I'm trying to figure out which documentary I'm less interested in seeing, the one about Seymour Hersh that came out on Netflix or the upcoming one about Lorne Michaels that will debut only in theaters for a target audience of ghosts and dust bunnies.
Wealth inequality in this state is working exactly how it was designed to—for those at the very top.
The question isn't whether our leaders are concerned. The question is whether they have the lived experience to understand the urgency needed.
I love that Barbra Streisand’s torrid love song for EYES OF LAURA MARS (1978) was just played during the YSL winter 26 show in Paris. @barbrastreisand.bsky.social
#filmsky #moviesky #barbrastreisand #ysl
We've had enough of leaders who are bought and paid for. It's time for a leader you know only works for you.
“What Netanyahu wants is one thing. What other parts of the state of Israel want is another.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on why he believes PM Netanyahu’s warmongering is partly influenced by the upcoming elections in Israel. More on Fresh Hell.
tinabrown.substack.com/publish/post...
Things $400 million could actually fix:
- Health coverage for 40k Californians
- Literacy screening for every K-2 student
- 10,000 acres of coastal wetlands
- 5,000 homes for the unhoused
- Replace our fleet of aging Calfire bases
Things it doesn't fix:
- A billionaire's need for attention.
Fontaine as madwoman. Directed by Sam Wood. Gorgeous photography, sets and costumes.
"Ivy is not really a cruel girl, just a lass who loves nice things." -- James Agee, TIME review of IVY, July 7, 1947.
Excellent film starring Joan Fontaine.
#moviesky #filmsky #tmc #letterboxd
Lesbian thespian Marjorie Main, one of the great Hollywood character actresses, known for her "Ma Kettle" roles, was BOTD in 1890 & died in 1975 at 85. Ms. Main, a staunch Republican, had a long term romantic relationship with Hollywood character actress Spring Byington
“Dead Tom’s Dead! Long John shot him!”
Happy 30th Anniversary to MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND
I recognize one's a better writer than the other but I miss Elizabeth Wurtzel more than I miss David Foster Wallace.
It’s like people are getting all their new tech ideas from watching the most dystopian episodes of Black Mirror.
Can we PLEASE stop doing stuff like this?
www.perplexity.ai/page/startup...
I can't steel myself to listen to Ben Shapiro and his whiny rat-a-tat voice on The New Yorker podcast, hosted by Broadway legend Hal Linden.* If only there was an AI summation somewhere I could tap that would supply the salient "high points," if any.
*[needs fact checking--ed.]
"Thank-you-very-much" (Elvis Presley voice)
The Jeff Bezos who bought the Washington Post was a different guy from the one who is allowing its destruction now. But oligarchs gonna oligarch. Read more on Fresh Hell about what’s really behind the bloodletting at the Post.
tinabrown.substack.com/p/bafflement...
Fans of TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA (1985), MANUNTER (1986), or FEAR (1996) should enjoy this -- Craig MacNeil speaks with William Petersen.
#letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky #michaelmann #friedkin #manhunter
"Mia Farrow is a monster. xoxo Peg"-- Email to Jeffrey Epstein from his PR hack Peggy Siegal.
Today the monster (who unlike her former boyfriend is not mentioned in Epstein files approximately 7,000 times) turns 81!
Photo: @miafarrow.bsky.social with her mom, the divine actress Maureen O'Sullivan
"Mia Farrow is a monster. xoxo Peg" -- email to Jeffrey Epstein from his PR person, Peggy Siegal.
Going to the Superbowl, presumably
HBD the lovely & talented Brooke Adams, BOTD in 1949, turning 77 today. She is more than game in the excellent early Nazi zombie entry "Shock Waves" (1977) & excelled in two 70's masterpieces, Malick's "Days of Heaven" (1978) and Kaufmans' "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)
Went to the Castro Theatre reopening last night to see a movie, and was very surprised to find myself thinking: "Could it be that all my worries were unfounded? What's happening here?!"
Grateful for the response to my latest Fresh Hell column, which recounts Jeffrey Epstein's panic over the stories we ran at The Daily Beast in 2010.
Yes! I always repost your semi-daily Deuce posts there (with the bluesky address showing, etc.,). Tarantino responded to one of them recently. I think it was JAWS OF THE DRAGON, which he hadn't seen but said it sounds good. Are you in the group?
That's fantastic. The clothes should be properly stored in a climate-controlled museum, though, not stuck in the corner of a dusty office!
Sad that corporate Hollywood still doesn't respect Edith Head, Adrian, etc.
(katestrasdin.bsky.social, @wornonthisday.bsky.social @vickyhaddock.bsky.social)
More movie fans should be in Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary's Patreon- they often drop in to talk about movies*. Great stuff!
*(Many of the titles covered by @gcdb.bsky.social, @speederaserhead.bsky.social, @larrythek.bsky.social, @churchofqtpod.bsky.social, @pmbryant.com, @swdb.bsky.social etc)
Really enjoyed this @80000hours.bsky.social episode about the evolutionary origins of things like anxiety and depression. Some of each is healthy and useful, but both *none* and too much are quite bad! Some pharmas (or the wrong dosage) might take you there.
80000hours.org/podcast/epis...
When Donald Trump messes with our democracy, Californians fight back—and win.
One of my fave Hollywood stars, legendary, glamorous Ida Lupino, was BOTD in 1918 & died in 1995 at 77. She starred in 59 pictures & directed 8, a woman ahead of her time, a pioneer of social-message films, bypassing the traditional studio system 2 direct films on taboo subjects
"Woody Allen is mentioned 7000 times in the Epstein files. Is that, like, a lot?" (George Costanza voice)
