It’s only right that Hollywood renegade Shia LaBeouf has been tapped to play former tennis bad boy John McEnroe in the upcoming Borg/McEnroe biopic. The film, which will be directed by Janus Metz, details the intense tennis rivalry between McEnroe and Swedish star Bjorn Borg during the 1970s and ’80s.
Sverrir Gudnason will star as Borg, while Stellan Skarsgard will in turn play Borg’s coach, Lennart Bergelin.
McEnroe and Borg played each other 14 times between 1978 and 1981, with each athlete winning seven matches. They met at the Wimbledon finals in 1980 and 19801, each of which are considered to be some of the greatest tennis matches ever played.
Filming for Borg/McEnroe is expected to begin this fall, with the flick scheduled to land in theaters in 2017.
The Hoboken Shade Tree Commission will be giving away 2,000 small trees (seedlings and saplings) to Hoboken residents. The trees are suitable for backyards and large pots but are currently too small as street trees.
The trees will be available for pickup on Saturday, May 7th from 9am to noon at the Hoboken Public Works Garage located on Willow Avenue between Observer Highway and Newark Street.
The following tree species are available:
• Norway Spruce
• Kousa Dogwood
• White Pine
• Black Walnut
• Red Maple
• Swamp White Oak
• White Oak
• Persimmon
• Sugar Maple
• Black Oak
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Here's what Jimmy Dunne III, now of Sandler O'Neill & Partners, learned at Bear Stearns:
""There was a small group of us divvying up the bonuses, and somebody wanted to give one guy an additional $5,000 on top of the $20,000 he was getting. Then someone said, no, he didn’t earn it, we’re not doing it, and we should give it to the guy who made a $3 million bonus, because he earned it. And either the first guy has got to do a lot better, or he has to quit, or we have to fire him.""
That was not my view, but he was right, and it changed my mind. It’s about meritocracy. I guess I don't understand the limiting principle there. Like, why give the bad guy $20,000 at all? Why not zero him, or fire him on the spot? Also, I feel like $3 million is a nice round number for a bonus? Whereas $3.005 million is ... some sort of weird signaling? If you worked at Bear Stearns back in the day, and you got a bonus of $3,005,000, was that especially satisfying? Was that, like, "I made $3 million, and I crushed the spirit of a guy who really needed an extra $5,000 but who just didn't perform?" What if you got $3,030,000? Was that, like, "sweet, six scalps"? Bear was an amazing place."
Also bonus expectations, Trump Treasuries, IEX, non-GAAP accounting, unicorns, buybacks, etc.
• Park Ave (6th St – 11th St) • Clinton St (6th St – 7th St) • 7th St (Clinton St – Garden St)
PSE&G will begin the third phase of milling and paving work to repair trenches created during the installation of new gas mains as part of the Energy Strong program. The Energy Strong project replaced 31,000 linear feet of low pressure old cast iron mains in or near flood areas with new plastic pipe which operate at a higher pressure that prevents water from entering mains, increasing the reliability of gas service. A fourth phase of milling and paving will take place in the near future.
Parking will be prohibited on both sides of the street during milling and paving. Milling is scheduled to take place Monday, May 9th through Wednesday, May 11th, weather permitting, on the following streets:
Monday, May 9th
• Garden St (6th St – 9th St)
• 9th St (Garden St – Clinton St)
Tuesday, May 10th
• Park Ave (6th St – 11th St)
Wednesday, May 11th
• Grand St (5th St – 6th St)
• Clinton St (6th St – 7th St)
• 7th St (Clinton St – Garden St)
• Both ends of Willow Terrace beyond cobblestone
Paving is scheduled to take place from Thursday, May 12th through Monday, May 16th, weather permitting, on the following streets:
Thursday, May 12th
• Park Ave (6th St – 11th St) – weather permitting
Friday, May 13th
• Garden St (6th St – 9th St)
• 9th St (Garden St – Clinton St)
Monday, May 16th
• Grand St (5th St – 6th St)
• Clinton St (6th St -7th St)
• 7th St (Clinton St – Garden St)
• Both ends of Willow Terrace beyond cobblestone
Please note that the schedule is tentative and subject to change.
I am the king of “why the FUCK didn’t I think of that?!?” Cronuts. Snapchat. All things I should’ve come up with before they got poppin’. And now, there’s The Jean Hanger. Made from a solid piece of beech wood, this simple doohicky saves any pair of denim size 22 to 44 from creases, wrinkles, Read more »
