Absolutely no one wants to hear this anymore but… …all things being equal (they’re not), Seven > Zodiac because Zodiac is about a real killer and therefore encourages more killers who hope to be the subject of a movie. Se7en doesn’t, not the same way

Okay now rewrite and reshoot all of Season Two of #thestudio as a tribute to #catherineohara Please and thank you

This policy led to the US becoming the freest, richest, and most powerful country in the history of the world. Everyone wanted to come here, to be American, for their children to be American, and to thrive as America thrived. You would destroy all of that out of racist spite.

This is even more true if you know the story behind THE JOY LUCK CLUB, the first studio film to star 8 (heck, 2) women of color. No way Disney coughs up $25m for that budget with Wayne Wang directing if Stone hadn’t produced…but Stone left all decisions to Wang and Amy Tan

The smartest movie/show about this might be 2016’s “San Junipero” (Black Mirror). Charlie Brooker understood *perfect* California isn’t real, nor manifested in films like The Lost Boys (“Santa Carla”), but found a way to make that mountain-beach-town ideal the twist and point

If I were the literal devil I would carefully convince Christians that there is something sinister about empathy, that forgiveness is reserved for those who serve my interests, and that love looks like incurious condescension.

Whatever gaffes Obama/Hillary/Biden said, eg “Trayvon…my son,” “deplorables,” “garbage,” Trump has responded 1000-fold MAGA sense of proportion = if your wife slaps you in an argument, you have earned right to physically torture her for a week à la Saw movies

It’s 2026 and we’re still giving data managers new busywork sorting out “Milan Cortina” (NBC) and “Milano Cortina” (on every sign)

Another day, another MAGA shitstorm against an almost-powerless celebrity instead of against even one of the tech leaders who stood with DJT on Inauguration Day and continue to fight for borderless capitalism and employ 1000s of migrants instead of giving MAGAns jobs

So many cop shows: Law and Order, CSI, NCIS, etc etc Remember that episode where the cop uncovered evidence of dozens of capital crimes, but said he couldn’t bring charges because the office’s previous boss never brought charges? Oh right: *that never happened*. Not even on TV

And that's the kind of smart decision-making now governing the health of your children.

One accomplishment I haven’t seen mentioned: Robert Duvall helped mainstream Howard Stern back in the 90s when Stern was considered a lightweight shock jock. “Bobby D,” as Stern always called him, showed what an unscripted hour of gravitas sounded like #riprobertduvall

In many ways, Frederick Wiseman was the Robert Duvall of documentary. He never was really a leading popular name in documentary... but he was, without any doubt, one of the greatest to ever do it. He brought depth and patience to his films. If you really wanted to know about

One rarely mentioned reason that 40+ year-olds love Tom Cruise was his early-star insistence on “apprenticing” or letting 60s/70s Great Actors make a fool out of him 86: Newman 88: Hoffman 90: Duvall 92: Nicholson Look at that list, you get one more sense of what Duvall meant

Arthur Novel passed away this morning. The two people always behind the scenes supporting Jim Henson, so he could do his art, were David Lazer and Arthur. , David has passed. And now Arthur. Their names will not mean anything to others, but for me, “Attention must be paid”.

The entire government expenditure to NPR/PBS , which was cut because of "the deficit" was 1/18th of what Trump just stole from us.

I’m not doing the Toy Story meme Here’s a Story no one else has: In November 1995, I took a date to a new movie called Toy Story at the Clay in San Francisco. We both enjoyed it and later that night kissed on the rocks near the Cliff House #toinfinityandbeyond

I wish someone cool with a platform, like James Surowiecki, just once, would say DJT’s platform didn’t have the word “tariff.” Grok confirms it. donaldjtrump.com/platform He *said* “tariff” in 2024; he also said he’d end the Ukraine war in a day. Any boss knows: email > verbal

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying [FBI Director] Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

Kash Patel throwing out bundles of taxpayer money to take his fancy Gulfstream jet to chug beers at the Olympics and follow around his girlfriend. That’s just to start. The corruption here exceeds every previous presidency combined. There appear to be no consequences whatsoever