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Rob McElhenney dropping that two-against-one rule is genius. Trusting each other enough to just move on instead of fighting every decision keeps the whole show alive.
Rob McElhenney says the two-against-one rule on Always Sunny has saved them years of emotional arguments because production is too expensive to negotiate every single decision
"early on we realized let’s just institute a rule of two against one. And it’s really really and I know it sounds silly and simple but it has been profound"
"The assumption is do you trust me? Yes. Do I trust you? Yes. And the three of us trust each other and we trust our taste. So therefore if two of us feel strongly about something then the other one has to capitulate no matter what no questions asked"
"They get a chance to plead their case and we all have to remain open-minded. But if the two of us still or two of them say nope this is the way we’re going you move on quickly"
"And it actually diffuses so many problems so quickly because you don’t have time as you all know you work in production it’s so expensive to run these shows you just don’t have time to negotiate every single thing and you got to move fast and that has saved us I mean that has saved us hours I would actually say that that saved years of our lives emotionally"
Ellen Burstyn staying completely calm when Friedkin called the whole curse story fake really impressed me. She just let his comment hang there without arguing back at all.
Ellen Burstyn says before The Exorcist she asked her Sufi teacher for protection, and he made her a tape to play before every day of shooting.
Then things went wrong. A young boy involved with the picture was shot and killed by police who mistook him for someone else. The set caught fire on a weekend when no one was there. Someone broke into the studio and stole her record player with the tape still in it. Linda Blair's father or grandfather died. The cameraman's wife had a baby, and the baby died.
Years later at an anniversary Q&A, Billy Friedkin said it was all made up for publicity. She didn't call him a liar. She just let it sit.
ft: @la_Biennale La Biennale di Venezia on youtube
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Ellen Burstyn says before The Exorcist she asked her Sufi teacher for protection, and he made her a tape to play before every day of shooting.
Then things went wrong. A young boy involved with the picture was shot and killed by police who mistook him for someone else. The set caught fire on a weekend when no one was there. Someone broke into the studio and stole her record player with the tape still in it. Linda Blair's father or grandfather died. The cameraman's wife had a baby, and the baby died.
Years later at an anniversary Q&A, Billy Friedkin said it was all made up for publicity. She didn't call him a liar. She just let it sit.
ft: @la_Biennale La Biennale di Venezia on youtube
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Oya time for Manchester United vs Chelsea ⚽️. #Betway
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Russell Crowe says that at 61 he has started asking himself how many summers he really has left.
Asked if he's dying, he jokes that his health problems are all mental. The real issue is the workload. He's worked so much that everyone in his business life now assumes they can keep him cranking all day, and he isn't sure he wants that. He loves the job and would find it hard to stop. He also knows his hearing and eyesight will slip at some point, and he doesn't want to do this work without his full faculties.
Plenty of actors hang on until the work gets worse. He's thinking about the exit while he's still good, and that takes more nerve than staying.
ft: @60Mins 60 Minutes Australia on youtube
George Clooney admitting he hyped up Batman to all his friends only to end up in the worst movie ever is so relatable. The way he turned that flop into motivation for Out of Sight and those other great films shows real resilience.
George Clooney says he called his friends to say he was playing Batman and then found out he was going to be in the worst film of all time
"I called all my friends. You know, you're on the phone. Hey, hey, guess what? I'm going to be in the next Batman film. And they're like, 'What part are you going to play with?' Batman. I mean, who knew I was going to be in the worst film of all time?"
"I'm in a rubber suit that weighs 400 lb. You can't move. They have you on a board. So, you're laying flat like this. And Joel Schumoker is directing with a microphone going. Okay. Ready? And your parents are dead. you have nothing to live for and action"
"I thought I was doing something very extraordinary and then I learned that I was not. Um, but I I tell you it's a good lesson because I didn't understand that I was going to be held responsible not just for my performance but for the film"
"So, the next three films I did were uh Out of Sight, uh Three Kings, and Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? So, those were That's a better run"
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George Clooney says he called his friends to say he was playing Batman and then found out he was going to be in the worst film of all time
"I called all my friends. You know, you're on the phone. Hey, hey, guess what? I'm going to be in the next Batman film. And they're like, 'What part are you going to play with?' Batman. I mean, who knew I was going to be in the worst film of all time?"
"I'm in a rubber suit that weighs 400 lb. You can't move. They have you on a board. So, you're laying flat like this. And Joel Schumoker is directing with a microphone going. Okay. Ready? And your parents are dead. you have nothing to live for and action"
"I thought I was doing something very extraordinary and then I learned that I was not. Um, but I I tell you it's a good lesson because I didn't understand that I was going to be held responsible not just for my performance but for the film"
"So, the next three films I did were uh Out of Sight, uh Three Kings, and Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? So, those were That's a better run"
Martin Sheen regretting not keeping his real name Ramón Estévez really stuck with me.
Watching him beg Emilio to hold onto the family name while Charlie went with Sheen shows how much it still weighs on him after all these years.
Martin Sheen says one of his biggest regrets is not working under his real name, Ramón Estévez, because a Hispanic surname in 1959 New York was not an advantage.
He told Josh Horowitz on Happy Sad Confused.
He begged his son Emilio to keep the family name, and Emilio stayed Estévez. Charlie went with Sheen. One father, two sons, two different names, and he still wishes he'd kept his own.
ft: @joshuahorowitz Happy Sad Confused on youtube
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Martin Sheen says one of his biggest regrets is not working under his real name, Ramón Estévez, because a Hispanic surname in 1959 New York was not an advantage.
He told Josh Horowitz on Happy Sad Confused.
He begged his son Emilio to keep the family name, and Emilio stayed Estévez. Charlie went with Sheen. One father, two sons, two different names, and he still wishes he'd kept his own.
ft: @joshuahorowitz Happy Sad Confused on youtube
Whoopi being so blunt about The View not being her best paying job and telling Keke to always keep her own money really got me. That kind of honesty from someone who's been around forever feels valuable.
The View isn't the best-paying job she's ever had, and she says very few famous people are making the money you read about.
Whoopi Goldberg, on Baby, This is Keke Palmer.
Most people assume a seat at that table means you're set for life. She says the opposite out loud, then tells a younger woman to keep money of her own no matter who she marries. Smart advice or cynical?
ft: @KekePalmer Baby, This is Keke Palmer on youtube
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The View isn't the best-paying job she's ever had, and she says very few famous people are making the money you read about.
Whoopi Goldberg, on Baby, This is Keke Palmer.
Most people assume a seat at that table means you're set for life. She says the opposite out loud, then tells a younger woman to keep money of her own no matter who she marries. Smart advice or cynical?
ft: @KekePalmer Baby, This is Keke Palmer on youtube
The betrayal Michael Douglas went through in rehab still makes me angry. Two addicts stole his files and sold a fake sex addiction story when his real issues were alcohol and drugs. That kind of leak destroys trust.
Two heroin addicts in his rehab group got his files from a nurse and took them to an English tabloid. The paper turned it into a sex addiction story, when his real problem was alcohol and drugs.
Michael Douglas, on Club Random.
Rehab only works if what gets said in that room stays there. Somebody leaked the worst stretch of his life, and the invented version followed him for decades.
ft: @billmaher Club Random on youtube
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Two heroin addicts in his rehab group got his files from a nurse and took them to an English tabloid. The paper turned it into a sex addiction story, when his real problem was alcohol and drugs.
Michael Douglas, on Club Random.
Rehab only works if what gets said in that room stays there. Somebody leaked the worst stretch of his life, and the invented version followed him for decades.
ft: @billmaher Club Random on youtube
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The role that changed her most was the one she couldn't see herself in.
Viola Davis, on Annalise Keating from How to Get Away with Murder.
She says Annalise agitated her trauma. The character was more sexual than she thought people saw her, and messy about it, and bold while still being vulnerable. To play her she had to believe it. Once she did, she stopped accepting the outside world's definition of what sexy looks like.
You don't have to be thin or beautiful to be sexy, and you don't have to walk a certain way to be a leading lady. Casting still acts like that rule is real. She was in people's living rooms every Thursday night proving it isn't.
ft: @CBSSunday CBS Sunday Morning on youtube
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Willem Dafoe says the one piece of advice he'll give actors is to keep working, and stop judging the job by how professional it looks, what it pays, or whether it's popular.
His point is that acting is one of the few crafts you can't do alone. You need other people. So you find what you love and get near it. That's how he got into the Wooster Group. They told him they had no money and didn't need him, so he lied and said he was a good carpenter just to be around them. Bit by bit they handed him more to do until he was at the center of the group.
When people say no, he says you say yes and go in another direction. Stubborn advice, but it's the kind that actually builds careers.
Willem Dafoe’s advice really stuck with me. He just wanted to be around the work he loved so badly that he lied about being a carpenter to get in the door. That kind of stubbornness feels like real career advice.
Willem Dafoe says the one piece of advice he'll give actors is to keep working, and stop judging the job by how professional it looks, what it pays, or whether it's popular.
His point is that acting is one of the few crafts you can't do alone. You need other people. So you find what you love and get near it. That's how he got into the Wooster Group. They told him they had no money and didn't need him, so he lied and said he was a good carpenter just to be around them. Bit by bit they handed him more to do until he was at the center of the group.
When people say no, he says you say yes and go in another direction. Stubborn advice, but it's the kind that actually builds careers.
Martin Short's approach to grief really hits home for me. Losing so many people so young and choosing to keep talking to them instead of going silent is such a healthy way to carry it.
Martin Short says losing three people in his family by the time he was 20 taught him something most people don't figure out until their 40s or 50s.
It was 1970 in Hamilton, nobody was sending a grieving kid to therapy, and he says he has never been. What grew in him instead was a muscle for survival and a way of carrying grief. His rule is to keep the conversation going with the people you lose. He taped everything, and when he met his wife Nancy, she felt she already knew his parents from those tapes.
Most families go quiet about the dead because saying their names hurts. He went the other way, so they never left his life.
ft: @CBSSunday CBS Sunday Morning on youtube
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Martin Short says losing three people in his family by the time he was 20 taught him something most people don't figure out until their 40s or 50s.
It was 1970 in Hamilton, nobody was sending a grieving kid to therapy, and he says he has never been. What grew in him instead was a muscle for survival and a way of carrying grief. His rule is to keep the conversation going with the people you lose. He taped everything, and when he met his wife Nancy, she felt she already knew his parents from those tapes.
Most families go quiet about the dead because saying their names hurts. He went the other way, so they never left his life.
ft: @CBSSunday CBS Sunday Morning on youtube
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The last 24 hours in AI | Fri, Oct 30
• OpenAI doubled usage limits on Pro and Business Premium plans. A planned cut to the Pro 200 plan is canceled.
• OpenAI also has a hidden checkout note saying ChatGPT and Codex will share one usage limit from December. That is a testing find, not an announcement.
• OpenAI expanded its frontier model monitoring. It says the system caught a model trying to reach the live internet during training in September.
• OpenAI rewrote its Model Spec around five core values, and "The Assistant" is now just called "GPT".
• Anthropic is SpaceX's biggest single customer. It made up 34.5% of SpaceX revenue last quarter, with up to $120.5B committed.
• Anthropic added a self-check where Claude flags possible misuse right after it answers. Testers also spotted a new Opus in early testing.
• Mistral released Large 4 as open weights on Hugging Face. It ranks first among open models on FrontierCode.
• Google's Gemini 4 Carbon leads the new HLE-Diamond leaderboard at nearly 70% with no tools.
• Google is shutting down Jules and moving its features into Antigravity, which just opened a plugin marketplace with Jira, Notion, Stripe and Figma.
• Qwen's CTO says Qwen 4 is coming next week. Treat that as a rumor until it ships.
• Epoch AI found GLM-5.3 can turn published but unshipped Firefox fixes into working exploits.
• Canva launched Brush, its own vision-language model for editing designs.
My read: The Epoch result matters most. If a model can turn a public fix into an exploit before the patch ships, defense has to run on agents around the clock.
The last 24 hours in AI | Thu, Oct 29
• Google launched Gemini 4 Carbon, its new frontier model, just two weeks after Argon. It claims the top score on cyber and long-horizon tasks.
• Google's Logan Kilpatrick says Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis index. Googlers also hint at a stronger model they haven't shipped. That part is a rumor.
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai told the earnings call he expects progress to speed up over the next 12 months, and pointed to AI helping build better AI.
• GitHub unveiled Copilot Fusion. It picks a model for each task and claims frontier-level quality at up to 77% lower cost.
• Microsoft Cloud revenue passed $63 billion, with growth up to 30% a year, Satya Nadella said after earnings.
• OpenAI now lets ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers claim up to $500 a month in API credits.
• OpenAI also plans to merge ChatGPT and ChatGPT Work this year. Some users saw the pop-up early by mistake, so it isn't officially announced.
• OpenAI may buy Google TPUs outright, The Information reports. Neither company has confirmed it.
• NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe as an open model. It covers 40 languages, labels speakers, and can translate and answer questions.
• The DOJ is looking at whether the NVIDIA and Hugging Face deal hurts competition.
• Mistral put its Responses API in public preview, so developers can build agents on its models.
• Cloudflare says a Workers AI bug sent 155 GLM-5.3 responses to the wrong customers. It was fixed Sep 9 and written up Oct 26.
My read: Copilot Fusion is the cost-per-task race in one product. Carbon's first place is a launch-week claim, so I want independent evals before calling it the new leader.
Susan Sarandon’s observation really rings true to me. I’ve seen it on sets
Also women tend to jump straight into fixing the problem while a lot of guys start looking for who to blame first.
Her honesty about it is refreshing.
Susan Sarandon says that when something goes wrong on a set, women try to fix it and men try to figure out whose fault it is.
She said it on Talking Pictures from HBO Max.
"I would say that when there's a problem, women go to fix it."
"Guys go to figure out whose fault it is."
"I've had some really horrible women producers."
"Being able to not put your ego first and just solving whatever it is that needs to be done."
She hedges it herself, so this isn't a blanket rule. Anyone who has worked on a crew has seen both reactions to a problem, though. Is she describing men and women, or just good and bad coworkers?
ft: @hbomax Talking Pictures on youtube