 Before he drove to the airport that morning, Dean Karny recalled, he stopped by the real estate office to rent the house on Beverly Glen. The two of them—Dean and Joe Hunt—had given their Beverly Hills real estate agent the same story they told at Lake Arrowhead and in Palm Springs: Joe was a writer on politics and economics facing a very tight deadline and in need of a quiet place to work for the next six weeks. The first house the woman had shown them, just north of Sunset Boulevard in the southeast corner of Bel Air, looked very good from the outside. It was a big white stucco-and-red-tile hacienda with a tennis court out back, barricaded in front by a ten-foot hedge and screened from the street by a forest of flowering trees. They had agreed in advance that the place they chose would have to be remote, Dean explained, "so that the screams could not be heard." What convinced them to rent the house, though, was a hidden trapdoor in the hall closet that led directly to the basement.   He sits in the black leather booth of a Paris brasserie, a porcelain cup half full of cappuccino by his elbow, thumbing the screen of his phone with his left hand, which is caked with slashes of dried blood. "Let's see, where is it," he says, scrolling. He's searching for a text message he sent to Carrie-Anne Moss, his costar in the Matrix movie franchise, almost two years ago. Keanu Reeves had appeared in the doorway of this restaurant exactly on time, on about five hours' sleep, just a few minutes ago. It's called Le Grand Colbert, and he was last here for one very long night with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, filming the end of the 2003 movie Something's Gotta Give. He hasn't set foot in the place since.
 "I remember two key things about my first encounter with Uniqlo U's riff on the hoodie," writes Esquire's Jonathan Evans. "First, being impressed. Second, being thankful that I didn't lose a damn arm as I reached for it. This was back in the era when the Christophe Lemaire-designed collection wasn't a mainstay but a one-off. Each new drop was announced to much fanfare, and seeing as it wasn't a sure thing that there'd ever be another one, folks weren't afraid to get their claws out in service of scoring that almost-annoyingly-well-priced piece from the lineup. I bought that hoodie. But if I'd put it down? I'd be telling you about the one that got away.  "I wish I wasn't taught so much fear in my childhood. Fear of going outside. Of failure. Being a chocolate guy, you came with a lot of issues. Even walking into a room, walking into a party, being a dark-skinned guy had some very interesting issues around it."
 Whiskey drinkers who take the spirit seriously are not messing around. Not even a little bit. They can wax philosophical about Scottish terroir and Kentucky's limestone water. They're startling poetic about angel's share, but militant about barrel staves. They hold celebrity whiskeys to the highest of standards, then fanboy or fangirl out when their favorite independent distiller announces a new blend. So it can be a little intimidating to try to choose an alcohol-themed gift to get one of these big whiskey types, especially if you're not an expert yourself. But in the end, it's all about a liquid that's wonderfully rewarding to drink, and we know a thing or two about that. And we're more than happy to share our knowledge with you, just like we'd share a dram. Here are the 35 best gifts for people who love whiskey.  Many people I know have parents who are suffering from Early Fox News Dementia, ranting about the perfidy of Anthony Fauci and the possibility of catching critical race theory from an open jar of mayonnaise. But at the same time, they want to give their children parental advice and guidance, though now through the prism of their separate bespoke realities. They want to remain parents, but only on their own racist and hurtful terms. My counsel to these children—stemming from what my closest friends and I experienced, all of us immigrants in our forties from different parts of the world—is to orphan yourself.
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The True Story of the Billionaire Boys Club
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