I remember a video interview where Michael K. Williams was really excited about the role, and seemed to indicate he had it. I think he would have had a more interesting take than Foxx’s.

Yeah, they’re the parents of a genius, judging from the type of visa prostitutes strippers nude models models get.

I just rewatched Miami Blues for the first time in years, and holy moley. Baldwin was so, so great as Junior Frenger, a sometimes charming sociopathic murderer matching wits with Fred Ward as Hoke Mosely.

Okay, so when this hits Netflix I will no longer have an excuse to have only seen... I’m gonna say 7 episodes of Seinfeld.

Although...I see a shocking lack of Matter Eater Lad.

I still need to read Careless Love but Guralnick’s Last Train To Memphis is incredibly good on Elvis

I read part of the Goldman book on Elvis, and stopped. It’s not just mean - which of course was its selling point - it’s incredibly, sloppily, inaccurate in many parts. I don’t mean facts about Elvis, though some of them are way off; there are references to venues and shows and movies that are wrong.

Another recommendation for When Gravity Fails here. The sequels (Fire in the Sun and The Exile Kiss) are almost as good, and there’s a short story, “Marid Changes His Mind” that was fun - but shouldn’t be read without understanding the Budayeen, the city/state the books take place in.

I love Himes...! I’ll recommend the 1991 movie of A Rage in Harlem. Not the most faithful adaptation but the spirit is there. And the cast? Forrest Whitaker, Danny Glover, Robin Givens, Gregory Hines....

I plan on watching Midway at the UA Midway in Forest Hills

Annabel Porter of Bloosh seems fine. They don’t eat meals at her house, they do food teases.

The whole thing turns out to be an alternate history, because Kirk Douglas went back in time and shot down the Zeros on December 7th.

If you pay 165 bucks to attend a ‘workshop’ being give by an ‘influencer’, you deserve to be swindled. Also, you obviously need a court appointed conservator.

He claims to be so good at golf that this is literally the only thing I want someone to confront him with. Not a question thrown out at one of his lawn chats (how much money are the taxpayers shelling out to keep those copters running, so he can excuse shouting at them and leaving whenever he wants?) I’d love it if a…

There are like 50 songs that would make a better national anthem than the star spangled banner

female leads doing activities that don’t involve them being a parent as negative

So I ask: how is this scrawny Brit (sorry) going to convince us that he is the barrel chested, huge-fisted Man of the Cape.

It’s odd that not only is this the same format of biopic as last year’s Stan & Ollie

I think Rufus Wainwright will watch it.  Other than that, no, pretty sure the theaters will be empty.

Damn if I remember what comic this was, and damn if I can recount this bit in writing, but..