Not just “typical Jimmy Stewart,” but “typical Jimmy Stewart with added youth and innocent-looking baby-facedness!”

I watched it a few months ago under that impression and it only is in the most general “don’t be stupid” sense. It’s really more about how dumb mid-2000s culture was—most of its ire is against people who’d sit around all day watching dumb shit on daytime TV or the adolescent/fratty/early twenties attitudes more than…

SCARY MEXICANS riding SCARY SOCIALIST TRANSPORTATION

Especially since the last season was also so materialistic—it just felt very off and kind of hypocritical

It’s not subtle.

As someone who doesn’t feel the same but is pleasantly surprised when he revisits seasons 2-4, I think it’s because for the most part by the fifth season (I think? Not really confident on the numbering) they started being overly self-conscious about the whole “nicest show on television” thing—before then it was just…

Like a return to that brief period of time when reposted gimmicks were banned on sight?

YES, at least in the case of mother suck last night

Seeing Anatomy of a Murder on TCM was a revelation—I’d never seen Stewart so…loose (it’s odd to hear the word “spermatogenesis" in his voice) and in a film that was pushing the boundaries of the code (without Vertigo’s stylization)—it felt much newer than it was, and yet there was Jimmy Stewart, perfectly a part of…

Happy birthday @WillHarrisinVA! And remember:

Damn straight—adding his reading recommendations to his music ones as must-dos. Both of these sound right up my alley—used to do some consulting for rail, and recently learned to sail (partly as a connecting-with-my-ancestors sort of thing, but I quickly sailing a boat today is very different than anything Odysseus or…

Love that T-Bone!

I get the impression that Morris is more the exception, who tries to create a unique atmosphere bring out the emotional truth of things—there’s a real art to the way he does something. A Brief History of Time, for example, really gives you a sense of the world Hawking developed in that’s very hard to capture in a…

So glad you asked. I devoted a previous column to the justly revered opening shot of Orson Welles’ Touch Of Evil—partly
because it was an obvious choice, but also partly as a way of
demonstrating that I don’t automatically hate virtuoso single-shot
stunts.

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While that can be exhilarating in the right context, it’s…

And it just keeps getting worse.

No brains in that gene pool.

Or revised

Josh Marshall thinks that it might also be due to limited ad-sales potential. “Fun, news scoops and schadenfreude have no allied consumer products” is how he puts it, unlike the more lifestyle-oriented blogs that made up the rest of the Gawker empire.

Except someone tried to pull the same thing on Mother Jones. They lost, but Thiel’s success means that there’s now precedent set for vindictive lawsuits against media, particularly media on the smaller/more independent side of things, and less willingness to go after potentially vindictive targets from established…