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Showmen Of The Year:
Jimmy Fallon and Justin TimberlakeOur second 2011 Men of the Year features the funniest, goofiest, sing-songiest entertainment duo since Martin and Lewis, and raise your hand if you saw that coming three years ago. GQ’s Lauren Bans interviewed the two pals together for our December 2011 issue, and we especially enjoyed this exchange about JT’s old boyhood showbiz buddy Ryan Gosling. Click here to read the full conversation. And click here to see more of Peggy Sirota’s classic photo shoot with the pair.
Timberlake: The first job I ever had when I was ten was on a television show, and that show was the same format as SNL, it’s just that the writers were writing for kids.
GQ: The Mickey Mouse Club, right?
Timberlake: Yes. That’s what it was called.Fallon: Dude, I was just talking to [Ryan] Gosling about that. Did Gosling really live on your couch when he was a kid?
Timberlake: So he tried to make it seem like he was bohemian even back then?
Fallon: Definitely, man. He said he was struggling and you helped him out.
Timberlake: Ryan’s mom had to stay back in Canada and my mom was his guardian for a year so he could come down and be on the show. But Gosling got his own bed. He didn’t sleep on the couch. He said that?
Fallon: It’s a better story!
Timberlake: I’m picturing a ten-year-old Gosling bumming Marlboro Reds off some bum, growing hipster facial hair…
Fallon: “All I got is this one pair of Underoos, man! I got nothing, man!”
Report: 1 in 5 of US adults on behavioral meds
More than 20 percent of American adults took at least one drug for conditions like anxiety and depression in 2010, according to an analysis of prescription data, including more than one in four women.
The report, released Wednesday by pharmacy benefits manager Medco Health Solutions Inc., found that use of drugs for psychiatric and behavioral disorders rose 22 percent from 2001. The medications are most often prescribed to women aged 45 and older, but their use among men and in younger adults climbed sharply. In adults 20 to 44, use of antipsychotic drugs and treatments for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder more than tripled, and use of anti-anxiety drugs like Xanax, Valium and Ativan rose 30 percent from a decade ago.
Taming the Wild
Novosibirsk, Russia
Photo: Vincent J. MusiThis brown rat’s angry display at the photographer reflects 73 generations of breeding for hostility to humans. Scientists at Novosibirsk and in Germany are comparing the aggressive rat genome to that of rats selected for friendliness, attempting to untangle connections between DNA and behavior.
“It looks like a prison cell with a bunch of mad prisoners, ready to lash out at each other, which is basically what these rats are doing. And the whole frame, the way it moves from not just the aggressive rat but to how the other rats are reacting to him, is a moment that is absolutely unforgettable.”
—Chris Johns, Editor in Chief
The caterpillar of the Brindled Beauty (Lycia hirtaria) ranges from brown to purple and feeds on a variety of broad leaf trees. (via: Wikipedia)
(photo: Gyorgy Csoka, Hungary Forest Research Institute)
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