Mike and Dave. But for Mike and Dave Stangle, that’s exactly what happened. They needed dates for their cousin’s wedding; as a joke, they made a Craigslist personal ad. The post then went viral, landing them a mountain of respondents and instant fame, TV appearances and all. The movie interpretation of the whole whirlwind, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, hit theaters on Friday, topping its projected box- office take for the weekend by over $1 million. Like most based- on- a- true- story fare, a good bit of the movie is actually very different from how things happened in real life. According to director Jake Szymanski, the main objective was getting the brothers’ personalities right—and letting the movie’s two fictional heroines take it from there. As far as the real- life Stangle bros are concerned, he nailed it. Recognizing scams. Most scams attempts involve one or more of the following: Email or text from someone that is not local to your area. Vague initial inquiry, e.g. Director Jake Szymanski and real-life bro Dave Stangle explain how a Craigslist post becomes a successful summer comedy in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. O n November 22, 2016, the two-year anniversary of the day I met my boyfriend, we celebrated by spending the afternoon apartment hunting – searching for a place. Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse Than Craigslist? Craigslist Phoenix is where people who live in the Phoenix area or have an interest in Phoenix, Arizona can post and see free online classified ads. Craig is a real. When TV networks started calling, Dave Stangle said, that’s when he and Mike started to realize that their Craigslist post might become something more than a quick gag. The two had dashed it off as a joke—a “creative writing thing.”Jake Szymanski with Zac Efron and Adam De. Vine on the set of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. Mint condition care bears! The Internet is filled with stories of women (and. Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox.“Then it went viral, and we had thousands and thousands of respondees,” Stangle said in a phone interview, adding later, “these news outlets wanted to come to the wedding and cover who we took, which is, (a) the silliest thing I’ve ever heard in my life, and (b) we’re from a small town, and we didn’t want to take attention away from the bride.”In the movie, the guys have a pretty hot ticket on their hands to attract some dates: the wedding is in Hawaii, and the tickets are already paid for. In real life, the wedding was local. But perhaps the biggest difference between movie and reality is the outcome of each one. In the movie, Alice (Anna Kendrick) and Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza) are strangers who see the ad and decide to manipulate the guys into taking them on a free vacation. In real life, the Stangles ended up bringing a couple of women they already knew. Mike and Dave might be the ones whose names are in the title, but Alice and Tatiana “are the driving force of the movie,” Szymanski said in a phone interview. According to Stangle, the portrayal is pretty spot- on—although the real- life difference between him and his sibling might not be as starkly pronounced as it is in the film, which positions Efron’s Dave as the somewhat straight man to Adam Devine’s far more unhinged Mike.“I actually think we’re both probably a little more similar to Adam; I think they just had to build in some kind of character to have a base model of being normal,” Stangle said, adding, “It wasn’t really the story that we cared that they got right; it was more the characters. I know that Zac and Adam had a lot of fun with both of them.”From left to right: Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Adam De. Vine, and Zac Efron. Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. But the professional actors didn’t get to have all the fun: if you look closely, you can actually spot the Stangles in a quick cameo during a meet- and- greet scene, where the girls are meeting the guys’ family.“That two seconds took about 1. Stangle said. Mike and I were the only ones drinking real drinks. It just took so long, and Mike and I had way too much to drink. Mike was having a hard time telling the difference between his drinks and the prop drinks.”Szymanski recalled things a little differently.“They showed up sunburnt and already drunk, and I was like, . Fresh from finishing Uncle Vanya alongside friend and Downtown Abbey–star Jessica Brown- Findlay, she is now in New York for her Broadway debut, reprising her role as Stella opposite Gillian Anderson’s Blanche in their f. But it took her time and training to get where she is. She turned down a role at drama school for a contract with Bolton’s renowned Octagon Theatre, hoping to learn on the job. Performing in a whole season of classic plays—Ibsen, Miller, Shakespeare—she certainly had to. Photo: By Karwai Tang/Getty Images. David Moorst, Actor. Before Moorst went to drama school, he had never seen a play. But he took to the theater so naturally that he was plucked out early by director Edward Hall, and in 2. Liam, the troubled 1. Violence and Son, the Royal Court’s lauded drama about sexual consent. Not only did he win the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award for the role, he was also personally congratulated by Ian Mc. Kellen and Vanessa Redgrave. Photo: By Jeff Spicer/Getty Images. Noma Dumezweni, Actress. The Internet erupted when it was announced Dumezweni will be playing Hermione Granger in the upcoming West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, with J. K. Rowling tweeting: “Rowling loves black Hermione.” And last year the Olivier Award–winning actress and director attracted more attention when, just 1. Kim Cattrall in the Royal Court’s Linda, and performed parts of the three- hour monologue with script in hand. Photo: By Luca Teuchmann/Getty Images. Zoe Lafferty, Director. Lafferty is interested in big themes: conflict, political corruption, the violation of human rights. She began her career with the Palestinian Freedom Theatre, where she was based in a refugee camp, and since then her work has taken her from Afghanistan to Yemen, Lebanon to Haiti. In 2. 01. 1, circumnavigating the ban on journalists, she crossed into Syria, and her resulting play, The Fear of Breathing, is based entirely on her interviews with protesters, soldiers, activists, and citizens. Her patience paid off. This month alone she can be seen in Eye in the Sky alongside Helen Mirren and the late Alan Rickman, and The Hollow Crown with Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench, and Hugh Bonneville. But it was for her performance as the 1. Catherine in Ivo Van Hove’s production of A View from the Bridge that she shot to fame, startling audiences in Broadway and the West End alike with her uncomfortably visceral merging of innocence and sexuality. Photo: By James Shaw/REX/Shutterstock. Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy, Playwrights. The Good Chance Theatre has been in the headlines a lot recently. From its position at the heart of the “Jungle”—one of Europe’s most notorious refugee camps—the temporary theater, established by young playwrights Robertson and Murphy, hosted a steady stream of prominent theater companies and actors, from Jude Law to Benedict Cumberbatch. When the French authorities recently cleared the camp, Good Chance was forced to dismantle its dome. But it has vowed to continue its work. Already, aged just 2. National Theatre, World Stage Design, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Facebook Shut Down a Conservative 'FB Anon' Group Employees Used for Harassment. On Wednesday, Facebook CEO and much- rumored presidential hopeful Mark Zuckerberg posted to his personal page explaining why the company would renew efforts to crack down on hate speech across the site, citing the terrible violence that transpired at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 1. The same night, though, the Wall Street Journal reported that Zuckerberg has some experience with calls coming from inside the house. Approximately a month after the 2. Facebook management took down an internal group for Facebook employees called “FB Anon” as part of a larger crackdown on anonymous posting. The title of the group was an obvious callback to the Anonymous movement which spawned out of imageboards like 4chan and its even seedier cousin 8chan. According to the WSJ report, Zuckerberg’s employees began using the group as a venue as a “hub for employees who backed Donald Trump’s candidacy” and “conservative political debate that sometimes degenerated into racist or sexist comments.”It’s not entirely clear from the WSJ report or another article on Business Insider what kinds of racist or sexist comments were getting posted to the FB Anon group. One post cited in the WSJ account seemed along the lines of fired Google engineer James Damore- style bigotry masquerading as scientific truth, arguing Facebook had lowered its standards to admit more female engineers. Frankly, considering this particular president’s supporters, it would be surprising if there wasn’t some debate over who is or isn’t a “cuck.” Per the Business Insider report, after Facebook management shut down the group, posters featuring an anime character and the words “Silenced, but not silent” began appearing across the company’s campus. None of this undermines Zuckerberg’s personal thoughts on what Facebook needs to do in the wake of Charlottesville, of course, and his post seemed about as heartfelt as a statement from the chief of a major corporation generally gets. But the WSJ report notes management’s response to the FB Anon group “illustrates Facebook’s struggle to cultivate open, freewheeling debate, while still following company rules of decency to not alienate employees with racist and sexist views”—and one casualty of the shutdown was another anonymous page for female and minority employees to discuss allegations of mistreatment at the company. The company has long done poorly at hiring a diverse workforce. While it freely admits the dance between discouraging hate speech and censorship is difficult, critics continue to insist its emphasis on removing only the most extreme content is a laissez- faire approach that has allowed hate speech to proliferate on the site.
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