Maybe the worst air quality New York City has seen in a long time as a smokey haze shrouds the sun as it rises behind midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building, Tuesday #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #haze @EmpireStateBldg @agreatbigcity #sunrise pic.twitter.com/e1Aw5XIFxB
— Gary Hershorn (@GaryHershorn) June 6, 2023
wait for it...
Sad mess
LDV deluge series
going back to Avenue 5. I had no patience for anything other than the original Startreck but this is pretty funny.
You know, one of the smartest things anyone ever said to me in this business came from Michael Mann, a brilliant writer, a brilliant director. I was hired to do a rewrite on what was already a really good script. It was the early days, and I’m saying to him, “O.K., so what’s the message? Thematically, what are we doing?” All that film-school bullshit. But I honestly wanted to know. I wanted to pick his brain and ask him, “What are we trying to say here?”
He listened very patiently. I forget exactly the words he used—I wish I could quote him verbatim. But essentially what he said was “It’s your job to write an entertaining story. It’s your job to come up with a script that inspires the actors and director. And then, hopefully, this work will be viewed by moviegoers, and they’ll say, ‘Oh, wow, that was interesting. I didn’t see where that was going. I like the twists and turns. I like the characters.’ ” He said, “That’s the job, period. The froufrou thematic stuff is for other people to figure out. The college professors. All you have to do is tell an engaging story.” And he was right.
NyTimes wants bird trackers
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who's in?
RIP Kenneth Anger
e kelly, tiger
There's baggage and then there's Marlene Dietrich baggage.
Great find. Actual fresh-out-of-the-theater reactions to ALIEN back in 1979. Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/lJ7TuKB0O7
— Bloody Disgusting (@BDisgusting) May 19, 2023
interesting article on espn moving towards conscious decoupling from cable not because they want to but because of its inevitability due to cordcutting. basically they (like many cable networks) will no longer be subsidized by cable subscibers that dont use their service, what this means for pricing, and the dim future for cable.
CLARENCE AND GINNI THOMAS
Politics, Power and the Supreme Court
Kembra
just noticed season 3 of the great snuck in below my radar.
https://mainebeercompany.com/beer/lunch
Maine Lunch IPA
promising?
