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"New Yorker" writer. Squash player, coffee guzzler, failed napper.

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The last eight minutes of Adrien Brody's speech are available online at www.iwontbeegregious.com

03.03.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Second only to the rapid growth of my children, the recurrent event that makes me most aware of the passage of time is the In Memoriam tribute montage at the Academy Awards.

03.03.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mick Jagger, at 81, looks like an extremely energetic Bill Nye the Science Guy.

03.03.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sean Baker is the Bon Iver of film

03.03.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why the Bond montage now, with no new film on the horizon?--did Amazon just go ahead and buy the Oscars?

03.03.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Significant majority of Oscar winners so far are not American--so Trump is signing an executive order to deport them.

03.03.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tautological update on new columnist from the "Times" today: "More columns will appear as they are published."

28.01.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Deepseek AI's journey: last week nobody had heard of it; yesterday it destroyed Wall Street; today it's probably editing this post without my knowledge.

28.01.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reliably, when TV characters enter a troubled area--a bombed-out part of the city; a rebel-held strip; a gangland wasteland--one rubble fire lights each block of the danger zone. Art-directed chaos.

04.01.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

RIP Lance Morrow, a great TIME writer of his day. His brief, pungent 1986 tribute to George Wallace captured an era. It closed with the notoriously racist leader receiving an honorary degree before a largely Black audience: "Wounded, in his wheelchair, subdued and sweet, he blew them kisses."

02.12.2024 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing like the heart-pounding excitement of feeding the first morsel into a new algorithm.

26.11.2024 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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