Results for “Actors Fund”

…y opaque algorithms, it becomes increasingly conceivable that the information ecosystem would get captured by malicious actors deploying increasingly advanced tools to control, shape, forge and personalize information, from ads to news reports. Machine learning, in conjunction w...

…ou see this pipeline in movie production. A script writer generates a script creatively. The casting director finds the actors, a director is in charge of filming, and an editor puts it together. In very great movies you will often find a great director or producer who had a hand...

… an animalistic need to obtain big and fast money. They shared an obsession with corruption and greed. Oliver sent his actors to Bear Stearns for research, including then-newcomer Charlie Sheen, who played Bud Fox, a kid from nowhere. When he learns to cold call, and lands one b...

… period. The threat to boycott motion-picture studios and television stations that employed “red,” “pink,” or “suspect” actors, directors, or technicians, led to the notorious “black lists” and “red channels.” In an interview with Playboy magazine, I had expressed some of those c...

… Harvey doesn’t even attend and is working in Sundance. They are equally surprised when Tom Hooper wins the DGA and the actors win the SAG Ensemble. The BAFTAs reinforced the lead. They are now the front runner. It takes the media a few weeks to catch on. The Daily Mail announce...

…to charge. English authorities, in contrast, explicitly recognize this public function for private prosecution. Private actors’ authority to second-guess declination decisions - charging decision redundancy - operates as "the ultimate safeguard for the citizen against inaction on...

…rements The purpose of this class is to give students a sense of the historical battles of the Internet, what different actors were thinking, what they were trying to accomplish, and what levers they pulled in order to select for specific outcomes. Students should apply what they...

perfectly. No missiles would actually be shot. This stage was for the telemetry. Once that was done, the soldier-actors would be replaced with wooden targets and the real munitions would be tested. The young soldiers stated chatting to one another, and milling about, simulating...

…, yet Susan (or Stro, as the cool Broadway kids call her) handles it with aplomb. And she's not just choreographing the actors and dancers, but also the magnificent set designed by Santo Loquasto, which moves in ways I didn't know scenery could move. It's a dance of men and women...

…ore modern segments of Tunisian and Egyptian society. Societies lacking institutions that could accommodate new social actors produced a condition Huntington labeled praetorianism, in which political participation took the form of strikes, demonstrations, protests and violence....

… point adaptive cyber defense/offense systems become scalable so they can take over vulnerable systems. More aggressive actors combine these systems with botnet functionality and retaliatory responses (e.g. counter-hacking or DDoS attacks) to protect themselves. Since vulnerabili...

…praise on David O. Russell, who becomes my new Clint Eastwood. Christian Bale and Melissa Leo are hailed the supporting actors to beat. "True Grit" directed by the Coen Brothers and also produced by Scott Rudin doesn't premiere till mid-December at the Ziegfeld as the last serio...

… was originally centered on the embeddedness of the individual actor but not on the emergent properties of a network of actors. This is unsurprising, because the mathematics of networks did not exist until recently, so a quantitative science of how networks behave was impossible....

…“Where instances of fraud are suspected or proven within the program, USCIS takes appropriate measures to deal with any actors involved in the fraud, including terminating regional center designation.” Regional centers have come under scrutiny for their roles in these EB-5 frau...

…All they want is the status quo. Or more. But they could --- okay, it's not likely, but they could --- turn on the bad actors at their social/economic level. For example: Wall Street CEOs, donors to the Tea Party, etc. That's the topic. Shaming. Shunning. One of the people I de...