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Vino Montepulciano Toscana by Elisa Bosco
Bernard: [gibbering] They’d all laugh at me if they knew what I was trying to do… to create a new strain of super-wine in a half an hour with a fraction of nature’s resources and a FOOL for an assistant. “Bernard Black, he’s mad,” they’d say. “He’s insane. He’s dangerous.” Well I’ll show them! I’ll show them all!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e93d120907a53e238ee9b1761846cf1a/tumblr_mm54ygNtIg1ro53i7o1_500.jpg)
Vino Montepulciano Toscana by Elisa Bosco
Bernard: [gibbering] They’d all laugh at me if they knew what I was trying to do… to create a new strain of super-wine in a half an hour with a fraction of nature’s resources and a FOOL for an assistant. “Bernard Black, he’s mad,” they’d say. “He’s insane. He’s dangerous.” Well I’ll show them! I’ll show them all!
“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene
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Director Alfonso Cuaron is back with a teaser for Gravity, his first film since Children of Men. Watch it here.
Pushing all my phobia buttons.
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Admiral Ackbar: British Edition[via]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/d8d936caa9c21d7647437242420c763b/tumblr_mmjng9lKcs1qewacoo1_500.jpg)
Admiral Ackbar: British Edition
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Upon rereading the book recently, I took special note of Gatsby’s spending habits. He’s described as a wealthy man, but he’s still living a very tony lifestyle for someone who made most of his money bootlegging. One over-the-top party, yes. But an over-the-top party every weekend? Even hedge-funders don’t live like that.
So I pulled every nugget from The Great Gatsby related to Gatsby’s personal wealth and income, and every passage that detailed his spending, and — with the help of some experts — tried to re-create a historical ledger that might have shown the state of Jay Gatsby’s fortune, if he had been a real person and not a figment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s imagination. It turns out that, far from accumulating vast stores of wealth, Jay Gatsby might have been spending beyond his means.
