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Michael Lewis
The Big Short premiered at the AFI Festival on 12 November 2015 before its official release a month later.
Paramount studio bought the rights to Michael Lewis' 2010 nonfiction account of the housing bubble that led to the 2008 financial crisis and hired Charles Randolph to adapt it into a screenplay. When director Adam McKay was brought on, he rewrote the script and included cameos to explain financial concepts. Brad Pitt (who also produced and had appeared in another adaption of a Michael Lewis book, Moneyball, in 2011) was cast, along with Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Melissa Leo, Marisa Tomei, and others.
The Big Short was a commercial and critical success, and would go on to be nominated for numerous awards, including 5 Academy Award nominations (Best Picture, Best Director, Bale for Best Supporting Actor, and Hank Corwin for Best Editing). McKay and Randolph received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/michael-lewis-fda-who-is-government/
The WAPO is shitty about hot-linking articles but I'm posting the 'raw' URL to this story because a:) it will make you tear up a little, and 2:) it will give a great example of why the slash-and-burn Musk is doing is so bad.
It's a long read by my favourite writer (Michael Lewis) so get comfortable and enjoy.
Before, they had no money. Now, they were rich; but they feared they had no ability to preserve their wealth. By nature a bit tortured, they were now, by nurture, even more so. They actually spent time wondering how people who had been so sensationally right (i.e., they themselves) could preserve the capacity for diffidence and doubt and uncertainty that had enabled them to be right. The more sure you were of yourself and your judgment, the harder it was to find opportunities premised on the notion that you were, in the end, probably wrong.
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
GO PREORDER WHO IS GOVERNMENT?
OUT 3/18/25 !!!!
GO GET IT!!!
Who works for the government and why does their work matter? An urgent and absorbing civics lesson from an all-star team of writers and storytellers. The government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It’s also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it’s made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply consequential and beneficial to everyone. Michael Lewis invited his favorite writers, including Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell, to join him in finding someone doing an interesting job for the government and writing about them. The stories they found are unexpected, riveting, and inspiring, including a former coal miner devoted to making mine roofs less likely to collapse, saving thousands of lives; an IRS agent straight out of a crime thriller; and the manager who made the National Cemetery Administration the best-run organization, public or private, in the entire country. Each essay shines a spotlight on the essential behind-the-scenes work of exemplary federal employees. Whether they’re digitizing archives, chasing down cybercriminals, or discovering new planets, these public servants are committed to their work and universally reluctant to take credit. Expanding on the Washington Post series, the vivid profiles in Who Is Government? blow up the stereotype of the irrelevant bureaucrat. They show how the essential business of government makes our lives possible, and how much it matters.
Lithops
By Michael Lewis
Moneyball (2011, Bennett Miller)
30/08/2024
Did you know that there was a soundtrack release for the 70’s tv show In Search Of ? It has multiple tracks that were used on the show as well as some other stuff. I wish there was a definitive release of the all of the actual music. The show was always a little eerie and sometimes scary. The music by Micheal Lewis and Laurin Rinder was a key ingredient. Many, many years ago I emailed Lewis or Rinder (I can’t remember which)about the likelihood of the music being released. He was nice but it was clear he wasn’t interested.