I saw someone say on here during the #Olympics opening ceremony Friday night that “the most Italian moment of all time just occurred.” Not certain exactly what moment was being referred to, but I’m guessing it was this one.

Compose some of the world’s most beloved operas and 150 years later you too can become a giant-headed mascot at an #Olympics opening ceremony.

That Ricky Martin appearance choked me up. Someone who had to hide who he was for so long, who felt compelled to sing in English for “crossover” appeal, whose music, like Latin music writ large, was called “a fad”… and there wouldn’t be Bad Bunny without him. #SuperBowl

Rooting for the #Seahawks mostly because Sam Darnold’s story is great — and if he can have this kind of success, this #Bucs fan knows Baker Mayfield can someday too. #SuperBowl

Boonta Eve Classic > Super Bowl

It's Gasparilla Day in Tampa Bay! If you're not from here, it's this insane parade (the 3rd largest in the country behind the Rose Parade and Macy's) where 300K people dress up as pirates, "invade" Tampa from a huge flotilla, then march with floats for several miles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BykM...

2026 is just brutal. www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...

Phenomenal piece by Christopher Spata about a couple families from St. Pete who moved to Minneapolis and what they're dealing with now. A powerful local angle on the national story none of us can look away from. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

I'll never forget when I was three years old and it snowed in the Tampa Bay area on Christmas Eve 1989. My mom told me to look at the front door...and there it was: Actual flurries! I mean, just flurries. There would never have been accumulation. But magical nonetheless. "Gulf Effect Snow" ahead?

Quite a Monday to start my job at the Tampa Bay Times tomorrow, with both Venezuela and the possibility of the Bucs parting ways with their coach.

Good to know, after the events of this weekend, that the new CBS Evening News will launch Monday with segments on DJ Khaled and David Beckham.

TCM programming “Only You,” one of the most underrated rom-coms of all time, as their last movie of 2025 is a genius decision for the ages. Bravo, @tcmtv.bsky.social!

One of the things I’m proudest of in 2025: Launching two new newsletter products, with sponsorships attached, in my last weeks at IndieWire: Our Top of the Line craft newsletter by Sarah Shachat and our animation newsletter Sketch to Screen. Here’s Sarah’s latest. www.indiewire.com/features/cra...

From an ocean away, my traditional NYE post: E.B. White in the New Yorker 91 years ago (1934), letting us see that there’s beauty in howling into the uncertain void. Running screaming into 2026 with all of you.

Unusual distinction for Bing Crosby: Academy Award winner AND two-time World Series champion as an owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pretty sure he’s the only one ever to have achieved that.

Beginning of my last week at IndieWire. Fun way to kick it off: Winning 3rd Place at the LA Press Club's National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for my David Lynch obit. And multiple other nods for IndieWire across the board. Give my piece a read here: bit.ly/3YcAzPg

Same energy. @raysbaseball.com

One great era ends, and another begins. After seven years, I'm leaving IndieWire to take on a role as head of digital engagement at the Tampa Bay Times, a publication I grew up with and that first put me on the path to journalism. I start January 5.

This is massive. Davie became Director General after years as CEO of BBC Studios when I was there — was critical to diversifying the BBC’s revenue streams and expanding its commercial efforts.

Look who visited @indiewire.com’s “St. Pete bureau”! Our own Marcus Jones! He was in town for a few days visiting family, and meeting with me was a fun bonus. Took him to the Birchwood Canopy and the Don CeSar.

I miss baseball already.

The White House movie theater was created in 1942. JFK watched "From Russia with Love" there two days before his assassination. Jimmy Carter watched "Apocalypse Now" with Coppola there even before its Cannes premiere. Now it is no more. For @indiewire.com. www.indiewire.com/features/com...

A special place. That room right above the arch was my freshman dorm room at Northwestern. Visited on this trip as part of my annual meetings being on the ⁦‪School of Communication’s board of advisors. 20 years have passed, and 20 students after me have lived there. Wishing them the best.

Wrote this for @indiewire.com yesterday: When you picture Diane Keaton, the first image that comes to mind is probably her wearing a broad black hat, vest, and tie as the title character in “Annie Hall.” It was a look she often replicated in real life.

Glimpsed outside on the street lamp outside my house: an osprey! In the car when I took this… as I pulled forward he flew off. Must have been a six-foot wingspan, and a dead rodent was in his talons.

Some may ask, “Well, didn’t Disney fire Roseanne and Gina Carano as well?” Separately, I’d mention Disney ending working with anti-Trump author Chuck Wendig as well. www.indiewire.com/news/analysi...

Jane Fonda gave @indiewire.com a statement about Redford: “It hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone. I can’t stop crying. He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for.” www.indiewire.com/news/general...

Robert Redford. Struggling to think of an actor who gave more performances that stir my soul. And by creating Sundance, he leaves an infrastructure and a model for supporting artist-led filmmaking that's needed now more than ever. Quite a legacy.

The absolute greatest.

Quite a night: 13 Emmys for "The Studio," 8 for "Adolescence," and 5 for "The Pitt," the shows that also won the Best Comedy, Limited Series, and Drama categories. Separately, "The Penguin" won 9 Emmys overall and "Severance" eight. www.indiewire.com/awards/resul...

Before tonight, Seth Rogen had been nominated for five #Emmys in previous years and never won. Now he's won three just tonight (Best Actor, Best Directing, and Best Writing in a Comedy), with a possible Best Comedy Series win still to come. www.indiewire.com/awards/resul...

I did not have Kathy Bates and Alan Cumming referencing their outstanding work in the Rob Marshall-directed "Annie" TV movie from the late '90s on my #Emmys bingo card!

This Beyond Fest retrospective of @realgdt.bsky.social's films looks incredible. A must for any cinephile in L.A. www.indiewire.com/news/festiva...

What a privilege to be able to exclusively debut the first image of Martin Scorsese's character in "In the Hand of Dante" for @indiewire.com. Used this as an opportunity to wax rhapsodic a bit about his acting in general. www.indiewire.com/news/analysi...

Consider me PRO Alcaraz haircut!

Loved talking to Scott Shooman, head of IFC Entertainment Group, about the extraordinary early response to what's shaping up to be one of the most anticipated movies of the fall: "Good Boy," a PG-13 horror movie told entirely from a dog's point of view. www.indiewire.com/news/analysi...

I've been so excited about our '70s Week. For the Top 100 I wrote up "Jeremiah Johnson," "Dersu Uzala," "Death in Venice," "Ceddo," "The Harder They Come," "Welfare," "All the President's Men," "Star Wars," "McCabe & Mrs. Miller," and "Chinatown." www.indiewire.com/lists/best-7...

IndieWire spoke w/me on end of Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I noted public media outlets are still fighting to stay in operation and that federal funding gave every American a stake in public media, whether or not they donate. https://loom.ly/ddT9SU0

They say Gen-Z doesn't care about movie theaters. Well, she's proving them wrong. The Beach Theatre is personally meaningful in my life as well — it's where I saw my first-ever subtitled foreign-language movie when I was 10. So happy it lives again. www.indiewire.com/features/int...

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. Performatively "evil" onstage and yet the ultimate family man on TV. Tried to reconcile these contradictions here for @indiewire.com. www.indiewire.com/news/obituar...

Really dug the new nearly five-hour Billy Joel documentary. Had a lot to say about it here. www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

Love how Colbert says of his job, "I wish someone else was getting it." This is a dangerous capitulation to Trump. www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...

I interviewed Trump 14 years ago at his Comedy Central Roast, and a memory from that has always stuck with me — one newly relevant in light of his renewed (and shameful) attacks on Rosie O'Donnell. Had to write about this for @indiewire.com. www.indiewire.com/features/com...

Almost certainly inviting consternation with this one. But I stand by it — there's a universe where things could be so much worse for TCM viewers.

Did some digging into the venue situation for the final Sundance in Park City in a few months. www.indiewire.com/news/festiva...

Was Ingmar Bergman a Nazi supporter? At one time in his life, undeniably, though he renounced the ideology when he learned about the Holocaust. Dove deep into this for @indiewire.com based on Stellan Skarsgard reopening the issue. www.indiewire.com/news/general...

My thoughts for @indiewire.com on the passing of the great character actor Michael Madsen.

Happy 50th anniversary to "Jaws," one of the greatest of all American movies and still Steven Spielberg's best, in my opinion. I wrote these remarks eight years ago for @indiewire.com's weekly critics survey (even before I'd actually joined the IndieWire staff), and I stand by them.

Hollywood's coolest awards show returned this week, with rousing speeches from awardees Ben Stiller, Colin Farrell, Mara Brock Akil, Aminah Nieves, Kathy Bates, and more. IndieWire Honors is always unlike anything else: A pure celebration rather than a competition. www.indiewire.com/gallery/indi...

What an honor to profile a breakout star if ever there was one, Aminah Nieves, the young Indigenous actress who portrayed a harrowing storyline on Taylor Sheridan's "1923." It's a great show — and an important one because of the history she illuminates. www.indiewire.com/features/int...