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...zoom in to the level of the individual. How do you approach investing differently, knowing what you do about the psychology of decision-making? One theme is contemplating different outcomes and attaching probabilities to those. There is this notion called the inside-outside view. The inside view, which is how almost all of us plan, is that when you're thinking about the future, you gather all the information around you and do your analysis and go from there - whether you're launching a new product, putting an addition onto your house or forecasting the markets. The outside view asks...
...From The Sopranos and Joey to this - I'm seeing an accent theme. The one through line is the big accent and the in-your-face attitude. I'm definitely stereotyped, and I'm very O.K. with that. I get super bored playing bland, normal girls. (See TIME's photos of ER's long goodbye...
...just an actor some casting director hired for the gig. But you have to own it." He has owned it, playing a clueless doctor in an Old Spice ad ("As a former make-believe doctor, there's one product I can recommend ...") and delivering a version of the Doogie theme song when he hosted Saturday Night Live. He has affection for Doogie, but he doesn't need to hang out with him, nor does he need to kick...
...What brought you back to a film about the economy? I've been thinking about this for about the entire 20 years I've been making movies. Most of the subject matter all comes back to the simple theme of an economic system that is unfair and unjust, in which a few people with a lot of money are making decisions that cause a lot misery and heartache for millions of people...
...Bing's ability to focus on the long view is a consistent theme of his biography. He grew up in Washington, D.C., the son of a contractor father and a homemaker mother. After graduating from Syracuse University, Bing played nine seasons for the Detroit Pistons. During that time, he was the rare All-Star talent who understood that there was life after basketball. In the off-season, he worked as a bank teller and manager, grasping for his next career. In 1980 he formed Bing Steel and rode the wave of automotive-industry interest in cultivating a base of black...