"I'm going to end my life by the end of the year," he said over a call one morning, as casually as if discussing weekend plans. I was sitting on my sofa, the same place I'd been while we shared countless conversations about faith, doubt, and the meaning of it all. But this wasn't philosophy. It was a declaration. The autumn light suddenly felt colder, as if the season itself had paused to listen. I waited for the qualifier—the "just kidding." Instead he added, "Please don't try to convince me otherwise. Everyone else is. I just need one person who can be with me, without trying to fix me. Someone who can witness this. If you can't, I understand. But I won't take this trip with anyone who won't honor it." That was the moment our friendship became something entirely different. No longer a casual back-and-forth about life's abstractions but a slow walk to the edge—together. |
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Hermès has unveiled a striking new H08—the titanium version of its leading sports watch now comes with a cool gray dial, vivid blue numerals, and a matching rubber strap. At 39mm, it keeps the same ergonomic proportions that have defined the range since its 2021 debut, with the in-house calibre H1837 automatic movement offering some proper Swiss pedigree. Water resistant to 100 meters, it offers a cool, modern, sleek update Hermès's most successful men's watch line. |
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"The name is Bond, James Bond." The only aspect of the 007 film franchise more iconic than that line may be the Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger, the most famous stolen car in the world—and one that may soon be found thanks to a new revelation. Two Aston Martins were used in the 1964 film, one for road scenes and another for shots with gadgets, which included hidden Browning machine guns, retractable tire shredders, oil sprayers, and an ejection seat taken from a fighter jet. Today the original road car resides in a private museum in Cincinnati. The gadgets vehicle, however, is another story. |
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"You ain't gonna get the hit," my Minnesota Twins teammate, Ryan Jeffers, had said to me. He was joking, of course. Both of us were in a good place. But the game was close. We were down 2–3 to the Royals in the eighth on August 10. I thought to myself, I gotta hit a homer. That's the only option. I've never told myself that—ever. Even a single would've been fine. But as I stepped up to the plate, I felt ready to face a heater. Just get on top of it and hit hard. The pitch lined up where I was looking. I put my best swing on it. |
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As Keanu Reeves embarks on the promotional tour for his newest movie, Good Fortune, which opens wide October 17, the actor is reflecting on the good fortune that was his seminal 1999 blockbuster, The Matrix, written and directed by the Wachowskis. "You're doing something that's never been done," Reeves said of famous his bullet-time shot. "They've got all of these still cameras right there, you've got the wire on the harness in the back, you've been doing training, and you know the bullets are going to come this way and you've got to move in real time. You can't move slow. And so you work out the choreography. You're like, 'What would look cool?' I'm like, 'Well, what if I throw this arm and then I go back?' But you wanted the thing that's unnatural to be super perfect, and you want to get just—so your back is perfectly lateral to the ground." |
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For Pelphrey, this moment is something to savor for as long as he can. He knows how rare the hurricane of a mega-talented cast, uber-literary script, and huge platform is nowadays. "A thing like Task is truly in the fucking stars," Pelphrey says. "It's people at the right time doing the right thing. You can't replicate it. You can't write it out on paper and make it happen again. I was literally just talking with [creator] Brad [Ingelsby] about this last night and he knows it, too." But if you've seen Pelphrey in just about anything from his twenty-some-year-long career in film and television, you know that this moment—top billing in a prestige HBO drama that the network will certainly submit in every Emmy category imaginable—is a long time coming for the actor. Simply, because you don't forget a Tom Pelphrey performance. Among his many superpowers is a deftness at playing the exact kind of character he brings to life in Task: raw, big-hearted men at odds with themselves, capable of going from unadulterated joy to complete devastation in a split second. |
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