God Bless Tilda Swinton and her championing of offbeat cinema.

Oh, I didn’t mean to suggest that you didn’t get it. There is billionaire worship in this country, and it’s bad. But I rather have billionaire worship of a creative artist whose work is loved by millions than a tech/business billionaire who does objectively shitty things and harms people. Celebrating someone like…

Anything involving the incredibly popular and wildly successful Taylor Swift is treated as a news story because it gets the views/clicks. How many times did sports reporting mention her when she started dating Kelce? How many cutaways to her in the box did the networks do when showing a game? She’s going to get…

Well, she did also give each of her US drivers working on her Eras Tour bonuses of a $100,000. She didn’t have to do that. I think depending on billionaires and philanthropy to solve problems is a distraction from changing laws and having the government solve systemic crises, but, hey, you can’t say she didn’t change…

This is very kind. She appears to be a good person. Hopefully there won’t be an expose about her in the future where she’s terrible to her employees. And, not a knock, it’s funny that a 100 grand to her is probably like a nickel to everyone else. She has enough money that she could be like Bezos’ ex and really fund…

I was about to make this comment: “She came to me and with tears in her eyes, said, ‘Ma’am! I’m so sorry for how I treated you, Ma’am! You’re the greatest singer of our age Ma’am and you’re work in Monster-In-Law was much better than in Out of Sight, which you were also terrific in, Ma’am...”

I also thought that. The performers are moving/dancing around a lot and usually do a medley of songs so it’d be hard to actually sing, and with the roar of the massive crowd and other noise.

That actually makes more sense. All this time I thought the gimmick of the novel (and movie) was they meeting only once a year. My bad.

If they’re best friends, why do they meet once a year? Or is it they hang out regularly but commemorate that one day. It’s weird for good friends to see each other only once a year.

Watching the trailer, I thought, “Is that Melanie Laurent or Lea Seydoux?” Neither. As the trailer helpfully points out, it’s Melanie Thierry.

I remember this story. From the media reports at the time, I also thought she had made it up. We talk about reforming political media, but we should also reform the crime beat, so that reporters don’t just take the word of the officers and so not publish copaganda.

Before getting to “his wife” in the synopsis, I thought Hirsch and Sedgwick were playing father and daughter. Just looked up both their ages, and yep, she’s 30 years younger than him: 88 and 58 respectively. Big age gap relationships is a Hollywood trope I dislike--because I assume it’s not as prevalent in the real…

TIL the etymology of the word “pogrom.” And my takeaway from this trailer is that Carrie Coon is very good-looking.

I mean...

Danvers was being an unreliable narrator with Pete about the abusive husband case she and Navarro worked on. As we saw in the flashback, he killed his wife, but he was alive when they got there. I’m guessing Danvers or Navarro shot him in cold blood (pun intended). This is part of their complicated dynamic, a bond…

I look forward to the presumptive Republican nominee for president defending him and calling him a “great guy.”

I didn’t say it was. My previous sentence was about how she can play all types of human experience because she’s a fantastic actor. That includes the rape scene in The Accused, which I wouldn’t want to see because she can bring home how vicious it is, and the scene itself.

Seeing her have sex, and sex like that, at all, was weird to me at first. But you know—she’s a fantastic actor and should play as wide range of characters and experiences as possible. Having said that, I have no desire to watch The Accused for the first time, where I assume that rape scene will be pretty graphic.

Liz instructing Pete to ask the right question very much reminded me of SOTHL and how now Jodie Foster is, in this scene, playing the Hannibel Lecter role. Circle of pop culture life. I loved it. So if Pete is the male Clarice, let’s hope he doesn’t get dead.

Quanah Parker was featured in the excellent doc about the American buffalo, directed by Ken Burns, who’s white. So are David Grann and Martin Scorsese who wrote the book and made the movie, Killers of The Flower Moon. S.C Gwynne, who wrote the book on Parker Sheridan is adapting, appears to be white. Many white…