New column up at Zona Motel:
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ASIDES: https://christopheroxley.substack.com/ Actor in AMBROSIA! Screenings now; hope to stream soon. Trying to live a creative life, personally and professionally.
New column up at Zona Motel:
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The Venn diagram circles of Johnny Cash and Johnny Paycheck overlap locally here (and more).
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Drop a bad guy you actually love.
And for Hagman to pull this off after being ingrained in brains as Major Nelson is a feat as well.
Iβd love to see a series of Bond short films by different directors like Aki KaurismΓ€ki, Alice Rohrwacher or Wes Anderson.
24.07.2025 16:10 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Would love this. They do this in comics where an anthology would have different writers/artists take on a character.
24.07.2025 16:14 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's like what Mike Leigh said his James Bond take would be: visiting his mother, having tea.
24.07.2025 15:56 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you! And more...
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Another interesting fun aspect of consumerism...
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For the 4th, I wrote about an Australian filmmaker
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Goldfinger's Reprieves christopheroxley.substack.com/p/goldfinger...
20.06.2025 20:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0BLAZING SADDLES (I'm wearing a poster-emblazoned t-shirt right now, in fact). He let me watch DIE HARD when I was 12, and then we rented & watched all the Bond movies from DR. NO to then seeing LICENSE TO KILL in the theater. So, clichΓ©d examples for my age group, maybe, but I wouldn't trade 'em.
16.06.2025 03:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cold-weather shot; both Jane and Henry are in wool coats; a marquee for ON THE BEACH is visible in the background
Just under the wire for Father's Day: Jane Fonda with father Henry Fonda, Times Square, 1959. Photograph by Leonard McCombe
16.06.2025 02:51 β π 99 π 11 π¬ 3 π 1Wishing Love and Mercy to the late, great Brian Wilson
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I've seen him perform live more than any other person or band, I'd wager. Just pure joy. What a genius. What a legend. May he rest in peace.
11.06.2025 16:47 β π 21 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Losing Brian Wilson and Sly Stone the same week feels monumental, like when Bergman and Antonioni passed within a day of each other. #RIP
11.06.2025 16:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have a new PROJECTIONIST column up over at Zona Motel... open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...
04.06.2025 14:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Because of all the clippings, this one appears to be a longer read than it really is... but it's fascinating, if you don't know the story.
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While they decide whether or not Pete Hegseth violated the Espionage Act, this codebreaking mail-reading dude caused the government to amend it over 90 years ago...
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Just in time for the close of the anniversary of the Titanic disaster. This dude's life... wow.
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they're going to be really surprised when they find out this place is being run by apes now
18.03.2025 12:04 β π 352 π 70 π¬ 8 π 1As soon as I posted this, the WV legislature passed their particular food additive ban legislature, and it's now headed to the governor's desk.
14.03.2025 14:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Local food dye news brings to mind a strange dangerous dye chapter in our nation's history.
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When youβre in halls of residence together at uni & then decide to share a house in the second year
13.03.2025 19:00 β π 143 π 25 π¬ 1 π 1Now available for pre-order in Ye Olde Shoppe, Royal Tenenbaum prints!
There are two sizes- the standard 9x12, and a very limited run (think 10) of larger 11x17s.
You can find them both right here!
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
He was stellar. I'd love to know who his writers were tonight, too.
03.03.2025 04:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Smart. Us cut-the-corders were stung.
03.03.2025 04:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Maybe terrestrial broadcasting isn't dead.
03.03.2025 03:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0In 1981 New York City you could spend New Yearβs Eve with a ventriloquist act, some new pop singer and David Johansen. It was a happier time.
01.03.2025 19:06 β π 82 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0Winter 2025: The Band is all gone, and now the Dolls are gone.
01.03.2025 16:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0RIP David Johansen
Brilliant live performer & this is just a magnificent cover.
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