Rowena Bell

Honestly, both of them are likable, congenial guys.

This is such a let down post Alcaraz/Fils... Grigor... 😭 I had a feeling he was going to be wiped out after back to back 3 setters.

Yesterday, Carlitos had the point of the tournament and today the match of the tournament thus far. That 0-40 down hold in the 2nd set was monumental. Kudos to Fils.

You know a match, like Alcaraz vs. Fils, is a balls to the walls- amazing, aggressive fight when, in the aftermath, I can barely pay attention to Dimitrov/de Minaur bc it's taking me some time to come down from that intensity.

Still from Severance Text: Look. They just disappeared her....then who's gonna step up when it happens to us?

Today's mood...
from Severance (2025)

Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Booker telling the story of his father's experience with Parkinson's and using it to speak about the importance of funding research on science and health.

Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.

I am unwilling to ask my neighbor why in fear that I will be disappointed. It's enough, for me, that it was taken down.

Yes. This is great just as a tremendous moral statement AND it's also GREAT POLITICS. You break a segregationist's record and you make people think about who this generation's segregationists are. This is STORY and DRAMA and it can make people PAY ATTENTION.

His stories about John Lewis are compelling.

film still: Princess Mononoke test: Calamity has befallen the west

Today's mood on film.
Princess Mononoke (1997)
dir. Hayao Miyazaki

Interesting comparative timeline. My neighbor also flew a massive flag for over a year and took it down a couple of weeks ago.

The Annihilation of Fish

***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming on June 17th on Blu-ray from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.com distribution: #TheAnnihilationOfFish (1999)!

New restoration! Winner of an Honorary Academy Award® for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett remains one of our country’s

Cory Booker just now as he closes in on 15 hours of his filibuster speech on the Senate floor: “How can you, in good conscience, if you’re a fiscal hawk, if you’re a Christian conservative, how could you hurt the weak to benefit the rich and powerful?”

Looking back on his career, I am reminded that Richard Chamberlain had astonishing range. In Ken Russell's The Music Lovers, as a tortured Tchaikovsky, he demonstrated his piano skills as well. In requiem. R.I.P.

#RIP to the great Richard Chamberlain whose powerful turn as the torn, ambitious, ultimately selfish Father Ralph in THE THORN BIRDS obsessed me enough as a kid that I was officially that weirdo who showed up for my brief stint at Catholic school reading the brilliant Colleen McCullough epic novel.

I met Richard Chamberlain years ago - and was shocked to learn he’d NEVER SEEN TOWERING INFERNO, in which he was the bad guy.

So I went home, got my dvd of the movie, went to his apartment - where he had gathered 10 friends.

That was a great night, watching him watch himself just kill it.

RIP

Meanwhile, somewhere in America...
#filmsky #moviesky #cinema 🎬

JPM calls it “the fastest Momentum unwind in 40 years .. erased 2 years’ worth of gains and accelerated investors’ late-cycle positioning into Defensive / Low Vol ..”

HONK HONK TAKE YOUR TIME --- I'M THE BOSS AROUND HERE HONK HONK HONK HONK MONDAY

TAKE YOUR TIME- - -
I’M THE BOSS
AROUND HERE

To quote Montell Jordan: This is how we do it.

Bertolucci’s 1900

Men at Work with Paul Klein | The History on Film Podcast

Don't forget to check out this week's new episode of #HoFCast featuring our incredible guest, @ptklein.com, and our visit to the Pop Culture Basement with @mikejamison.bsky.social!

Come back next week for a GREAT talk with the amazing @stephensorrentino.bsky.social!

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An advance look at Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices,” the cover for next week’s issue. #NewYorkerCovers

Iris Barry – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to film critic and curator Iris Barry (born March 28, 1895).

Warner Bros. To Raze Looney Tunes Building On Lot Warner Bros. To Raze Looney Tunes Building On Lot

I really, really wish some people of power at these historic studios would care about preserving their history. They've already destroyed the film vaults at WB and this studio is one of the only lots with a wealth of Golden Age architecture left.

three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"

literally every time I talk to friends

Our Organization | Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution was established by an act of Congress in 1846 as an independent federal trust instrumentality, a unique public-private partnership that has proven its value as a cultural a...

www.si.edu/about/admini... www.si.edu/ogc/legalhis... “The Smithsonian is not an executive branch agency and does not exercise regulatory powers, except over its own buildings and grounds. Thus, courts have held that the Smithsonian is not an agency or authority of the Government”

This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance.

Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.