Our sitting president considers himself something of a film buff. Over the years, Trump has expressed his affection for Citizen Kane (sure!), Goodfellas (makes sense if you think about it), and Bloodsport (disturbing). If the guy can take a couple-hour break from his busy wartime schedule, I have a recommendation for him: All the President's Men. The Robert Redford classic celebrated its fiftieth anniversary yesterday. If you want to know why Trump could take a tip from Woodward and Bernstein (or Nixon, the only president ever to resign), read what Anthony Breznican has to say about the movie below.
– Brady Langmann, editor’s title
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The 50th anniversary of the Robert Redford classic is a reminder of the national integrity we’ve lost.
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The first thing Deep Throat says in this film is worth remembering: “Forget the myths that the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys. And things got out of hand.”
Jesus, did All The President’s Men really debut in theaters 50 years ago today? It seems more like five minutes ago. I rewatched this landmark 1976 thriller last week on the same night Donald Trump appeared in a prime-time address to shamble through a litany of excuses and boasts about the United States’ war on Iran. It really did make the current president’s speech feel like an April Fool’s joke. The crime and cover-up exposed in the film—Richard Nixon and his administration’s farcical effort to break into the headquarters of Democratic rivals in Washington D.C.’s Watergate hotel—seems almost quaint by comparison with Trump’s nonstop cascade of idiotic failures and malignant falsehoods.
Looking back, the startling thing about All The President’s Men is the timeline of it all. These things had all just happened, and they were immortalized onscreen with impressive speed.
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Transitional weather is notorious for being deceptively hard to dress for—especially when to comes to footwear. Some days it feels like summer, and you've got your toes hangin' out, and other days, your feet are swaddled up, clad in rain boots. The weather is unpredictable, as is your footwear game.
But that's why we're here. Instead of just telling you to keep your Rainbows and Hunter boots on hand, we're keeping you up to speed on the shoe trends you're about to see all over this spring. There's something for every type of man and his closet: we've got funky fisherman sandals, sleek ultra-low-profile sneakers (or simple canvas pairs that seem to never leave fashion's orbit), and if you want to get really edgy with it, you can even look at our T-bar loafer selection.
You don't need to try every type of shoe on this list (I mean, you can—if you've got the budget and shoe storage space). Just pick a style that suits you or go for one pushes you outside of your comfort zone. Either way, it's a surefire path to dressing for success this spring.
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He asks me if I’m splitting the G. I beg his pardon. “That feels like an inappropriate question, doesn’t it?” Phil Dunster says with a hooligan’s giggle. We’re sitting at a booth inside McGee’s, an Irish pub a stone’s throw from Times Square. (Also, famously, the pub that inspired the main bar on How I Met Your Mother.) The thirty-four-year-old actor, who was born in Northampton in the UK and raised in a British military family, explains to me—a dude from New Jersey—that splitting the G is a game wherein your first drink of a pint of Guinness should leave the top of the brew “splitting” the G on the glass. “It became a viral thing,” he explains. “Most Irish people probably roll their eyes. They’re like, ‘Fuck’s sake, just drink it.’”
We clink pints (and I fail to split the G) as Obama-era Top Forty hits overwhelm the place, a soundtrack fitting for a bar whose associated TV show ended in 2014, when Dunster was fresh out of drama school in Bristol. A short year later he was onstage doing Shakespeare (in a modern take on Much Ado About Nothing, in which his Claudio held a scoped assault rifle) and booking his first TV credit on the sitcom Catastrophe. Then, in 2020, Dunster charmed the world as arrogant footballer Jamie Tartt on Ted Lasso. Over the course of three seasons, Jamie evolved from pampered athlete to earnest team player, earning Dunster a fandom as rabid as that of any Premier League club.
Given that Lasso last aired in May 2023—in a third season that was tepidly received—you’d think the passion for AFC Richmond would’ve quieted by now. Nope. During lunch, not one but three groups of people muster up the courage to interrupt and ask Dunster if he’s “the guy on Ted Lasso.” One cluster of tourists show him their group chat, named “Church of Lasso.” Dunster happily obliges with selfies and video shout-outs to friends at home. “It struck a chord,” he says of the acclaimed comedy from TV creator Bill Lawrence, who is also one of the creators behind Rooster, alongside Matt Tarses. “It happened at a time people really needed a comfort show.”
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