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Looks like a pretty impressive funnel cloud earlier today between Myrtle Beach and Surfside. No reports of it actually touching down. Video via Evelyn Benevento
Tom Cruise reveals how he kept Hollywood working during COVID: calling rival studios and saying 'we're shooting our movies'
“Well, what I did was is basically, yeah, I did. Because look, my friends, it's not just about the films I'm making.”
“And then I called back a week later and I was like, 'How's it going?' They said, 'Oh yeah, we're shooting our films.' I said, 'Cuz we're coming out next summer, you know. So we're on this date. I hope you're not on this date.'”
“Then I called the studio that I was working with. I said, 'Look, all these guys are making movies. We got to make movies.'”
“I was calling like, 'We have to set up the rules. Let's make agreements so that we can get back to work.' And then I was calling governments and getting agreements with them. And then I was telling, sharing it with the other studios and my friends saying, 'This is how we're doing it.'”
“And just kind of saying, 'My crew is going to get paid during this time.' I just kept everybody working.”
“Our orchestra for Top Gun Maverick, we were able to get mics to people's apartments all over the world where they're recording their instruments and then combining those instruments to create a live orchestra.”
When I did a presentation about PA tornado climatology for @Ams_swpa a few months ago, I highlighted the challenges with the modern record. This quote from my speaker's notes sums it up nicely: "When tornadoes are under-documented — whether intentionally or not — it creates real problems. From a climatology standpoint, it skews the historical record: frequency, trends, and risk are all underestimated."
Here are a few slides from that presentation; two events I highlighted include a tornado in Altoona, PA, in 2021 that was officially classified as a microburst, despite clearly convergent treefall and debris being lofted nearly 10K feet; and a strong (likely F/EF-2) tornado in Franklin County in January 1996. I also covered a third event, which was a QLCS "Spam Event" in 2017 in which only 12 tornadoes were officially confirmed, but when reviewing aerial imagery, there were no fewer than 28 tornadoes across northwest/north central PA from that event, and numerous microbursts that may have had other brief embedded spin-ups.
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Russell Crowe says Tom Cruise taught him a blackjack strategy that won them $25,000
“Occasionally I will go and play blackjack at a casino if I'm in a group of people because, if you're all disciplined and if you hold every seat at a table, you can turn the tide against the house very easily”
“Funnily enough, it was Tom Cruise who taught me this. If you have it so the first chair and the last chair make the calls and the decisions, and everybody else just sits on 12 and above, you watch the mathematics come your way”
“Now, way back in the day, Tom calls me and goes, ‘Hey, bud. We got this thing set up. Steve Wynn has put on a jet. He's going to fly us to Vegas. We're allowed to play at Shadow Creek.’ I'm not really a golfer, but it sounded good to me. Jumped on the plane, went there, and we're playing Shadow Creek”
“We enjoyed ourselves at the golf course. Then we go back to the Wynn Hotel, and they've given us Michael Jackson's lanai to change clothes in or whatever. We go and get some Chinese food. The jet's comped, the golf's comped, the lanai's comped, the food's comped, and then we go and play blackjack together”
“Tom explains what the team's going to do, and we take $25,000 or more off the table. We go back to the airport, get on the comped jet, fly back to LA, and we finished up as a group. That was a perfect day”
Danny McBride says he had 30 bucks in his bank account when he flew to Sundance in 2006
Danny: "I think when I went to Sundance that year, I might have had like, you know, 30 bucks in my bank account or something. I mean, it's like we had nothing going on. And yeah, everything changed so fast."
Danny: "After it screened there, you know, Will and those guys picked it up. And then that that was in 2006. That year I went and did Hot Rod and then Drillbit Taylor and then Heartbreak Kid and so then the next year it was Pineapple Express, the Pilot to Eastbound and then Tropic Thunder."
Danny: "We had been out in LA for a bit now when you look at it, we moved out there in 99. We made Foot Fist Way in 2005 but to us it was a lifetime, and we were definitely at the point of, you know, it's time to like, you know, shit or get off the can."