The Naked Truth Newsletter October 24th, 2016 | Page 2

Everything You Thought You Knew About Love is Wrong by Aziz Ansari | TIME Magazine
My parents had an arranged marriage. This always fascinated me. I am perpetually indecisive about even the most mundane things, and I couldn’t imagine
navigating such a huge life decision so quickly.
I asked my dad about this experience, and here’s how he described it: he told his parents he was ready to get married, so his family arranged meetings
with three neighboring families. The first girl, he said, was “a little too tall,” and the second girl was “a little too short.” Then he met my mom. He quickly
deduced that she was the appropriate height (finally!), and they talked for about 30 minutes. They decided it would work. A week later, they were married.
And they still are, 35 years later. Happily so—and probably more so than most people I know who had nonarranged marriages. That’s how my dad decided
on the person with whom he was going to spend the rest of his life.
Let’s look at how I do things, maybe with a slightly less important decision, like the time I had to pick where to eat dinner in Seattle when I was on tour last
year. First I texted four friends who travel and eat out a lot and whose judgment I trust. I checked the website Eater for its Heat Map, which includes new,
tasty restaurants in the city. Then I checked Yelp. And GQ’s online guide to Seattle. Finally I made my selection: Il Corvo, an Italian place that sounded
amazing. Unfortunately, it was closed. (It only served lunch.) At that point I had run out of time because I had a show to do, so I ended up making a
peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich on the bus. The stunning fact remained: it was quicker for my dad to find a wife than it ………Read more of TIME
magazine’s article on Aziz Ansari at http://time.com/aziz-ansari-modern-romance/

Viva Michelle Obama!
There is only one thing for certain about this year’s
presidential election. Come January, the White House
will be thrown into a conundrum about the position of
the First Lady.

How to Sell a TV Show to Netflix | INDIEWIRE
While the spring of 2015 has been dominated by Netflix releasing high
profile series after high profile series, "House of Cards," "Bloodline" and
"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" aren’t the only new shows available now
for streaming.
"Residue," created by John Harrison, premiered yesterday on Netflix with
three 45 minute-long episodes. The genre series, starring "Game of
Thrones" notables Natalie Tena and Iwan Rheon, tracks the aftermath of
a devastating explosion on the city of London and the government
conspiracy that might be concealing the truth. (Netflix users might expect
to see it as a recommended pick if they’ve watched a lot of "The X-Files"
or other genre programming.)
Via both phone and email, Indiewire got a step-by-step breakdown of how
"Residue’s" first season landed on the streaming giant, and what might
happen next with the series.
Step 1: Think Up the Show
"Residue" began life as an idea in Harrison’s head. He then brought it to
producer Charlotte Walls after a positive experience working with her on
the horror film, "Clive Barker’s Book of Blood."
"When [‘Book of Blood’] was finished and released, I went back to [Walls]
and said, ‘Look, I have another idea that I really want to do and I’m
bringing it to you first because I would love to work with you guys,’" he
said.
And Harrison had a huge amount of material for the idea. "The thing I had
envisioned was quite a long story. The movie that I was pitching them
was essentially the beginning of the mythology, and with success we
would have the opportunity to do more, so television sounded really
exciting to me, given how it has evolved over the past several years —
the novelization of television. Also, many of the networks are really
getting creatively engaged with genre material, which was not always
true in the early 2000s and going back."
Read more at http://becklerentertainment.com/2016/10/how-to-sell-a-tvshow-to-netflix-indiewire

The role of First Lady is one we take for granted.
We live in a patriarchal nation (that poses as an
enlightened one) and, for two centuries everyone didn’t
even bother to assume the candidates would be
straight married men, they just knew it. So, since
straight men have to be married and have kids to be
valid human beings in this country (did I mention that we
only pose at being enlightened?), we knew that his wife
would be the First Lady, the most important job in the
country that gets no pay.
But when women finally said, “Enough, already!”
we saw the rise of women governors, most of whom
were married, and whose husbands became—and this
is an actual title—First Gentleman. The first First
Gentleman was James E. Ferguson, the husband of
Texas governor Miriam A. Ferguson, who served two
separate terms in 1925-27, and 1933-35.
Let that sink in. Texas, the “everything is bigger”
state, which espouses a brand of machismo that, if
bottled, could probably outsell iPhones or even Chia
Pets, had the first elected woman governor!
And
during the Depression, when we know a lot of men were
already looking for work. Suck on that, Vermont!
But wait, there’s more, an incredible
synchronicity, in fact. You see, James Ferguson was a
governor of Texas before his wife served, but…he was
impeached. That means if Hillary Clinton is elected
president, both First Gentlemen at the gubernatorial
and presidential levels will have formerly held the titles
their wives filled, and both were impeached. In
Ferguson’s case, he was removed from office for
misapplication of funds, and in Clinton’s case, he
stayed in office despite a besmirched reputation and
befouled blue dress.
Read more of The Marcum Blog at
https://nakedtruthmagazine.com/2016/10/vivamichelle-obama/