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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

I don’t even know what to say, at this point. I want every person who thinks like this ad to be shot into space.

Dang…

Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.

He's a Kennedy, they only told him about the clap

NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

One reason the success of Sinners matters: There are only two legacy studios (WB and Universal) that would make this film on this scale. If either becomes an enterprise that simply human-centipedes its old IP through its digestive canal, it'd be catastrophic. (As would a merger of the two.) >

from one of the original episodes of Police Squad! (there were only six in total.) youtu.be/pRva7z8pvwc?...

Grateful to the senator.

Look, I’m a jaded bastard who largely thinks the internet has destroyed society but I do love and watch every one of those cooking videos where the adorable little British kid makes smoothies and beans on toast and stuff I’M NOT MADE OF STONE.

I love The Pitt too. I also dig Abbott Elementary. But there's no reason "normie network projects" need to knock out "cable-ish wildness"— a healthy TV industry (& this clearly isn't one) would offer up both things... P.S. Hacks is kicking ass this season & The Rehearsal S2 is a real mind-blower

RIP Jean Marsh. You scared the living fuck outta me as a child in ‘Willow’.

How many people could have perfectly directed both FIRST BLOOD and WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S? RIP, king. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

#LastFourWatched

Cool!

The idiocy and inaccuracy of this headline... (shakes head)

Terrific and important piece, please do give it a read.

Great piece.

Fascinating and uplifting for your Sunday.

I’m not crying YOU’RE crying…

I know it ain’t as cool as some other buzzy shows on right now but WOLF HALL is back for its long-awaited conclusion and Mark Rylance is giving a master class in screen acting.

I wrote this about my favorite spike lee movie, how it's in conversation with THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, and what our post-9/11 cinema has become, and I'm again so grateful to @aheartofgould.bsky.social for reaching out and asking if I wanted to 💚

When I was at Juilliard, I remember frequently marveling at this photo, one of many that used to hang in the drama theater lobby. It’s Val in ‘Troilus and Cressida’ during his time there (opposite Linda Kozlowski, later of ‘Crocodile Dundee’ fame). RIP

Man, this one stings. Val came to speak to us when I was attending Juilliard (he was an alumnus) and I remember him being kind and charming. So many great performances. Now the question becomes do I watch WILLOW or TOMBSTONE or HEAT or TOP GUN or KISS KISS BANG BANG or THE DOORS tonight... RIP

Wonderful news!

Richard Chamberlain. As a kid, I saw him onstage in a rather bizarre production of ‘My Fair Lady’, but he was splendid. My favorite ‘Count of Monte Cristo’, perfect punchable villain in ‘The Towering Inferno’, and, of course, the definitive Aramis in Richard Lester’s ‘Musketeers’ trilogy. RIP

Richard Chamberlain, who died on Friday, would have turned 91 today. He was part of the very last generation of actors who came up via the vestiges of the star machine, when coming out was all but impossible. He found his way through that system and into a fulfilling career and an open life. RIP.