Mr. Holmes said that he had spent the previous week in Maui at a meditation and yoga retreat with the spiritual leader Ram Dass. “There’s a subtlety to the ‘nonresponse response,’” Mr. Holmes said. Raised in the Boston suburb of Lexington, Mr. Holmes attended Gordon College, an evangelical Christian liberal arts school. Mr. Holmes placed a leash on Brody, opened the front gate and walked down a restaurant-filled stretch of Vermont Avenue. When he signed a deal for “Crashing,” Mr. Holmes decided it was time to hire publicists.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2018 18:59 UTC