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RIP Tom Noonan. In 2009 I convinced the @nytimes.com to let me interview him about his tiny role in Damages because he was so great. He was really smart, funny, & severe: www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/a...

RIP James Van Der Beek. In my 1998 @EW Dawson review I wrote "[He] has handsome features attached to a face shaped like a cereal box." Years later, he told me he was "haunted" by that, & had a good laugh. ew.com/article/1998...

It's the idiocy combined with arrogant condescension... imagine having to put up with this kind of crap.

RIP Raul Malo. What a voice. Just call up “What a Crying Shame” in your phone right now and listen.

Tom Stoppard, Cerebral Storyteller for Stage and Screen, Dies at 88 The British playwright won acclaim for 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,' 'The Real Thing' and 'Leopoldstadt' and received an Oscar for 'Shakespeare in Love.'

Copyediting, a lost art. "He often wrote under the pen name 'William Boot,' a self-deprecating homage to Evelyn Waugh’s supercilious journalist in her 1938 novel, Scoop." That Waugh, whatta dame...
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Today on @nprfreshair.bsky.social I’m reviewing the new 50th anniversary release of Patti Smith’s debut Horses followed by excerpts from Terry’s interviews w Smith over the years. Give a listen

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So we’ve now reached the point where we dread having Harper come up to bat at a critical moment. #phillies

YouTube video by BryanFerryVEVO Bryan Ferry - This Is Tomorrow

Someone said it's Bryan Ferry's birthday www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBrj...

Finally got around to The Lowdown, a show that's pret-ty pleased w itself. Gotta say it was odd to make Joe Brainard a plot point but use his least-typical piece of art (if it even was?), but then have a C Comics cover in a later background. I guess I'm not cool enuf to "dig" it.

Well, what a pure pleasure this is.

Exactly.

I think I can hit the hay. It’s not going to get better than Katherine LaNasa and Jeff Hiller. #emmys

A Paul biopic w a script by Jonathan Lethem wd be far preferable to this Sad Boss thing.

I love Vince Gill but I’d much rather have seen a 3 minute clip of Teri Garr on Letterman #emmys

I hear Hannah Einbinder as Christgau landed on the cutting room floor.

I cannot imagine how funny Bruce and Jon Landau must find the fact that they’re being played by the 2 most pretentious actors in America in that sad looking movie.

I never want to hear Seth Rogan talk again #emmys

YouTube video by Peacock The Paper | Official Trailer | Peacock Original

youtube.com/watch?v=c5v4... oh good: still no reason to subscribe to Peacock

Lotta stupid Emmy noms announced this morning (so many for the mildly amusing The Studio?) but at least Katherine LaNasa, central to the pleasures of The Pitt, got nominated.

Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear?

Illiterate lit musing ("much of the architecture of book discovery is informally targeted at women"). Gee, maybe men (& women!) wd read good books if they were taught literature in school instead of "getting recommendations online from celebrities and influencers." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

TikTok’s Owner Wanted to Publish Books. Not Anymore.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/b... Hilarious: the closure “came as a shock.” Because we all know what a venerable publishing house TikTok is.

Fellow Mouseketeers: Allow me to mention that my review of Sam Tanenhaus's mammoth biography of Wm F. Buckley Jr. will appear in this weekend's edition of Air Mail, the newsletter magazine that deftly massages the mind.

YouTube video by Todd Norris Bob Dylan Debut of “Garden Party” 05/15/25 San Diego, CA (Rick Nelson cover) @BobDylan

Oh yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvDG...

RIP Joe Don Baker

Opinion | Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk

Wonderful John Cameron Mitchell & @nytopinion.nytimes.com repudiating everything the Times has promoted for the past decade. Free article. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...

Today on @npr.org @nprfreshair.bsky.social I did a piece about the death of David Thomas and his importance, got to play some of my favorite Pere Ubu music. Link here to listen now www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...

Tony Awards Nominations: Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Othello’ Shut Out Despite Strong Ticket Sales While George Clooney received an acting nod for 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the play, which he co-wrote wasn't nominated for best play.

Because of course "strong ticket sales" is the reason we award shows www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...

YouTube video by vintage video clips Chubby Checker - Pony Time (1961)

Thank goodness youtu.be/_5MYYOVJDa0?...

Maggie & Terre Roche’s 1975 LP Is a Revelation. Why Is It Forgotten? “Seductive Reasoning,” a flop that preceded the Roches’ debut, has a fluctuating sonic palette, contributions from Paul Simon and the sisters’ most brilliant songwriting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a... When it came to sibling harmony I was always more of a McGarrigles fan, but as always this Garner piece is vastly entertaining.

Francis was a wonderful critic and this terrific appreciation captures his tart sense of humor as well.