Angelica Jade Bastién

"she recounts anecdotes about long-dead colleagues as if they happened yesterday. There’s the one about Marlon Brando, who called her, out of the blue, to ask where she’d got her chin done"

omg, love her always and forever

Carol Burnett Plays On The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.

Loved this piece www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Why I Went Plant-Based (And Why We Should All Eat Less Meat) Dr. Goodall went plant-based after confronting what that meat represents: pain. Since, she learned more reasons why the work to #eatmeatless is important.

RIP Jane Goodall. I feel like it's shortchanging her legacy to focus only on her work with chimpanzees when her compassion extended to ALL animals. One of the best ways you can honor & continue her legacy is to incorporate more plant based meals into your life. ❤️ news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...

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Night School Cinematrix: October 1, 2025 Can you name an Elizabeth Taylor movie based on a book or play?

Related. I helped create a Cinematrix this week linked to who I am covering in the newsletter. 🤓 www.vulture.com/article/dail...

Introducing New York Night School: Performance Studies A five-week course with critic Angelica Jade Bastién examining stardom throughout film history — in and outside of Hollywood.

Your girl has a limited edition newsletter about stardom, through history and beyond just Hollywood, @nymag.com. I’m getting into the art, the gossip, and just how a star becomes legend. Here’s the announcement, subscribe today! www.vulture.com/article/new-...

the authoritarian techbro cult wishes to subjugate humanity - the good news is that these are pathetic creeps and we can beat them

I'll be moderating this Brooklyn Bookfest panel with novelists @jasondiamond.bsky.social, Denne Michele Norris and @katiekitamura.bsky.social. I hope you can join us.

If you have opportunities to get out and do things with others, jump at the opportunity: meetings, classes, social events, etc... Get out and be with other people. It's essential. If virtual is more convenient, then take advantage of those opportunities to be with other people.

Don't stop believing Some news, as they say

In case you missed it, Monday was my last day at Rolling Stone, and for the time being, I'll be doing all of my reviewing, recapping, and other TV analysis at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing:

sooooo fine

Would anyone ever explain to him he’s wasting six hours a day of his life and he’ll never get back?

a man wearing a cowboy hat and a bow tie ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and a bow tie

Watching Paul Newman and Robert Redford act together is one of the most supreme cinematic delights. I wish they made more (and even better) movies together. What amazing, kind, politically astute dudes.

Y'all are sweet!

Chicago is a major frontline, both in terms of what's happening on the ground, right now, and what's permanently happening in the right-wing imagination.

Movies That Fuck No.1: Juraj Herz's Beauty and the Beast (1978) Sometimes the hottest moments in the film rest at the level of suggestion.

My "Movies That Fuck" column is finally live!! The first essay is about Juraj Herz's sensual and macabre take on Beauty and the Beast. It is an unmatched adaptation of the fairytale. I love writing about the body and sensuality in cinema. open.substack.com/pub/angelica...

I've been thinking a lot about the body in film as a site of cultural ideals and sensuality. Also been thinking a lot about what it means to write embodied criticism as people seem more and more disconnected from their own bodies and each other. These ideas run through my Movies That Fuck column

‘There’s a Spiritual Cost to the Immigrant Narrative’ With his feature debut, Preparation for the Next Life, director Bing Liu probes the perils and illusory qualities of the American Dream.

My latest is an interview with director Bing Liu about his film “Preparation for the Next Life” www.vulture.com/article/prep...

I’m on crazy pills, apparently.

Hats off to Ezra Klein for virtue signaling with his whole pimply ass out without any shame.

Let’s be clear, Kirk was not our era’s most effective practitioner of persuasion, he was an activator for the bigotry and hate that was already thriving in people’s hearts.

without daily, impassioned criticism, stan-driven ephemera on decaying platforms will be how we will remember today’s artistry and times, if we are lucky. good criticism considers the long arc of history whereas standom praises without reflection…

The Right is about to have field day of self-victimizing as targets of political violence so they can create cover for the fact that they actually instigate most of the political violence in this country.

Is denying people healthcare, kidnapping people from their jobs to be sent to detention camps, targeting minorities with legislation and hate speech campaigns not political violence?

The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away

7, with a touch of number 9.

feminist analysis requires that you understand power relations and harms to marginalized communities, and fight to destroy those forces. to use AI is one of the most anti-feminist things you can do on many levels, and that’s why tech bros and AI boosters love it.

Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism? The grim calculations involved in publishing traditional written reviews.

What I think about nightly at 3am:

“The irony of the decline of written criticism is that nearly everyone I spoke to agrees it is more necessary than ever.”
nymag.com/intelligence...

Reading this was chilling. I am pretty against surrogacy because in the capitalist hellscape we live in, shit like this occurs.

The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It? When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.

Just finished this Herculean reporting & writing effort from @eminietfeld.bsky.social and I’m just blown away by the cruelty and depravity that surrogacy—but frankly, more pressingly, the legal system—is allowing this VC investor to exert upon an innocent woman
www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

Anyone that believes an algorithm can fully predict what an artist would've done has no respect for art