first couple of eps of amazons big swing on a lord of the rings series dropped last night. i am not a book reader so i have fewer things to be annoyed by. certainly has the requisite number of woke signifiers to get the haters buzzing on that front as well. i was reasonably entertained. i could not get through more than a few minute of a wheel of time which was there last big fantasy swing but at least i am somewhat familiar with the tolkien universe which works in its favor.
https://solarmovie.pe/tv/watch-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-free-87087
tonight is your third chance to possibly see serena williams last professional match at the us open. i havent watched the first two but she upset the #2 ranked player on wednesday. seems like its best if i dont watch, for her sake. havent watched any matches yet. she played doubles with her sister venus one last time last night and i believe they lost. they lost the first set in a tie breaker and were down 3 love when i checked the score. not watching did not help in that case so perhaps i have no bearing on the outcome after all.
Harry S. Truman — 'I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.'
sexism aside, what is going on in this sandwich?
Alicia Mihai Gazcue
jon hamm is ruining my childhood! (last chance for you, buddy.)
zinn @ 100
Artists and debt
I didn't realize until I looked at the fall schedule that NBC is now down to just 9 hours of prime-time scripted shows a week, and 6 of those 9 hours are Dick Wolf shows. https://t.co/7u9K8w5YsL
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) August 26, 2022
Calder film
Greetings from the 72nd and Broadway subway stop, where these high schoolers were REALLY pumped to meet Jerry Nadler. pic.twitter.com/ZFnizDFzzt
— Jon Campbell (@JonCampbellNY) August 23, 2022
stovetop agnostic, wallet unfriendly.
Michael Hizer's City
BY POSTING THE SAME IMAGE, BEREFT OF MEANING BUT ANIMATED THEREWITH VIA ASPIRATIONAL ELEVATION TO 'MEME', A DEADENED HUMANKIND CAN FEIGN BOTH COLLECTIVISM AND MEANING, EVEN WHILE THE PRACTICE THAT WOULD CONSTRUCT SUCH SIGNIFICANCE OR COMMUNITY ALSO HOLLOWS IT OUT INTO VOID. pic.twitter.com/9e67WyPsmh
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 18, 2022
favorite tweet of the day:
Taylor Lautner reveals that his fiancée Taylor Dome will take his last name and also be named Taylor Lautner.
speaking of tom cruise, i started watching the top gun sequel last night and am really surprised at the good reviews it got. the first one was over the top macho reagan cold war nonsense but at least it was kind of fun. this one has been an absolute slog for me. two thirds of the way through and i cant point to one redeeming quality. maybe some of the aerial cinematography has been good. maybe? at least they aged cruises character appropriately. he may still be the slightly incorrigible maverick but he is not a smirking manchild. beyond that, meh. some obvious and not so obvious nods to its predecessor and a bunch of two dimensional characters and none of those dimensions are intriguing. also, ive decided john hamm is not a great actor. he is not bad at comedy but how many dull performances post don draper before we accept the truth? prove me wrong, johnny boy!
Ornament at the drawing center
judd
Privately, however, Guinness had dismissed the script to friends as “fairy tale rubbish” before accepting the part for which he will forever be best remembered. He only did so after 20th Century Fox agreed to his demand that they double the initial offer ($150,000) and — rather ingeniously — tack on 2 percent of the backend grosses, with Lucas throwing in another .25 percent as a goodwill gesture once filming had wrapped.
On June 3: “Am pinning my hopes on Star Wars percentage which could bring me £100,000 or more if it does Jaws business, as predicted.”
The film..., grossing over $300 million in its initial release — earning Guinness more than $7 million immediately ($33 million today) and an estimated $95 million by the time of his death in 2000 at 86. Despite that unheard-of salary for what amounted to 20 minutes of screen time, Guinness was reluctant to come back for a sequel.
