![]() Harrison and Roach squared up to each other and Harrison threw a punch. The next day we shot the fight around the plane. Armstrong worked as Harrison Ford’s double on all three Indiana Jones films…and no wonder, they look amazingly similar: Vic Armstrong just published a memoir about his career as a Hollywood stuntman the LA Times has an excerpt. Yes, it’s true that your sense of entitlement grows exponentially with every perk until it becomes too stupendous a weight to walk around under, but it’s a cutthroat business, show, and without the perks, plain ol’ fame and fortune just ain’t worth the trouble. It’s hard to tell whether one is winning or, in fact, losing once one starts to think of oneself as a commodity, or a product, or a character, or a voice for the downtrodden. But I do know what it’s like to be seized by bipolar thoughts that make one spout wise about Tiger Blood and brag about winning when one is actually losing. ![]() I have, however, never smoked crack or taken too many drugs, unless you count alcohol as a drug (I don’t). Great Roseanne Barr piece in New York magazine last week about fame and her shitty network TV experiences.ĭuring the recent and overly publicized breakdown of Charlie Sheen, I was repeatedly contacted by the media and asked to comment, as it was assumed that I know a thing or two about starring on a sitcom, fighting with producers, nasty divorces, public meltdowns, and bombing through a live comedytour. ![]() Presenting the latest generation of research by scientists, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Manila and Mexico City - where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted - the center of the world. As Charles Mann shows, this global ecological tumult - the “Columbian Exchange” - underlies much of subsequent human history. Columbus’s voyages brought them back together - and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Mann’s been hard at work at a sequel, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, which is due out in August, just in time for some seriously awesome beach reading.įrom the author of 1491 - the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas - a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. (via Cowen says that Charles Mann’s 1491 (a taste of which can be read here) is “one of my favorite books ever, in any field”, to which I add a hearty “me too”. Another economist, Rick Nevin, has made the same argument for other nations. and might bring about greater declines in the future. A 2007 study by the economist Jessica Wolpaw Reyes contended that the reduction in gasoline lead produced more than half of the decline in violent crime during the 1990s in the U.S. Tests have shown that the amount of lead in Americans’ blood fell by four-fifths between 19. At the same time, lead in paint was banned for any new home (though old buildings still have lead paint, which children can absorb). In 1974, the Environmental Protection Agency required oil companies to stop putting lead in gasoline. For decades, doctors have known that children with lots of lead in their blood are much more likely to be aggressive, violent and delinquent. There may also be a medical reason for the decline in crime. Nice summary of the current thinking about why crime is falling in the US even though the unemployment rate is relatively high.
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