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This is a weekly newsletter from me, Dani Faith Leonard , a comedy writer, film producer, and performer. It’s an extension of the live comedy show ADULT SEX ED that I’ve hosted since 2018. The show is about plugging the holes in our education as adults, so I’ll be doing just that (if you want to know more about this newsletter, here’s a description on substack).
Less than two weeks after M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin (based on the novel Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay) premiered in theaters courtesy of Universal Pictures, Deadline reported that the writer-director had signed a new multi-year deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, which included an August 2, 2024 release date in store for his upcoming thriller Trap.
Left unstated by the report, however, is any acknowledgement that something must’ve soured the Night/Uni relationship, which dates back to 2015, when the studio picked up Night’s comeback movie The Visit for distribution.
Adidas
The name comes from that of its founder, Adolf (“Adi”) Dassler (“das”). His brother Rudi founded Puma.
Adobe
John Warnock and Charles Geschke, two entrepreneurs who had worked together at Xerox PARC, launched Adobe in 1982 inside Warnock’s garage, which happened to be located next to Adobe Creek in Los Altos.
Amazon
In the early days of the web, website listings were alphabetized, so Jeff Bezos was eyeing words that started with “A.
The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as its location—a drab concrete post-World War II structure th…
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The subset of online men who revel in Savile Row tailoring and other traditional modes of dressing can be a stuffy bunch. Often, these gents are so tethered to the ideas of “proper” and their laundry list of “style rules” that they can come across as elitist (or at the very least overly sincere, a la “swag is for boys, class is for men”). But Damien Broderick is, echem, cut from a different cloth.