Stephen King's novella "The Body," the inspiration behind the movie Stand by Me, begins with the line "The most important things are the hardest things to say … words diminish them." Wil Wheaton knows that better than anyone. Wheaton starred in the 1986 film 40 years ago, playing Gordie Lachance, the kid who never had friends again like he did when he was 12. King's story is told in the first person by a middle-aged Gordie, and now that Wheaton himself has reached that threshold (he turned 13 during shooting and is 53 now) he has closed the circle by narrating a new audio version of King's story, which just debuted this week. Those opening lines are on his mind in another way, since Wheaton recently joined 16 other actors in the onstage tribute to filmmaker Rob Reiner at the recent Academy Awards. |
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"Fine, Daddy—I'm a Mets fan from now on." There it was, right in my own kitchen, the ultimate Uno reverse card, the dagger in any sports fan's heart: your kid threatening to switch to your team's rival because you had the audacity to ask him to finish his supper. Not that there's anything wrong with being a Mets fan. (I mean, apart from the obvious.) It's just that in my family, we are Yankees fans. End of. You support the team your family supports. And now one of my three sons, eight-year-old triplets, raised from infancy loyal to the New York Yankees and steeped in their legacy—Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Murderers' Row, DiMaggio and Mantle and Jeter and 27 world championships—was threatening to switch allegiances and pull for the can't-stop-talking-about-'86 Mets. They know how to get to me. |
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It was a brisk summer afternoon in Lakewood, Colorado, August 24, 2016. Mark Pedersen was on the back deck when he noticed the commotion. First he glimpsed flashes of red pulsing across the front of the house through the rear sliding door. Seconds later, firefighters burst inside the main entrance. He knew immediately that something was wrong with Jack, the disabled teen he'd come to think of as a grandson, someone he called "a piece of my heart." In actuality, the two shared no family, though they had shared the home for the past two years. In the basement room he rented from Jack's mother, the sixty-year-old crafted cannabis oil to ease the boy's chronic pain, caused by cerebral palsy and dystonia. Tall and lean with a gentle gaze and gray chinstrap beard that framed his pointed jaw, Pedersen had helped dozens of clients in his years as a legally authorized medical-marijuana caregiver. | |
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Móglaà Bap takes a sip of his beer and then lays an Irish-history lesson on me. He's calling over Zoom from a pub in Belfast alongside Mo Chara and the balaclava-wearing DJ Próva×the other two members of the Irish rap group Kneecap. The barkeep hands them all pitch-black brews as we banter about the weather and their music's recent inclusion in Netflix's House of Guinness. Before we get too far, I need them to sort out a few bits of Irish slang for this American. For starters: What's a Fenian? "Fenian was originally a term used for a band of warriors in Irish folklore, and then it was repurposed for revolutions before it was used as a derogatory slur," Móglaà Bap says, skimming through hundreds of years of Irish history with a pint in hand. "It was used to shame us—to make us seem barbaric, like we were these forest people that go around with spears—but now we're trying to put our own stamp on it, and this album is a part of reclaiming that heritage." |
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Kevin Zegers fought like hell for his role on The Madison. At first, he didn't think he was right for the part of cowboy Cade Harris—and neither did creator Taylor Sheridan. "The response was like, 'He's great, but not for this,'" Zegers tells me. But something compelled the actor to get back on the horse and chase the role anyway. "I didn't really want the job," he says, laughing. That's the funniest part to him, looking back. "I just felt like I knew what his purpose was in the story," he says, "and the only way I could prove that was to sort of say, 'Not that I think you're wrong, but I know I can do this.'" It wasn't until Zegers was standing next to Michelle Pfeiffer in the fields of Montana's Madison River Valley that it finally hit him. The role—a helpful stranger who guides Pfeiffer's character through a journey of helplessness and grief—was a perfect fit. "It's not a secret," Zegers admits now, "but yeah, that's just most of my life." |
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From a young age, I was a very sexual person. I knew I wanted to have a lot of sex, and I also figured that to do that, I would need to meet women who felt the same. I never considered making sex my career. Or at least not until one day in Tokyo, when I was with a friend who got a call about a job. He turned it down, then cupped his hand over the phone and asked me, "Do you want to work in porn?" Until that moment, I had no idea he was in the adult industry. Soon I was too. My first jobs were behind-the-scenes work for a porn studio that specialized in scenes of Japanese women with Black men. One day on set, a porn actor's dick couldn't get hard. The director was running out of time. "Do you want to give it a shot?" he asked. I managed to get hard and get the job done. Soon I was performing in porn regularly. |
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