Posts by Sean Fennessey
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Should We Give a Damn About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? A Conversation
Yesterday, eight new inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced: Rush, Donna Summer, Heart, Randy Newman, Public Enemy, and Albert King, as well as two Ahmet Ertegun Award for Lifetime Achievement inductees in producer/promoter Lou Adler and arranger/producer Quincy Jones. What does this mean? Effectively, not much. The Rock and Roll […]
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The Grantland Oscar Roundtable
It’s going to get ugly, folks — real ugly.
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David Wright and the Problem of Homegrown Heroes
David Wright turns 30 in less than three weeks. Wright, for all intents and purposes, is the first superstar athlete I’ve rooted for who is also a peer. People talk about that disconcerting moment when they realize that, say, the NBA’s best player is five years younger than they are. Man, you are old, that […]
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Jason Bay and Baseball’s Golden Parachutes
In November 2007, Citigroup Chairman Charles Prince walked away from his post with $99 million in vested stock holdings and a pension. During his four-year tenure running the company, he banked more than $53 million in salary. Prince, a former lawyer and aggressive strategist, stepped down while Citi was in the midst of an epic […]
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Career Arc: RZA
“Our crew had lots of meanings for the words Wu-Tang — ‘Witty, Unpredictable Talent and Natural Game,’ ‘We Usually Take Another N****’s Garments’ — in China, I learned another, the original one: ‘Man who is deserving of God.’ So in that sense, we are all Wu-Tang. You are Wu-Tang.” RZA writes those words in The […]
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Bright Lights, Mad City: Kendrick Lamar Just Released the Best Rap Album of the Year
Driving around L.A., your mind wanders. A life spent on the East Coast and an adulthood tucked into New York’s rolling steel transportation boxes can make you forget what music is capable of in a car. Rap from the West Coast — rider music — reminds you of this more than anything. Kendrick Lamar has […]
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Five Things the Jets Must Do Once They’ve Euthanized the Mark Sanchez Era
Last night, men named Jason Hill and Chaz Schillens and Clyde Gates were streaking down the sidelines, running routes hard and with tenacity, finding ways to get open. Jeremy Kerley turned into a young Andre Reed. Antonio Cromartie created separation, affirming certain bold proclamations. Jeff Cumberland, a man some will be surprised to learn is […]
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Sequeltology Day 4: Down Goes Rocky
“Archaeology is the search for fact … not truth.” — Indiana Jones The late Jeffrey Boam is the sole credited screenwriter of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Boam was one of those talented, can-do-anything ’80s Hollywood script stars — his credits include The Lost Boys, Innerspace, Funny Farm, and, no stranger to sequels, Lethal […]
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The Huddle: You Merely Adopted the Dark; Jim Irsay Was Born in It
If it’s a trade Jim Irsay’s maniacal Twitter account wants, it’s a trade Jim Irsay’s maniacal Twitter account will get Last night, very calm and cool Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay tweeted the following: SERIOUS TRADE WINDS Swirling! We’re talking given up high pick for SERIOUS Vet/Starter!.. these deals often crumble n don’t reach completion […]
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How We’d Fix It: Five Easy Steps for Repairing Edward Norton’s Career
Look over here. But don’t look close or for too long. There is wreckage and confusion and sadness in the filmography of Edward Norton. But it wasn’t always this way. Think back to a time when Stuttering Aaron Stampler was climbing over the witness stand to snap a prosecutor’s neck. Think back to Lester “Worm” […]
