It was encouraging to hear them speak so candidly, straight from the heart.
"Given entertainment's perpetual underperformance, perhaps Sony's reluctance to discuss it candidly stems from (understandable) embarrassment," the hedge fund said.
In the latest investor letter sent by his hedge fund, Third Point, the acid-tongued investor wrote: "Given entertainment's perpetual underperformance, perhaps Sony's reluctance to discuss it candidly stems from (understandable) embarrassment".
Its real-life hero, Isaac Fadoyebo, was only a teenager when the British took him, and tens of thousands like him – "cannon-fodder" one British officer candidly told me – from west Africa to the jungles of Burma to fight the Japanese in the second world war.
Where we learned it: Brix Smith Smart, The Rise, the Fall, and the Rise In the most brilliantly bonkers rock'n'roll memoir of 2016, ex-Fall member Brix Smith Start wrote candidly about everything from her father, who used a walking stick fashioned out of a bull's penis, to her tempestuous relationship with Mark E Smith, whom she described as "a tiny wizened apple puppet".
Like few others, West shreds, or at least, candidly describes everyone from his physically abusive father ("I told him that he'd better never lay another hand on me and reminded him that I had a shotgun under my bed and would damn well use it if I had to") to Jackson ("I don't think he wanted me around") to West's adoring wife, Karen ("who loves, cares for and nurtures a very complicated man").
Ke$ha is notoriously open with her personal life, speaking candidly on everything from her sexual experiences with a ghost to her vagina, penning a song inspired by her body with her mother.
"We look forward to candidly discussing interests from both sides face-to-face with North Korea along with the North's participation in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics," Unification Minister Cho Myong-gyon told reporters.
One highlight was an informative and humorous Friday morning conversation with The Orb's Alex Patterson at the Armory, where Lanois candidly discussed everything from his beginnings in music (he almost picked up the banjo) to meeting collaborator and ambient pioneer Brian Eno for the first time: "It felt like a blazing light came upon me".
In fact, Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, candidly said of the banks last year, "They frankly own the place".
