PHOTOGRAPH: GINO DEPINTO/COURTESY OF AOL. PHOTOGRAPH:

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Tiffany Shlain were nominated for Emmys this “I have watched the lightbulb video a dozen stream the event. year, and top talent from Viacom, Apple, and else- times,” says noted programmer and tech thinker “Is there any show you’ve done where you haven’t where has been hired to produce premium con- Paul Ford. “I just can’t get enough of it. The way he taken your shirt off?” Shingy asks rather impishly. tent. It has made smart acquisitions (TechCrunch, uses language, it’s corporate sensory overload. It’s “No. I’m not a big fan of clothes. I’m Hawaiian, the Huffington Post) and cut bait on failed ones like if Michael Bay wrote Who Moved My Cheese?” you know what I mean?” Momoa replies. The audi- (Patch). However, the challenge isn’t just to make ence laughs delightedly. AOL current but to make it feel current. And to IN A RAW-CONCRETE CONFERENCE SPACE AT AOL’S NEW In the audience-Q&A portion, someone com- give this dial-up-era dinosaur a patina of digital York City offices, a crowd of about 150 employees pares Momoa to AOL, asking if he feels at risk of currency, Shingy has become fluent in the cryptic, gather late one afternoon to watch Shingy con- being pigeonholed. grammar-averse tech vernacular—“Remix Culture. duct an interview with Jason Momoa, best known “Doing Stargate, some people really love it, and Participate authentically. Fail Forward Foundation”; as Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones. Yet anoth- some people are like, Star-who? Yeah, four years I “Social amplifiers are amazing”; “I want multi- er role Shingy’s taken on is that of an in-house was on a show—22 episodes! I’ve been doin’ this quant”; “Embrace always logged in.” David Letterman, or perhaps James Lipton, as the for a while. People are always, ‘You’re like Drogo.’ In one video, Shingy holds forth on a black-box company seeks to make noise with its branded A lot of people don’t know who I am yet or what to soundstage amid dangling lightbulbs, pausing be- videos. He and the hulking actor, who’s in town really do with me.” tween interludes of wordless tapping on his phone to promote his new film Road to Paloma, sit on Here, Shingy nods with special attentiveness to proclaim, “Mind share equals market share.” tall director’s chairs as cameras record and live- before replying with feeling: “Amen, man.” „

CULTURAL DIET Mary J. Blige Don’t call it a comeback—Mary J. Blige would rather think of The London Sessions as an “evolution.” Recorded with some of the U.K.’s hottest young talents—including Sam Smith and Disclosure—the 43-year-old R&B icon’s 13th album is an unexpected mix of unvarnished soul and old-school house music. Here, Blige discusses her can’t-miss TV shows, the diva she admires most, and the white singers she initially assumed were black. —Jesse Ashlock 2 WHY LONDON Seriously! The same TV OBSESSIONS CALLED thing with Sam WORKOUT ROUTINE “I’ve been a Sons “I appreciate that Smith—when I first ACROSS THE POND of Anarchy [2] fan they’ve always loved met him, I was expect- “My favorite part forever. I just finished soul music. You could ing to see this big, fat about London was Suits. I’m back in start with Elton John black man, ’cause he running in Hyde Park. with Scandal. Oh, [1] being the first has this giant voice. You can run five miles and there’s this show white Englishman on My mother loves him, from the Mandarin called The Affair that’s Soul Train. And George my family—these are [Oriental Hyde Park] on right now. I just Michael—before I saw older women. He has around the park want to see what his face on ‘Careless that thing that tran- and just see so other kinds of stu- Whisper,’ I thought scends all the genera- many things pidness this man he was a black man. tions. He has it.” happening.” is going to do.” 3

GREATEST BEDSIDE see it as a movie.” CONCERT READING “Prince. This was “The Shack. It’s GIRL CRUSH four years ago in kind of like fiction, “I have to look at 1 Los Angeles, at but it’s based on Jennifer Lopez [3]. the Forum. He was forgiveness—how ev- She’s a powerful there for a month, eryone has to forgive businesswoman, a and people were everyone, no matter sweet lady, a sex just pouring in. who hurt whom. It symbol. No one’s The musicianship makes you let go of all telling her she’s too blew me away.” the hatred. It’s hard- old, because she has core. I would love to confidence.” PHOTOGRAPHS, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: PRASHANT GUPTA/COURTESY OF FX; GETTY IMAGES (3). (3). IMAGES OF FX; GETTY GUPTA/COURTESY PRASHANT CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT: TOP PHOTOGRAPHS,

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FILM Everybody Loves Chris Again Following two coolly received directorial efforts (2003’s Head of State and 2007’s I Think I Love My Wife) and a recent string of obvious money-grab MUSIC roles (Grown Ups 2, Madagascar 3), Chris Rock finally returns to comedic The Hot New form. Top Five, which he wrote, directed, and stars in, tells the story of a for- Sister Act mer hard-partying stand-up attempting a dramatic comeback on the heels Starting last fall, you may of a schlocky buddy-cop franchise. Set during a single day in a New York have ogled a pair of leggy City that both Woody Allen and Spike Lee would recognize, the film skewers half-Aussie, half-Swed- celebrity culture, fêtes old-school hip-hop, and easily ranks among the best ish twins (one brunette, of Rock’s career. (Top five, even.) Out December 5. one blonde) in Gucci and H&M ads. Granted, it’s hard to look away from Miranda and Elektra Kilbey, a.k.a. the elec- THE YES LIST tro-pop duo Say Lou Lou, but it’s damn near im- possible to get their hyp- notic dance hooks and ethereal, multilayered vocals out of your head. The 23-year-olds, whose dad is Church frontman Steve Kilbey (of “Under THE BREAKTHROUGH TV the Milky Way” fame), The Actor You’re One for the Road released three addictive Seeing Everywhere Jack Maxwell is a former bartender from singles in 2013, including Five years ago, only fans of All My Children knew South Boston with the accent to prove it, the breakout ballad “Fool Finn Wittrock. The 30-year-old Juilliard grad’s hot and he’s exactly the kind of guy you’d want of Me.” Now on the heels streak began earlier this year with back-to-back to throw a few back with. Which is why he’s of a new single, the chip- Ryan Murphy projects—as a young man dying of the perfect host of Travel Channel’s latest per club-banger “Games AIDS in HBO’s The Normal Heart and as a budding globe-trotting docu-series, Booze Traveler. for Girls” (recorded with psychopath on the FX series American Horror While sampling the local hooch, Maxwell Norwegian mega-pro- Story: Freak Show—but his critical moment comes explores far-flung destinations—Turkey, ducer Lindstrøm), Say in the WWII drama Unbroken (out December 25), Armenia, Nepal—and learns about the Lou Lou will release their playing a downed airman adrift in the Pacific. people who live there, but it’s his exam- much-anticipated debut Bobbing in a life raft in an Oscar-bait film written ination of how alcohol has shaped various album, Lucid Dreaming, by the Coen brothers and directed by Angelina cultures (and laws) that leaves you thirsty in February, with a U.S. Jolie? Wittrock’s ship has definitely come in. for more. Premieres November 24. tour to follow. It’s guaran- teed to double your plea- sure—and your fun.

ARCHITECTURE The Art of the Airport The newest addition to China’s Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport is a 5.4 million- square-foot sculpture. Designed by Italian husband-and-wife team Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Terminal 3 has an undulat- ing double-layered honeycomb skin—where 25,000 openings create intricate variations in sunlight—and takes the shape of a fu- turistic airplane. Featuring photographs, models, and computer renderings, the coffee-table book Fuksas Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport Terminal 3 (Skira Rizzoli, $85) offers a fascinating look at a structure that’s as captivating on the inside

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Q: Our interview was scheduled to start 20 Q: The Office has been adapted in multiple coun- Q: You studied philosophy in college. Do you have minutes ago. tries, from Germany to Chile. Is each version of a favorite philosopher? A: You don’t know what that does to me. regional manager David Brent different? A: Bertrand Russell. He said a great thing, It kills me. I can’t stand lateness. If I’ve got A: Apart from Steve Carell, they’re always fat, which resonated with me so much more a meeting at four o’clock, I’m there at ten to middle-aged blokes, going bald, with a goa- when I became famous: “People never gossip four. So if they’re 10 minutes late, they’re 20 tee. Steve Carell broke the mold—he’s nearly about the secret virtues of others.” In this minutes late, as far as I’m concerned. And I handsome, although he’s got beady eyes. world of Schadenfreude and trolls and hate, take the moral high ground. If I’m meeting But I don’t have a word to say against him. it’s so lovely that he said that 50 years ago. someone in a restaurant, and they turn up I really don’t, because he made me more a minute late, they’ve already got a text: a money than my version did! Q: Bertrand Russell would not have liked Twitter. photo of me, glass of wine in hand, looking A: I think he would have avoided it. But at my watch. Q: Celebs often say, “The money hasn’t changed Oscar Wilde would have loved it. People me,” which is usually B.S. What about for you? would be unfollowing him, going, “Oh shut Q: So we know you’re usually on time. Do you A: I’m the same person I was, inasmuch as I up, for fuck’s sake! Me, me, me, me, me, me.” work late hours? used to be funny and annoying and poor. I A: My days are pretty full and productive, think the reason fame and money changed Q: Other than comedy, is there anything you’re but they’re front-loaded. I like to be in my me less than others is because I was 40. What really good at? pajamas with a beer, sitting by the telly at am I gonna do, suddenly turn into Justin A: My first love was science. I used to lay 6 P.M. So when I say I’ve worked all day, I Bieber? Fame has probably made me more in bed at night when I was 6 or 7 and freak mean I’ve worked really hard between the self-conscious, but I don’t think it’s a bad myself out by trying to understand where hours of 11 and 3. I was shocked when movie thing to be careful about what you say and the universe ends. I thought I’d turn myself people said, “We only do a 12-hour day.” That how you act. It’s like there’s a God now, in the mad, so I stopped doing that. If I didn’t doesn’t leave time for sitting in front of the form of Twitter and YouTube. do comedy, I’d be an academic. Another telly for four hours and nine hours sleep. It genius lost to TV, when I could’ve cured doesn’t add up. Q: How lavishly do you live? cancer! That’s like saying, “If you weren’t A: It’s just me, my girlfriend, and our cat a comedy genius, what would you do?” “I’d Q: Presumably, some of those long days were on here. It’s a good house, but I could show just be a brilliant genius, like an Einstein this month’s Night at the Museum sequel. One you all the little vomit stains and cat hair on or some shit.” of your costars was Robin Williams—did you see the carpet. I’m looking at my study now—I any signs that he was having a difficult time? call it a study, but it looks like the FBI just Q: So, ultimately, you made the choice between A: No. I saw a man in his early sixties who searched it for cocaine. There are various gui- curing cancer or writing TV shows? probably wasn’t jumping around as much tars, which are probably my guilty pleasure. A: It’s an interesting dilemma, isn’t it? When as he did 10 years ago, but he was still doing No one needs this many guitars. And no one people ask, “What do you want for Christ- more than was required of him, like mak- needs this many awards. mas?” I say, “Just a cure for famine. No, can ing the crew laugh. Which maybe, to some, I change that? I want a hoverboard.” If you could’ve been a sign, but I’m not cynical like Q: You can’t help that you’ve earned so many asked the average person, “Do you want a that. I don’t think just because you’re jolly awards. hoverboard, or do you want to help end and happy that you’re hiding a dark side. It’s A: No, but I can help that I’m sitting here famine?” they’d go, “Ummm, how long does certainly not true with me. staring at them! the battery last in that thing?” J STYLING BY MARK ANTHONY BRADLEY. GROOMING BY GEORGIA WOODLAND USING KIEHL’S. T-SHIRT BY HUGO. HUGO. BY T-SHIRT USING KIEHL’S. GEORGIA WOODLAND GROOMING BY BRADLEY. MARK ANTHONY STYLING BY

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The options for guys who care about their after-hours uniform used to be limited (you deserve better than those sweats balled up in the hamper). But Henrik Lindahl and DESIGNER Alexander Palmgren of the Swedish brand Bread & Boxers ROBERT are changing that. The duo, whose boxer briefs and undershirts began appearing in stores in 2011, have added GELLER waffle-knit henleys (1), hoodies, and long-sleeved mélange THE PERFECT HENLEY tees (2), all made of downy fabrics we practically want to This should be your go-to winter live in. “They’re private pieces, with an extra touch of de- layer, so invest in it. Håndværk’s sign,” Lindahl says. He’s a convert. “Before, I just wore long henley is made from hand- johns around the house. Now I’m always in lounge stuff.” harvested, superfine Peruvian pima Henley, $38; long-sleeved tee, $40; breadandboxers.com cotton and fits close to the body. $125; handvaerk.com

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It’s Time to Rethink Your Shave We’re living in a golden age of men’s grooming products, when it’s practically impossible to not get a great shave, no matter your skin type. Guys have so many options to mix and match their way to a more perfect morning ritual; below, nine of the best ones on the market to help you get there.

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00 Exercise 20 Minutes, : Five Days a Week That New Year’s resolu- lower body—pushes mass, which literally eats tion you’re formulating— your metabolism into the fat from your body.” the one about starting a the fat-burning zone,” Here’s how it works: daily exercise regimen says Bob Harper, creator Alternate high-intensity or finally tackling P90X? of the new short- intervals of strength and Forget it. Twenty minutes, attention-span fitness power moves (think dead 20 five days a week is all you program Blackfire (and lifts or wall-ball squats) in

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RULE 2 Get Some Better Moves . . . Those burpees, triceps dips, and close-grip push-ups you’re cranking out? They do more harm than good, according to trainer Patrick Murphy. (It’s hard to argue with the man—he’s responsible for Mario Lopez’s un-dadlike physique.) When done repetitively, these particular exercises (and others on the follow- ing pages) may eventually cause your head to jut forward, your shoulders to round, and your back to hunch. Not to mention “they inflame the joints and trigger injury cycles,” Murphy says. So what the hell does work? RULE 4 Murphy offers his top alternatives to the moves you should lose. Know This Brand OUTDOOR VOICES

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RULE 5 “There are no quick fixes—you have to Golf Is Not a Workout become an exerciser. A lot of men believe Tracy Anderson, that stop-and-go sports are a workout. Some RULE 9 celebrity trainer, on men think golf is. They’re not. Workouts why true exercise is essential. should be focused time when you are strengthening and connecting to your body.” Raise the Bar

RULE 6 Get Some Better Moves for the Obliques We taste-tested RULE 7 20 new bars in an Drink already-crowded market. Here, the Watermelon five you should stash Juice in your desk drawer Leonardo DiCaprio, Chrissy Teigen, right now. and Beyoncé are all fans of the Strong & Kind Hickory pink stuff—which is popping up Smoked Almond at juice bars, in gyms, and even Turns out, hickory- These Are Bad in nightclubs, where it’s used as smoking makes foods Russian Twists an upscale mixer. Makes sense, other than pulled pork considering that the pulpy elixir delicious. is loaded with electrolytes and 10g protein; 6g sugar; amino acids (meaning it’s a 230 calories perfect post-workout recov- ery drink) and contains high Health Warrior Chia Bar in Dark levels of anti-inflammatories Chocolate Cherry and antioxidants. Also, some Surprisingly filling, studies have suggested that given it’s the caloric watermelon has a natural equivalent of two Viagra effect (which could cheese cubes. be why Mrs. Carter sings its 3g protein; 5g sugar; praises in “Drunk in Love”). 100 calories

These Are Better Kashi Chocolate Hip Rotation Planks Chip Chia Crunchy Granola & Seed Chocolate chips: Because sometimes chia alone won’t cut it. 3g protein; 9g sugar; 180 calories

RULE 8 Exo Blueberry Vanilla Protein Bar “Exo,” as in skeleton— Stop Waiting in Line at Whole Foods it’s made of (earthy- Buyers’ clubs conjure $60 annually to pay more, it makes sticking 70 percent of the flavored) cricket flour. up images of olive-oil wholesale prices for to a diet plan simpler. merchandise has no 10g protein; 16g sugar; vats and tubs of Crisco. 2,500 natural products Paleo and snobbish minimum purchase, 260 calories But Thrive Market isn’t (read: organic, non- about fair trade? Select while one dozen is the Probar Base forcing 90 jars of dis- GMO, etc.) from cultish those filters and the highest requirement Cookie Dough counted mayo on you. brands like Justin’s system spits back the for the rest. And hey, Just an excuse to have The new online grocer nut butters, Acure items that meet your these are the kinds of dessert for dinner. works like a warehouse Organics, and Seventh criteria. You don’t even superfoods you won’t 20g protein; 16g sugar;

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Do Everything in One Place RULE 12 From juice bar to spin studio to facialist to acupuncturist to raw café, Know This Brand the pursuit of perfecting body and soul has become a time suck. THEORY+ Thankfully, a new crop of wellness meccas combine it all under one aesthetically pleasing, health-conscious roof.

If you’re a fan of Theory’s minimalist, tailored sportswear, THE SPRINGS BFX STUDIO ANATOMY AT 1220 STUDIOMIX you’ll really appreciate Los Angeles New York City Miami Beach San Francisco THESPRINGSLA.COM BFXSTUDIO.COM ANATOMYAT1220.COM STUDIOMIX.COM its offshoot dedicated to actual sports. The label’s new activewear line includes classic tees, Situated in Los Angeles’ Though this Chelsea Chris Paciello, former This vast Tenderloin- all-weather outerwear, downtown arts district, space has all the ameni- Miami nightclub titan adjacent spot features the 13,800-square- ties of big-box gyms— and onetime Cosa Nostra seven studios with and slim-fitting shorts foot space features a spacious showers, a tab- associate, has reinvented dedicated uses (ranging that continue to draw on the brand’s tradition of GIST holistic treatment let bar—it feels intimate. himself as a wellness from TRX to boxing to

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RULE 11 Get a Blender “The No. 1 reason people give for not eating Celebrity trainer well is ‘I don’t have the time.’ But making a Harley Pasternak (his smoothie with fruit, vegetables, powdered clients include Adam Levine and Robert peanut butter, organic whey, and almond milk Pattinson) makes the takes me 30 to 60 seconds. Blend at least one case for his go-to appliance. meal per day—preferably the one that tends to be the least healthy.”

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RULE 13 RULE 15 No, Really . . . Invest in Meditate Deepak Chopra, Handcrafted Gear M.D., mindfulness These American designers are guru, explains how sitting quietly can making beautiful equipment that you make you look better. won’t want to store in the garage. tyler warren As a teen, pro surfer “What we think of as ‘normal’ Tyler Warren snatched a seventies-era surfboard aging in our society is not really off the side of a friend’s normal. It’s the psychopathology house, ripped off the fiberglass, and reshaped of a person who is totally it. He continued sketching stressed out. My research and shaping boards with a vintage handsaw between indicates that meditating competitions until someone asked to buy a slows cell death, lowering your model displayed at a ‘biological age,’ which dictates California art show in 2009. Now 28, he earns a how you look and feel. It allows living off his minimalist the body to heal itself. Start with boards, free of graphics except hand-drawn five minutes every morning.” insignias. From $650; tylerwarrenshapes.com matt cudmore When architect and civil RULE 16 engineer Matt Cudmore started cutting skis in his garage in Glenwood Give Kale Springs, Colorado, he took the advice of his brother, a Rest a local forester, and used In a recent William Paterson University study beetle-kill pine (to attain ranking the nutrient levels of 41 “powerhouse a natural, old-school look) fruits and vegetables,” the supposed King Cru- combined with dry, light aspen wood. The result: ciferous, kale, didn’t even break the top 10. In poppy, responsive skis the No. 1 spot? Watercress, which, it turns out, that weigh six pounds per has loads of fiber, calcium, and even protein. pair. Cudmore, 35, spent Its mildly bitter, slightly peppery flavor makes six months on that first it ideal for salads—or the Vitamix. Blend it with set, but now his team of lemon, cucumber, and celery, or just hit your five churns out 18 a day. local juice bar, where it is poised to become the From $595; meierskis.com new in-demand leafy green.

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RULE 17 RULE 19 key. Joe Navarro, a require just one to two Get Some Make Eye former FBI behavioral seconds, gradually Product analyst who once increasing as you flirt. Nicholas Perricone, identified a group of “In business, you don’t M.D., celebrity Contact traitors after noticing want to be coquettish. dermatologist, on changes in a suspect’s You want to be his secret ingredient. (But Not pupils, says, “What’s forthright. Make six interesting is what the seconds of solid eye Too Much) eyes communicate— contact when you love, empathy, enter someone’s office “Men should be It’s something your acceptance, pain, fear.” for a one-on-one.” He in the habit of dad would say: Look To harness that trains clients to pull using topical anti- a man in the eyes, power, start with the back after that, holding son! But unlike his size of the room. “The for three to five inflammatories. opinion on jeans at the smaller the location, seconds at a time, I really love the office, this exhortation the less time we can building to more if your has merit. Ideally, look at each other, counterpart seems ingredient DMAE. people should make particularly strangers,” receptive. It gives you a crisp eye contact during Navarro says. “For To manipulate a jawline and will 60 to 70 percent of a example, if you’re in dialogue to your conversation. Sadly, close quarters like the advantage, there’s cause your eyes to our smartphone subway, it’s less than another trick: Briefly appear wider and obsession may be 1.5 seconds. Beyond look down before why adults actually that, people become answering. “You’ll your cheekbones exchange glances for suspicious or think appear thoughtful and to look stronger.” as little as 30 percent, you’re interested.” intentional with your according to recent But in situations words,” Andrist notes. research. where you’re supposed “Do this while pausing RULE 20 “Looking at to make eye contact— and you’ll be someone while talking like business interrupted less.” to them can be settings—the magic When the talk wraps, Believe difficult,” says Sean number jumps to six. lock eyes again, in a Drier Andrist, a Ph.D. Nick Morgan, a former treading the line candidate at the Harvard Kennedy between staring Power Why haven’t you tried University of Wisconsin School of Government contest and proving a dry spray yet? Here studying eye contact fellow and an executive you’re present. are four reasons to versus gaze aversion. coach, equates it to a “Everyone is busy; ditch the stick. “It’s a bombardment of firm handshake. “This paying attention is a information.” is not a date,” he says, real gift,” Morgan says. Understanding the clarifying that initial “Allow the other person In Milan and Rio, spray deodor- nuances of that intel is romantic encounters to break it off.” ant reigns supreme. The U.S. has caught on: This month, top brands—Dove Men+Care (shown), Degree Men, and Axe—release antiperspirant RULE 18 versions on our shores.

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RULE 21 Wake Up “Guys should eat within 30 minutes of waking. During sleep, the and Eat Chris Powell, trainer body releases cortisol. When you eat breakfast—preferably complex on ABC’s Extreme carbohydrates like oatmeal or a piece of fruit—the body releases insulin, Weight Loss, on why the old breakfast which drives cortisol down. If you don’t lower cortisol, it signals the body cliché is true. to store belly fat. That’s actually how sumo wrestlers gain weight.”

Q. For people who like smooth- RULE 22 ies after the gym, won’t hot soup be weird? Soup Is A. A chilled soup is especially good, like cold cucumber with the New Juice dill. If you’ve just worked out, your body needs to replenish electrolytes, salt, and sugar.

If you’ve ever subjected your- plains why the classic comfort Q. Why buy soup through a self to a juice cleanse, you food works just as well as a cleanse program? know the one thing you crave green machine. A. So often I order soup and it (besides a slice of pizza) is comes with cream. Why do you something hot. Which is why Q. Why soup over juice? need cream in a zucchini soup? soups are now being integrated A. Juice is very high in sugar and Why can’t you just use good into detox plans at juice bars low in fiber. There’s not a sin- broth and zucchini? Even places across the country. In Los gle person, in my opinion, who that purport to be healthy, if you Angeles, August marked the works in the fitness, nutrition, or look at so many soups, cream is launch of Soupure, a program medical industries who will say the second or third ingredient. containing only soup (and the that’s good for you. We wanted These are not only nondairy, but occasional alkaline water). to call it a “nourish”; we didn’t there’s nothing processed, no Cofounder Angela Blatteis ex- even want to call it a cleanse. fillers, and no GMOs.

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IT’S LIKE A TALE OF TWO CITIES IN HOLLYWOOD THESE DAYS. NOT JUST because it’s the best of times (there are more ways to reach audiences than ever) and the worst of times (a historically bad summer at the box office, Kourtney & Khloé Take the Hamp- tons), but because entertainment, too, is being riven by the struggle between the haves and the have-nots. Only in this case, it’s the have-talents, the have-ideas, and the have-guts vs. the have-not-a-clues—that is, the slaves to the status quo. We’re betting big on the former: the freethinking innovators, creative disrupters, and risk-courting visionaries bold enough to flip the script or go off it entirely—payday, reputation, and conventional wisdom be damned. They range from a comedic duo taking dead aim at North Korea to billionaire hedge-funders on a mission to save independent film to a first-time director igniting a dialogue about race relations to a fearless actress starring in the sweetest little abortion rom-com you’ll ever see.

There’s no happy ending to this story—at least not yet—because our heroes are still writing it. HOLLYWOOD

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PERHAPS YOU’VE HEARD THAT JOHNNY DEPP IS IN A SLUMP, THAT HIS RECENT FILMS HAVEN’T LIVED UP TO EXPECTATIONS. WHOSE? AT 51, THE ONLY THING DEPP EXPECTS IS TO CHALLENGE CONVENTION AND HIMSELF. THE COMING YEAR WILL REMIND US ALL OF HIS ARTISTIC RANGE—THE BIG BAD WOLF IN INTO THE WOODS, A COMEDIC ROGUE IN MORTDECAI, WHITEY BULGER IN BLACK MASS—AND THE POWER OF THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX OFFICE.

“As Marlon once so beautifully fucking said to me, Blending moral complexity with a sense of menace, “They expect you to live up to some race you hap- life is a birdsong. That’s stuck with me.” Like his Depp reached back to his days as an angry young pened to be in and won accidentally. From that friend, mentor, and fellow outsider Brando, Johnny man, the headstrong Kentucky-born kid who had first second, you’re nothing more than a commod- Depp is poetic about the listen-closely-or-you’ll- moved some 25 times by the time he left home at ity. They have expectations of another Pirates. It’s miss-it, crushingly beautiful, ephemeral nature of 17, to capture the crime boss’s hair-trigger temper. great if something works. Boy, that’s killer. But God, existence—and also a little punk. “For everybody, “Bulger was incredible in terms of going zero to 90 to have that as your design . . . it’s ugly, I think.” the clock’s ticking. The main thing is whether you in a fucking millisecond. And not just to coldcock a The iconoclastic Depp hasn’t lost the taste for sit there and stare at the clock in fear of your ulti- guy—bang-bang, forever. Yeah, that old hillbilly rage the chase, even if his race has a field of one and a mate demise—which is pointless—or you just live.” came in handy. It’s not all that far from the surface.” route he redraws as he goes. He’s happy to indulge If Depp speaks like a man free of fear, it’s be- While it’s likely the coming run of films will be (and even revisit) big-budget films if the character cause the elusive star recently passed beyond the hailed as a return to form in most quarters (namely speaks to him, yet he’s happier still incubating pas- reach of critics (internal and otherwise) and his those who proclaimed him done after The Lone sion projects with his production company, Infinitum obsessive dedication to craft. “What is really sat- Ranger and Transcendence tanked at the box of- Nihil, including It Only Rains at Night by River’s Edge isfying is, like Marlon, getting to that place where fice), it signifies something more. It highlights the writer Neal Jimenez. “I stole that off an agent’s desk, he just didn’t give a fuck,” Depp says, explaining scope of Depp’s artistic abilities and ambitions as I don’t know, man, 25 years ago,” Depp says, laugh- the evolution of his emancipation. “First, I reached an actor, it demonstrates how determined he is to ing. “And I’ve always either wanted to be in it or a point where I cared so much and was so diligent not give a fuck (let’s not forget he took small parts direct the damn thing. It’s so beautiful and strange.” in terms of approaching the work. Then you get to in Kevin Smith’s Tusk and Yoga Hosers), and it is a Depp’s been working at an exhausting clip, which is where you care so fucking much that it gets god- reminder of how badly people have misjudged his particularly taxing for a performer who internalizes damn beleaguering, you know? But then a great place in the pop-cultural firmament. every character he plays. “Marlon said, ‘Be careful, thing happens. Suddenly you care enough to not “He’s a character actor in a leading-man body,” we only have so many faces in our pockets,’ ” he give a fuck, because not giving a fuck, that’s the says Rob Marshall, who directed Into the Woods says, referring to Brando’s famous caution about total liberation. Being game to try anything.” (and the fourth installment of Pirates of the actors not squandering creative capital. “I under- For evidence of his newfound freedom, consider Caribbean). “He disappears into these roles and stood what he meant—and he’s right. But I’m not the wildly varied, whiplash-inducing transformations brings such inventiveness to everything that he running out, you know?” he’s undertaken over the past year. “It’s been in- touches. He’s a great collaborator, and he was What Depp is losing—not that he had much sane,” says Depp, who returned to Los Angeles from excited to work with an ensemble and not carry to begin with—is tolerance for playing the game. London late the night before after wrapping Alice something himself.” Depp’s sought to escape the “The process I love. The other stuff . . . I can deal in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass. “From star-maker machinery ever since he forced his way with being a fugitive for a bit, but I don’t know how Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine off the vehicle that first made him famous, 21 Jump much longer a human being really wants to be that. the schizophrenia.” Street. For all his notoriety, the limelight blisters Actors essentially have to peddle their ass to sell First, Depp’s showmanship will be on display his skin, like sunshine on a vampire. “I’m fuckin’ the movie. All the by-products or occupational haz- with the Christmas Day release Into the Woods, shy, man,” Depp says. “I’m living, in a sense, like a ards of the thing . . .” Depp lets out a whistling sigh. Rob Marshall’s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s fugitive. I don’t like to be in social situations—it’s He’s too busy for all that shit. “At a certain point, not-so-happily-ever-after fairy-tale mash-up. Depp fine for me in a weird way, having to run and hide. one has to dig deep and go, ‘Man, it is a birdsong.’ ” sank his teeth into the role of the Wolf, crafting a Less and less, I have the opportunity to observe, cunning lupine character with rich comic under- because I’m the one being observed.” tones (the better to make his predatory, seductive Depp has no interest in swooping in to save the ways just family-friendly enough). “I delight in the day or donning a superhero costume. He has as- JOHNNY DEPP, 51 approach we took with the Big Bad Wolf,” he says. siduously avoided the mantle of leading man, even Credit check: Into the Woods, Mortdecai. “There’s a wonderful dark humor throughout.” Then in his blockbuster fare. Don’t forget how daring and Upcoming: Black Mass, Yoga Hosers, Alice in in January comes the action comedy Mortdecai, subversive a character Captain Jack Sparrow was— Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass in which he plays an aristocratic art dealer–cum– drawing the ire of Disney suits who thought he was “Infinitum Nihil. The name of the production adventurer who deserves a place alongside the too drunk or too gay or both and prompting Michael company came to me with a smile because I just actor’s great rogues. And in September, we’ll see Eisner to famously proclaim, “He’s ruining the film!” thought it’s all infinite nothing. I think it’s good to Depp as the Boston gangster and longtime fugitive At this stage, Depp can be forgiven for having a be aware of the nothingness. You’re able to just Whitey Bulger in Black Mass. Depp delved into the love-hate relationship with his swashbuckling alter fuckin’ be and not get twirled up in all the un- psychology of the legendary mobster, who was an ego, whom he plans to reprise again (shooting be- necessary horseshit in life and what we consider informant for the FBI (often selectively feeding the gins in February). Thanks largely to Sparrow, he re- this search for whatever the fuck we’re search- Feds intel to take down his rivals) before fleeing and ceives a reported $20 million a film, yet because of ing for. Fuck searching—it’s here, right now. So ending up as No. 2 on the Most Wanted list, behind that beloved buccaneer, studio execs look to him for I love infinite, endless nothingness. And there’s Osama bin Laden. “No one who is in fact deemed blockbuster box-office returns every time. some sort of arctic underpants called Infinity

‘evil’ ever believes they’re evil,” Depp says of Bulger. “It’s like being a dog at the track,” Depp says. Zero or something. That also made me happy.” GENIUS GEL. BEAUTY USING MARC JACOBS JOEL HARLOW MAKEUP BY INC. FOR LESLIE DYSON GLORIA CASNY HAIR BY SASHA RICKERD. LONDON PRODUCTION BY RUTH LEVY. PRODUCTION BY AGENCY. THE MAGNET GILLIAN O’BRIEN AT DESIGN BY SET THE ANTI-LEADING MAN

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into a bona fide pop star with the Billboard Top 10 single “Cups.” “There’s a difference between being an actress who can sing and being a Sally Song-and-Dance,” says Kendrick, who carefully maintains that balance by refusing to be written off as, well, one-note. She dominated the festival circuit this year, starring in three comedies at Sundance and in two dramas at the Toronto Film Festival—battling the zombie apocalypse (Life THE MULTIPLE After Beth) and chronic pain (Cake, opposite Jennifer Aniston) with equal aplomb. She also re- THREAT cently wrapped The Hollars, playing the pregnant girlfriend of a man (John Krasinski) returning YES, ANNA KENDRICK CAN SING. BUT THE PITCH PERFECT ACTRESS’S RANGE EXTENDS home to take care of his ailing mother. “Ten years FAR BEYOND NOTES ON A SCALE. from now, I hope teenagers don’t even know that I can sing,” Kendrick says. “I hope they just think Just when she thought she was out, they pulled I’m some lady who’s a good actress.” her back in. “I was asked after Pitch Perfect if ANNA KENDRICK, 29 I was going to start doing a bunch of musicals, Credit check: Life After Beth, Happy Christmas, and I was like, ‘Hell no,’ ” Anna Kendrick recalls. Into the Woods. Upcoming: The Voices, The Last “But then two of the greatest ever came along.” Five Years, Cake, The Hollars, Pitch Perfect 2, This month, the actress who earned an Oscar Digging for Fire nomination for Up in the Air puts her pipes “I didn’t see Miss America do her cups routine, on display as Cinderella in the adaptation of but Twitter exploded at me. Reaction ranged Sondheim’s Into the Woods and again in February from ‘She’s ripping you off, so you should there- in Richard LaGravenese’s The Last Five Years, fore win Miss America’ to ‘Miss America did the based on a successful Off Broadway production cup thing, evidence that Anna Kendrick is ruin- about the life cycle of a relationship. Then, of ing the country.’” course, in May there’s Pitch Perfect 2, the sequel to the college a cappella comedy that, in addi- tion to being a massive sleeper hit, turned her Top and shorts by Carven. Shoes by Dsquared2. THIS PAGE: GROOMING BY MARTIN-CHRISTOPHER HARPER AT PLATFORM-NYC USING ORIBE HAIR CARE. SET DESIGN BY KATE LANDUCCI FOR MARY HOWARD STUDIO. OPPOSITE: HAIR BY CRAIG GANGI FOR EXCLUSIVE ARTISTS USING T3 TOOLS. MAKEUP BY VANESSA SCALI USING NARS COSMETICS AT TRACEYMATTINGLY.COM. ect, stuff.” Afterfinishingthescriptofhispassion proj- “What Ineededtobedoingwaswritingmy own asshole whoquestionedeverything,” hesays. never sateasilywithDanFutterman. “Iwasan he actedoppositeAngelina Jolie),butperforming big screen America), He hadtastesofsuccessonBroadway (Angels in wrestling drama nod forBestAdapted Screenplay. When Miller’s Bennett Millertodirect andearnedanOscar ACTORS WILLDOANYTHINGTO SHOWCASE THEIRTALENTS. DAN FUTTERMANQUITACTING TO REVEALHIS:WRITINGOSCAR-WORTHY SCREENPLAYS. THE MAN WHO FLIPPED THE SCRIPT Capote, on television ( The Birdcage; AMightyHeart, he recruited hishigh-schoolfriend

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SETH ROGEN AND EVAN GOLDBERG SHARE IN EVERY FACET OF FILMMAKING, FROM DEVELOPMENT TO DIRECTING—SO NO ONE WEARS THE PANTS IN THEIR LAUGH FACTORY.

“We do everything 50/50, except for the acting,” says Seth Rogen. Evan Goldberg jumps in: “The acting—yeah, I do most of that.” Rogen: “He op- erates me, kind of like a Jim Henson situation.” Rogen and Goldberg have been finishing each other’s sentences since their days growing up in Vancouver and attending Point Grey Secondary School (their production company is called Point Grey Pictures), through writing gigs (Da Ali G Show) and as coproducers, cowriters, and codirectors on a remarkable run of money- minting comedies: Superbad, Pineapple Express, 50/50, This Is the End, Neighbors, and now The Interview, the story of a talk-show host and pro- ducer recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong-un. Their latest laugh riot ruffled feathers in North Korea, which called it a “blatant act of ter- rorism and war” and promised “merciless” retalia- tion, and at the Directors Guild of America, which resisted crediting the duo as codirectors. Goldberg: “The DGA was like, ‘Those people defy Blazer by Theory. our definition of partnership!’ ” Shirt by Kain Label. Rogen: “Exactly, just ’cause our definition of Pants by Marissa director doesn’t match theirs. Next thing you Webb. Shoes by know, there’ll be 20 directors in Utah. People will Manolo Blahnik. be directing movies with animals. [Laughs] I’ll be directing a movie with a chicken.” Goldberg: “Madness! Anarchy!” Rogen and Goldberg’s sharing-is-caring spirit extends beyond their going halfsies on job titles. Like their patron Judd Apatow, they are fiercely loyal, trading favors with their extended family of actors (James Franco, Dave Franco, Jonah Hill, THE REBEL WITH A CAUSE and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, among others), writers, editors, and producers. Yet they’re not DIRECTOR AVA DUVERNAY’S UNFLINCHING BIOPIC ABOUT MARTIN scared to bring in new blood, as they did with Zac LUTHER KING JR., SELMA, IS ONE PART OF A LARGER GOAL: TO TELL Efron in Neighbors (the $18 million movie earned IMPORTANT AFRICAN-AMERICAN STORIES THROUGH FILM. over $268 million). Nor are they afraid to dabble in drama—they enlisted Breaking Bad’s head A few things that weren’t on director Ava DuVernay’s to-do list: a studio writer, Sam Catlin, to adapt the dark comic-book film, a historical drama, a male-centered story line. “I wanted to be the series Preacher for TV. (Goldberg: “That’s not a black Lynn Shelton,” says DuVernay, referencing another of indie cinema’s curveball, that’s a score.” Rogen: “He’s a genius.”) most consistent female forces. “A movie a year, make a little change, make And it seems nothing is off-limits anymore. another . . . so Selma is certainly a different path.” Still, no one will accuse Rogen and Goldberg turned to prestige producer DuVernay, a former publicist who won the Best Director prize at Sundance nonpareil Megan Ellison to fund their animated in 2012 for Middle of Nowhere, a stark drama set in Compton, of selling pet project, Sausage Party—a raunchy repu- out for taking on the first-ever feature film about Martin Luther King Jr. diation of religion and assault on good taste in (a production with the backing of Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt’s Plan B which a sausage named Frank encounters super- Entertainment, no less). Her mission remains constant: to tell substantive market products with different beliefs, including stories while helping other filmmakers of color do the same. It’s a goal douches, Semitic knishes, and hot-dog buns she furthers through her pet project, the African-American Film Festival shaped like female genitalia. Releasing Movement, a collective that brings independent black films to Rogen: “We’ve been trying to make this movie for theaters. “We’re an endangered species,” she says. “I know beautiful film- fucking ever, and everyone said no to making it makers whose voices are being suffocated by a system that doesn’t pay because it is in-fucking-sane.” attention. You got a voice? We’re going to amplify it.” Goldberg: “She was like, ‘I want it to say it’s from the makers of Zero Dark Thirty.’ ” AVA DUVERNAY, 42 Rogen: “Nothing made her want to make it more Credit check: Venus Vs., Scandal, Selma than the fact that we brought it to literally every “When I was a publicist, I would tell filmmakers, ‘Don’t be nervous—it’s going single studio and no one wanted it.” to be fine.’ Now I have to take my own advice, and I see how terrified they Goldberg: “She was like, ‘I’ll do it—one thing,

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98 DETAILS DECEMBER 2014 | JANUARY 2015 EVAN GOLDBERG, 32, AND SETH ROGEN, 32 Credit check: Neighbors, The Interview. Upcoming: The Pact, Preacher, Brooklyn Castle, Bigfoot, Sausage Party Goldberg: “I was like, ‘I want to be a writer,’ and he was like, ‘I want to be a stand-up,’ and then we were watching a movie we didn’t like and we said, ‘Let’s try writing a movie.’ ” Rogen: “It was kind of par- allel paths. As we wrote Superbad, we kind of be- came giant movie fanatics. We started writing it when we were 13, so we didn’t start watching tons of mov- ies until we were, like, 15.”

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THE NEW KING THE NEXT BIG THING

OF COMEDY WITH FURY, FORMER KIDDIE STAR LOGAN LERMAN HAS PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS. NOW HE HAS HIS CROSSHAIRS TRAINED ON FROM ONE OF TV’S BIGGEST PAYDAYS TO A LEADING-MAN STATUS. WIDELY LAUDED DRAMATIC TURN, THE BANGS KEEP GETTING BIGGER FOR JIM PARSONS. The road from child star to bankable adult is littered with countless once- cute casualties (just ask Macaulay Culkin or Jonathan Taylor Thomas). But in This past September, the trade website an industry in which growing up and growing irrelevant are so closely linked, The Wrap published a list of network stars’ Logan Lerman, best known for the family fantasy franchise Percy Jackson Q scores, the oft-cited, little-understood and the YA drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is ready to fight for his Hollywood metric measuring familiarity and shot. And that’s just what he had to do on the set of this fall’s celebrated appeal. Of 62 scored actors, Big Bang Theory WWII drama Fury. “[Director] David Ayer has a reputation for putting his star Jim Parsons ranked second. “I always actors through crazy prep,” Lerman says. “Every morning, he had us up at thought it was something you weren’t allowed 5 A.M. sparring for a few hours. Bloody noses, black eyes, all of that. We all to know,” says Parsons, downplaying the knew who was the most respected at the end of the day by who had kicked industry-wonk popularity contest. “Like it was everyone else’s ass.” Lerman more than held his own, in every sense. Critics something only God and Les Moonves knew.” credited him with being the film’s emotional anchor: As a rookie tank driver Two is something of a lucky number for who faces a trial by fire, he’s a worthy foil to costar Brad Pitt—and an oc- Parsons these days. It’s the number of Emmy casional scene-stealer. Although he sparked a flurry of interest from Oscar- nominations he received this year, one for winning directors, Lerman is being highly selective about his next project, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series comfortable to pass on roles that might derail his momentum. “This is the (a category he won for the fourth time for challenging, fucked-up shit I was looking for,” he says. “The options are slim portraying Asperger’s-ish theoretical physicist for people my age. Everything out there is kind of . . . soft.” Sheldon Cooper) and another for his role as ac- tivist Tommy Boatwright in The Normal Heart, LOGAN LERMAN, 22 HBO’s adaptation of Larry Kramer’s seminal Credit check: Noah, Fury play about the HIV-AIDS crisis in early-eighties “Brad Pitt validated my instinct that every movie you make is really about New York City. Viewers who doubted Parsons’ the director. A script could be great, but a filmmaker can fuck it up. Brad dramatic chops—or who were unaware that he invests in his directors more than anyone else I’ve seen.” played Boatwright in a 2011 Broadway run that won a Drama Desk award—were stunned by Tuxedo by Burberry London. Shirt by Marni. his nuanced performance. Parsons admits that distancing himself from Sheldon to make the shift presented a challenge: “I remember ap- proaching the character like, Oh God, he wants to touch people. I needed to open up phys- ically, as opposed to what I do on the show, which is ‘Get away.’ ” Another figure that effectively demonstrates Parsons’ value to CBS: $1 million, the per- episode compensation that he and castmates Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting secured in their recent contract renegotiations, plus a 1.25 percent share of the show’s back- end revenue—an estimated $90 million haul for the next three seasons. (The average net- work-series regular is paid $15,000 to $25,000 an episode.) The deal makes Parsons the highest-paid openly gay man on TV, a bit of “accidental activism” that he’s happy to embrace. “I’m proud to carry that mantle, if that’s what it is,” Parsons says. “It touches me to think there’s some subtle message being delivered through it.”

JIM PARSONS, 41 Credit check: The Big Bang Theory, The Normal Heart. Upcoming: Home “I get to do what I want professionally, which was always a goal. Now you can hold that over me every time you see me in something awful and say, ‘He didn’t have to do that —jackass.’ ”

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DETAILS DECEMBER 2014 | JANUARY 2015 101 THE FEARLESS FUNNY GIRL

GETTING LAUGHS WAS NEVER HARD FOR JENNY SLATE, BUT GETTING THEM IN A ROM-COM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO HAS AN ABORTION TOOK THE KIND OF BOLD PERFORMANCE THAT CAN CHANGE A CAREER.

“It’s not an ‘issue movie’—it’s first and foremost a comedy,” Jenny Slate says of Obvious Child, the film (written and directed by Gillian Robespierre) about a stand-up comic who chooses to have an abortion. “We were really clear about what we wanted the tone to be, but that doesn’t mean the issues within the movie aren’t important.” Slate’s portrayal of scattered, sharp-witted Donna—its humor, its emo- tional delicacy—drew on her experience in clubs. “I’m a stand-up comedian,” she says. “I want people to see me when I’m making shit up on the spot and am at my most vulnerable.” The critical response has been the equivalent of a standing O, with terms like genius, groundbreaking, and revelation being lavished on Slate. Not bad for some- one many thought would go down as the girl who dropped an F-bomb on SNL, then got dropped from the show. In the wake of get- ting canned, Slate, along with her husband, Dean Fleischer-Camp, created the animated viral hit Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (30 million–plus views and counting, and now a children’s book). Her coy-yet-cutting brand of humor—currently seen in a slew of TV series—is in high demand. But the success of Obvious Child has opened both the door and Slate’s mind to new possibilities: “I’d like to write an old-fashioned studio comedy for myself, like something John Candy or Lily Tomlin would’ve been in. I’d love to be in the girl version of The Fugitive. I’d like to do any- thing, especially things that are new to me. But I can’t do a British accent, so that’s out.”

JENNY SLATE, 32 Credit check: Obvious Child, Parks and Recreation, Bob’s Burgers, Kroll Show, House of Lies, Married. Upcoming: Digging for Fire “Probably the boldest choice you can make is to make bold choices more than once and to make them because they feel good—that you’re awesome and are gonna switch shit up for your personal growth—and not because they serve as a decree. It’s more about being inventive all the time, making the most out of your minutes, whether or not those minutes are owned by NBC or Fox or a studio.”

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TRUE DETECTIVE’S NIC PIZZOLATTO TURNED A SPEC SCRIPT ABOUT TWO LOUISIANA COPS INTO THE APPOINTMENT-VIEWING SERIES AGAINST WHICH ALL OTHERS ARE JUDGED. HIS NEXT JOB: ONE-UPPING HIMSELF.

In 2010, after optioning his first novel, Galveston, and turning his attention to television, former college professor Nic Pizzolatto wrote a dialogue-heavy Southern Gothic neo-noir spec script that incited a network bidding war. Then he offered a caveat to the interested parties: The showrunner—the creative force whose influence would dictate the ultimate success or failure of the series—would be a rookie and virtual unknown named Nic Pizzolatto. “People offered to buy it, but I wouldn’t let them,” the Louisiana native recalls. “I wouldn’t let it go until I knew enough about the business to make it.” (What, you expected the guy who dreamed up Rust Cohle’s “walk hand- in-hand into extinction” speech to be meek?) Nearly a year after that trial-by- fire first season for HBO (which earned Pizzolatto two Emmy nominations), production has begun on a rabidly anticipated second, an all-new story led by Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell, with at least two episodes to be directed by Justin Lin, who’s made the past four Fast and Furious films. The Internet, THE UPSTART unsurprisingly, has opinions. “Some people make me out to be a jerk for not creating toward expectations, but to create out of a sense of appeasement FINANCIERS leads to shallow, hollow work,” Pizzolatto says. “I actually like that there’s resistance. If you’re not pissing off anybody, you’re doing something wrong.” THE FOUNDERS OF BROAD GREEN WALKED INTO THE TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL AS UNKNOWNS AND NIC PIZZOLATTO, 39 WALKED OUT AS THE SAVIORS OF INDIE FILM. Credit check: True Detective. Upcoming: Galveston “I don’t consider what I do now any less worthwhile than novel writing. This Money talks in Hollywood, but when suits and film- is the medium I’m in now, and in due time they’ll kick me out. It’s all art to me. makers attempt to communicate, much can get lost I guess that’s a little haughty for somebody who makes TV, but if I approach in translation. Luckily, brothers Gabriel and Daniel it as though I’m making art, it works out better—even if I’m fooling myself.” Hammond aren’t your typical hedge-fund billionaires, and Broad Green, their newly minted production, fi- nancing, and distribution venture, focuses more on the Tuxedo jacket by Brioni. Shirt by Jil Sander. Pants by Z Zegna. creative process than on the bottom line. Gabriel, a former stock analyst, founded the hedge fund Alerian Capital Management in 2004 and later brought Daniel, an aspiring screenwriter, into the business. In 2013, the two hatched another collaboration, this time in Daniel’s wheelhouse. “The Toronto Film Festival was an uphill battle because people hadn’t heard of us,” Gabriel says. “It was a matter of sitting down with each filmmaker and expressing bespoke marketing plans.” With a deft pitch and deep pockets, Broad Green scored an eclectic haul: 99 Homes, a buzzy real-estate drama starring Andrew Garfield, which they bought for $3 million; Samba, a French romantic comedy from the director of the international hit The Intouchables; and the electronic-dance-music drama Eden. Add those to Learning to Drive, a film starring Ben Kingsley that they also produced, and Broad Green’s slate resembles that of an indie studio in the making. “This venture is about the movies we’re invested in, and by ‘invested,’ I mean in terms of our hearts,” Gabriel says. Echoes Daniel: “The money has nothing to do with it. If that’s all you have to offer, you’re going to be out in a hurry.”

DANIEL HAMMOND, 31, AND GABRIEL HAMMOND, 35 Credit check: 10.000 Km. Upcoming: Learning to Drive, 99 Homes, Samba, Eden Gabriel: “We’re going to develop filmmakers. We won’t say ‘Now that you’re a big director, we don’t want your $2 million passion project’ or ‘Take your $40 million movie to the studio because we can’t handle it.’ ”

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DIRECTOR JEAN-MARC VALLÉE DESERVES TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR HIS ARTISTRY. UNTIL HE IS, WITH DALLAS BUYERS CLUB AND NOW WILD, HE’S THE GO-TO GUY FOR OSCAR NODS.

Hollywood is awash in cynical formulas for advancing one’s award chances. Do a period piece. Play a disabled person. Go gay. And now Oscar-starved stars are telling their agents: Get me Jean-Marc Vallée. Those cries will only get louder if, as expected, Vallée’s current film, Wild—author Cheryl Strayed’s story of her epic 1,100-mile trek and transformative personal journey—does for Reese Witherspoon what his last one, Dallas Buyers Club, did for Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. “It’s the same approach with both. Of course, we’re playing the game of cinema, but we didn’t want to show off,” says the Montreal-born director, who earned acclaim in French-language films before his first feature in English, 2009’s The Young Victoria. “I’m a character-driven kind of director. I like perfor- mances and try not to steal the show or overdo it.” Vallée’s emotional response to Wild was so strong he put another prestige project—the romantic psychodrama Demolition, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts—on hold. It was as if the story chose him, not vice versa, - he says. “The script arrives and I go, ‘Jesus, I’ve THE SCENE STEALER got to make this film.’ Like Cheryl, I had lost my THE SECRET TO ROSEMARIE DEWITT’S INDESCRIBABLE APPEAL? AN mom to cancer, and I think I hadn’t been properly ENDLESSLY VARIED ARRAY OF EXPECTATION-DEFYING PERFORMANCES done with my mourning.” Although the stunning WHOSE ONLY COMMON DENOMINATOR IS QUALITY. route along the Pacific Crest Trail afforded him dazzling cinematographic opportunities, Vallée Ask a roomful of people to name their favorite Rosemarie DeWitt role and exercised his now-familiar restraint: “I had to you probably won’t hear the same answer twice. Memorable as a beatnik be humble and honor the story first.” Still, the artist turned heroin addict on Mad Men, a sari-clad Waspy bride-to-be in man who delivered the pivotal piece of the Rachel Getting Married, and a massage therapist who develops a revulsion McConaissance is determined to savor his role to human contact in Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely, DeWitt is defined less by in the coming Reesesurgence come awards sea- a type of role than a caliber of performance—an elevating force for festi- son. “What a ride I had with Dallas,” he says. “And val-circuit indies and big-budget studio productions alike. She lent strong if I’m about to have the same ride with Wild, I’m support to three projects this year: Jason Reitman’s cautionary tech tale enjoying every second of it.” Men, Women, and Children; the political thriller Kill the Messenger; and HBO’s acclaimed miniseries and Emmy favorite Olive Kitteridge, in which she plays a mentally ill mother in a small New England town. “She’s one of those actresses who has that certain ineffable thing,” says Lisa Cholodenko, who directed DeWitt in Kitteridge. “You’re just drawn to her. She doesn’t even have to do much—it’s an essence that goes through the celluloid.” DeWitt has started embracing the mystery, starring in the upcoming remake of the supernatural classic Poltergeist and then in Joe Swanberg’s Digging for Fire, a largely improvised love story with a script that was, well, spectral. “Working with Joe is totally different,” DeWitt says. “You show up, and you’re like, ‘It says I have a breakup scene. Who am I breaking up with?’ And Joe says, ‘I don’t want you to know too much.’ ”

ROSEMARIE DEWITT, 43 Credit check: Men, Women, and Children, Kill the Messenger, Olive Kitteridge. Upcoming: Poltergeist, Digging for Fire “It’s always exciting and slightly jarring to watch your movie with an audi- ence for the first time. They really tell you what it is. I remember going to Toronto with a project and not knowing it was a comedy until I got there.”

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FROM BIG-SCREEN ROLES TO A STRING OF ENVELOPE-PUSHING TELEVISION COLLABORATIONS, CHARLIE DAY PROVES THAT IT TAKES BRAINS TO PULL OFF DUMB.

The YouTube video of Charlie Day delivering the commencement address at his alma mater, Merrimack College, has been viewed nearly 2 million times since last May. “I was very happy for the school and happy that my message got across,” says the star of the long-running FX comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. “I was also a little surprised by how many people were surprised that I could read and write.” If he has everyone fooled, it’s thanks to the uncommon brain power Day devotes to perfecting his notoriously numbskulled characters, both on Sunny (which he still writes, 10 seasons in, with collaborators Glenn Howerton and Rob McElhenney) and in the current Horrible Bosses sequel. Day’s calling card—ostensible stoner comedy actually aimed at the smartest guy in the room—has the entertain- ment industry coveting his off-the-charts IQ: In addition to his Sunny respon- sibilities, Day is developing an animated series for FX, producing a show for comedian Bill Burr, and writing an upcoming Tracy Morgan TV project. Day also recently directed a female-centric pilot that he cowrote with his wife, actress Mary Elizabeth Ellis. “I want to see a show with women characters that are as volatile as Danny McBride was on Eastbound & Down. Women haven’t had permission to go as far as guys go. We’re going for the jugular.”

CHARLIE DAY, 38 THE NEXT GREAT Credit check: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Horrible Bosses 2. CHARACTER ACTOR Upcoming: The Hollars, Vacation “You’d have to be pretty comedically nihilistic not to enjoy National WITH BOUNDLESS TALENT AND RANGE, Lampoon’s Vacation, so to have achieved cameo status in [the reboot] is SCOOT MCNAIRY MAY SOON BE HOLLYWOOD’S exciting. Rusty takes his family white-water rafting, and they run into me, a MOST IN-DEMAND SUPPORTING PLAYER. rafting guide with, let’s say, a slight . . . personality disorder.” Just when Scoot McNairy got on a Hollywood Calvin Klein Collection hot streak any actor would envy—landing high-profile roles in the prestige films Argo and 12 Years a Slave—he left town, moving to a 25-acre farm in middle-of-nowhere East Texas. “My man- ager was a little worried about that,” the Dallas native admits. But it’s hard to miss McNairy these days: He stars on Halt and Catch Fire, the AMC drama about the dawn of the personal-comput- ing era, and he’s acted opposite A-list talent in four films this year—Liam Neeson (Non-Stop), Robert Pattinson (The Rover), Michael Fassbender (Frank), and Ben Affleck (Gone Girl). “Scoot’s incredibly gifted. He has the ability to internal- ize emotion and let it escape very subtly,” says Affleck, who directed McNairy in Argo and will also appear with him in Zack Snyder’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. “I hope I get to work with him [on every project], but I think he’s getting too expensive.” In January, McNairy stars in Black Sea, a submarine thriller, and he’s currently filming David Gordon Green’s political satire Our Brand Is Crisis, but he’s not letting the run of impressive credits go to his head. “I don’t really follow my career at all,” he says. “I live in the country now, so we don’t hear much talk of anything. Mostly it’s just ‘Man, I hope it’s gonna rain today.’ ”

SCOOT MCNAIRY, 37 Credit check: Halt and Catch Fire, Gone Girl. Upcoming: Black Sea, Our Brand Is Crisis, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice “Ben Affleck said to me on the set of Batman v. Superman, ‘Scoot, you’re in every movie that I’m in!’ I said, ‘I know! Let’s try and keep that going! I’m not complaining if you’re not.’ ”

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DON’T CALL IT BEGINNER’S LUCK: DIRECTOR JUSTIN SIMIEN WON OVER CRITICS AND AUDIENCES WITH HIS ASSURED, AUDACIOUS FEATURE DEBUT, DEAR WHITE PEOPLE.

“Get me a bold and thoughtful racial satire,” said absolutely no studio exec, ever. Justin Simien realizes this. “No one was looking for an independent, art-house-aimed rumination on black identity,” concedes the Dear White People director. “But I wasn’t interested in doing anything urban or tragic or set in the past—basically anything that fits the mold of what makes money.” Simien’s solution: Screw the formula and make the movie he wanted to make—a sly, funny drama about four African-American students at a predom- inantly white university (loosely based on his own collegiate experience), which he started writing in 2006 while working in publicity at Focus Features. Armed with a completed script, Simien developed a concept trailer that went viral, then crowd-sourced more than $40,000 in funding through an Indiegogo campaign. In January, Simien won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at Sundance, and after the film’s October theatrical release, critics applauded both its boldness and its timeliness (the New York Times’ A.O. Scott called it “as smart and fear- less a debut as I have seen from an American filmmaker in quite some time”). “People are going to talk about the buzz stuff: racism, Ferguson, and the surface issues of black and white,” says Simien, who’s already work- ing on his next satirical screenplay and would like to adapt Dear White People for television. “But ultimately, my hope for the movie is that people see that it’s a story about identity. I want people to see themselves.”

JUSTIN SIMIEN, 28 Credit check: Dear White People “Our first table read was just magical, man. It was black folks and white folks in the room, and everybody had the same experience and was talking about the same things. I thought, This is the lobby talk I want my movie to have—we’re ready.”

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LIONSGATE DIGITAL-MARKETING GURU DANIELLE DEPALMA KNOWS THE SECRET TO KEEPING LEGIONS OF HUNGER GAMES FANS RAVENOUS.

Want to inflame a few million Katniss Everdeen fanatics? Tease them with an image from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. “I thought we were going to get death threats for not putting out a full trailer immediately,” says Danielle DePalma, Lionsgate’s executive vice president of digital marketing and the brains behind some of the studio’s most suc- cessful social-media campaigns for franchises ranging from Saw to The Expendables to the upcoming Divergent sequel. “But we’re doing something right if we’re building that antici- THE pation.” Of course, fan engagement is a fickle NEWSMAKER thing, especially with the lag time between films, but DePalma’s specialty is appointment WITH HIS NEW PRODUCTION COMPANY, marketing, ensuring the active and unwavering ZERO DARK THIRTY SCREENWRITER participation of an audience 30 million strong MARK BOAL IS BRINGING THE FRONT through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and dedi- PAGE TO A THEATER NEAR YOU. cated apps in the months and days leading up to a premiere. For The Hunger Games alone, Despite the tidiness of the phrase DePalma and Lionsgate have created more “ripped from the headlines,” Mark Boal is than 20 unique websites and social accounts, happy to leave the slogan to Law & Order. including Capitol Couture, a Tumblr devoted “The goal is to make substantive films,” to the fashion of Panem; Capitol TV, a themed says the writer-producer behind Page 1, news-and-technology network; and a recently a production company launched to parlay launched game for mobile devices. “We’ve investigative reporting into current-events- been communicating with these fans on an driven big- and small-screen projects. everyday basis for three years,” she says, a “We’re telling the stories that explore strategy that helped the first two installments the hidden facets of America.” Boal, who gross $1.5 billion worldwide. “It’s always on.” began his career as a journalist, won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay DANIELLE DEPALMA, 32 Oscars in 2010 for The Hurt Locker and Credit check: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay— was nominated for two more Academy Part 1. Upcoming: Insurgent, Mockingjay—Part 2 Awards in 2013 for Zero Dark Thirty, “We were talking about Snapchat this morning. about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. But I was trying to get a sense of whether anyone in Boal did more than flash his statuettes to the company actually understood it.” [Laughs] establish Page 1’s legitimacy: He tapped former New York Times Magazine editor Narciso Rodriguez Hugo Lindgren as president and secured financial backing from wunderkind pro- ducer Megan Ellison. The team’s first film project, to be written by Boal and directed by close collaborator Kathryn Bigelow, centers on Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army sergeant whose alleged desertion, capture by the Taliban, and eventual negotiated release became a political flash point. As for the controversy this and future proj- ects will inevitably spark, Boal just smiles and says, “It comes with the territory.”

MARK BOAL, 41 Credit check: Untitled Bowe Bergdahl project “I’m acutely aware of the responsibility that comes with the medium. I take it very seriously. A lot of my sense of what happened in Vietnam comes from cin- ema. I’ve read books about it and talked to people who were there, but there’s nothing that compares to the power of a motion picture to create an experience.”

Jacket by Kushitani. Shirt by Prada. ETHAN HAWKE, 44 Credit check: Boyhood, Predestination. Upcoming: Good Kill, Regression, Ten Thousand Saints, In a Valley of Violence “Ultimately, I think I took a lot of that Dead Poets Society stuff to heart. The value of beating your own drum. ‘Gather ye rosebuds while ye may’ and ‘What will your verse be?’ ”

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FOR ETHAN HAWKE, WHO SPENT A DOZEN YEARS FILMING BOYHOOD, THE ENDURANCE ARTIST PATIENCE ISN’T JUST A VIRTUE—IT’S THE KEY TO HIS VIRTUOSITY.

Clearly, you don’t become the preeminent wards. That long-gestating film, Boyhood, a nat- bringing the same painstaking attention to direct- actor of the slow-film movement overnight: The uralistic yet nostalgic look at coming of age, daz- ing: His documentary Seymour: An Introduction seeds of Ethan Hawke’s recent ascendancy zled critics and viewers, and Hawke’s nuanced is the result of his long fascination with 87-year- were sown in 2001, when his friend and frequent performance as the shiftless father of the film’s old classical pianist Seymour Bernstein. And his collaborator Richard Linklater floated an idea so protagonist—shot in three- to four-day install- roles—from a drone pilot who delivers death from radical only someone with telescopic foresight ments each year—is generating awards chatter. above each day then picks his kids up at school could see its potential. “Training Day was still in Of course, he’s revisited a part to great effect be- in Good Kill to a detective investigating sexual theaters when we went for coffee and he started fore: Earlier this year, Hawke was nominated for abuse in Alejandro Amenábar’s Regression— talking about using time as clay,” Hawke says, a Best Screenplay Oscar for Before Midnight, the reflect the selectivity of an actor who knows the recalling Linklater’s idea of shooting a film over final installment of a trilogy in which the sequels difference between bold choices and rash ones. the course of 12 years. “A light went on. He was were made nine years apart. “My life has kind of “I think about my obituary, what I want it to read presenting me with an opportunity to create a worked like that. It seems like the cloud spends like. Our life is the decisions we make,” Hawke character that I could sculpt over more than a years collecting, and then it just sheds,” he says, says. “Something about the fact that audiences decade and develop the way a human being actu- adding that the deluge has left him cleansed and have responded to Boyhood has inspired me to ally changes.” With great patience came great re- energized. “I feel like I’m in a new place.” Hawke’s believe. Sometimes crazy ideas work.”

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The Big Promise She’s Endorsed But She Also She may be the voice by Strong Women Gets Men LENA ON LENA of her generation—a “I see Lena Dunham as Sure, Dunham’s show claim made by her a passionate feminist. is called Girls, but It’s not hard to understand why the alter ego, Hannah Who in their twenties in neurotic Ray and Girls impresario is so often accused of Horvath—but she’s doesn’t overshare? brooding Adam, she’s navel-gazing. Here, some quotes (from hardly your typical I think many young written some of the Twitter, her book, and interviews) on her underemployed women identify. most interesting male favorite subject—herself. 28-year-old. Dunham Honesty is always characters on cable. already had two films refreshing.” —Erica No wonder more than On Family: “I feel like I’m constantly asking under her belt before Jong, second-wave half of the viewers them to please stay out of my work life, but Girls. She’s been feminist and author of the show’s first also to please bring me soup.” praised for her au- of Fear of Flying season were guys. On Childhood: “As a little girl, I had been Why You’re thentic portrayals of obnoxiously self-aware, irritatingly smug, Hearing About New York City twenty- prone to reading the dictionary ‘for fun’ and somethings, and her making pronouncements like, ‘Papa, nobody Her—Again brazen, polarizing my age enjoys real literature.’ ” Lena Dunham has style has drawn com- On Fashion: “I am anti-pants.” been the queen of the parisons to Nora Eph- On Oral Sex: “I felt like I was being Zeitgeist since her ron and Woody Allen. chewed on by a child that wasn’t mine.” HBO series Girls pre- On Onscreen Sex: “Most people’s jobs don’t miered in 2012. But consist of slamming your vagina against with the wunderkind’s the flaccid, nylon-wrapped penis of a guy new memoir, Not That wearing massive amounts of foundation to Kind of Girl, hitting conceal his assne.” No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list in October, a whirl- wind fall book tour, and the much-antic- ipated fourth season of the hot-button show premiering in January, it’s impossible to escape her influence.

The Critic The Opposition Who’s a Fan She’s been maligned “She’s made the core online for her priv- of the show genera- ileged upbringing, tional. In 10 years, the perceived narcissism,

Embrace Lena Dunham? conversations about and exhibitionism, and Girls won’t be about by critical dissenters women or men or like Helen Lewis, dep- Let’s Run the Numbers body image but gen- uty editor of the New $10,000: Amount the website Jezebel offered erations.” —Hank Statesman, who wrote, for unretouched photos from Dunham’s 2014 Stuever, TV critic for “Her whole life is a per- Vogue photo shoot 23: Age at which she made her first feature film the Washington Post formance-art piece.” 0: Major minority characters on Girls’ first season $3.7 million: Advance Random House reportedly paid for Not That Kind of Girl 16: Age at which Dunham was profiled in the New York Times throwing a vegan dinner party The Bottom Line She’s going to be trending on your Twitter for her private-school classmates 1.85 million: Number of followers on Twitter feed for the long haul. You don’t have to (at press time) agree with what she says, but you should $50,000: Budget of Dunham’s second film, Tiny probably be listening if you want to remain

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