Jennifer Vandever

Birthday remembrance - Montgomery Clift #botd

How to make workers happier with less pay It turns out that remote work is even more desirable than previously thought, according to new research — and employees will even take a pay cut to avoid the office.

How to make workers happier with less pay
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"Too many notes."

Hollywood Script Readers Fear They Could be Replaced by AI. They Set Up a Test to See Who Gives Better Feedback Fearing they could be replaced, Hollywood script readers face off against AI programs to see who gives better feedback.

Variety: Hollywood Script Readers Fear They Could be Replaced by AI. They Set Up a Test to See Who Gives Better Feedback

By Gene Maddaus

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

By the way: Isn't it time somebody released (or leaked) Tilda, the HBO pilot that starred Diane Keaton as a Nikki Finke-like gossip columnist? Also with, I believe, Elliot Page, Wes Bentley, Jason Patric, Sanaa Lathan. 2011, many cooks inc. Bill Condon, at least two versions.

Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson laughing on the beach in Something's Gotta Give

Rewatched this tonight. So grown up and clever and talky it feels like it must be based on a French film. But no, just some vintage Nancy Myers giving us unfiltered Diane Keaton hot fabulous.

Emma Goldman is describing what a nightmare Russia has become, with all media coverage controlled by a single political party, "a militaristic police state that suppresses freedom and human rights, where nothing works"

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive) Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025 We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

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Head of American Federation of Teachers responds to criticism of unions Days after stepping down as Oklahoma's superintendent of public instruction, Ryan Walters posted a call on social media "to destroy the teachers' unions once and for all." Randi Weingarten, president ...

Educators are teaching the American dream, and working to make students feel safe, welcome, and engaged. It’s time we stopped smearing & disrespecting them, and instead gave them the respect & resources they need to help kids soar. Thank you @CBSNews.com.
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O Brother, What Might Have Been: 3 UNPRODUCED Preston Sturges screenplays, is out NOW from SPB:

a) SONG OF JOY (about the movie business)
b) NOTHING DOING (millionaire rebuilds small town)
c) THE MILLIONAIRESS (written for Kate Hepburn, based on GBShaw)

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Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag To begin, for those of you who do not follow such things with intense interest, a little context about the “AI” company Anthropic being sued for stealing authors’ works and reachi…

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is:

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So by all means, celebrate a burst of collective action that reinstated a TV show host and vote the bums out if you get the chance. But voting won’t be enough, just as canceling the Disney app won’t be enough. When I look at the consumer response to Disney censoring Kimmel, I don’t see an allegory for America’s salvation. I see a threat — that we will see ourselves as the authoritarians see us, users whose only power is in our pocketbook. We can’t just reject the threat. We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks. That’s a desecration of civics, as corrosive as the idea that debate is the pinnacle of civil discourse. It cheapens our actions by degrading what we believe is possible. Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us. The fusion of corporate control and government power that empowered this administration will need to be unmade. Courts will need to be reconfigured. Market power will need to be subsumed to electoral power. Bureaucratic legitimacy will need to be restored. Information will need to be competitive and available. To achieve any of those goals, we will have to become far less complacent and far less scared. We also will have to organize. Because no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.

This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

At the very least, read her closing argument:

If you’d like to celebrate #SilentMovieDay, all 13 episodes of HOLLYWOOD are on Internet Archive.

Kevin Brownlow and David Gill wrote, directed, and produced this 1980 documentary series for Thames Television/ITV, featuring a score by maestro Carl Davis.

Watch: https//archive.org... #FilmSky

Remembering Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970)

Robert Redford’s Impossible Cool Handsome, fit, smart, and savvy, the actor and director defined our ideal of the American man.

All right, here we go: an appreciation of Robert Redford's acting, his undeniable beauty, and how he leveraged both to become a legendary figure in cinema. Great photos, selected by the @vulture.com art department! www.vulture.com/article/robe...

We will not stop bearing witness, stop condemning them, or stop doing all we can to stand up to this lawless behavior.

In the tradition of nonviolence, of course. In the fierce, insistent, soulful tradition of nonviolence, that demands we treat people like human beings.

The Lowdown recap: Season 1, episode 1 & 2, 'Pilot'/'The Devil's Mama' Meet Lee Rabon. He's a LOT.

Free at What’s Alan Watching?, my take on the two-part premiere of The Lowdown, and why the new Sterlin Harjo/Ethan Hawke comic mystery series left a huge smile on my face:

people have already mentioned SNEAKERs, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR and of course ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN as great redford performances, let me recommend THE CANDIDATE, which is really one of the best movies ever made about american politics

On the firing of Alan Sepinwall, the scary place we're in, and attempting to de-stupid the media The past decade or two has not been a good one for members of the media. And it keeps getting worse on a lot of fronts. Cultural coverage in particular has been stomped pretty thoroughly, in dribs and...

This still seems relevant!
And I’m going to give away the punchline of this post I published *Tuesday* — before the whole Kimmel ABC fiasco: End subscriptions that reinforce everything bad that’s going on right now and pay for indie media & creativity (if you can) www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

it would be a pretty good week for Rolling Stone to have a TV critic

👇 The important context that many people forget. Covid vaccines are a powerful and effective tool, but they have to go into your arm regularly to work their magic. We'd see significantly attenuated transmission, as well, if the majority of people were vaccinated regularly.

Breaking—RFK Jr’s self appointed vaccine committee voted Friday to end the CDC’s universal recommendation that people of all ages get Covid shots, moving the decision from individuals to one made in coordination with doctors instead—read: more difficult to get COVID shots.

You Must Remember This Episode 4: (The Printing of) The Legend of Frances Farmer — You Must Remember This Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts . During the last year of his life, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain was obsessed with Frances Farmer, an actress from his hometown of Seattle who died in 1970. Farme...

Our 2014 episode of @rememberthispod.bsky.social on Frances Farmer's career, legacy, and how a splashy book and biopic eclipsed the reality of her life is perfect listening on her birthday: www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/you...

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

PBS Passport only requires you to donate $60 a year to your local PBS station! One amazing thing they have on there is shows from their Great Performances series, which currently includes pro-filmed versions of major recent plays, operas, ballets, etc.

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Robert Redford as a politician standing in front of his own image.

The Candidate was onto something we're now living. RIP Robert Redford

Just wanted to share this very sweet shot from last night's Emmys of the moment Jeff Hiller won Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and the unfeigned delight from his fellow gay nominees Colman Domingo, Michael Urie, and Bowen Yang. Solidarity!