Laura Bennett
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Albert Brooks was offered roles that went to Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, and Steve Martin. He turned them all down and reshaped American entertainment his own way.
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The funniest people on the planet think there’s no funnier person than Albert Brooks.
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A spectacular reading list:
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Read the stories that were recognized at this year’s ASMEs.
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This is such a perceptive, lovely profile of Jodie Foster by Jordan Kisner. It includes: sneaker shopping, a great interview with Mel Gibson, and so much fascinating insight into Foster's very complicated relationship to fame
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A star since childhood, she spent decades guarding her privacy. On-screen, she’s always played the solitary woman under pressure. But in a pair of new roles, she’s revealed a different side of...
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This was extremely difficult reporting and the piece @mikespiesnyc wrote is so powerful, moving, sensitive, and fair.
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Bob Owens was one of the firearms industry’s most prominent, passionate defenders. Then he turned his gun on himself.
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So many unbelievable, damning details about Romney's GOP colleagues in this piece (adapted from @mckaycoppins' incredible book). But this one about the ketchup salmon keeps haunting me https://t.co/yZA18rpmS8
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.@JenishaWatts is a remarkable person, colleague, and writer, and I can't say enough good things about this essay
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I came to New York sure of one thing—that no one could ever know my past.
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This profile of @dreamhampton by @skornhaber is riveting and smart and each quote is better than the last
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The writer dream hampton thinks hip-hop is broken. But she can’t stop trying to fix it.
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1/x THREAD: In our new issue, I have a big story about AI and the human future drawn from conversations with Sam Altman and others at OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters, and in East Asia during the closing stretch of Altman's recent world tour. https://t.co/Sk0MiBoWId
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The OpenAI CEO’s ambitious, ingenious, terrifying quest to create a new form of intelligence
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After four University of Idaho students were murdered, TikTok and Reddit sleuths swarmed the campus. The community is still struggling with the wreckage they left behind. My dispatch from Moscow, Idaho: https://t.co/wIb9unTEPV
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After four University of Idaho students were killed, TikTok and Reddit sleuths swarmed the campus. The community is still struggling with the wreckage they left behind.
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I love this wild, fascinating story by @arielsabar
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How a small-town auto mechanic peddling a green-energy breakthrough pulled off a massive scam
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This is definitely the first Tom Hanks profile I've read to involve local newspaper clippings from the 1930s. It’s also lovely and wise in typical Chris Heath fashion
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The actor—and now novelist—reflects on how he got here, and the other lives he might have lived instead.
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Hoo boy this essay by Honor Jones is phenomenal. It's also the largest quantity of words I've read since giving birth a few months ago and it made me cry a whole lot
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Motherhood and divorce
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New Interview: I talked to Alan Dershowitz about getting shunned, the January 6th committee, and the end of his friendship with Larry David.
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Recently, the emeritus Harvard law professor has felt shunned at his usual haunts. Is it “cancel culture,” or something else?
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Lowen is one of the best editors and people I've ever worked with. He is a dream colleague. Anyone who hires him is very lucky
Hello friends (and Elon). This is just to say: I've left Slate after what's felt like several meaningful lives. It's a privilege to depart at a time when Slate's future is bright, and I'm excited about the hobbies I'll pick up and lose interest in while figuring out what's next.
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This Hannah Giorgis piece is a fascinating look at why there are so few interracial couples on reality TV--and also contains some eye-popping behind-the-scenes details about how Love Is Blind producers ginned up racial tensions
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Lauren and Cameron, the breakout stars of "Love Is Blind," have succeeded not because of the show but in spite of it.
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We're flooding the environment with light and sound, to disastrous effect. @edyong209's cover story on "sensory pollution" is full of beautiful sentences, sharp insights & great photos, especially one displeased turtle that is now burned into my brain
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Every creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding.
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"Think of it as an unpaid internship in monarchy." This piece is fascinating and fun
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What do the descendants of dethroned monarchs have to offer the continent in the 21st century?
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There was so much fantastic stuff on Slate this week, in text and audio ... it's been a joy to spend a big chunk of time today catching up 🧵
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Here's a cool new job at one of the best places to work in journalism: Wanna be Slate's first-ever senior editor of ADVICE? https://t.co/Piqv2qRdtM
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