I'm a Gen-Xer who has long defended the millennials, I think they've got bad press and something of a raw deal. Lots of them I have known seem smart, tolerant, well-informed. They grew up with the Internet, they've had a world of knowledge (and music and culture and art) at their fingertips. They have online…

That's a pretty astute and accurate take. Especially the last sentence about the rents. Blows my mind that I was ever able to live in Greenwich Village on Bleecker, or the East Village, Brooklyn, and San Francisco (00s). Never paid more than $500 for my share of rent. I was very lucky, it seems like a dream now. …

Oh of course! Just, for a movie trailer to feature the girls so prominently might be a tad misleading. And not true to life, wasn't Morrissey quite antisocial as a youth?

Jared Leto creeps me out, I seriously dislike him. He stinks of some weird Manson Family or Scientology programming, I'm not a fan of his acting and he looks like he smells. Yeah, no, you can save my knowing about Jared Leto. I don't think he's a great actor who deserved an Oscar, but then again I don't think of…

Watching Rabbit, Run from 1970, after the Updike novel from 1960, which is kind of a long time-and-era difference, and wow, different worlds, at least in how movies tried to portray that era. The Angstrom of the novel, who was meant to be sort of timid and accepting of social norms of marriage etc., is replaced in…

Watching Jamie Foxx promote Baby Driver in the UK on the Graham Norton Show. (BBCA) Apparently no one has told him he's unbearable and stupid. Dame Judy Dench is trying to explain and promote her new movie about Victoria and her Indian manservant, he's leaning over her- she has to lean the other way. When it's…

My sympathy for your husband's cousin.

Spent at least five hours reading and reading Peter Hook's "Substance: Inside New Order" and the crucial years 1982-1986. And it's really fun and fascinating, Hook is an enjoyable voice, and the adventures and disasters are great fun to read, about an interesting time. True completists will love his interesting…

The trailer makes it seem like he had lots of girlfriends, all coaxing him to the greatness they see in him. Seems legit.

Darn, wish I had read down before posting- that is an amazing film, and thank you for mentioning it.

"It involves a murderous pianist." - I am imagining how you would say that last word aloud, and I see what you might have done there, if you did. ;)

And rich. That's the aspect of their lives that convinced the duo that they could literally get away with murder. Way more than their being queer.

I think it was suggested because when Psycho came out, Freud's discredited theory that gay men's problems were that they were too attached to their mothers was widespread. And it's fascinating that psychology and therapy etc, were such widely known middlebrow topics that suffused pop culture in midcentury. Books and…

Maybe it's been mentioned before I read comments, but The Killing of Sister George (1968) is a really compelling lesbian psychodrama. From a 1964 play, it is also fascinating in that it's set in the context of British television in the 60s, the BBC. Superb cast, with Beryl Reid who plays a kindly nun on a G-rated…

Huh. R2 can soar, but stairs are still a problem. What a nutty galaxy.

Indeed- a freak unto himself! Anyway, cool discussing with you, sorry if I sounded strenuous at times. Best to ya. :)

Okay, I respect your citations, honestly. Where does its say young urban people had TVs and voted for Kennedy from that one debate? I don't see that word. Like rural voters who went for Nixon, they had a hundred other reasons for going for the candidate of their choice besides this one frankly overhyped…

I appreciate and respect your take and opinion, see your point. With Nixonland I wanted to take an editor's pencil to huge chunks. Perlstein can ramble, and use a casual vernacular there that is more befitting a blog post.
I respect you don't care for his cultural digressions, but I appreciate them.

Right? It's so forgotten. The 70s were a nutsy, nutsy time. Reaganism did a real magic trick of national mind erasure, re-programming. As a grown-up, I can see why that was appealing to many people then.

Ok. I am completely wrong. This movie in no way is about genetically modified pig-creatures for meat consumption, as the earlier teasers indicated. That is not part of the plot at all, and Tilda Swinton does not play the part of a corporate executive who means to exploit these animals. Everything I said is wrong,…