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Critic and author and occasional cut-up. Just a soul whose intentions are good. Books include "The World is Yours: The Story of 'Scarface'" and "Made Men: The Story of 'Goodfellas'.”
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get on top Wordle 1,344 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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"Oh uh just one more thing...the Spice only exists on one planet in the entire universe"

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Sal Mineo goes book shopping on 42nd Street a good 12 years before Travis Bickle, in the astonishing “Who Killed Teddy Bear?” A surprisingly tony selection! The picture is now in a splendid edition from @vinsyn.bsky.social

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Adonis update: huh, this place might not be so bad

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Happy Zachary Scott birthday to all who celebrate. (And you ALL should).

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This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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Sad news. I was just marveling at how good he is in SATAN HATES YOU. Time to say thank you…

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And *that* is how you tell the president of the United States where to stick it.

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Man they are going to have to reupholster the seats at the Kennedy Center once every six weeks for the next four years

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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

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the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

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For those playing at home, Trump’s MIT uncle has been dead since 1985. And they weren’t close.

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Remembering Raymond Queneau on his birthday 🎂 📷 Robert Doisneau, 1956 "Queneau’s thinking did not always follow the ways of his century, but his writing unmistakably *belongs* to that century, & indeed often seems to anticipate it." - Jordan Stump

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"The Trump administration fired several FAA lawyers tasked with helping keep reckless and drunk pilots out of the skies" I feel safer

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In our time of need we called out for Professional Public Philosopher Agnes Callard to come out with the stupidest take ever, and she listened 🥹

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one hand dirties the other

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Phew indeed Wordle 1,343 6/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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Guess I’m watching PRINCE OF DARKNESS tonight.

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A 50 alarm fire, and an outrageous affront to working people. For years, we’ve fought for Amazon workers whose bodies have been destroyed, who have been forced to urinate in bottles or defecate in bags, who have lost every last shred of dignity working in service of the profits of this company.

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Please share widely. I'm not above begging for Retweets if it means we end up showing how much New Yorkers, even those that initially opposed the program, now see the necessity of Congestion Pricing and show up to Oppose Trump's nonsense.

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sure, mitch mcconnell cynically masterminded the plot to destroy the US constitution and american democracy, but you have to at least credit him with lifting up his own constituents in Kentucky to make it one of our richest and most prosperous... (touching earpiece) wait I'm getting new information

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All the money in the world can't fix pathetic loser cringe. This has the same energy as the video of the Microsoft C Suite in the 90s dancing on stage but you know with tons of fascism sprinkled into the mix.

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The Theatrical Release of “Compensation” Is Cause for Celebration Zeinabu irene Davis’s 1999 feature, a century-spanning vision of two deaf Black women in Chicago, is among the greatest independent films but has rarely been screened www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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McConnell's genius was to make politics about victory at all costs. Power is not the goal; you must squeeze it from the other side. A lot of our Democrat friends find this distasteful. They'll never teach it in Sunday School. But it's only a game if you agree on the rules.

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Some good news for writers on deadline:

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It appears irony is not dead after all.

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

We’re going to create an entire district where you can see people performing musical theater every night. We’ve even got a great idea for a show about the Wizard of Oz, where -get this- the Wicked Witch of the West is the hero!

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

From someone who doesn't get invited to have a beer with his friends, demonstrably can't tell a joke, and isn't any kind of a man.

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His Yeelen is one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen

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Congratulations to Daniel Craig, the final person to play James Bond

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when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

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i think the “NPC” insult is dehumanizing and illiberal and *rich* coming from a guy who thinks entirely in mindless dinner party cliches. in fact, all you need to know what he will think about anything is to know what parties he goes to.

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1. Preorders *are* indeed damn important for authors. 2. Also first-week sales. 3. 'Cause those are your book's best chance of hitting the bestseller lists, and nothing succeeds like success. 4. This is a great book, so win win.

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James Bond will return in NO PRIME TO DIE

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The “Emilia Perez” Apology Tour continues apace

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[Hakeem Jeffries texting Hochul] Kathy you didn't call him Captain Chaos like I asked

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A once-great, now-rotted-out ship called the United States is being sunk by the United States because nothing else can be done with it. This is not a metaphor. I mean, not ONLY a metaphor. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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I'm conducting a masterclass with the great Palestinian director Elia Suleiman (Divine Intervention) for DIFF March 1 - here he is on how reading Primo Levi on the Holocaust informs his thinking about Gaza.

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