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The problem with half of these actors is that they're far too famous to commit to being bond for the next 10-15 years.
Realistically, it would mean turning down roles in far more interesting films.
Bond should be a young, talented, but fairly unknown actor who can fully commit to the role of Bond for the next 10-15 years.
If Amazon wants to bring in famous names to sell the box office do so in supporting roles or as villains.
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This is an interesting cultural snapshot of the 2000s.
Many wonder how Russell Brand could conduct himself as he did for so long with so little pushback.
To understand this, you need to delve into the pre-social-media world.
TV was king of the media, and TV adverts accounted for the dominant share of advertising spend.
For decades, what was allowed to be shown on TV was heavily controlled and restricted by regulatory bodies such as the Independent Television Commission (ITC), which regulated commercial television, and the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC).
Regulators like the ITC operated under vague but strict statutory mandates to ensure programmes maintained "good taste and decency". They also had much stronger powers to prevent shows from airing.
The Communications Act 2003 dissolved these bodies and replaced them with Ofcom.
Ofcom had the task of integrating the Human Rights Act 1998 and Article 10 (Freedom of Expression) into its regulatory framework.
This meant that material that would previously have resulted in a show being pulled from the air could now be justified with valid editorial or artistic reasoning.
This resulted in the 2000s becoming a decade of boundary-pushing television, with shows like Big Brother, Skins, The Jeremy Kyle Show and Little Britain.
These shows touched on topics such as racism, homosexuality, drug use and nudity.
The 2000s became an obscenity arms race, with networks trying to outdo each other and push the boundaries of what was acceptable under this new regulatory landscape.
No one pushed these boundaries harder than the new wave of comedians at the time: Alan Carr, Frankie Boyle and Sacha Baron Cohen.
And there was perhaps no one more obscene or boundary-pushing than Russell Brand.
To many people in the media, he was an asset that needed protecting. Without the mass social pushback made possible by social media, challenging his behaviour was considerably more difficult.
Any individual who raised a complaint risked creating negative consequences for the production studio, network or agent. As a result, raising such complaints could also jeopardise their career.
However, with the growth of social media, the ability to publish controversial opinions and media to a mass audience was now widely available to everyone.
I believe this was a factor in Russell Brand's move towards political commentary. His niche in the media landscape became some what diluted by the widespread availability of social media.
Unfortunately for him, so did the protections that had previously allowed and shielded him from scrutiny over his conduct.
This is the moment Vanessa Feltz is talking about.
In 2006 on 1 Leicester Square, Russell Brand looked her in the eye mid-interview and asked if he could “have it off” with her and both her daughters. One of them was 15 at the time.
When she shut it down and said he’d understand when he had his own daughters, he doubled down, joking about sleeping with his own kids and saying if he’d had boys they’d be in a lot of trouble.
Her reaction: “God, yuck. Yuck, yuck! Don’t go there.” 🤮
This isn’t remotely funny. I’ve never found him funny tbh, but this is just sick. How do you even go there? Vanessa should’ve walked off or slapped him, that would’ve been the moment!
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The government is facing cancelling their planned flagship data centre in Essex because the National Grid can't provide the energy needed until 2035.
What do you mean we're not slowing down. We haven't even done anything yet?!
A tip from someone who has sold close to 10'000 items across eBay and Vinted.
Never sell and send anything above ~£120-150 via postal services. Especially very brandable resellable items.
Try to sell in person if possible.
The rate of theft, fraud, missing and damaged parcels just goes through the roof above this point.
Along with after sale complaints from people trying to get money off.
Just avoid it.
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I want to get my DNA sequenced like 23&me but I don't know if there is an option that won't sell my data. What's the best options here?
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My hot take on the French (now wider European) Riots:
Top rate tax payers/business owners generating tax above a certain rate should be eligible to own a firearm.
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A conference about the future of the internet in the vibecode era?
Potential name:
"Dude, where's my moat?"
🤖 Made with AI
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Does the UK gov seriously want £15 a month from me to watch YouTube?!
Are they going to expand this to X as well?
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Being a courtroom artist must be awesome. Sitting there in the corner, doodling away, pure roastin people with your pastels.
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Did Claude just dramatically change token usage for Pro?
Usually I find that claude runs about 10-15 minutes max per task before it would hit the 5-hour usage limit on Pro.
I set it a task and went back to work. I checked on it 2 hours later and it was still working on the task.
Near shat myself thinking Claude was cleaning out my bank account and I'd be on the jacket potatos until the end of the month.
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I feel like I'm the irresponsible Pitbull owner of vibe coding.
I trust a little to much that my angel Claude would never absolutely maul your code base.
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"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
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Was this under desk treadmill purchase to improve my fitness ❌
Was the under desk treadmill purchased so I can continue to have a pistachio & raspberry cheesecake with my mid afternoon coffee ✅
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