Purity Of Essence Just totally normal stuff happening here.

I can go to this screening even if I'm out of bubblegum, right?

Do you remember? It's Earth, Wind & Fire Day. *(Isn't it wild how every September 21st turns out to be glorious, sunny and perfect? Thanks to these guys!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLig...

9/21/75: Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon W Frank Pierson/DP Victor Kemper/Ed Dede Allen w/Pacino, Cazale ++ More: @sheilakathleen.bsky.social: www.sheilaomalley.com?p=158969 @positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... @profhendershot.bsky.social: filmint.nu/losing-pacin...

Right on!

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

From @studiocanal.co.uk - a new beautiful 4K of Mike Nichols' still perfect The Graduate, with an essay from me and plenty of extras! hmv.com/store/film-t...

Go fash, lose cash

Carrying this energy. Bring it on.

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

Right on.

“The right of dissent—or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong—is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. “That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.” —Edward R. Murrow, 1947

Thanks, guv.

“The threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed” www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

You know, Rhoda is a real shot in the arm at the end of a tough day.

Yikes. This one's a little too on the nose.

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8/26/68: Opening of the DNC in Chicago Brilliantly covered in Norman Mailer's greatest book [Our take on that one and more: lareviewofbooks.org/article/conf... And in definitive treatment via @profhendershot.bsky.social [HH w/Ted Koppel via @joshuahersh.bsky.social: www.cjr.org/podcast/1968...

Happy Dog Day Afternoon Day, for those who celebrate! This particular DDAD is right on the cusp of the 50 year anniversary of the film, released in September 1975.

"For me, seeing a movie in a real theater with a real audience is an inescapable part of the experience...[W]hen a movie is on fire I want to sense the audience burning. To be carried along in the dark on a wave of laughter or tears is exhilarating." Test this: view Naked Gun in a theater!Fantastic!

Betteridge's Law of Headlines, illustrated. ("Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word No.")

Proud of my governor for standing up for democracy and *doing* something, welcoming TX Dems in our state.

This is a good piece from Columbia Journalism Review. I just got a CJR membership, 50 bucks a year. It's a good deal if you've got some cash to spare after canceling your WaPo subscription. You can follow @columjournreview.bsky.social‬, too!

"Will Lewis, the paper’s CEO, characterized the opinion reorientation as part of an organization-wide “'reinvention journey.'” Right...it's less like bowing to autocracy than a beauty makeover? Even the obit crew has left. So it's up to ex-subscribers to offer this simple message: RIP WaPo.

What a poster! Fail Safe is basically Strangelove without satire/humor. Haven't seen it in a while, but recall Walter Matthau is great as a right-wing, John Birch Society type. He always wanted to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor, and this is one of few times he got to do it. Cf. Pelham 1 2 3.

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire Gift 🔗

Clown.

Love the Nashville photo, but feel pretty strongly the film should have made the top five list. Recently saw Nashville with a large audience, and wow, Chaplin had them laughing hysterically! "It's Elliott Gould!"

Always love a condensed history lesson from Dickerson!

Nightmare.

She's marvelous.

So this is a Tim Robinson sketch, right?

Column: Trump now has completely sullied the office of president & I'm not referring to the Oval's gilt excess. His latest outrage--lying that a former president is a traitor--is one distraction from his Epstein mess that demands attention, and condemnation. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (1955)

"Corporate media institutions are a key part of the pathologies afflicting our society today," writes the always excellent @victorpickard.bsky.social. "This latest attack on the press and its foreseeable surrender is exhibit A for why an oligarchic profit-driven media system is bad for democracy."

Everything about the production of this story is unconscionable. The NYT desperately needs a public editor.

OK, love Ned Beatty. But THE LAMPS, right?

No, Wyoming, that's not a country.

No joke: Whoever made this call, at NYT, NEEDS TO EXPLAIN IN PUBLIC why he/she thought this was the right call. Why "needs to"? From *any* other institution, NYT would be all over them with demands: "How did this happen? Who made the decision? What about XX YY ZZ?" They need a Public Editor.

Tough July 4, but not giving up. Will go with this image for today.

"Uneasy time" is when your shoes are a little too tight, or maybe you've got a headache and have run out of pain reliever. Come on NYT, get it together!

I'm with Fallows here. Enough. If Collins and Murkowski actually vote in a way that "expresses" their "concerns," I'd be happy to read a story about what happened. Otherwise journalists, cut it out!

Waking up this morning and wondering how primaries became factional contests between ideologically-distinct candidates, and whether these primaries have transformed parties? Well do I have just the book for you… tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx

Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle theonion.com/bezos-w...

The gams on these gals!