Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides While the World Burns By Dave’s Locker International Desk The planet’s longest-running slow-motion car crash—also known as 21st-century geopolitics—has a curious soundtrack: the low, gravelly chuckle of Jeffrey Bridges echoing across every continent like a cosmic barfly who’s seen empires rise, fall, and get rebooted as streaming miniseries. From Siberian…
Ryan Gosling, the Canadian export who looks like a boy-band hologram left in the sun just long enough to gain existential dread, has become the planet’s universal reflection surface: every nation now projects its own neuroses onto that eerily symmetrical face. From Lagos cineplexes to a repurposed Siberian gulag that now streams Netflix originals, Gosling…
Sam Rockwell: The Accidental Everyman in a World That Forgot How to Dance by our correspondent in the Departures Lounge of Civilisation The first time most of the planet noticed Sam Rockwell, he was wearing a tin-foil jumpsuit and murdering lunar clones to a soft-rock soundtrack. That was 2009, the same year Greece discovered it…
James McAvoy, the Scottish pocket-rocket who has spent two decades convincing the world that he is both Professor X and a Glasgow bar brawler, has quietly become the United Nations’ favorite chameleon. While diplomats argue over commas in multilateral treaties, McAvoy has been slipping across borders with nothing more menacing than a posh English accent…
Cooper Hoffman Is Everywhere—Just Ask the Algorithm, Tokyo, and Your Aunt in Buenos Aires By Our Man in Perpetual Transit When the name “Cooper Hoffman” first pinged across the transatlantic Slack channel, I assumed the copy desk had autocorrected yet another crypto-billionaire into existence. Turns out he’s neither a stablecoin nor a failed NFT ape;…
