"... like a sleepy Mexican at siesta time"?

Haha... let me guess: community-college instructor? In a discipline far, far removed from economics? And your hostility issues have sorta undermined your career?

Too right. Keri Russell could probably make grungy mechanic's coveralls look good... doesn't make it a good idea in general.

If you think every big-budget film makes money, that's a bit naive. And to the extend that taking risk for an uncertain payoff = making a bet... yeah, that's what they do.

Hey, I'm making no claim to superior social insight. My general inclination is that anyone (or any firm) betting $50-200 million on a project isn't leaving vast chunks of the process to chance. They're trying to optimize every last bit they can.

Lindy means "we" in the sense of other people who don't know any better; not her.

I think around $11 billion at last accounting, plus unlimited access to the LVMH goodie bag... but it seemed potentially churlish to point it out.

You seem wholly unaware of what Francois-Henri Pinault - Hayek's real-world partner - looks like.

It's more abt pegging the pressure to the recipient's hand strength, which is gonna be a hell of a lot different in 90% of cases.

She's a goddess. And she could hardly work more than she does already — it just seemed a spectacularly ill-chosen example, especially vis a vis Megan Fox.

Oop - should note that Vera Farmiga also paired up w/Clooney in "Up in the Air" in 2008 (as a 37-yo recent mother).

Vera Farmiga was mid-thirties when she was a romantic lead for both DiCaprio and Damon in "Departed".

Well, we sure had it w/Howell Raines (as the article notes), 'til he was fired... and we sure had plenty of talk about "Pinch" Sulzberger's lack of gravitas compared to the old man.

If "attention whoring" and using events for potential publicity were crimes, 90% of Hollywood would be in handcuffs.

Thanks - it was updated, apparently. I did check the Youtube comment before making the original note.

That usage of "prospective" is long-standing (and correct).

Read it again - and then tell me what a "holistic prospective" is.

This is indeed horrifying.

Thanks for the clarification.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. The first could be thought of as a difference between two means, and the second as the amount of distribution (or spread) around the mean.