There’s a semi-humorous piece at Slate right now, “Here’s Where You Can’t Watch Any Stanley Donen Movies, Right Now”. Berates Netflix for having NONE, and that’s deserved, the service has become abysmal for classic films. The jokey beratement is repeated throughout. But other services aren’t much better, it seems. …

Thanks for embedding the Kruse tweets, that was a good read. He really portrays the scene well, and it’s fascinating. “The Star-Spangled Banner” playing as crowds from both sides flee from tear gas, Summer 1970. What a time. 

Apparently this whack-off shack is within easy driving distance from Mar-A-Lago. Trump probably knows a lot of the sleazy clients there. He likely wasn’t one, seeing how he had Jeffrey Epstein as a very very good pal.

I’m hoping Richard E. Grant gets a surprise win. I’m almost finishing his film diaries from years ago, With Nails, and my god it’s a hoot. The chapter on the making of Hudson Hawk alone. He’s a superb and funny writer. Anyway one things that comes through in the book is how very well-liked he is by people in…

Meghan will get dragged for this big time in the British press.

A “pepper pot” was definitely slang back then, and it meant a girl who was attractively racy and vivacious. Even in the 90s, there was a memorable if ungenerous phrase calling Monica Lewinsky, “the portly pepperpot”. 

Did you ever read The Beautiful Fall? It’s sort of a twin biography of YSL and Lagerfeld, but it’s a larger picture of the whole swirl of the fashion world, from the 50s-80s , and it’s such a great creative and social history of those crazy times. Lots of rivalry, decadence, triumphs and tragedies and heartbreak.…

Just watching the video, that wailing non-stop alarm gave ME anxiety. Being there in the theatre, no wonder people freaked out.  

That was excellent and rings true with what I’ve known and read every day, thanks. Not proud of this, but I read the Daily Mail and yeah, even the comments, getting the pulse (and The Guardian for more substantial, smarter fare.) My daily reading and interests are keenly attuned to the UK way, way more than places…

Yeah, but I’m not aware that the UK ever took in crazy amounts of Syrian refugees. And that is not at the heart of Leavers’ quarrel and objection and problem with being part of the EU. Their complaints go back at least a generation or possibly more.

I like Owen Jones. He can be a bit earnest and strenuous in his political beliefs, but I think his heart is in the right place. Esp. with LGBTQ issues. 

My impression is a lot of Little England resentment is towards Eastern European immigrants from Poland and Rumania, for “taking” working class jobs and working for less, undercutting natives. Prejudice against non-white immigrants certainly exists, but it doesn’t seem primary.

I was in Spain when I saw this notorious cover way back in 1990:

Seriously. I mean what the hell? That guy wrote this:

Yikes, awful. Maybe the scene could have been less frightening without that scary-sounding alarm going on and on in a loop.

The President of the United States of America was once globally hailed as ”the leader of the free world.”

I liked how Ilana just happened to have a couple of Hazmat suits.  Probably on hand for seriously kinky purposes. 

Someone above in Canada also seemed to blame the US, but it’s worth pointing out that there and in Australia, the imperial system came from the British Empire, not America’s fault! The metric system was not fully adopted by English-speaking countries until well into the 20th century (the UK in 1965).

Bryan Adams is some sort of high society/fashion photographer in London now, photographing the likes of Daphne Guinness, so not a total dweeb..

And Elisabeth Moss haaaates Armisen now. I forget what exactly she said in a couple of interviews after they broke up, she was brief but made clear she thought he was a monstrous piece of shit. Love to know what the hell happened there.