Curious to see who US GQ chose as their Men and Woman of the year. If I had to guess, I'd say Ronda Rousey, Eddie Redmayne, Bernie Sanders, Tom Hardy, and The Weeknd all have good chances.
source: GQ.com via popsugar.comBarack Obama is about to embark on his eighth and final year as president of the United States, but the commander in chief could easily transition into a role as a comedic movie actor or stand-up star if he really wanted to. In his latest interview with GQ — he graces the cover as 2015's man of the year — the 54-year-old shows off his signature laid-back, cool-headed charisma while answering questions from sports columnist Bill Simmons about his presidency, his TV habits, and being the dad of two teenage girls. Read the president's funniest, most self-aware quotes below, then see the weird gifts he was presented by celebrities in this GQ video.
If he could go back to 2008 and tell himself one thing: "You're going to be busy."
On his temperament: "I don't get too high and I don't get too low. I'm able to stay focused even when there's a lot of stuff going on around me."
On whose phone call he would take during a date night with Michelle: "Malia and Sasha. [laughs] And maybe my mother-in-law. My national security adviser, Susan Rice, and Denis McDonough, my chief of staff. Those are the only people whose call I would take during a date night with Michelle."
On technology and his daughters' phone habits: "It's so interesting watching my daughters. Both are complete ninjas on the phone, right? And they can do things that I don't even understand — they're doing it in two seconds. But I even see a difference between Malia, who's 17, and Sasha, who's 14. There's almost a mini-generational gap in terms of Sasha being so connected seamlessly to this smartphone in a way that Malia, who was already a little bit older when it really started to take, is not."
On the most entertaining conspiracy theory he's heard about himself: "That military exercises we were doing in Texas were designed to begin martial law so that I could usurp the Constitution and stay in power longer. Anybody who thinks I could get away with telling Michelle I'm going to be president any longer than eight years does not know my wife."
On top-secret files: "I gotta tell you, it's a little disappointing. People always ask me about Roswell and the aliens and UFOs, and it turns out the stuff going on that's top secret isn't nearly as exciting as you expect."
Has anyone ever come to the White House to pick up Malia for a date?: "No, but I've seen some folks glancing at her in ways that made me not happy."
On Game of Thrones and not being able to remember the characters' names: "The only one I remember is Jon Snow, because I can pronounce Jon Snow."
On running for president against Donald Trump: "I would've enjoyed campaigning against Trump. That would've been fun."
Details Magazine Is Officially Done
By Véronique Hyland
The hits keep on coming in the print-magazine world. The latest shake-up: Details, which Condé Nast has been publishing since 1988 (it was founded as a downtown culture publication in 1982), will close, according to an internal company email. The December/January issue will be its last.
To step into the niche left by Details, GQ Style, which has been a supplement to its parent magazine, will become a quarterly and will also have a beefed-up digital presence, according to the email. However, it doesn't sound like Details EIC Dan Peres and publisher Drew Schutte will be staying on to help with it — the email confirmed that the two will leave the company.
Source: The Cut
Tom Brady is . . .
A- The greatest of all time
B- A slow man with a strong arm
C- A cheater
D- The quarterback we deserve
E- None of the above
F- Some of the above
G- All of the above.
Chuck Klosterman provides the answer
Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback in NFL history.
That’s just my opinion, and that opinion is fungible. If someone else had made the same claim five years ago, I would have disagreed; five years ago, I didn’t even think he was the best quarterback of his generation. But the erosion of time has validated his ascension. Classifying Brady as the all-time best QB is not a universally held view, but it’s become the default response. His statistical legacy won’t match Peyton Manning’s, and Manning has changed the sport more. But Brady’s six Super Bowl appearances (and his dominance in their head-to-head matchups) tilt the scales of hagiography in his direction. He has been football’s most successful player at the game’s most demanding position, during an era when the importance of that position has been incessantly amplified. His greatness can be quantified through a wide range of objective metrics.
Yet it’s the subjective details that matter more.
America’s fanatical, perverse obsession with football is rooted in a multitude of smaller fixations, most notably the concept of who a quarterback is and what that person represents. There is no cultural corollary in any other sport. It’s the only position on the field a CEO would compare himself to, or a surgeon, or an actual general. It’s the only position in sports that racists still worry about. People who don’t care about football nevertheless understand that every clichéd story about high school involves the prom queen dating the quarterback. It serves as a signifier for a certain kind of elevated human, and Brady is that human in a non-metaphoric sense. He looks the way he’s supposed to look. He has the kind of wife he’s supposed to have. He has the right kind of inspirational backstory: a sixth-round draft pick who runs the 40-yard dash in a glacial 5.2 seconds, only to prove such things don’t matter because this job requires skills that can’t be reliably measured. Brady’s vocation demands an inexact combination of mental and physical faculties, and it all hinges on his teammates’ willingness to follow him unconditionally. This is part of the reason Brady does things like make cash payments to lowly practice-squad players who pick off his passes during scrimmages—he must embody the definition of leadership, almost like a president. In fact, it sometimes seems like Brady could eventually be president, or at least governor of Massachusetts.
But this will never happen.
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