Haggai Elitzur

Why It Took 35 Years for Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ to Hit Theaters The strangest development saga of any movie this summer includes A-list writers and directors (Mamet, Scorsese) coming and going, and studios spending millions trying to hone the right script. Then, a...

Interesting background here on how #Highest2Lowest spent literally decades in "development hell" until the last few years:

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Highest 2 Lowest is terrific and well worth seeing in a theater while you can. Re-making a great original can work with a fresh perspective, as this one has. Expanding the chauffeur's role was a particularly good choice, introducing a prime spot for two great actors to play off each other.

Even the likes of Lucky Luciano could give Trump lessons in character and patriotism.

Also stalaCtites come from the Ceiling, while stalaGmites come from the Ground.

Original poster also does not seem to know that ZM is extremely not eligible to run for president.

My favorite Osborne-ism for something he knew was a stinker: "interesting movie!"

He shared a bunch of great stories on the Billy Budd commentary track with Soderbergh. Get your physical media, people--this one's still available on blu-ray from Warner Archive.

Easily one of the best horror movies ever made, for me. Lots of memeable silliness, of course, but I really think it's magnificent.

I was surprised that pre-release buzz centered on "Jewish revenge against Nazis" as the theme, which didn't seem like a QT thing--he'd simply said for yrs he wanted to do a "bunch of guys on a WWII mission" movie. So I was delighted it wound up being all about *cinematic vengeance*--now THAT'S him.

I assume stuff like this--menu, meeting agenda--would be CUI, right? As in, not classified, but FFS don't use the hotel printer.

This is a good example of what I belatedly realized in 2016: basically everyone eho complains about "the establishment" is using that term to mean "people I dislike and/or disagree with."

Miller brought up a legitimate issue, but instead of asking ZM "Jewish people say they find this phrase threatening, including many who support you, what's your response to them?" (the actual point), he lamely asked "does it make you uncomfortable" (completely beside the point).

Sad news but what a nice tribute that he wanted you to be there with him. Seems clear that he made a lot of people happy, which is a nice legacy to leave.

Now this example is right up my alley, as all the headlines I keep seeing of "lawyers called out in court for fake citations hallucinated by AI" are still a bit too abstract for me.

Ok so this part of his Wiki entry, about his dad, is absolutely tremendous:

An unacknowledged remake, very similar but not directly credited.

"Data shows that an immediate bounce following the convention won't last, so we account for that. Additionally, if no convention bounce is visible, we assume there was an immediate drop in the candidate's real support, which we assume is being masked by the convention bounce that we aren't seeing."

I was going to reply with something about the MC opening with a joke about Ethelred The Unready, but even that was eight years before he became king!

@nataliaantonova.bsky.social "Hide story and live [to tell the tale]" -- I guess IG is sort of advising everyone how to avoid getting killed because of their app?

"Dildos should be fun, y'all!" -- no context required

This is, in fact, the central plot engine of many classic American westerns.

Twice? If you're referring to LBJ, he dropped out after only one primary, New Hampshire. Three other states had also held their nominating conventions before he dropped out.

I should add that while Arafat was well aware that the Israeli Labor govt they were negotiating with was about to replaced by a rejectionist Likud, the PA and Arab states all expressed the delusional belief that GW Bush would be "better" for them than Clinton because GWB would be "like his father."

Notably, this also kneecapped peace-minded leadership in both the US and Israel during final status negotiations with the Palestinian Authority in mid to late 2000.

Also his term this time does not extend all the way through when the 2030 census will actually happen, unlike before when he was in power through 2020.

Also, here's where @jch24.bsky.social's tattoo goes wrong--this is his name transliterated:

ג'ר

While this is the word for "chalk" (pronounced like "gear"):

גִיר

This is "coop" in Hebrew--pronounced as if you were saying "LOL" as an actual word:

לול

Ha, I hadn't realized this, but Coop (as in chicken coop) in Hebrew is the direct transliteration of "LOL."

The slang equivalent in Hebrew for LOL is basically "hahaha."

I think if you got "Jer" transliterated just a bit incorrectly in Hebrew, it would be "chalk."

The screwed-up ones I've seen online in Hebrew are just dumb or incoherent. Like one guy who insisted his tatoo said "strength" when it actually said "matzah" (the big-ass crackers we eat during Passover).