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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.

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

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, 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.

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.

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

***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 ..”

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

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

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! shows.acast.com/the-history-...

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

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

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.

literally every time I talk to friends

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.

Today's mood on film. The Godfather Part II (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Hope everyone is well. Spring break was restorative. Attended a Knicks game. Watched Severance episodes, read a mystery and finally dug into the Capra at Columbia blu-ray box set. What a treat! Taken with this shot from Lady for a Day- filmed through water-drops cascading in the foreground. Dreamy.

Fred Herzog, Canadian photographer known for his use of exceptional colour and intensity unusual in the 1950s and 60s, when art photography was almost exclusively black and white imagery. Crossing Powell, Vancouver 1984 #Photography #Vancouver

So the Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal was attacked by masked Israeli settlers while at home on the West Bank and then arrested by the IDF. The film community should condemn this with one voice www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

La ronde (Max Ophüls, 1950) DoP: Christian Matras #BOTD Simone Signoret

Gabriel has stopped in the street to chat with a local saint, but Mary is nevertheless receiving the Holy Spirit in this marvelous Annunciation by Carlo Crivelli, 1486. For feast of the Annunciation, which is today.

Rififi (1955) dir. Jules Dassin 🎬 One of the great French noirs. This intense and unpredictable heist film pulls no punches and keeps you arrested in its grip until the final climactic frame. Magnifique. #filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir

Hamdan Ballald, the Oscar-winning Palestinian co-director of "No Other Land," was brutally attacked by Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Monday before he was arrested by soldiers. Colleague Basel Adra describes the violent scene.

there are like three overlapping scandals with signalgate — illegal distribution of sensitive government materials by top members of the administration, illegal attempt to circumvent records laws and possible unlawful use of military force — and democrats should be screaming about them all

If these men had any sense of honor, they would already have resigned. The fact that they are all still in their jobs is just as damning as their terrifying and lawless incompetence.

National security group chat vibing like this...

It’s been less than a decade since the USA Gymnastics Team Doctor Larry Nassar was convicted for systematically sexually abusing young female athletes for over two decades, and the biggest shifts in the governance of international athletics since have been to make crimes like that easier to commit.

Good news for fellow authors disheartened by your books being illegally used to train AI; "If your book was used by Meta, you’re automatically included in the Kadrey v. Meta class action in Northern California..." And @authorsguild.bsky.social has some practical steps you can take.