Shawn Levy

This Copa America final is WILD

Knebraska

“Clint” Highlights the Artistic Modernity of an Old-School Man Shawn Levy’s biography of Clint Eastwood explores revelatory connections between the filmmaker’s methods and his deep-rooted world view.

Greatly enjoyed Shawn Levy's new biography of Clint Eastwood; its many keen observations are framed expressively, and it's shaped with subtle originality, conjuring a vivid sense of relentless activity, spontaneity, and contingency: 
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Make that FOUR shots FOUR goals

#crazyworld

#rctid

2 shots. 2 goals.

#efficient

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NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Screenshot of The New Yorker's list of "The Best Books of the Year So Far," topped by "Clint" by Shawn Levy...wtaf???!!!

WTAF???!!!! Cloud Cuckoo Land over here....

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This exchange between poet James Schuyler and Peter Schjeldahl, who interviewed him for a biography of Frank O'Hara which Schjeldahl never completed:

Schjeldal: So, you went to Harvard and…?

Schuyler: What?

Schjeldahl: You went to Harvard and.…

Schuyler: I didn’t go anywhere near Harvard!

Photo of "Paul Newman: A Life" with Kindle price of $1.99

Not for nothin' but this 2009 book inspired "Clint," and the ebook is on deep discount if you shop at this place....

The Copa America Feminil match btwn Agentina and Colombia has gotten wild

I just realized “Frazier” was about a toxic male podcaster.

Fascinating 🧵 of data points

NYC and area: about to talk "Clint" live on 620 AM. Tune in.

I dropped a poster tube in the #sdcc exhibit hall trying to get a signature. The poster inside has 2 dozen autographs collected at events in multiple states and countries. The tube has a name and address on it, it’s easy to id; but I’m devastated, I feel like such an idiot. #sdcclostandfound

It's in the conversation, however culturally and historically specific it may be. But I believe mine would have worked as well as it does today at Jesus's, Buddha's, or Shakespeare's dinner table.

Yeah, yeah, yeah: Hemingway's baby shoes, boo-fucking-hoo.

The *real* saddest six-word phrase in the English language?

"Yes, I *am* gonna finish that."

Fraud recognizing fraud

The Thin Man’s Thoroughly Modern Screwball Marriage The Thin Man movies created a truly equal romantic partnership that was neither stumbling toward matrimony nor frustrated by its restraints.

"The Thin Man created a truly equal romantic partnership that was neither stumbling toward matrimony nor frustrated by its restraints, a portrait of a thoroughly modern marriage so ahead of its time you can hardly believe it's nearing its centennial anniversary."

“Clint” Highlights the Artistic Modernity of an Old-School Man Shawn Levy’s biography of Clint Eastwood explores revelatory connections between the filmmaker’s methods and his deep-rooted world view.

And now this.

Twelve books and 29 years into this racket, and I have never had a book reviewed in The New Yorker, much less by a *very* tough critic and with almost unreserved praise, but here we are.

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Superman and Green Lantern ain't got nothin' on me

Please enjoy these ducks changing their minds... 😅🤣

Nowadays, when I see the phrase "Break the internet," I think, "Great idea!"

i think of this whenever someone has some shit to say about abstract art

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I’m helping with a ⚽️exhibition here in downtown Portland and we are looking for vests with patches to display for the show in August.

If interested or have a friend with any rad vests, please give me a shout and I’ll send info! #RCTID #BAONPDX
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If I'm reading a few subtle clues correctly, there's no way Fred Mertz doesn't call ICE about Ricky Ricardo.

What is "....and the horse you rode in on"?

Mind-blowing 🧵

“I’ll have a look in a second”

Translation: Go away.

Fantasizing about the equivalent of the “Malkovich Malkovich” scene from BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, except it’s Trump hearing every word uttered in his presence as “Epstein.”