I concur about the Adam Driver article. Did you get far enough to figure out why they call him "the original man"?
No, and I figured if you're going to lure people with a phrase like that you'd better reveal the meaning in far less than three pages. To me, Adam Driver seems like kind of a pleasant, mildly interesting man. If he asked me out to dinner, I'd go. But original? Um, Okaayyy, how so? ... I liked him a lot in
BlackKKlansman, but that was just a good movie overall.
IMO, the best thing about the article is the portrait of him. Such an interesting face!
Yes, kind of. I think that's one reason he's become a star. He's not exactly cute like the Chrises or Ryan Gosling or whoever, but he has an interesting and not unappealing face. Did you watch Girls? His character evolved from being kind of a distancing weirdo at first, as the article implies, but then gradually became a sympathetic (albeit less weird) figure.
I liked "The avocado Whisperer" so far. The Shouts & Murmurs piece was, as usual, too nuanced for my taste.
I haven't gotten to either of those yet, but I'm looking forward to the Jerome Groopman piece on habits.