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“For once”

Walton Goggins in The White Lotus:

Talked to Tobias Jesso Jr. about Goon ten years later and walking away from his solo career, and unexpectedly got the scoop that he’s working on Goon 2 with his former gardener, a man named Martin Martini vulture.com/article/tobias…

The part where Leo’s poorly disguised as a normie is giving

two key grafs in this excellent Chris Stanton piece nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Great piece from my colleague Chris Stanton on insurance executives turned whistleblowers nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Great piece from Chris Stanton: ""The financial incentive to deny care is at the core of the industry’s rot, all four former executives argue, and it only seems to be getting worse" nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Global economy saved

"I’ll assure you ... that the least important stakeholders are the people who are enrolled in their health plans. They’re at the bottom of the pile." - Wendell Potter Chris Stanton nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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Altman, for example, has raised the sound track to a whole new level. He hears more perceptively, than other directors. He hears Americans talking, and we talk more than any other nation in the world. When you come out of an Altman movie, you hear your environment in a new way.

Bob Dylan wants to be buried in an unmarked grave. Of course. That's why he's made a four-hour movie about himself and his pilgrimage. (1978)

two cold beers 8/8/59

Look at this run of films, dawg

I love Paul Schrader movies