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CNN
23-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Seth Rogen knows he can handle weed better than most
Hollywood funnyman (and success story) Seth Rogen is known for many things, not the least of which is his penchant for smoking marijuana. In a new interview with The Guardian published on Saturday, Rogen – who runs a weed business in addition to his writing, producing, directing and acting pursuits – acknowledged his ability to intake marijuana with ease may make him something of an outlier. While Rogen admitted 'some strains' do put him 'to sleep,' he said the type of marijuana he uses daily does not negatively affect his productivity. 'For sure I process it differently than other people do,' the 'Pineapple Express' star added. 'I've been at parties with people and we'll share a joint, and I'll be fine and go about my day, and they'll enter, like, a new dark period for three months. Years will go by and then I'll run into them at a party and they'll be, like, 'The last time I saw you was the last time I smoked weed, and it was terrible.'' 'I'm not physically gifted in many ways, but there's one way in which I am, which is in my ability to process weed,' Rogen continued. 'And to me it's a very therapeutic part of my day to day journey which I don't even question or think about any more, honestly.' When presented with the suggestion that he should leave his body to science, he replied, 'Oh, I will.' As for his work, next week will see the premiere of Rogen's new Apple TV+ series 'The Studio,' which he co-created, wrote, directed and stars in. The buzzy show follows Rogen as the newly appointed head of a fictional Hollywood movie studio, with each episode welcoming industry heavyweights playing themselves. While it tackles a glitzy world full of lore and famous faces, Rogen and his producing partner Evan Goldberg looked to landmark workplace comedies of the past for inspiration and guidance. 'We talked a lot about 'The Office,' which I love,' Rogen told the publication. 'And how the boss is the most tragic figure on the show. Just because you're at the top of the power structure, it doesn't mean you're less relatable or funny.' They also wanted to make sure their new workplace comedy felt recognizable, both inside the entertainment industry and out. 'We took great care to make sure the comedic premise itself was relatable to anyone watching,' he said. Regarding one episode, in which Rogen's character has a meltdown at the Golden Globes because he suspects Zoë Kravitz – the star of a movie he greenlit – won't thank him if she wins, Rogen said, 'I think people with regular office jobs have that feeling of, 'Oh! There's a presentation I helped on and the person giving it isn't going to acknowledge I helped on it!'' 'The Studio' premieres March 26 on Apple TV+.
CNN
22-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Seth Rogen knows he can handle weed better than most
Hollywood funnyman (and success story) Seth Rogen is known for many things, not the least of which is his penchant for smoking marijuana. In a new interview with The Guardian published on Saturday, Rogen – who runs a weed business in addition to his writing, producing, directing and acting pursuits – acknowledged his ability to intake marijuana with ease may make him something of an outlier. While Rogen admitted 'some strains' do put him 'to sleep,' he said the type of marijuana he uses daily does not negatively affect his productivity. 'For sure I process it differently than other people do,' the 'Pineapple Express' star added. 'I've been at parties with people and we'll share a joint, and I'll be fine and go about my day, and they'll enter, like, a new dark period for three months. Years will go by and then I'll run into them at a party and they'll be, like, 'The last time I saw you was the last time I smoked weed, and it was terrible.'' 'I'm not physically gifted in many ways, but there's one way in which I am, which is in my ability to process weed,' Rogen continued. 'And to me it's a very therapeutic part of my day to day journey which I don't even question or think about any more, honestly.' When presented with the suggestion that he should leave his body to science, he replied, 'Oh, I will.' As for his work, next week will see the premiere of Rogen's new Apple TV+ series 'The Studio,' which he co-created, wrote, directed and stars in. The buzzy show follows Rogen as the newly appointed head of a fictional Hollywood movie studio, with each episode welcoming industry heavyweights playing themselves. While it tackles a glitzy world full of lore and famous faces, Rogen and his producing partner Evan Goldberg looked to landmark workplace comedies of the past for inspiration and guidance. 'We talked a lot about 'The Office,' which I love,' Rogen told the publication. 'And how the boss is the most tragic figure on the show. Just because you're at the top of the power structure, it doesn't mean you're less relatable or funny.' They also wanted to make sure their new workplace comedy felt recognizable, both inside the entertainment industry and out. 'We took great care to make sure the comedic premise itself was relatable to anyone watching,' he said. Regarding one episode, in which Rogen's character has a meltdown at the Golden Globes because he suspects Zoë Kravitz – the star of a movie he greenlit – won't thank him if she wins, Rogen said, 'I think people with regular office jobs have that feeling of, 'Oh! There's a presentation I helped on and the person giving it isn't going to acknowledge I helped on it!'' 'The Studio' premieres March 26 on Apple TV+.
CNN
22-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Seth Rogen knows he can handle weed better than most
Hollywood funnyman (and success story) Seth Rogen is known for many things, not the least of which is his penchant for smoking marijuana. In a new interview with The Guardian published on Saturday, Rogen – who runs a weed business in addition to his writing, producing, directing and acting pursuits – acknowledged his ability to intake marijuana with ease may make him something of an outlier. While Rogen admitted 'some strains' do put him 'to sleep,' he said the type of marijuana he uses daily does not negatively affect his productivity. 'For sure I process it differently than other people do,' the 'Pineapple Express' star added. 'I've been at parties with people and we'll share a joint, and I'll be fine and go about my day, and they'll enter, like, a new dark period for three months. Years will go by and then I'll run into them at a party and they'll be, like, 'The last time I saw you was the last time I smoked weed, and it was terrible.'' 'I'm not physically gifted in many ways, but there's one way in which I am, which is in my ability to process weed,' Rogen continued. 'And to me it's a very therapeutic part of my day to day journey which I don't even question or think about any more, honestly.' When presented with the suggestion that he should leave his body to science, he replied, 'Oh, I will.' As for his work, next week will see the premiere of Rogen's new Apple TV+ series 'The Studio,' which he co-created, wrote, directed and stars in. The buzzy show follows Rogen as the newly appointed head of a fictional Hollywood movie studio, with each episode welcoming industry heavyweights playing themselves. While it tackles a glitzy world full of lore and famous faces, Rogen and his producing partner Evan Goldberg looked to landmark workplace comedies of the past for inspiration and guidance. 'We talked a lot about 'The Office,' which I love,' Rogen told the publication. 'And how the boss is the most tragic figure on the show. Just because you're at the top of the power structure, it doesn't mean you're less relatable or funny.' They also wanted to make sure their new workplace comedy felt recognizable, both inside the entertainment industry and out. 'We took great care to make sure the comedic premise itself was relatable to anyone watching,' he said. Regarding one episode, in which Rogen's character has a meltdown at the Golden Globes because he suspects Zoë Kravitz – the star of a movie he greenlit – won't thank him if she wins, Rogen said, 'I think people with regular office jobs have that feeling of, 'Oh! There's a presentation I helped on and the person giving it isn't going to acknowledge I helped on it!'' 'The Studio' premieres March 26 on Apple TV+.
New York Times
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Rats!' Review: Keep Texas Weird
'Rats!', a gross-out action-comedy in the vein of 'Pineapple Express' and 'Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,' throws us back into the suburban-youth aesthetics of the mid-aughts: its Hot Topic threads, pop-punk music and chintzy stoner décor. Set in a fictional version of Fresno, Tex., called Pfresno, circa 2007, this underdog caper also satirizes the state's conservative culture — its thing for gun rights and law enforcement. In the beginning of the film, Raphael (Luke Wilcox), a listless 19-year-old, is caught graffiti tagging a phone booth. Officer Williams (Danielle Evon Ploeger), a comically noxious policewoman, tackles the teen to the ground, leading to his arrest and his forced embroilment in a sting operation against his cousin Mateo (Darius R. Autry). Mateo is a genial weed-dealer whose roomies include a pet pig and a meth-smoking squatter — though he's obviously not the homicidal plutonium dealer Williams suspects him to be. The directors Maxwell Nalevansky and Carl Fry build out this madcap conspiracy story with potty humor (courtesy of the very unladylike Officer Williams), bloody practical effects and surreal flourishes, which play out against intentionally unglamorous backdrops (strip malls and shabby backyards). Bizarre digressions (like the screening of a rap music video about the joys of selling crack; or the perverse relationship between a foxy, cocaine-addicted reporter and her cameraman) will leave you slack jawed, whether you vibe with the film's particularly obscene style of deadpan absurdism or not. If anything, the onslaught of weirdness is hypnotizing. As a visibly small-scale and local undertaking, the film feels genuinely connected to a vision of working-class Texas and its various characters. 'I don't know any of these people, this is just my circumstance,' says Raphael in one scene, which feels like a meta commentary on the experience of living in a country of such vast contradictions. Rats!Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 25 minutes. In theaters.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
In most of the U.S., the rainy season comes in spring. Not California
As the first major atmospheric river of the winter arrives in Los Angeles, it brings with it the hope that the fire risk has finally receded, the danger that severe landslides could occur in the fire-scarred hills around the city, and the possibility that Southern California's rainy season is, at long last, going to begin in earnest. Many accounts of the Palisades and Eaton fires have attributed their intensity in part to a delay in the winter rains, and that framing is not wrong. However, it doesn't answer a basic question: why does Los Angeles receive virtually all its rain during the winter? It seems like merely a fact of life on the West Coast that summers are dry — in a typical year, LAX receives about 2½ inches of rain in the eight months between April and November, which represents less than 20% of the annual average. But compared to most of the rest of the country (and the world), this is an unusual pattern. Go northeast over the Sierra Nevada to Salt Lake City — which on average receives about the same annual precipitation as L.A. — and the wettest months are March, April, and May. Go east to Santa Fe instead — also about the same annual precipitation — and the wettest months are July and August. Keep going east, getting steadily wetter as you get farther from the Rockies, and most of them have either a flat precipitation cycle (for example, no single month in Boston contains more than 10% of its average annual precipitation) or a spike in the spring or summer. It is not a coincidence that the mountain ranges of the West — the Cascades, the Rockies, and even the relatively more modest San Jacintos — divide the region up into different precipitation patterns. In Joshua Tree National Park, torrential summer downpours will sometimes sweep in from the Gulf of California, but the Transverse Ranges form a wall that prevents that moisture from reaching Los Angeles. Similarly, the so-called 'Pineapple Express' that carries warm, wet air from Hawaii to the Pacific Coast typically spends itself on the Sierras — as the winds are forced up over the mountains, they drop most of their water as rain or snow. The phenomenon of dry conditions on the leeward side of a mountain range (that is, the side sheltered from the winds) is known as a 'rain shadow,' and it can produce some of the driest conditions on earth — some weather stations in the Atacama Desert in Chile, downwind of the Andes, have never recorded any rain at all. Read more: How climate change worsened the most destructive wildfires in L.A. history But just as important as the literal ridges that crisscross the land are the meteorological ridges that exist in the atmosphere. Atmospheric ridges are long regions of high pressure, typically associated with hot, dry air. Not unlike mountain ridges, they force air to flow around them, creating their own versions of rain shadows. One of these ridges — known as the 'subtropical ridge' — typically circles the globe at around 30 degrees latitude and gives rise to the Arabian, Saharan, and Sonoran deserts. During the summer months when the sun warms the North Pacific, the subtropical ridge bends north between Hawaii and California, and in doing so blocks moist air from flowing off the ocean and onto the coast. During the winter the ocean cools and the so-called 'Aleutian Low' expands south from Alaska, freeing a path for atmospheric rivers to bring rain to the West Coast. A similar phenomenon occurs over the Atlantic, creating dry summers and wet winters in Lisbon, Rome and Athens. In fact, a location where less than 10% of annual rain falls during the summer is said to have a 'Mediterranean climate' due to the prevalence of this pattern in Southern Europe. Given that the movements of these atmospheric ridges are driven by temperature changes, it should come as little surprise that climate change could have a profound effect on them. In recent history, the deep drought that gripped California between 2011 and 2017 was driven by a phenomenon known as the 'Ridiculously Resilient Ridge' — a period when, due to unusually high sea surface temperatures in the Pacific, a persistent high-pressure system prevented storms from reaching the West Coast even during the winter months. Some studies suggest that persistent ridges off the coast — and therefore prolonged droughts — will become many times more frequent due to climate change. Changes in these ridges could also contribute to a dangerous phenomenon called 'hydroclimate whiplash': in one year, warmer air (which can hold more moisture) could bring torrential rains that spur vegetation growth, in the following year warmer ocean waters could produce ridges that suppress rain, leading the vegetation to dry out and provide fuel for wildfires. As the climate warms and weather extremes grow ever more extreme, the important question may shift from 'Why does it rain so much in the winter?' to 'What will happen to L.A. if it doesn't?' This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
