Nearly 20 unreleased J Dilla instrumentals will be the focus of Motor City, a collection of the late producer's work curated and sequenced by his mother, Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey.
The compilation serves as both a tribute to Dilla's native Detroit as well as "letter" from Ma Dukes to her son; accordingly, the CD and vinyl copies of the album are packaged in a limited-edition mailing envelope with a handwritten letter from Ma Dukes to Dilla inside.
In addition to the 19 unheard instrumentals on Motor City, Beat Junkies founder and Dilla's friend J Rocc has created blends utilizing the instrumentals found on the posthumous release. In the first sample of that digital-only free download that accompanies Motor City purchases, J Rocc combines a bouncy Dilla instrumental with Notorious B.I.G.'s "Juicy."
Motor City, due out April 21st, will be available on CD, LP and a deluxe edition packed with the album on CD, cassette and LP, a T-shirt, vinyl slipmat and a J Rocc flexi disc. Preorder all varieties at the Dillatronic site.
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Contrary to popular belief, green carrot tops are indeed edible. I’ve long held onto the notion that carrot tops were poisonous and tossed these delicious and versatile greens for years. Who knew doing so was such a waste?! Here are three easy and completely brilliant ways to get the most out of your carrot tops, so you can both reduce food waste and introduce a unique green leaf vegetable to your diet. Enjoy!
Are carrot tops poisonous? The short answer: no. The longer answer takes into consideration the alkaloids inherent in carrot greens (alkaloids are considered toxic). The truth is, all leafy green vegetables contain alkaloids to a certain degree, and the only way to avoid overdosing on any one particular type of alkaloid is to rotate your greens. The takeaway: don’t eat carrot greens every day, just as you shouldn’t eat any one green – spinach, kale, and collard greens, among others – each and every day, especially if you consume a lot of plants (which you totally should, by the way).
With that said, carrot greens are a resourceful addition to your diet. They have a slightly bitter taste, firm texture, and boast quite the versatility in the kitchen.
These three recipes use carrot tops in unique ways that will satisfy your palate and your waste-minimizing conscience. Enjoy!
In a food processor, pulse the garlic and pine nuts until a coarse paste forms. Add in basil, carrot tops, and parmesan. Pulse until the mixture resembles a coarse purée. Add in the olive oil, salt, and pepper. Pulse until combined. Enjoy the pesto with pasta, in a sandwich, or as a dip.
In a saucepan over medium-high heat, add the olive oil and cumin. Stir and let cook for one minute to release the cumin’s aromas. Add the onion and sauté for a few minutes, or until the onions begin to turn translucent. Add in the garlic and chickpeas and stir while cooking. After two to three minutes, remove the saucepan from the heat and fold in the carrot greens, lemon, and salt and pepper. Serve and enjoy.
3. Carrot Top Green Juice
Serves 1
Ingredients
4 carrots (with green tops)
1 apple
1 cucumber
Directions
Push the all the ingredients through the juicer chute in the order listed. Enjoy as your morning green juices, thanks to the carrot greens!
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After Will & Grace had a mini reunion ahead of the presidential election in November, fans freaked out about having our favorite foursome — Will Truman, Grace Adler, Jack McFarland, and Karen Walker — back together again. People immediately wanted more, and our dreams came true in January when it was confirmed that the beloved TV show is being revived for 10 episodes. While we don't know too much about what will go down in the reboot, we have been treated to a few small glimpses of the stars on set. In addition to Sean Hayes sharing an Instagram photo of him, Megan Mullally, and Eric McCormack on set in February, Eric also shared a similar shot on Twitter on Sunday. In the snap, the four main characters smile while taking a selfie, with Karen's infamous hairdo back in full force. "Spent the last 3 days with these loons & boy, are my arms tired. @DebraMessing @SeanHayes @MeganOMullally #Will&Grace," Eric wrote. Let's just hope nobody pulls the piece off of Karen's head this time . . .
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EUROPE and America have been slowly drifting apart for millions of years. Tectonic shift means that the physical distance between the continents grows by about an inch every year. If only the political divergence were so languid. From NATO to Donald Trump’s travel ban to accusations of currency manipulation, the gap between once-strong allies on either side of the Atlantic has rarely felt as chasmic.
Relations may get frostier yet. On March 2nd, the European Parliament voted temporarily to suspend visa-free travel for Americans visiting the EU. The vote is not binding—it will be up to the European Commission, the body's executive arm, to decide whether to implement the recommendation. Nonetheless, the decision marks a sad state of affairs.
The main reason for the vote is the way that travellers from some EU countries are treated by America. While most citizens of EU countries can travel to the United States without a visa, those from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania must still obtain one. Because the EU demands equal treatment of all its citizens in such matters, it says it is legally obliged to fight back.
The last time Leighton Meester had a series premiere on television, very few people knew who she was. But the then-21-year-old actor became a household name once she slipped on the ornate headbands that became a trademark of the impeccably styled and hypnotically conniving Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, a teen soap that relished in exploring and exploiting “the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite.”
When the show premiered in September 2007, its potent mix of sex, drugs, and Manolos made it a constanttarget for the Parents Television Council; it was a trailblazer in terms of second-screen viewing as fans tweeted and hashtagged the couples they shipped; and it wasn’t long before the cast became catnip for magazines of every ilk. Life almost immediately began to imitate art for the young, gorgeous stars of Gossip Girl: Their offscreen exploits were consistent gossip fodder, their relationships were scrutinized by the tabloids, and they graced the covers of glossy high-profile magazines.
Gossip Girl entered the zeitgeist in a way few shows ever do. It was name-checked on shows like 30 Rock, Entourage, and Skins, and in films like Easy A and Horrible Bosses. Much like The O.C. with The Real Housewives, it was the inspiration for a Bravo reality show (the short-lived NYC Prep). And it helped to cement the still-young CW network (the WB/UPN hybrid was only a year old when Gossip Girl launched) as a premiere destination for young adult viewers.
On her scant breaks from the show, Leighton Meester was featured on Cobra Starship’s 2009 Billboard Hot 100 single “Good Girls Go Bad” and co-starred in half a dozen movies, including the comedy Date Night with Tina Fey and Steve Carrell, the Oscar-nominated drama Country Strong with Gwyneth Paltrow, and thriller The Roommate with Minka Kelly. When Gossip Girl came to an end in December 2012, Meester focused her energy on music and theater; she made her New York stage debut in Of Mice and Men in April 2014 and released her debut LP Heartstrings October of that year. In her personal life, what seemed like 2000s teen drama fanfiction came to life: She married Adam Brody in February 2014 and became a mother in August 2015.
And now, nearly 10 years after she was introduced to the world, Meester is headed back to television with Fox’s Making History, which premieres March 5. When asked what led her to sign onto another series, Meester said, completely stone-faced, “Am I broke?” Then, she broke out a giant smile and let out an equally large laugh.
The truth is, after all those years of working nonstop, Meester found herself in the luxurious position of not having to work — but then she read the script for Making History and “it just spoke to me,” she told BuzzFeed News at the Market Cafe in Westwood, California. The time-traveling comedy unexpectedly ticked off every box on her seemingly impossible checklist of requirements for a potential return to TV.
First, there were the creatives behind the project: She called creator Julius Sharpe “the best boss ever” and has been trying to work with executive producers Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Seth Cohen ever since she auditioned for January Jones’ role on The Last Man on Earth. (And yes, she is keenly aware her new boss shares a name with her husband’s iconic O.C. character. “It took a while for that to come up … and one day I was like, ‘Do you know?’ and before I could finish he was like, ‘Yes, Leighton. Yes, I know,’” she recalled with a “like duh” giggle, her wickedly self-deprecating sense of humor emerging yet again.)
“I love the other things she’s doing that typically you would see men doing.”
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Then, there was the schedule. “I wouldn’t want to be in something that’s an hourlong either soap or procedural,” Meester said, noting that it is “much more grueling to do” 22 to 24 episodes per year. “You have 10 months, you’re on set five days a week, 15 hours a day, you don’t see sunlight,” she said, speaking from the experience of six seasons on Gossip Girl. “I wouldn’t have wanted to repeat that. … It was very much in its time and place. I think it’s just more exciting to be in something I find to be more of my current taste. With any character I’ve played, I wouldn’t want to repeat it. That would be boring.”
And of course, there was the material. “I want to do something funny, something I would laugh at,” said Meester, who named Last Man on Earth, Broad City, Vice Principals, and Kroll Show as some of her favorite shows. “I just wanted to live in a world like this. I wanted to go to work and have it not feel like work and have fun and work with people who bring me out of my comfort zone.” Making History revolves around a duffel bag outfitted with time-travel technology that schlubby Dan (Adam Pally) has been using to go back in time, where he seems infinitely cooler. In the 1700s, he winds up meeting Deborah Revere (Meester), the forward-thinking daughter of Paul Revere, and by the end of the pilot — SPOILER ALERT — Deborah travels to the present day with Dan, beginning their decades-hopping adventures.
More than anything else, Meester jumped at the chance to star in Making History because of the character she would get to play. “When I was thinking about going to work and seeing what was out there, it was really important to me to do something where there was a female character that was fulfilling in a multifaceted way because it’s so rare,” she said, warming her hands around a peach tea. “I feel like it’s so cliché to say it — but it’s so cliché that it’s still this way — women are put in a box. You’re an ingenue or you’re an icon, which is a euphemism for an older woman; you’re a beach babe or a mom; a Madonna or a whore. I think that this show is so many things: There is romance, but that’s not the leading plot. It’s not what this character is here for and so, I love it. I love the other things she’s doing that typically you would see men doing — I get to ride horses and shoot muskets and I get to save the day, which is really cool.”
As Meester began to talk about the scarcity of complex female roles, every word she uttered was laced with a palpable fire. It’s clear that gender inequality frustrates her — and for reasons beyond the fact that she identifies, and believes everyone should, as a feminist.
Meetser with Jim Parrack, Chris O’Dowd, and James Franco at the first curtain call for Of Mice and Men on March 19, 2014. Jemal Countess / Getty Images
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In 2014, while starring alongside James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in Of Mice and Men, Meester wrote an op-ed for the Huffington Posttitled “I’m Not a Tart: The Feminist Subtext of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.” The well-articulated, deeply thoughtful piece examined the cultural ramifications of her maligned female character, who doesn’t even have a name of her own in the script; she’s just known as Curley’s Wife.
“I wanted to do something lighter where I don’t get brutally murdered eight times a week.”
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The experience of repeatedly becoming this dehumanized and murdered woman for more than 100 performances took a toll on the actor. “It led me to choose comedy,” she said. “I kind of wanted to do something a little bit lighter where I don’t get brutally murdered eight times a week.” Steinbeck once said of Curley’s Wife, “She’s not a person, she’s a symbol. She has no function, except to be a foil — and a danger to Lennie.” But it is Lennie who is a danger to Curley’s Wife in the end as he, unaware of his own strength, accidentally strangles her.
The combination of Meester’s and Franco’s star power brought in record Broadway box office grosses, and it also meant the members of the audience routinely skewed younger than one might expect for a staged production of John Steinbeck’s famed story. Meester was constantly surprised at how these young viewers engaged with the story’s latent sexism.
“It was jarring and baffling that so many people who went to go see it — particularly young people — they couldn’t quite grasp it,” she said, still trying to work it out in her mind nearly three years later. “They could grasp the American dream gone wrong and they could grasp the racism and the levels of people’s place in life and how they could never break free … but somehow, the concept of sexism was so nuanced and so insidious and so ingrained in people in a way that was mind-blowing.
Meester at the Of Mice and Men portrait unveiling in May 2014. Brad Barket / Getty Images
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“It’s the same as people being okay with pussy grabbing.” Meester paused, seemingly wondering if she should have said that, but stood by the choice and continued: “They kind of just accept it and it just showed me, firsthand, that we have a very long way to go. I’m lucky that I could see it from that point of view — yes, the stakes were high for me as an actor, but it wasn’t true life, so I know it’s gotta be a million times harder for most other women. It was a challenge and a wonderfully life-changing time … [but] I felt like I took it quite personally. I was degraded by the other people on stage. I love them, but that was their part. And I’m sure it wasn’t easy for them either, but I think that has colored my feeling about going back to do theater. Every time now I think, Oh, I want to do that again, but I think I have that post-traumatic fear.”
Still, her Of Mice and Men experience was one Meester called “everything and more,” especially since she believes there’s something worthwhile the fans who’ve grown up alongside her can take away from the play and from each of her performances, including, hopefully, Deborah on Making History. “I love that I can now take fans that liked the things I was into and used to do — Gossip Girl and The Roommate and the things I did back when I was 20 — and say, ‘This is my taste now, this is what I like, so come over here and watch some Steinbeck or watch Making History,” she said.
Meester with her Making History co-stars Neil Casey, John Gemberling, Yassir Lester, and Adam Pally at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in January 2017. Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images
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Though the new series mainly plays for laughs, it finds ways to educate, using America’s past to have present-day conversations about subjects that will affect future generations. “We make jokes about the Second Amendment and how it’s been misinterpreted and then reinterpreted over the years,” Meester said, “and about women’s rights in the sense that everybody’s rights are a lot at stake right now and it’s pretty scary. It makes you think, Where would I go if I had a time machine? And it makes you — at least it makes me — grateful and skeptical of my own time period. So whether we’re using humor or just saying it outright, I think going back in time is a really great vessel for having those discussions.”
Meester with Adam Brody at the 2014 Tony Awards. Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images
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While pontificating about possible future timelines, talk turned to how Meester, who’s about to turn 31, would like her career to be remembered ultimately. After a very contemplative pause, she said she hopes the totality of her work can be “larger than what inspires me in the moment” and that it can spark conversations about — among other things — female empowerment and casual misogyny. Which is why the one conversation Meester isn’t keen on having involves her daily offscreen life. “I’ve seen that being a woman, especially if you’re dating or married to somebody, people are more interested. And if you have a kid, they’re interested in the before and after,” she said, referring to post-pregnancy body narratives.
It’s one reason why Meester and Brody have been so intensely private about their relationship; they’ve made very few joint red-carpet appearances and haven’t publicly commented on their marriage or the birth of their child. Meester’s socialmedia accounts also entirely, and intentionally, focus on her professional endeavors.
“I would say that from experience — but mostly just this is where my gut comes in — it’s not good for me to really discuss personal stuff,” she said, before smiling and repeating the words “personal stuff” with air quotes. “It’s perpetuating a story that I don’t agree with, that I don’t like. I would just rather that if people have anything to say it’s about me and my character — and by my character, I mean my internal self, but also the character I’m playing at the moment. That it’s about my work. I don’t know if people agree, but I think and hope there is enough to say about me within that topic that is fulfilling to people. I get that maybe it’s not, because it still always comes up, but I just give as little as possible so I can feel protected and people go as far as you let them. I just don’t let them go too far.”
Calf Raises (Single Leg) (3 sets of 10 on each side, increasing to 3 sets of 15)
1. Stand on a flat surface with feet hip width apart. Shift your weight onto the left foot, bending slightly at the knee to prevent locking.
2. Draw the right knee up towards your right hip until the right foot is completely off the ground.
3. With all of your weight on your left leg, slowly lift your left heel off the ground and raise up on the ball of your foot as high as possible.
4. Slowly lower back down until the heel almost touches the ground and then raise back up on your toes again. Use a wall or railing for balance. Count to 3 as you raise and lower, emphasizing balance and control making sure movement is only in the ankles, not the knees or hips.
5. Repeat raise for 3 counts/lower for 3 counts 10 times on each side.
Next up from Fitbit: Tech that will help you hit your fitness goals without ruining your style.
The activity tracking giant gave fashionistas some love in 2016 with the introduction of the Alta, a sleek fitness tracker with sharper style than its other, clunkier offerings. Collaborations with fashion designers like Tory Burch and PUBLIC SCHOOL followed, giving the Alta an extra aesthetic boost and its wearers more options to accessorize their device.
Fitbit's next step for the line, the Alta HR, keeps that aesthetic focus but amps up its tracking power. The company's engineers shrunk its PurePulse heart monitoring tech down to a chip small enough to fit in the Alta's housing, creating what Fitbit claims is the world's slimmest wrist-based activity tracker with that capability.
The device was unveiled at an appropriately sweaty spin class event hosted by brand ambassador Julianne Hough in New York City.
The Alta HR is 25 percent skinnier than the next smallest Fitbit with PurePulse, the Charge 2, which can be overly chunky for people with smaller wrists. That's a welcome improvement for the Alta's target audience — the company has unabashedly marketed the device to women.
The HR's big addition, Fitbit's PurePulse heart rate tracking capabilities.
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The Alta HR looks the same as the original Alta on the outside, so there's not much change aside from the heart monitoring capabilities. Fitbit claims battery life has improved enough for users to go a full week between charges, but we'll judge that when the time comes for a full review.
Fitbit also announced some new sleep tracking features it has on the horizon: Sleep Stages and Sleep Insights, which were developed using data from the 3 billion nights of sleep (2.5 million years!) logged by Fitbit wearers since 2012, look to help users hack and track their rest.
Sleep Stages, which will be available for Fitbit devices with PurePulse (Charge 2, Blaze and, of course, Alta HR), estimates the time spent every night in the three stages of sleep: light, deep and REM.
Sleep Insights is less tech-dependent, so it'll work for all Fitbits that track sleep, giving wearers more focused advice on how best to tailor their day-to-day activities for better snoozing.
A row of multicolored Alta HRs at the debut event.
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The Alta HR is now available for preorder for $149.95, with a wider release in stores in April. That's $20 more than the original model, but the addition of the heart rate monitoring tech might justify the boost for those looking for a sleeker way to track their BPM.
Sleep Stages and Sleep Insights will roll out later via an update to the Fitbit app sometime this spring.
As winter soups go, split pea is definitely in the stick-to-your-ribs category.
Recently, I discovered that green split peas also come in a yellow variety. Simmer these along with a handful of Indian spices, and you have a bright, filling vegetarian supper.
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The late critic Roger Ebert used to cite something he called "Brotman's Law," which essentially stated that if nothing interesting had happened within the first 20 minutes of a film, nothing was ever going to. That rule can't really be applied to The Walking Dead: It has an odd habit of springing its nastiest surprises at the end of hours that are otherwise talky, dry, and stubbornly incident-free. All of which means that two-thirds of the way through this week's episode – "Say Yes” – after a long stretch of not-much-to-write-home-about, when it suddenly looks like Rick has been felled by walkers, and that a grief-stricken Michonne is going to let herself get eaten, well ….
Oh, who are we kidding? There was never any reason to worry. This show's not going to kill off its main character in some random episode in the middle of some random season; and it would definitely have been too dumb of a way for our katana-wielding badass to die, committing suicide because of a momentary misapprehension. At the moment that both of them ended up okay – after a cool last-minute escape involving a sword flung through the air and then immediately put to use on a dozen ghouls – it was obvious that this week's outing wasn't going to spring any surprises. Once that was clear, it was time to ask: What exactly were we supposed to get out of all this?
If you think of this chapter strictly in terms of what might be excerpted in some future "previously on The Walking Dead" montage, there are only two scenes worth remembering. In one, Rick delivers the cache of guns and ammo that he and Michonne nearly lost their lives procuring for the Scavengers, and the junkyard-dwellers' leader Jadis responds with her usual quirky terseness, "Need nearly twice." In the other, Rosita swallows her pride and heads to the Hilltop Colony to ask her former romantic rival Sasha for help in killing Negan with one of their fancy new weapons. She signs on immediately, under one condition: "I get to take the shot."
When it comes to this season's larger plot, here are the takeaways: The Alexandrians are now halfway to their goal of assembling enough of an arsenal to recruit the Scavengers to their cause; and an impatient Rosita is about to embark on a guerrilla mission that could potentially ruin all of Rick's plans. All told, that's really not a lot of developments for a series so sprawling – and especially not for an episode written by Matthew Negrete and directed by Greg Nicotero, key members of this show's creative A-team. For them, "Say Yes" appears to be more about establishing everyone's rationale for actions yet to come. Walking Dead fans know what that means. Are you ready for some conversations? Each more earnest than the last?
Even though Rosita has been itching for battle for most of this season, the writers apparently felt she couldn't make her big decision until she spent a few more scenes openly stewing. So we get to watch her have a long chat with Father Gabriel, where she criticizes him for urging her to wait to take on the big bad, and listens to his fairly zen reply that there's no point in dwelling on mistakes that can't be erased. Meanwhile, Tara has a little talk of her own, with Rick's uncomprehending toddler daughter, as she tries to convince herself that there's no reason to tell anyone about the well-armed but effectively closed-off Oceanside community. It's only after the Scavengers demand more guns that she apparently has a change of heart, and lets our fearless leader know that she may have some helpful intel for the group.
The rest of the episode is less about immediate motivations and more about how the deeper connection between Rick and Michonne has become an anchor for them – in both the positive and negative senses of the word. The grand gesture of romantic doom that our heroine almost makes when she thinks her man has been devoured ends up becoming his cue to let her know that when he imagines a brighter future, he pictures her by his side. In that same speech, he also warns her that in the fights on the horizon, either of them (and any of their loved ones) could die. They can't let the fear or the potential emotional devastation of that derail their mission.
Ultimately, this week becomes The Rick & Michonne Show, as they scrounge for supplies and have hot sex between awesome-looking zombie-kills. And that's fine, as far as it goes. They're a likable pair. Plus Nicotero takes good advantage of the visual possibilities of the location where they spend most of this hour: a military base that was hosting some kind of traveling family fun-fair when everything went to hell.
But after we've watched these two savor pouches of MRE chili-mac by candlelight, and have seen them slaughter walkers from under the shadow of a ferris wheel, it's hard not to wish that these more entertaining scenes had been worked into an episode with lasting impact. Michonne keeps suggesting that they should probably go home, and Rick keeps answering that he'd like "just a little more time." Which is sweet, because there's something special about this fantasy of two passionate lovers off on their own, relying on each other to survive in a world gone mad. But to be honest, his plea also sounds a bit like the voice of the producers, admitting that they need to kill another hour before they can get back to the parts of the story that matter.
Mike: Huh. Well, there goes your chance at a can of Spam-flavored macadamia nuts.
So, let’s talk tech news. YouTube, everyone’s favorite way to listen to free music videos at work, unveiled its cord-cutting TV service this week, creatively titled “YouTube TV.” It’s kind of cool, I guess: For $35 a month, you get more than 40 channels, including all four major networks, and others like Disney, FX and ESPN.
But that also means you won’t get a bunch of other channels that weren’t included, some of which might be a dealbreaker for some people. My suggestion: Create a bundle that just included Food Network and HGTV and become rich beyond your wildest dreams.
Farhad: Wait, do you really just watch food and home channels? It sounds like you and my mom could be friends.
The YouTube thing sounds interesting, though not especially novel. DirecTV offers this sort of “skinny bundle,” as does a company called Sling. YouTube argues that although its service offers similar channels as those others, it has better technology, including better recommendation algorithms to tell you what to watch.
This seems like a good idea; lots of people don’t want to pay hundreds of dollars for cable but probably can’t get all their entertainment from Netflix and Amazon. But I do wonder if that’s a TV company pipe dream. Maybe cord cutters will switch entirely and never miss TV. Personally, I pay for cable and almost never watch it. It’s like burning money every month.
Mike: Right. It’s also something you wonder why other tech companies — like, ahem, the hardware giant down the road in Cupertino, Calif. — haven’t already debuted for their set-top boxes. My guess is Apple is holding out to negotiate a better deal with the cable guys.
Moving on, let us return to Uber’s week from hell, Part 2. On Monday, one of Uber’s recently hired high-profile executives was forced to resign after it was discovered that he did not disclose an old sexual harassment claim at his previous employer, Google. Then on Tuesday, a dashboard camera video of Travis Kalanick, the company’s chief executive, emerged after Bloomberg dug it up, showing him in an unbecoming verbal sparring match with a driver. He was forced to apologize to his company and the driver, and said he planned to seek leadership help.
In all, it has not been a great week for Uber. But I have been saying that a lot lately.
Farhad: Boy, your story is crazy. So they were systematically identifying law enforcement officials’ phones and then essentially serving them up a fake version of Uber, so the cops couldn’t track down Uber cars? Man, oh man.
This reminds me of the time Zenefits, the high-flying human resources start-up, was found to have installed software to let its workers cheat on a licensing course. You know what happened at Zenefits after that? The C.E.O. had to resign, there were hundreds of layoffs, regulators began long-term investigations and imposed millions in fines, the company’s valuation plummeted, and its long-term prospects are still in question.
Or, hey, I just thought of another comparison. It’s like when Volkswagen created software to pretend its cars had low emissions in testing, but they didn’t actually.
In other words: This is bad.
Mike: Yes, quite.
Let’s talk about Snap, the self-styled camera company that debuted on the New York Stock Exchange this week. Snap ended up raising a heck of a lot of money — $3.4 billion — and the stock popped roughly 41 percent the moment it hit the market, surging to $24 a share from the set price of $17 that the bankers ended up deciding upon on Wednesday.
So I’m kind of a Snap bear — and no, that’s not some sort of terrifying euphemism. I believe their marquee product, Snapchat, has some significant challenges in regard to growth, and their thesis of being a camera company is far from borne out. (I will admit, however, that I am waiting for my pair of Snap Spectacles to arrive in the mail.)
But help me understand what I’m missing. You take a company with a product structure comparable to the problem-plagued Twitter’s, which has long been investors’ public market corollary to Snap, and you imagine building products like drones and other things that a company like GoPro is working on. And we all know how GoPro is doing.
How does that add up to a successful company?
Farhad: I could make either case for Snap — that it’s going to be huge, a cultural and business phenomenon that justifies its huge valuation, or that it will sink like a stone. I’m truly of two minds about it. I think anything could happen. (Yeah, I’m a really great tech pundit: Who knows?)
But since you’ve cast yourself as the Snap bear, let me pretend to be the Snap bull. I think it could be a mistake to compare it to Twitter for a simple reason: Snap is visual and Twitter is not. Snap, I think, is thus a more faithful replacement of the world’s most popular pastime: watching TV. The big opportunity for all consumer internet companies is the money that will flow from TV ads to digital ads, and I think Snap has a pretty good shot at capturing a huge slice of that market.
I also wouldn’t compare it to GoPro. Yes, Snap says it’s a camera company, but we’re taking it too literally. It’s a camera company whose main innovation is camera software, not hardware. In this way it is a bit like Apple: Apple’s physical phone hardware is in many cases on par with that of competitors, but the reason that Apple makes essentially all the profit in the smartphone business is that its software keeps people glued to iPhones. Snap, too, is investing in software that hooks you in, and its hardware will be secondary to that. This is very different from GoPro, whose software is at best forgettable — leaving it open to competition from low-end manufacturers.
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The last time Leighton Meester had a series premiere on television, very few people knew who she was. But the then-21-year-old actor became a household name once she slipped on the ornate headbands that became a trademark of the impeccably styled and hypnotically conniving Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, a teen soap that relished in exploring and exploiting “the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite.”
When the show premiered in September 2007, its potent mix of sex, drugs, and Manolos made it a constanttarget for the Parents Television Council; it was a trailblazer in terms of second-screen viewing as fans tweeted and hashtagged the couples they shipped; and it wasn’t long before the cast became catnip for magazines of every ilk. Life almost immediately began to imitate art for the young, gorgeous stars of Gossip Girl: Their offscreen exploits were consistent gossip fodder, their relationships were scrutinized by the tabloids, and they graced the covers of glossy high-profile magazines.
Gossip Girl entered the zeitgeist in a way few shows ever do. It was name-checked on shows like 30 Rock, Entourage, and Skins, and in films like Easy A and Horrible Bosses. Much like The O.C. with The Real Housewives, it was the inspiration for a Bravo reality show (the short-lived NYC Prep). And it helped to cement the still-young CW network (the WB/UPN hybrid was only a year old when Gossip Girl launched) as a premiere destination for young adult viewers.
On her scant breaks from the show, Leighton Meester was featured on Cobra Starship’s 2009 Billboard Hot 100 single “Good Girls Go Bad” and co-starred in half a dozen movies, including the comedy Date Night with Tina Fey and Steve Carrell, the Oscar-nominated drama Country Strong with Gwyneth Paltrow, and thriller The Roommate with Minka Kelly. When Gossip Girl came to an end in December 2012, Meester focused her energy on music and theater; she made her New York stage debut in Of Mice and Men in April 2014 and released her debut LP Heartstrings October of that year. In her personal life, what seemed like 2000s teen drama fanfiction came to life: She married Adam Brody in February 2014 and became a mother in August 2015.
And now, nearly 10 years after she was introduced to the world, Meester is headed back to television with Fox’s Making History, which premieres March 5. When asked what led her to sign onto another series, Meester said, completely stone-faced, “Am I broke?” Then, she broke out a giant smile and let out an equally large laugh.
The truth is, after all those years of working nonstop, Meester found herself in the luxurious position of not having to work — but then she read the script for Making History and “it just spoke to me,” she told BuzzFeed News at the Market Cafe in Westwood, California. The time-traveling comedy unexpectedly ticked off every box on her seemingly impossible checklist of requirements for a potential return to TV.
First, there were the creatives behind the project: She called creator Julius Sharpe “the best boss ever” and has been trying to work with executive producers Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Seth Cohen ever since she auditioned for January Jones’ role on The Last Man on Earth. (And yes, she is keenly aware her new boss shares a name with her husband’s iconic O.C. character. “It took a while for that to come up … and one day I was like, ‘Do you know?’ and before I could finish he was like, ‘Yes, Leighton. Yes, I know,’” she recalled with a “like duh” giggle, her wickedly self-deprecating sense of humor emerging yet again.)
“I love the other things she’s doing that typically you would see men doing.”
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Then, there was the schedule. “I wouldn’t want to be in something that’s an hourlong either soap or procedural,” Meester said, noting that it is “much more grueling to do” 22 to 24 episodes per year. “You have 10 months, you’re on set five days a week, 15 hours a day, you don’t see sunlight,” she said, speaking from the experience of six seasons on Gossip Girl. “I wouldn’t have wanted to repeat that. … It was very much in its time and place. I think it’s just more exciting to be in something I find to be more of my current taste. With any character I’ve played, I wouldn’t want to repeat it. That would be boring.”
And of course, there was the material. “I want to do something funny, something I would laugh at,” said Meester, who named Last Man on Earth, Broad City, Vice Principals, and Kroll Show as some of her favorite shows. “I just wanted to live in a world like this. I wanted to go to work and have it not feel like work and have fun and work with people who bring me out of my comfort zone.” Making History revolves around a duffel bag outfitted with time-travel technology that schlubby Dan (Adam Pally) has been using to go back in time, where he seems infinitely cooler. In the 1700s, he winds up meeting Deborah Revere (Meester), the forward-thinking daughter of Paul Revere, and by the end of the pilot — SPOILER ALERT — Deborah travels to the present day with Dan, beginning their decades-hopping adventures.
More than anything else, Meester jumped at the chance to star in Making History because of the character she would get to play. “When I was thinking about going to work and seeing what was out there, it was really important to me to do something where there was a female character that was fulfilling in a multifaceted way because it’s so rare,” she said, warming her hands around a peach tea. “I feel like it’s so cliché to say it — but it’s so cliché that it’s still this way — women are put in a box. You’re an ingenue or you’re an icon, which is a euphemism for an older woman; you’re a beach babe or a mom; a Madonna or a whore. I think that this show is so many things: There is romance, but that’s not the leading plot. It’s not what this character is here for and so, I love it. I love the other things she’s doing that typically you would see men doing — I get to ride horses and shoot muskets and I get to save the day, which is really cool.”
As Meester began to talk about the scarcity of complex female roles, every word she uttered was laced with a palpable fire. It’s clear that gender inequality frustrates her — and for reasons beyond the fact that she identifies, and believes everyone should, as a feminist.
Meetser with Jim Parrack, Chris O’Dowd, and James Franco at the first curtain call for Of Mice and Men on March 19, 2014. Jemal Countess / Getty Images
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In 2014, while starring alongside James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in Of Mice and Men, Meester wrote an op-ed for the Huffington Posttitled “I’m Not a Tart: The Feminist Subtext of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.” The well-articulated, deeply thoughtful piece examined the cultural ramifications of her maligned female character, who doesn’t even have a name of her own in the script; she’s just known as Curley’s Wife.
“I wanted to do something lighter where I don’t get brutally murdered eight times a week.”
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The experience of repeatedly becoming this dehumanized and murdered woman for more than 100 performances took a toll on the actor. “It led me to choose comedy,” she said. “I kind of wanted to do something a little bit lighter where I don’t get brutally murdered eight times a week.” Steinbeck once said of Curley’s Wife, “She’s not a person, she’s a symbol. She has no function, except to be a foil — and a danger to Lennie.” But it is Lennie who is a danger to Curley’s Wife in the end as he, unaware of his own strength, accidentally strangles her.
The combination of Meester’s and Franco’s star power brought in record Broadway box office grosses, and it also meant the members of the audience routinely skewed younger than one might expect for a staged production of John Steinbeck’s famed story. Meester was constantly surprised at how these young viewers engaged with the story’s latent sexism.
“It was jarring and baffling that so many people who went to go see it — particularly young people — they couldn’t quite grasp it,” she said, still trying to work it out in her mind nearly three years later. “They could grasp the American dream gone wrong and they could grasp the racism and the levels of people’s place in life and how they could never break free … but somehow, the concept of sexism was so nuanced and so insidious and so ingrained in people in a way that was mind-blowing.
Meester at the Of Mice and Men portrait unveiling in May 2014. Brad Barket / Getty Images
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“It’s the same as people being okay with pussy grabbing.” Meester paused, seemingly wondering if she should have said that, but stood by the choice and continued: “They kind of just accept it and it just showed me, firsthand, that we have a very long way to go. I’m lucky that I could see it from that point of view — yes, the stakes were high for me as an actor, but it wasn’t true life, so I know it’s gotta be a million times harder for most other women. It was a challenge and a wonderfully life-changing time … [but] I felt like I took it quite personally. I was degraded by the other people on stage. I love them, but that was their part. And I’m sure it wasn’t easy for them either, but I think that has colored my feeling about going back to do theater. Every time now I think, Oh, I want to do that again, but I think I have that post-traumatic fear.”
Still, her Of Mice and Men experience was one Meester called “everything and more,” especially since she believes there’s something worthwhile the fans who’ve grown up alongside her can take away from the play and from each of her performances, including, hopefully, Deborah on Making History. “I love that I can now take fans that liked the things I was into and used to do — Gossip Girl and The Roommate and the things I did back when I was 20 — and say, ‘This is my taste now, this is what I like, so come over here and watch some Steinbeck or watch Making History,” she said.
Meester with her Making History co-stars Neil Casey, John Gemberling, Yassir Lester, and Adam Pally at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in January 2017. Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images
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Though the new series mainly plays for laughs, it finds ways to educate, using America’s past to have present-day conversations about subjects that will affect future generations. “We make jokes about the Second Amendment and how it’s been misinterpreted and then reinterpreted over the years,” Meester said, “and about women’s rights in the sense that everybody’s rights are a lot at stake right now and it’s pretty scary. It makes you think, Where would I go if I had a time machine? And it makes you — at least it makes me — grateful and skeptical of my own time period. So whether we’re using humor or just saying it outright, I think going back in time is a really great vessel for having those discussions.”
Meester with Adam Brody at the 2014 Tony Awards. Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images
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While pontificating about possible future timelines, talk turned to how Meester, who’s about to turn 31, would like her career to be remembered ultimately. After a very contemplative pause, she said she hopes the totality of her work can be “larger than what inspires me in the moment” and that it can spark conversations about — among other things — female empowerment and casual misogyny. Which is why the one conversation Meester isn’t keen on having involves her daily offscreen life. “I’ve seen that being a woman, especially if you’re dating or married to somebody, people are more interested. And if you have a kid, they’re interested in the before and after,” she said, referring to post-pregnancy body narratives.
It’s one reason why Meester and Brody have been so intensely private about their relationship; they’ve made very few joint red-carpet appearances and haven’t publicly commented on their marriage or the birth of their child. Meester’s socialmedia accounts also entirely, and intentionally, focus on her professional endeavors.
“I would say that from experience — but mostly just this is where my gut comes in — it’s not good for me to really discuss personal stuff,” she said, before smiling and repeating the words “personal stuff” with air quotes. “It’s perpetuating a story that I don’t agree with, that I don’t like. I would just rather that if people have anything to say it’s about me and my character — and by my character, I mean my internal self, but also the character I’m playing at the moment. That it’s about my work. I don’t know if people agree, but I think and hope there is enough to say about me within that topic that is fulfilling to people. I get that maybe it’s not, because it still always comes up, but I just give as little as possible so I can feel protected and people go as far as you let them. I just don’t let them go too far.”
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