Will Leitch
Will Leitch
William F. "Will" Leitchis a writer and the founding editor of the Gawker Media sports blog Deadspin. Leitch is a senior editor at Sports on Earth, a contributing editor at New York, critic at The New Republic, culture writer for Bloomberg Politics, contributor to The New York Times, GQ, Fast Company and Slate; and has published four books, Catch, a novel, Life as a Loser, a memoir, God Save The Fan, a book of sports essays, and Are We Winning?,...
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Her job was to turn everything upside down to see what might fall out.
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If they had come in eighth we would have been tickled to death. They have the talent. They were the most talented pair team in the competition, it's just that with them being young and inexperienced, you never know what's going to happen under stress. And with young teams, the judges tend to not give out good marks. But they skated brilliantly. They were sort of the talk of the competition.
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I did the same as my mother would have done me in a situation like that.
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No one is getting paid and the actual program and the system is chaotic,
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The only thing about it is that the pressure is now on them. Now, next year they gotta win. But they certainly have the capabilities.
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But right after we got out of surgery, we walked around Munich. The next day, I was pedaling a stationary bike. By the third day I was jogging and around Day 5, I ran 5 miles.
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It's nice to come back home. Obviously I grew up following the team and I am glad to be a part of the organization again. I just want to come in and work hard and help out any way I can.
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I think the president himself values diversity on the courts, ... It will be something that he'll consider. But I don't think it's more or less likely to be a factor because of poll ratings or anything else going on in the short-term news cycle.
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While filming 'The Matrix,' we studied how a Chinese fight-choreography team trains actors before production starts so that they can participate in action sequences in a more dynamic way.
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You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.
There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.
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The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.
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Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.
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People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.