Cody McDevitt

Best movies of the year that I've seen. It's a toss-up between Nuremberg and One Battle after Another. Frankenstein was also terrific.
I look forward to Avatar, too. And the Kate Hudson movie about a Neil Diamond impersonator band.

Will be out next month.

There's always been a tendency to purify parties or exclude people who don't fit radical molds. In the 1980s, it was the Christian Right with Jerry Falwell and others who expelled all moderate Republicans. We've seen that tendency in recent years in both the Democratic and Republican parties.

Many of you may not know that much of the PPFA comparisons to Nazis or abortion to the Holocaust have deep roots in the anti-abortion movement. Ronald Reagan wrote in a book that abortion was a slippery slope to Auschwitz. So you're falling into their trap without knowing it.

For instance, if you plan on making some consequential argument to disavow Sanger, then I expect you to have read the entirety of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and to have consulted and compared the Nazi approach to eugenics to American theorists like Charles Davenport.

It's not always our job to persuade you to understand and appreciate Margaret Sanger's legacy. If you're saying we should condemn her, then you have to provide evidence and convince us to think differently. I haven't been impressed by the arguments or the depth of the research.

It's reasonable to ask any man to know the eugenics movement's history and that of Nazi Germany if he's going to recontextualize Planned Parenthood's legacy by making some weak connection between the two. It's not a sufficient argument to simply say they believed in eugenics, and so did they.

I’ve read extensively on both nazi germany and the reproductive rights movement. I don’t see any parallels at all, and I think it’s appalling to say Margaret Sanger is in the same breath as Adolf Eichmann. Have you even read Shirer’s book?

I don’t really care if I’m persona non grata among certain quarters. To be honest with you, I’m too busy driving Uber and working on things to even be cognizant that I am. My life wouldn’t be any less adventurous if I didn’t end up at swank parties and on red carpets.

Listen, I’m not turning my back on young conservative men who come to me for leadership and mentorship anymore than I would liberal ones. I’m don’t care at all if someone thinks that’s bad for my “image.”

Having those films and actors associated with them will help provide strong cinematic role models for the rest of American men to follow. Culture can drive change and develop healthier forms of masculinity. So let's help them have famous pop culture figures that set the tone.

For instance, the former leader would say someone has to pay their dues, consistently delay their opportunities, and then tantalize them to keep them under control.
What I have done instead is begin developing WWII screenplays that will help young men become stars and turn Hollywood around.

A poor leader will say, "How can we stop him so that I can control everything?"
A confident leader will say, "I'm his leader. What can I do to help him succeed so he can get closer to his goals?"
That's a fundamental philosophical difference and approach. We deserve the latter leader.

What would have been interesting was to show how social media drives people to psychosis by shortening the attention span people have and creating multiple personalities among users. Then someone else was too preoccupied with social media to notice their lover’s descent into madness.

Saw Jennifer Lawrence’s new flick about a woman who slowly goes insane because she feels confined by an unhappy marriage and the demands of motherhood. I had a few thoughts, but the biggest thing is that psychosis usually comes more from being too plugged in instead of being removed from society.

I hadn’t really watched most of his movies since No Country for Old Men. It just seems like anyone with any influence doesn’t have a fire lit under their ass. Now is the time to rise as a leader, and I just don’t see it happening.

“It’s not the end of the world if Trump violates the Constitution.”
Where is the sense of urgency among older men?

I’ve seen memes where people say that 25-35-year-olds greatest fear is that they’re running out of time. Best thing I can say as a 41-year-old is that it depends on what you want to do. To be an A-list celebrity? Yes. You’re running out of time. But why should that be your self-measure?

Saw this movie, which was about the prosecution of nazis for committing the Holocaust. One of the best films of the year.

I get a kick out of most of the people who knock LeBron James. Virtually all of them have never won anything significant in their lives, except the champions in that sport, who generally show respect and have fun with the GOAT talk. Still, it's more speculative and light-hearted when they do.

Watched this version of Frankenstein, which I liked. I like that it makes you question who the real villain is.

Parasocial relationships are generally not healthy, but it seems like all celebrity gossip and tabloids are built on cultivating them. Shouldn't the focus be on getting in the same room and meeting someone like them? Maybe it's because that obsessive person will count toward the box office.

Yo VIP, hit me with those peanut blossoms.

Saw The Rock's new movie, which was a fantastic biopic about Mark Kerr. It's interesting. I just learned that mixed martial arts were one of the categories in the ancient Olympics. It was called pankration, a blend of boxing and wrestling, which were also sports in the competition.

I spoke with some people over Thanksgiving break, and none of us have any idea when movies are out in theaters, and by the time we hear about the buzz around one, it's already left. I just read about Nuremberg, and it's not showing anywhere, or with limited showtimes. No one heard of Sinners, etc.

Gene Collier: Modern history's most painful pages on film As the credits rolled after its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, the standing ovation for the freshly released “Nuremberg,”...

One of the most powerful stories I ever wrote was about Mauthausen, also the site of the trials of Nazis responsible for the Holocaust. If I remember correctly, they tried the enlisted Nazis there and the officers at Nuremberg. Anyway, want to see this.
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gene...

So many quotes are falsely attributed to celebrities. The latest: a claim Robert Redford rejected, The Godfather, because he wasn't Italian for “authenticity.” He never said that. Meanwhile, Pacino later played Latino roles. Celebrity media keeps inventing fake posts to prop up people’s arguments.

Saw Blue Moon, Linklater’s film with Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart—an envious, alcoholic songwriter watching Rodgers drift toward Hammerstein. Its single setting feels stage-like, but fitting: for someone stuck in longing and regret, life becomes one bar, one bartender, and missed chances.

Another suggestion — and this is cliché but true — is that you should treat talented people well because more of them will come along. If you ostracize or dismiss creative outside thinkers, they're just going to say fuck you and go work for someone else or in some other field. That hurts you.

I don’t think it’s so much that I was fucked over or out of things anymore. I think that leadership is so piss poor—as is evidenced by the current state of the country—that talented people losing out on earned opportunities is the accepted norm. And people aren’t upset because they expect it.