I cannot lie: It’s worth it to still have Twitter if only for when Duke loses in historically catastrophic fashion.

I enjoyed PROJECT HAIL MARY well enough—Ryan Gosling’s charisma could power galaxies. But Rocky was so cutesy. I felt like it couldn’t decide if it wanted to be a children’s film or a film for grownups. Did the book have this problem?

Anyone else remember Miles Simon? Swaggiest college basketball player ever.

"The Verizon lady!" Me, on the way home from PROJECT HAIL MARY. (It was bugging me.)

I’m just gonna say it. Drag Race relies too much on lip synching. I understand that that’s its whole “deal.” But the wrong queen went home tonight because she couldn’t do a backflip.

I love that Riz Ahmed is explicitly campaigning to be Bond. And you know what? I'm here for it. He'd be a great Bond.

Everyone is happy that Punch the monkey has a girlfriend, meanwhile the stuffed orangutan is going through some Toy Story shit.

If anyone encounters this poster in the wild could you buy it for me? I’m good for it, I promise!

I can smell the Axe Body Spray from Baltimore

I just realized Valerie Cherish is Kathy Lee Gifford.

YES! It is a bottle!!!

I thought the most recent (bottle?)* episode of LOVE STORY was extraordinary (save for Carolyn's loneliness resembling a VOGUE spread). They really captured how couples' argue with hurt feelings and escalating cruelty—all from a place of self-protection. * @kvanaren.bsky.social ??

Extremely fancy man scarf alert on tonight’s Jeopardy.

Oh man, not Nicholas Brendon. This sucks. Also, it’s somewhat chilling that Xander was basically the Chandler of Buffy and now they’re both gone.

The commercial where the guy says his heart kept skipping a beat but he “didn’t give it much thought” drives me insane. HIS HEART!! Are there actually men like this? Or is he just a strawman for this idiotic commercial?

This week's New Yorker includes my profile of Lisa Kudrow, an actress I've been thinking about since 8th grade, when I started talking like Phoebe Buffay at school. She—and Valerie Cherish—are back with the delicious final season of "The Comeback." I was on set. 🙏 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Imagine thinking Aaron Judge was going to come through in a post-season-like atmosphere.

I’ve seen Venezuela play and I’ve seen Team USA play and I regret to inform you if this was a swag-off, Venezuela would win going away

My attempt at ranking the last 20 Best Picture winners. There are some serious duds on this list!

Apparently Matt Berry called the Oscars the Winter Ozempics 😆

I have enormous faith in Barack Obama’s decency, intelligence, and probity and I wouldn’t even want HIM to have the amount of unchecked power that Donald Trump has. I’ll never forgive the people who let this madman seize king-like powers.

I break down the winners and losers of last night's Oscars.

Timmy should take heart: Leonardo DiCaprio was 41 when he won his first Oscar.

Chloe Zhao (whose actress won Best Actress) and Ryan Coogler (whose actor won Best Actor) just hugged as if to say, "We did it!"

Our generation's best director finally has his Oscar!

I think more than one presenter has screwed up by acting too cool for the silly bit.

I haven't cried this much since I watched THE WAY WE WERE.

That awkward shot of Conan just lost the Oscars the Emmy.

This guy is wasting his gifts behind the camera.

"Sorry we've sucked for so long" is...unusual marketing

Timothee Chalamet really is the center of gravity in Hollywood right now.

Well, that was fucking cool.

Seriously dreading the In Memoriam tonight.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer walked so K-Pop Demon Hunters could run.

Wait Leo is in his Clark Gable era and I kind of...like it?

Exactly what a vampire would wear.

Starting with an homage to WEAPONS. The Oscars have changed.

I want to think Culture Gabfest’s @junethomas.bsky.social for turning me onto the audiobook of “I Regret Almost Everything” by Keith McNally, read by Richard E. Grant. Absolutely addictive. This was my first audiobook and I chose well. (Too well? I fear other audiobooks won’t measure up.)

I made my Oscar picks and talked about the weird, parasocial relationship you all have with Timothée Chalamet.

I made my Oscar picks and talked about the weird, parasocial relationship you all have with Timothée Chalamet.

Editing a story. Y'all know what a cash wrap is? (I didn't)

God help me I wanna try the Big Arch.

Ben Shapiro’s eyebrows and Donna Kelce’s home renovation have saved Twitter.

There is a fantasized sex scene every 10 minutes in VLADIMIR. I’m up to episode six and there have easily been 20 of them. One or two would have conveyed the exact same point.

I don’t think it’s possible to overstate how important Letterboxd has been to the revival of film.

Daryl Hannah: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This?

Frances Tiafoe walks like his quad muscles are so tight he can barely move and then the point starts and he glides across the tennis court like a gazelle.

I like that VLADIMIR hates the phrase “you’re fine” as much as I do.

As a classical cellist, I am singularly unbothered by what’s Timothée Chalamet said. He was just trying to be oh-so edgy and cool. Somewhat embarrassing for him, but hardly cause for an international summit.

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