Sommaire pour November 2015 de Maxim

Chipotle was confused: People in Postmates T-shirts kept entering its shops across the country, buying food, and then whisking it off to…where, exactly? So the chain sent a cease-anddesist letter, which delighted Postmates CEO Bastian Lehmann. “When people don’t understand what you’re doing, they try to stop it,” he says. “But that’s a great indicator that you’re changing things—and good things come from change.” His company is a one-hour messenger service that delivers anything, from anywhere, to anyone. Want a steak burrito and an iPad? On the way. Services like this have emerged and failed before, but Lehmann’s has grown steadily into a $500 million business that has run more than three million deliveries, expanded to 30 markets, and partnered with Apple, Starbucks, and 7-Eleven. A few months ago, even…

TNT HAS BEEN airing 53 regular-season games a season. Starting next year, it gets 11 more. ESPN and ABC will air a combined 100, up from 90. That’s a lot more basketball seen nationwide, but it doesn’t guarantee good basketball. This chart shows the result of every NBA game aired on TNT last season: Fifty-nine percent were settled by 10 or more points, and 28 percent were 16-pointor-more blowouts. It’s not like the NBA lacks excitement. But the TV schedule is set before the season begins, leaving the league little flexibility if, say, a superstar is injured and a once-hot team is no longer competitive. As the national schedule expands, the NBA risks more snoozefests—a problem it may need to rectify. Consider the UFC: It rapidly added big TV events…

I’VE HAD A LOT OF CRAZY nights of drinking, but only one where I ended up with a baby afterward. It was Atlanta, 1999. There was no Uber then, so I had my homeboys drive me around. We started at a strip club called the Gentlemen’s Club—one of the best in the city—where we’d always order about 50 shots of Cuervo Gold for us all. I wouldn’t feel nothing until after the first 10. I had an iron liver and drank a lot of water. Something about Cuervo Gold just makes you randy. So after about 20 shots, I wanted my wife. She doesn’t drink that much; she might have a vodka and cranberry or some wine. So she was back home, dead asleep. And when I got there, I…

A PRO RACER’S helmet may look awesome, but you won’t be happy in that thing: It’s a noisy bullet designed to cut through hurricane-strength wind. That’s why the Japanese manufacturer Arai retooled its top-of-the-line, $4,000 helmet—the one MotoGP World Champion Nicky Hayden wears—to create the RX-Q, a street version that tops out at $720. “It’s a much quieter, more enjoyable experience for the rider who’s not doing 180 mph,” says Brian Weston, Arai Helmet managing director. It takes two weeks to build, which involves hand-shaping a reinforced resin shell over a nice, cushy interior. Leave the rough ride to the racers.…

STARTING NEXT season, and continuing until 2025, ESPN and Turner Broadcasting will together pay an annual average of $2.66 billion for the rights to air NBA games—nearly triple today’s fee. Where’s the money going? Conveniently, the players’ union contract ends after next season— and players and owners are already jockeying over how to split their new riches. The main point of contention: In 2011, many owners said that they were losing money on their teams. At the time, league revenue was split unevenly, with 57 percent for the players and 43 percent for the owners. The union contract they finally settled on split revenue 50-50, with players sacrificing in order to balance the owners’ finances. But fortunes have changed. The Milwaukee Bucks were sold to a group of hedgefund executives…

1 “ MY TEAM’S PLAYERS WILL FIGHT!” The league’s top players were once barely involved in their union, but now many stars hold leadership positions. But what’s good for them isn’t necessarily good for their lesswell-known peers; some agents fear that the expected rise in top salaries will drain team budgets, putting downward pressure on other salaries and straining relationships. 2 “ THE LEAGUE WILL DROWN IN SUPERTEAMS!” When LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh united on the Heat, they each sacrificed pay in order to play together. The new cable money will push individual team salary caps higher, meaning stars could conceivably earn way more than they currently do and yet still team up to guarantee Finals contention. It’s possible that more and more stars will do just…

It was hardly a typical introduction for a would-be Hollywood superstar, but the first time most of us laid eyes on Lea Seydoux, her hair was cropped and dyed blue and she was playing a lesbian art student with a taste for Sartre and strawberry milk. Unexpectedly, that French-language indie film, Blue Is the Warmest Color, became a global hit. (Maybe it had something to do with the sevenminute sex scene, which The New York Times deemed “longer and more literal than anything you are likely to encounter outside of pornography.”) In any case, Seydoux was soon the hottest French export since Champagne. And a few more art films later, she has landed the female lead in this November’s Spectre. Technically, she’s a “Bond girl”—a charter member of that lithe,…

The Hangover made you globally recognizable overnight. How did that sudden fame transform your life? Talk about velocity—that was zero to 180. Like a week and a half after it came out, my wife and I were at a sushi restaurant and everyone was looking at me like I’d farted or something. I still get guys yelling, “Toodaloo, motherfucker!” at me at stoplights. I don’t know if I could have dealt with it in my 20s. I’m happily married, I love my kids, and I love my life prior to The Hangover— so I’m very grateful that my head was in a proper place before all this happened. I wasn’t lonely or desperate for anything. You were once a full-time doctor who did stand-up at night. How crazy was that?…

1 THE ACTRESS JULIE ENGELBRECHT IS PERFECTLY ENCHANTING. JULIE ENGELBRECHT may play a sorceress in her new film, The Last Witch Hunter, out this month, but the spell she casts on-screen with costar Vin Diesel is no trick. The Paris-born newcomer has been at it for years. Her mother, also an actress, used to take her on set as a baby—and something clearly rubbed off. “I did my first audition at 12,” she recalls, “and I got the movie!” —Mikelle Street 2 THE NIGHT OUT A NIGHTLIFE GUIDE TO HARLEM, COURTESY OF RAPPER A$AP FERG. SINCE THE release of his 2013 debut, A$AP Ferg has grown accustomed to life on the road. But when he gets some downtime, he always returns to where it all began. “Harlem just has more…

IN JAMES BOND films, futuristic gadgets and weapons aren’t just part of the fun. “They make Bond more believable and the film feel more real,” says Meg Simmonds, archive director for Eon Productions Limited, which has produced Bond films since the beginning. Believable? Like, the totally believable avalancheproof bubble jacket from The World Is Not Enough? But stick with the theory: Bond may have years of MI6 training and a lady-slaying accent, but he still must rely on gizmos to survive—which means maybe we’re just a piece of straight-from-Q-Branch gear away from holding our own against Goldfinger or Blofeld! As Spectre prepares to expand the Bond gadget canon, here’s a celebration of what makes 007’s tool kit so damn cool. EIGHT OF THE BEST... SELECTED WITH HELP FROM JAMES BONDING…