Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2014 i Esquire

ADDITIONALLY … HOW TO RAISE ASTRONAUTS Richard and the late Patricia Kelly are the only parents to raise astronaut siblings, identical twin brothers Mark and Scott. When Scott rockets to the space station in March for the first one-year mission in American history (see story on page 144), Richard Kelly will witness a record eighth launch of a son into space. The author of our story, Chris Jones, explains how he and Patricia did it: RAISE ADULTS, NOT CHILDREN: Their boys were given free physical rein and frequently did damage to themselves and each other. "The hospital knew us," Richard says. One summer, when Mark and Scott were teenagers (above), Richard sent them to live on a boat 80 miles from home. He gave them just enough grocery money not…

1. 1998–2000 She was skinny and pale, jittery and raw. Nothing would reassure her. "It's not okay! That's what everybody always tells me, 'It's okay' and 'It doesn't matter,' and it does matter." This was a few months before she became an international star. Her spectacular performance as a doom-hungry junkie supermodel on HBO's Gia had won the critics, and now she was about to win an Oscar and a mass audience playing another feral renegade in Girl, Interrupted. Off-screen, she'd been a cutter, she had tattoos, she did drugs, she had sex with women as well as men, and she talked about it all. The result was an image of erotic power and recklessness that was almost aggressive: She may have chosen to turn the tools of destruction on…

Cut, penknife, or tear here for on-the-go utility. I PREEMPTION Applicable scenario: Oncoming politicking, e.g., Mom mentions "gun nuts" near one's red-state in-laws. Execution: "Nothing's cookie-cutter," says Lt. Col. David Osterman, division chief of the Capabilities and Requirements Division of the Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate. But unless hostility is apparent when first encountering a threat to cheer, employ a "hail-and-warn system," giving the target notice to halt. If one too quickly escalates when the threat was unintended, he is, Osterman says, "likely going to agitate," turning himself into a threat. II DISABLEMENT Applicable scenario: Oblivious ruination of a childhood, e.g., a disrobed "Santa" might enter the sight line of a believing six-year-old. Execution: If a targetcontinues his approach—displaying potential hostility or perilous ignorance—consider…

We can always stay inside. By the fire, under the covers, holed up in sweats watching Brady or Wilson or the Manning boys launch bombs in some far-off stadium: That is one way to keep warm this winter. Another way, and one that lets us leave the house and actually do stuff, is what can best be described as an all-in approach to layering. There's the number of pieces, four or five, all easy on and easy off. There are the varying weights of those pieces, the lighter shirt under the midweight sweater-vest under the heavier blazer under the lofty parka, all versatility and flexibility. And there are the patterns and textures, all visualand tactile action. Nothing but options, nothing but warmth. All winter long. Cotton-nylon-and-down parka ($349) byTommy…

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At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Alexis Ohanian gave a speech at his high school graduation. He wasn't valedictorian, but he went to a high school that allowed its students to audition to speak, and he earned a place at the podium. As a speaker, he was both charming and insufferable, smart-alecky and painfully sincere—the kind of smart kid who looks like he thinks his speech is going to get him laid. But there was also something precociously authoritative about his insistence that he and his classmates were going to have obligations and opportunities the world had never seen before, simply by virtue of chronology. "There's no past class for us to compare to, no bar for us to raise, no standard for us to aspire to. No—we…

CARY FUKUNAGA 37, DIRECTOR HE'S DRINKING … Laphroaig 10 on the rocks. TO … Directing all eight haunting episodes of True Detective, winning an Emmy for his troubles, and finishing principal photography on his next film, Beasts of No Nation, starring Idris Elba. This page, on Alexis Ohanian: Double-breasted wool suit ($3,950), cotton shirt ($600), and silk tie ($215) by Louis Vuitton; steel Monaco chronograph ($6,300) by TAG Heuer. Opposite, on Cary Fukunaga: Two-button mohair jacket ($3,060), mohair trousers ($1,330), and leather shoes by Prada; cotton shirt ($275) by Rag & Bone. LOIC GOUZER 34, ART SPECIALIST HE'S DRINKING … A cold one (see above). TO … Orchestrating the groundbreaking contemporary-art sale "If I Live I'll See You Tuesday" at Christie's auction house back in May.…

Scott Raab meets the pro-ducer, writer, outgoing Daily Show "senior black correspondent" on a Monday night at Porter House steakhouse, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Wilmore is preparingfor the premiere of The Minority Report, which is taking over the Colbert Reportslot on Comedy Central. LARRY WILMORE: Now, my favorite is the porterhouse, but that's a lot of food. SCOTT RAAB: I'd be happy to go porterhouse with you. LW: Oh, you don't have to do that… . It is my favorite, though. SR: Well, then, why don't we do that? LW: Let me ask you this: Do you like it medium-rare? SR: Yes, I do. LW: Well, then, I think this is meant to be. SR: When do you take over the 11:30 slot? LW: January 19, Martin…

ABOUT THE JOKESTER: There is a bullet-punctured human-shaped target in the trunk of Emily Wickersham's car. But all the 30-year-old actress will say about the tattered piece of paper is that it's the remains of the gun training she underwent to become the newest agent/genius on CBS's NCIS, the biggest drama on TV, and that she uses it, somehow, "for intimidation purposes." Her character joined the show's investigative team from the (fictional, exceptionally cheery) NSA last season, and in another phase of Wickersham'spreparation, she video-chatted with a group of(real, perhaps less cheery) NSA analysts. So, with all of this inside knowledge, does she think she'd make a good analyst herself? "I don't know. Would I?" Okay, how close did she become with the ones she talked to? "I can't tell…

For as long as we can remember, Canadian whisky has been the king of the bottom shelf. Of the 200-odd million bottles of the stuff sold in the U. S. every year (putting it just behind American straight whiskey—bourbons, ryes, and Tennessees—as a category), 100 million are destined for shots and highballs at Dave's Drop Inn and the Tanktown Tap. This demonstrates the good sense of the price-conscious American drinker: Canadian blended whisky is a far better product than its American blended counterpart. American blended whiskey is generally made by diluting straight whiskey—in our case, bourbon, rye, or a mix of the two—with, essentially, vodka: unaged neutral spirits and water. Canadian blended whisky, however, is made much like Scotch and Irish blends, in which the diluting agent is instead a…

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WEIRD YEAR FOR CARS. LET'S SEE: THE GREATEST THRILL IS A PLUG-IN HYBRID AND THE BIGGEST WORKHORSE IS A COMPACT HATCH. BUT AFTER WEEKS OF DELIBERATION, A COUPLE HEATED DISCUSSIONS, AND ONE CRISP FALL MORNING TEARING THROUGH A FOREST, WE GOT OUR HEADS AROUND THE CLASS OF 2014 AND FINALLY AGREED ON THE CAR OF THE YEAR. PLUS: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CAR OF THE YEAR'S CHIEF ENGINEER, HOW TO CHOOSE A DRIVING ROUTE, AND AN ESQUIRE STAFFER QUIETLY PROTESTS. THE ESQUIRE CAR OF THE YEAR 2015 FORD MUSTANG GT Functional, affordable, stylish, fun, well built (finally), and really, really fast. it retains the soul that made it an icon. There's no other automobile like it. One hundred and eighteen years after Henry Ford first clattered around his…

ACTOR, 81, LEATHERHEAD, ENGLAND INTERVIEWED BY CAL FUSSMAN, AUGUST 4, 2014 > Nobody impersonated me when I was a child. Where I came from, everybody talked just like me. > I'm cockney, which is a certain type of working-class London. We are all funny—all of us. I've never met a cockney who wasn't funny. We do not have a miserable side. But we do have a ferocious side. Someone once asked, "Do cockneys commit suicide?" I said, "No. If they get pissed off, they murder people." > Yes, there is a best lesson my mother taught me! There is! It was during the Second World War. I was six and my brother was three. When my father left to join the fight, my mother was crying, and then she pulled…

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Norman Mailer was a boiler-hearted factory. He wrote 44 books and however many essays and stories and, in his spare time, between all the wives and all the children, at least 45,000 letters. In J. Michael Lennon's introduction to Selected Let- ters of Norman Mailer (Random House, $40), he estimates Mailer's outgoing mail included more than 20 million words. Just 2 percent of them are in this book, yet it is still as massive as the life they document. Only last year, Lennon produced a big and loving biography of his friend, Norman Mailer: A Double Life. So this collection of letters might seem like an unnecessary duplicate, at least until page 29, or May 14, 1945, when Mailer writes his first wife, Beatrice. He was at war in the…

When the writer Dorothy Parker defined eternity as "two people and a ham," she wasn't kidding. Once the plate-sized portions are carved out, you're still left with a mountain of meat (and bone) too good to go to waste. And yet many just walk away. Maybe they're daunted by all that ham. Maybe they don't understand the near-infinite possibilities it offers to the bold, the willing. So, as both service and challenge, we devised a step-by-step, dish-by-dish, day-by-day guide to consuming an entire ham. Ideally with other people. But, you know, the world loves a dreamer. Long slicerand meat fork ($122 a set) by Wüsthof. The knife flexes to maneuver around the bone. The fork assists. crateandbarrel.com This is a "city ham." Get acquainted. You're going to have a…

They came with version 8.1, yes. About 37 percent of women in scientific studies and on blogs report having what we're calling "sleep-related orgasms" until we come up with something better. Sleep-related orgasms have little in common with true board-certified wet dreams: They aren't contingent on dreams, they needn't be nocturnal, and they don't emit much of anything, except in the case of some of our more spirited sisters. Also unnecessary for sleep-related orgasms is genital contact of any kind. "Many women can induce orgasm by thought alone," explains Franceen King, clinical sexologist and author of the 2006 study "Sleep-Related Female Orgasms." Indeed, an earlier study of ten women who claimed to have orgasms without physical stimulation proved they were able to do so. (They're currently on the state-fair circuit…

STEPHEN MARCHE WOULD LIKE TO OFFER UP A EULOGY … THE FIRST PROHIBITION, AGAINST ALCOHOL, ended on December 5, 1933, precisely at 5:32 P.M. EST. The second prohibition, against drugs, is dragging to a more staggered conclusion. Marijuana is fully legal now for medical use in twenty-three states and outright legal in two, with legalization under way in three others. The will to prosecute the use and abuse of other drugs is waning as well: The police are sick of losing an unwinnable war. The medical establishment, for the most part, prefers harm reduction over incarceration. Tellingly, the three most prominent Republican leaders—Rand Paul, Chris Christie, and Rick Perry—have all called, in one way or another, for an end to the drug war, or at least, in Perry's words, a…

RAINY NIGHT. AT LEAST PART OF THE TIME. A crab shack called the Crab Shack, on a coastal island in Georgia. The young waitress sets a plate of blue crabs and a ramekin of clarified butter on the table. And even though he surely knows that there are so many crabs in the world's restaurants now that a single steaming plate of them ought not feel like a high holy day, Channing Tatum treats the food like an arrival, rumbling up his enthusiasm. "Oh yeah," he says. "That's right. That's them, right there." Chan to his friends, thirty-four years old, his baseball hat turned backward, tilted, metallic sticker still plastered against the underside of the brim, emphasizes the words in a way in which every syllable is accented. That's them,…

In March, astronaut Scott Kelly will undertake the longest space mission in American history. He and a cosmonaut will begin an uninterrupted year aboard the International Space Station—a year exposed to the strange and deep effects of weightlessness, acute stress, isolation, and cosmic radiation. It is the most ambitious manned space mission in years. And it will also be the first step in a human expedition to Mars. In cavernous Building 9 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, tucked behind a privacy screen, there is a working model of the International Space Station's toilet. Scott Kelly flicked the three switches that power it up—its control panels, stamped in Cyrillic, flashed with a succession of green lights—and he nodded when a familiar hum filled the air. Three years ago, he…

THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD By Watty Piper If you fail, it's all your fault. THE CAT IN THE HAT By Dr. Seuss Let strangers into your house, but don't tell your parents. THE POLAR EXPRESS By Chris Van Allsburg If a strange man invites you on a train, follow him, but don't tell your parents. FROSTY THE SNOWMAN By Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins It's okay to befriend strange men with minimal clothing, but don't tell your parents. CINDERELLA By the Brothers Grimm Piketty is wrong—upward mobility is possible, so long as you're hot. CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY By Roald Dahl The solution to poverty is corporate-sponsored gambling. RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER By Robert L. May You will be accepted only when your disability turns out to be…