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Excited to talk to Mayukh Sen next Wednesday at McNally Jackson Seaport about his wonderful new biography of Merle Oberon, a classic Hollywood star who spent her entire life concealing her South Asian heritage. Come join! www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/mayukh...

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Who needs a miraculously complex database of all human knowledge when you can just push this Confident Wrongness Button?

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New in Talk of the Town: how a long-lost award got brought back from the dead after eight decades. Featuring John Steinbeck, hundred-year-old sand, a foundry in Greenpoint that was one of the coolest places I've ever seen, and @feldmanadam.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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I love that Kieran Culkin’s whole Oscar campaign is “I just woke up, where am I?” and it’s absolutely working.

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A word on Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz in the making of Citizen Kane, and on Pauline Kael's scurrilous essay on the subject, Raising Kane (the movie plays tonight at Film Forum at 7:20, introduced by @michaelschulman.bsky.social whose mileage may differ): www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Dude, what the FUCK is going on in this Netflix OJ Simpson docuseries?

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Asking for a friend: when someone at a party tells you “nice shirt” and then follows up with “You look like a Houston oilman in the 90s,” but INSISTS that’s a compliment, exactly how much are you getting fucked with?

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This Saturday night, I'm introducing a little-known film called Citizen Kane at Film Forum, for a series celebrating the New Yorker's 100th anniversary. We'll talk Herman Mankiewicz and Pauline Kael and then see how this bad boy looks on the big screen. filmforum.org/events/event...

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The White Lotus is back! I realized I've interviewed four of the new season's cast members. First, one of my favorite Talk of the Town experiences: getting locked outside in a courtyard garden with Parker Posey. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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Julianne Moore says that the Trump Administration has banned her children’s book, “Freckleface Strawberry,” from schools run by the Dept. of Defense. Truly wtf? www.instagram.com/p/DGJBA9LvfX...

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Watching “Flow” as a cat daddy is too emotional!!

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RIP my inbox. nymag.com/intelligence...

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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

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Because I love awards season, I'm thrilled to share that Ryan McGinley's death-defying photos of Bowen Yang accompanying my profile were nominated for two National Magazine Awards! So much gay. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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I'm on Slate's What Next podcast today, trying (TRYING) to explain "Emilia Pérez" to @maryharris.bsky.social. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

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The next Oscar scandal? The music shop that supplied the guitar played by Monica Barbaro in “A Complete Unknown” is angry at Edward Norton.

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The New Yorker is 100 and is out with this super-issue, with many delights within!

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"What if we just take the given circumstances as they are: that I’m meant to be doing your commercial, and I’m this actor who takes what he does seriously?" 🫠 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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Just finished! Sooooo good! The #movienerd in me AND the #historynerd were VERY satisfied! Well dine to @michaelschulman.bsky.social !!!

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Amazingly, I just learned that my apartment was not only Charlotte Zwerin's place for forty years but, more recently, home to a famous poodle named Chichi, once suspected to be the oldest dog in the world! archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blo...

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Feels like this discussion will look extremely quaint in 5 or 10 years. I wonder what people said about the CGI in Gladiator when it won Best Visual Effects in 2001. The first Academy Awards, in 1929, was practically a celebration of sound just as it was putting tons of Hollywood people out of work.

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My barber grew up in Moscow, immigrated to NYC legally three years ago. He said ICE agents are knocking on his friends doors, lying about why they are there, then hauling people away. He said “The way the police are acting… it’s starting to feel like Russia.”

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BRUTAL. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Galaxy brain: it now feels like every Best Picture campaign is an echo of the movie. The Brutalist: an architect pulls off a grand vision on a budget. The campaign is about Brady Corbet, an auteur pulling off a grand vision on a budget and speechifying about directors getting final cut. /

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New from me: How this year's Oscar race got as messy as "Conclave." Starring "Emilia Pérez" as Cardinal Adeyemi. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Did they ever get back those astronauts who were stuck in space? Because if not they are SCREWED. Everything’s falling apart on Earth and we simply do not have the focus.

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