This was fascinating, and I always love Kelly Faircloth’s articles on history.Great stuff, thank you Kelly!

Or Annie Liebovitz years ago (90s) having Roseanne Barr wrestle Tom Arnold in the mud like hogs in VF. So Annie to do that. She turned people into cartoons generally at VF, but with comics it was usually unflattering. 

Same here. SO well done, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge absolutely fascinates me. She would have been successful as an actor alone (comic or not),  but her excellent writing and stage work etc. puts her on another level.

“I have fought illegals on this property for six years. I love my country and this is a step in protecting my country.”

That’s one of two planned, both 4 stories tall. They’ll be flashing ads not PSAs soon, all day and night. (Sorry, wildlife.) This snotty article should note that these signs are actually in Hampton Bays (part of Southampton Town), which is a working-class hamlet approaching 40 percent Latinx. It’s not rich.

The actress Comer said in the Daily Mail that she kept a lot of the clothes from the show, but feels weird about wearing them, because it’s so close to the character, she gets looks? Also says her dating life is not great because of the show, seems they aren’t lining up to woo a beautiful psychopath, ha. And she…

Moving next door to Sarah Palin, who’s a nosy neighbor, and the idea of an exciting thrill-kill unites Eve and V in renewed affection. Perhaps on a bearskin rug in front of a roaring fire. 

Martin Amis: “In Miami, a blonde asked me, ‘Do you do coke?’. Not take it, do it. Right now, I’m doing a cigarette.” -from some late 70s essay in The Moronic Inferno.

Things I never want to see again:  that shirtless picture of Moby, or written accounts of how he disgustingly touched unsuspecting people with his dick as a “game”.  Ugh, so done with this guy.

Literally only the good think that came out of punk, other than giving UK journalists something to write about for years and years. I’m sort of quietly sympathetic to how punk manifested itself in California, the concept of it, but mostly punk music sucked and it was more a fashion or style scene that exhausted…

Sounds like an overlong Beck video, but interesting and good and worth seeing. Seems like a miracle that the former Gawker Media Group (GMG is now named something stupid.) could afford to send someone to Cannes to see this, since most of the content throughout former GMG  is barrel-bottom-scraping trash by lame…

And Jackie Brown had one of the most complex and interesting roles for a woman, played by the great Pam Grier, that I’ve ever seen. I’m not necessarily a Tarantino fan, but I admire him a lot for following up the sensation of Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown, this LA noir mood-piece.

Dick Grayson was the one and only Robin. since 1940. There is no other. Stop trying to make Nightwing happen, he’s not happening despite all these decades of wanting to make Nightwing a thing.  Never happened. 

Thanks for that info. Oh, what a crazy stupid country we are that Tales of the City was an issue at all, ever. Jesus Christ, I was in ACT-Up demonstrations at the time, but I loved watching the first series at my parents’ home on Long Island. I was not that radical! I was just gay, came out to my family then, and…

That is wonderful, like Laura Linney is. Really glad you saw her in regional theatre productions, that’s where stars are born. I’m always so happy to see her, even when she’s just introducing Downton Abbey of Masterpiece. (PBS, US). She just radiates likeability as well as being a very fine actor. My heart is with…

I have loved Laura Linney for a very long time since the first series of Tales of the City, and it was an incredibly nice thing that when she was first (I think?) nominated for and Oscar, she took Armistead Maupin as her date. Thought that was pretty cool.

Thanks for the info. I was one who didn’t care for the re-casting of Mouse, or the subsequent series at all. That’s just me. I really loved the original television series from 1993, aired on PBS in the US, and it’s sort of vexing that it’s unavailable to easily watch anywhere. This is a shame. Because that series…

I dig lighthouses in any context, and this film looks really very interesting, for reasons you also describe.  I want to see this.

Even before the Titanic song, I observed and liked Celine’s sense of humor. In the 90s I had a friend Marie from the south of France who was similarly droll in a Gallic way. This girl was wonderful, pretty, sweet and funny. I know Celine is from Quebec and Canadian, but Celine reminds me of her and vice versa. …