What It’s Like To Root For The Most Hated Team in College Sports
This article originally appeared on ThePostGame. From afar, I must look like a racquetball bouncing around a crate of oranges -- a lone Duke Blue Devils shirt in a hurricane of Canes gear jostling my way through the concourse of the BankUnited Center in Coral Gables. If someone didn't know my name, they might think my parents had put "Overrated" on my birth certificate by how many times I've inspired the chant. It's one of the few repeatable taunts hurled my way. I actually look forward to it at this point.It's almost halftime as I make my way to the concession stand and get in line. Two guys...
10 Movies You’ll Never Believe Came From True Stories
In the late '70s, CIA operative Tony Mendez orchestrated a fake Hollywood movie as a cover to sneak U.S. embassy staff out of Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis. If you've been living under a rock for the last six months, you might not know that that’s the premise for Ben Affleck's critical and commercial smash Argo. Writer Josh Bearman came across snippets of the story from different sources and spent hours on the phone with the principal players, including spook Tony Mendez (whom Affleck plays). The 2007 Wired story “The Great Escape” was the result. Continue Reading
The Goddesses Who Inspired Your Favorite Films
This article is sponsored in part by Dead Man Down, in theaters March 8th.The intimate relationship between director and muse is as old as cinema itself. Josef von Sternberg had Marlene Dietrich. Alfred Hitchcock had Tippi Hedren. Woody Allen had Diane Keaton, and John Cassavetes had Gena Rowlands. Each relied on the other: he, for a unique kind of inspiration that only she could provide, and she, to be gazed upon in a way that only he could. Today, the director-muse relationship is as prevalent in Hollywood as ever. Continue Reading
