Claudia Cardinale with Alain Delon during the filming of Il Gattopardi (1963) ^PG #TCMParty

Thinking about the crafting of Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. Self-deprecating silliness to start; genuine feeling punctuated by light one-liners; the knives sharpening as he addresses issues head on; the steady escalation to a fearless owning of DT. I hope JK and his writing team slept well last night.

Gillian Anderson drops an #XFiles bomb.

It’s 63 years to the day since a desperate Bette Davis put an advert in Variety’s situations wanted pages, resulting in her being cast in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and resuming her decades-long feud with Joan Crawford. Well, that’s the legend, anyway... 🧵

Lying in bed, unable to sleep, the cries of geese somewhere far, far above me. So strange to hear the industry of birds at 1 or 2 a.m.

Kravitz doesn't just tick off a list of brand and decorator names for this; he's thoughtful & intentional with everything in his house. I particularly loved the homages to his mother (The Jeffersons' Roxie Roker), the Steinway made from African wood, his John Lennon story and the reveal at the end.

Everyone is like this. Everyone at 25 looks like some celestial being, impossibly beautiful and alive. And only old people know this. If only we KNEW we were godlike at the time. Anyway, it was very moving to see an ordinary life glorified, as all lives are in death. Sunny afternoon here, love, Ian.

If it doesn’t have a cameo by Basquiat, is it even a rapture?

I had a dream that I was walking with Liam Gallagher’s exact swagger. I could feel the full embodiment of it, which felt so alien to me as a woman and someone with serious physical limitations. It wasn’t arrogance or aggression; it was confidence, freedom, the ability to live fully. It was joy.

Thread. 🧵 When I interviewed Toni Basil back in 2021 we were both kind of amazed that there still hadn’t been a full-length bells-and-whistles documentary made about her incredible life. These people won’t be with us forever, you know.

Jamelle giving us the pep talk we need today.

"Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Try."

"Their goal is to instill fear, to make you feel helpless, hopeless, to break you down. Don’t let them. Educate yourself. Organize. Speak truth to authority. Because the story’s not written — the pen is in your hand."

The moment Columbo switches from “hey, I’m just some schmuck” mode to canny, brilliant detective.

Well now… #TwinPeaks

Have moved into ‘rug over knees’. There is no ‘putting the heat one’, just a geological layering of rugs and quilts and heated blankets, until I resemble an Andy Goldsworthy art piece of gathered hillside wool.

The moment Columbo switches from “hey, I’m just some schmuck” mode to canny, brilliant detective.

if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

This quote is such a gut punch.

James Tate

1/3 One of the most extraordinary discoveries among myriad in David Toop's Two-Headed Doctor (@strangeattractor.bsky.social) are connections/influences of musicians and producers not just on Dr John. Harold Battiste, Black producer, major player, often not paid by many white artists he produced...

Andrew Scott, I know just the biopic for you.

If you ever wanted to get into Hong Kong action cinema but didn’t know where to begin (or more realisticly didn’t have any way to see a lot of what were pretty rare films), Criterion Channel has got you covered in October. It’s like a HK essentials starter pack. A ridiculously stacked selection.

“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects … is to succumb to violence.” ~ Thomas Merton

New pome out, with thanks to @lrb.co.uk :

Ed Dorn

I know no one needs more political content on their feed, but this sounds like some valuable action to take.

Robert Redford liked West Coast jazz, Beat poetry, the Red Sox, art (Modigliani, Matisse, Pollock, Larry Rivers, etc.) and so much more. What an interesting cat!

'Cupboard Love.' (1886) There is real living quality to this picture by Walter Osborne of a farmer's boy with his cat at breakfast; everyday scenes depicting people from small rural communities is a thread which runs throughout his work as a painter.

When’s the next protest march?

Strange sunset, sky all gold streaked, ripe fruit, ballet blush & duck egg, like something from an ending holiday, crave-dreading home, but with a wind to tell folk tales to: real Usborne book stuff, witch weather, big bellied clouds jostling each other like irate pintsmen squaring off in a ‘Spoons

'Dogs in the Park, Kensington Gardens' by Nicholas Hely Hutchinson nicholashelyhutchinson.com

The beating of a crow’s wings on a warm summer night.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This achingly beautiful book is my book of the year. Abdurraqib uses key Black cultural moments to tell his own story, creating not a dry history but an impassioned story told with immediacy and great love. From Merry Clayton’s cry of “rape, murder” on Gimme Shelter to pianist Don Shirley’s

Also: fulsome

It says something about Redford that for all his acclaim and popularity (President’s Men, Ordinary People and Out of Africa were my faves), his greatest achievements were elsewhere. Butch and Sundance were fun on screen, but man, did they know how to leave the world better than how they found it.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This achingly beautiful book is my book of the year. Abdurraqib uses key Black cultural moments to tell his own story, creating not a dry history but an impassioned story told with immediacy and great love. From Merry Clayton’s cry of “rape, murder” on Gimme Shelter to pianist Don Shirley’s

OTD 9/16/1932 Infamy in Hollywood: Actress Peg Entwistle used workman's ladder, climbed to top of the "H" in HOLLYWOODLAND sign, & leapt to death. Notorious case referenced in film & song (Steely Dan, Lana Del Rey) ever since. Entwistle had only made one movie, released posthumously. #filmsky 📽

“[A] guy ‘of African appearance’ surrounded by so-called patriots chanting about mass migration yelled, ‘You're too late! We're already here! We're already here, and there's more of us coming! And you're going to love our music, and you're going to love our food, and it's going to be GREAT!’”

Whenever I play the piano, the cats like to come and listen. Today Hildy was singing along with tiny little miaows

Love this photo so much 👓

“It was one of the loveliest mornings that ever dawned upon this world.”

“There is not enough distance between tragedies for my sadness to mature … “ Hanif Abdurraqib on the horrors of the world, from A Little Devil in America

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Yesterday I only had a fleeting interest in the genre of Mexican Lucia Libre cinema, but today I just want to watch box sets of the films (though I imagine that would be like eating a bucket of Halloween candy). This is fascinating. Everything is fascinating - how do people find time for hate?

173 years ago today, the world was deprived of the extraordinary architect Augustus Pugin – responsible for most of the Palace of Westminster, and swept away at only 40. By his punishing workload, as some sources suggest? Er, no. Most likely the clap

Michael Mann’s very stylish Robbery Homicide Division, starring Tom Sizemore and an amazing supporting cast, ran for just one season in 2002-3.

In an excellent secondhand bookshop

Just remove the word "how" from this MSNBC headline and you don't even have to write an accompanying article.