RESPECT! TALK!

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REVOLVER

The Revolver staff gathered with friends, family, lovers, and a retarded amount of alcohol to watch MTV2′s broadcast of highlights from the three-hour-plus Golden Gods awards show. Top row, from left Revolver contributing illustrator Cojo with Headbangers Ball and Liquid Metal’s Jose Mangin, editorial intern Chris Krovatin with associate editor Kory Grow, and advertising director Alana Zinn (second from right) and family.

THIS WAY IN

From his fear of offending Rush Limbaugh to his fer¬vent belief that the Republicans will always be right and everyone else wrong, Jeb Bush shows himself to be as insular and out of touch as the rest of the GOP.

A CLIMATE IN SEARCH OF A SOLUTION Political economist Bjorn Lom-borg examined the most popular plan to address climate change, which he considers a futile use of money (“Mr. Gore, Your Solution to Global Warming Is Wrong,”August). Lomborg’s article is one of the best I have ever read. Global climate change is quite real, and it may be possible to change the outcome, but the shrillness of the doomsayers only attracts the naysayers. I realized that the more shrill the ar¬gument, the less likely I am to be swayed bv it. The more PETA shrieks about meat and fish, the more I want to find a really good surf-and-turf place. The more the global-warming clan decries the end of the world, the more I want to go out and buy a gas-guzzling SUV.

OUT THE DOOR, BUT STILL ON THE HOOK

Even those who pulled money from Madoff’s funds before the blowup could end up sharing in the pain

The managers of the Fort Worth Employees’ Retirement Fund thought they had dodged a bullet when Bernard L. Madoff was arrested on Dec. 11 for alleged fraud. Just a few months earlier the $1.7 billion public pension plan had pulled $10 million out of a hedge fund that invested exclusively with Madoff. But now the managers face the possibility of having to give back the money—a sum that includes all of the pension’s purported gains over the years plus its initial investment.

In one of

the biggest of the big new TV shows, FlashForward, Joseph Fiennes plays an FBI agent investigating a global conspiracy in which people catch a glimpse of the future and all hell breaks loose. It’s aLost-like puz­zle of intersecting narratives and slow-creep paranoia, yet of all the mysteries presented to the audience, none are quite so troubling as the one surrounding the man at the center of it all: Where the hell has Joseph Fiennes been all these years? Seriously: The guy gives a performance for the ages in Shake­speare in Love and then proceeds to drop off the scene for the better part of a decade. What happened? With FlashForward, the thirty-nine-year-old actor is back in the thick of things—press junkets, billboards, the sides of city buses—and here, speaking to us from his temporary home in Los Angeles, he clears up a few things.

THE RACONTEUR ERIC WRIGHT TAKES UP THE STORY OF FACONNABLE

EVERY GOOD FASHION DESIGNER should also be a story¬teller—about his clothes, his customers, the things that distinguish his designs from the other guy’s—and Eric Wright, the recently installed creative director of Faconnablc, has a few stories to tell. Take, for exam¬ple, the one behind his new employer: It begins on the French Riviera in 1950, when a tailor—a “very, very famous tailor in the region,” Wright says—opened a shop in Nice that catered to European swells on holi¬day. (“Everybody went to him to have their dinner suits made. He had a very special touch.”) Over the years, the brand evolved to focus on laid-back, luxurious sports¬wear that attracted customers whom Wright describes as “real men who had a certain sensibility about style and color and ease.”

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FOUR HOURS IN A BAR

A few words on ordering drinks over the long haul
Spend theeveningin a regular beer-and-shot, Jack-and-Cokebar, and you know how to pace yourself so you don’t end up facedown on the floor next to the Big Buck Hunter machine. After all, the choices are fairly limited and their potencies and effects well-known. But start in on the cocktail list at the sort of boutique, speakeasy-style cocktail bars that have recently come to define the cutting edge of 21st-century American drinking, and suddenly you’re in very deep waters indeed. A couple of Final Wards (that’s rye, green Chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, and lemon juice), an Improved Holland Gin Cocktail (Dutch genever with bitters, maraschino, and absinthe), and a Tequila Daisy (more or less a margarita but in concentrated form) and the cushion of your barstool is serving as a flotation device.