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When society tells boys that being in touch with their emotions will make them into a girl or gay, they lose the ability to cope with stress and creatively handle […]
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Athletes are given a free pass by society—engendering a sense of entitlement and omnipotence. Once the adulation stops for retired pros, these qualities can become dangerous.
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“We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 […]
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In an ideal world, celebrities would have a responsibility to come out, but the gay basketball star realizes that the process is personal and variable—like a gestation period. Some people […]
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When the basketball player publicly came out in 2007, 85 percent of people were “fantastic.” The other 15 percent were “weirded out.”
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The key to succeeding in something that is statistically improbable, like making it to the NBA, is to have a crystal clear assessment of your own strengths and failings.
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A conversation with the former basketball player and psychologist.
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More and more people are being born, and the Earth isn’t getting any bigger. We’re on a serious disaster course. The only thing a filmmaker can do is try to […]
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The filmmaker is known for his idiosyncratic creative process in which he and his actors create the film together through workshopping and improvisation.
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The filmmaker is concerned with getting to the truth about people, not about passing judgment. “Everybody is interesting, and everybody is the potential central character in a story, so judging […]
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I am unashamedly in the entertainment business,” says Leigh. “If a film is not entertaining, forget it, it’s a failure.
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The filmmaker was more influenced by the realism of the “Nouvelle Vague” of 1960s France than by the “British New Wave” or the tradition of Dickensian social realism.
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The British master of suspense once said that women who spent all day doing chores wouldn’t want to watch a film about a woman doing chores. Mike Leigh begs to […]
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The very first human records were records of slaves, which suggests that it has existed as a practice long before recorded history and has dogged mankind ever since.
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Conservative estimates say that there are 50,000 slaves in the U.S., and less than half of these are being sexually exploited—the rest could be in your neighbor’s backyard or in […]
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Military juntas like Burma and failed states like the Congo are, unsurprisingly, fertile grounds for slavery. But the practice thrives even in developed countries like Japan and the United States.
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There are some tell-tale signs that someone is being forced to work against his or her will. Would you recognize them?
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Most modern slaves are people who, driven by economic desperation, agree to take jobs far from their homes thinking they will help feed their families. Only when they are severed […]
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Slavery is not just about Africans being forced to work in cotton fields—it’s an insidious practice that has existed throughout history and continues to this day, thanks in large part […]