Jarvis Cocker hosting massive screening of KES at Royal Festival Hall on 19 July. He’ll discuss the film with Cillian Murphy, Samantha Morton, Stephen Graham.. the soundtrack will be played live.. I’d guess Ken Loach will show if he’s up to it. What a marvellous tribute.

An honour to have one’s uncle/mentor/lifestyle affirmed by Eno

The Charles brothers told the Cheers writers room 'We're writing radio.' Dialogue reveals character, jokes come character. If you leave the show running on a background tab like I have the past few days, you find they weren't kidding. It really works. You'd get shot for telling a room that now.

HST hated Nixon because he knew at some level, consciously or not, he was Nixon. The yin/yang. He hated Nixon like you can only hate your own kind. In a lot of ways he couldn't live without him. When Vance dies he would (will?) maybe fire off a shot in the air & turn up the ballgame.

Anything you see in Nixon, he also contains its exact opposite in equal measure. It's amazing & maddening.

Richard III is the easiest answer but I think Lear is appropriate.

Per @jamellebouie.net - 'Vance is Nixon if Nixon were a dipshit & not an impressive guy' - one thing I hope I've made clear w/ @dicknixon.bsky.social over the years is there isn't one Nixon. Any single idea of Nixon is wrong. There are innumerable Nixons, which is his success & problem.

Racking up that sweet, sweet, no-basis-in-fact engagement...

The problem is a new Smiths documentary which is apparently a devious conspiracy to make known bastard Johnny Marr look good.. or something 🙄

The name is likely a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon crepel, meaning 'covered passage'. Corruption can also turn things boring - Sherborne Lane, near Cannon Street, was originally 'Shiteburn Lane'

Beano #847, October 11, 1958

From a 1923 book I have about Cripplegate (mostly where the Barbican is now, obliterated in the Blitz). The tree is still there. Wordsworth probably wrote about it in 1797; by the 1850s it was enough of a landmark that shopkeepers used it as a location. 230 years old?

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

The gush of water in Sherlock, Jr. knocked Buster out cold. He came to, got up, kept working. Years later his doctor was looking at his neck - 'When did you break your neck?' (In general Buster was unscathed. He learned how to fall 'like a cat' since he was 3. He considered it professionalism.)

The great Beckett actor Peter Marinker has Alzheimer's. He's doing Krapp again, which he last did in 1983. Beckett's estate has such respect for his work that they've allowed some changes to the staging to make the production about his disease - www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

This is such an interesting shot. Cheers is full of you-are-there shots but it’s low, there’s glare, it lingers on the guy in green, & he’s too close to the camera. You’re at your table, you heard Carla yelling, looked up..

He's 21. Moved to London from Uganda four years ago. He did the Knowledge in two years five months. (3-4 years is average, 7 not unheard of.) His father & brother are both cabbies. He also does computer science at university & takes acting classes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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I like you man but I just submitted something, get God off my back

Debbie Harry at the Supergirl premiere the other day 😎

COACH Why don't you and Vera have kids, Norm? NORM I can't, Coach. COACH Oh, I'm sorry. NORM (like he's doing Eugene O'Neill) I look at Vera... I just can't.

The Cheers set is so great because it was designed by Richard Sylbert, who designed Baby Doll, Splendor in the Grass, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Rosemary's Baby, Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Chinatown, Shampoo, Dick Tracy, Carlito's Way, etc. 🤪

A guy who stood on Fordham Rd 18 months ago & literally could not get people to look at him is now the biggest power broker NY has seen in a long time.

With respect I think she's being mild. Rockwell was fiercely committed to civil rights. He quit the Saturday Evening Post because he was sick of producing hokum for money. His masterpiece, The Problem We All Live With, was produced for Look, who let him paint whatever he wanted.

Saw me, ran to me, yelling, remembered he was mad, tried to ignore me, failed, jumped into lap in crazed fashion. When I finally went to play stood at register wagging low tail to make his point

This is absolutely true

Yogi Berra (b. 1925) dedicated his life to civil rights, decency & fairness for all, one of his last acts was to say MLB & sports in general need to get right with LGBTQ people - 'respect the game, respect everybody.' Buster Posey just wants to answer baseball questions @mollyknight.bsky.social

Some are painting this as woke public vs right wing players - it's really the old Bay Area striking back. Bohemian queer SF is on its last gasp bc of tech. A lot of people have loved ones who died of AIDS not that long ago. The lifers are tired of being spit on. The press knows it, smells blood.

This comment on the Vance/Mrs Vance clip reminded me of the story about Oliver Sacks hearing his aphasiac patients screaming with laughter - he found them watching Reagan's State of the Union

The line in the theatre is you need to be old enough to play Lear & young enough to lift Cordelia. Not much of it about.

This is the exact inverse of those photos where you can see Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin devouring each other from three feet away

Walk by this a lot, always wondered if it was one of those licenced copies you used to see, and uh -

McKellen, aged 87, has played Lear four times, over a thousand separate performances, maybe more than anyone else. He’s about to do it again in the autumn, in a modern deconstruction by Simon Stephens & Jay Miller. Like I said, the man just wants surprise now..

His continued belief in ACME products is questionable, however

Saw video of Charles talking to Judi Dench at the Chelsea Flower Show - they’d met before but it was striking he was clearly thrilled to see her, it wasn’t the King doing his thing, he was enjoying himself

Heatwave by Ted Hughes

Beano #1564, July 8, 1972

Beano #696, November 19, 1955

Beano #354, February 5, 1949

Beano #700, December 17, 1955

Was Burnham a careerist former Blairite also-ran? Yes Can you get elected 3 times by heavy margins in Manc & lack skill? Hell no Will he make annoying Oasis references? Guaranteed Chances of success? Marginal Better than the last several legitimate clinical sociopaths? Almost surely

Billy Wilder's birthday. 'I have ten commandments. One is Thou Shalt Not Bore. Ten is Thou Shalt Have Final Cut.' * different to his ten rules of screenwriting, which are basically every screenwriting book distilled to haiku

The other thing is, it’s in real time. 80 or so minutes in real time. Always wanted to do that.

It belongs in a MUSEUM