Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

butt-dialed team now 1-1

BUCK: welcome to Monday Night Football going out across the fractured and shattered united states. we'd especially like to welcome our newest viewers from the greater Omaha Demilitarized Zone who are joining us courtesy of the warlord Lord Bones, the Water Prophet. AIKMAN: Tremendous warlord, Joe.

Roses are red Brine gives pickles their pickleness

Good name alert

this is my choice for skeet of the year

watching kimmel tomorrow

A friendly hello to everyone here who told me I was naive, deluded, and a fool to believe that there was any difference between suspension and cancellation. As it happens, I do have a little experience covering the entertainment business! (Kimmel is back tomorrow night.)

Tuesday night monologue first genuinely must-see tv moment of 2025

Happy New Year, for those who observe.

oh the French

The Coens had writer's block while writing Miller's Crossing. Their solution? To take a 3 week break and write Barton Fink, a film about a writer with writer's block. They then put in two references to it: the name of Tom's residence & the newspaper article about a hotel fire.

David Fincher’s SEVEN was released 30 years ago today.

only 64 more sleeps until WAKE UP DEAD MAN opens in theaters

Big News! The Toronto Society of Architects is now doing architecture boat tours! I got to ride along for the first one this weekend. Details at torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/events/

These people are really running low on normal behavior to pathologize

Cormac McCarthy's living room, with shelves he designed to fit 1,000 books, or 5% of his personal library. 📸Wayne Martin Belger, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

what is the best epic* novel you have read recently *precise qualifications for epic up to you

people keep reposting this but cmon it’s made up. the stock hasn’t “collapsed” (it’s barely down) and there are precisely no numbers on how many subscription cancellations there have been

I asked my wife @knairn.bsky.social the same exercise and these were her answers

Throwback jerseys by American city that I think would be most likely to make a stranger say "hell yeah sick jersey"

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

It’s Batman Day. People call Batman ‘66 silly but let’s remember that Christopher Nolan ends The Dark Knight Rises with a slightly higher budget version of this classic scene from that movie.

my most Gen X complaint is that just because you’re paranoid don’t mean they’re not after you

Still incredible which one of these guys is viewed by the state as reacting inappropriately.

I’m all for declaring one weekend day as a Political Sabbath, with no political posts, on social media lots of people will object because EVERYTHING TERRIBLE ALWAYS which is kind of why we need to do it

in my estimation KING OF COMEDY is Scorsese’s third best film. Absolute masterpiece and incredibly prescient

2006: Jacob Wilson to Jack Wilson 2025: Jack Wilson to Jacob Wilson

Very good reporting/analysis from @tvmojoe.bsky.social on KImmel/Disney/ABC that provides real answers to many of the "Why don't they just..." questions. www.vulture.com/article/bob-...

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

excellent thread

If you've seen ALL IS LOST, about a man adrift at sea, you know it was one of Robert Redford's most remarkable performances. You may not know that, during the filming, director J.C. Chandor and Redford had a very candid conversation about their feelings about death www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

If you've seen ALL IS LOST, about a man adrift at sea, you know it was one of Robert Redford's most remarkable performances. You may not know that, during the filming, director J.C. Chandor and Redford had a very candid conversation about their feelings about death www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

sorry to have to keep doing this

Important (short) thread. Iger screwed up. My suspicion is that he realizes, or will soon realize, that he screwed up, and I believe his calculus will now be "Do I dig in, or do I figure out a way to cool this down?" Either is possible.

I don’t follow football closely and my team is full of players I’ve never heard of like a Key & Peele sketch come to life

repeatedly tapping the JIMMY KIMMEL HAS NOT BEEN FIRED sign

Hey MetaAI can you tell me how to make a Korean inspired steak sauce?

of interest only to me but I literally somehow butt-dialed my way into Yahoo Fantasy Football League I have their app on my phone for baseball and must have ass-mashed the wrong button, joined a league, auto-drafted and here we are

This still seems relevant! And I’m going to give away the punchline of this post I published *Tuesday* — before the whole Kimmel ABC fiasco: End subscriptions that reinforce everything bad that’s going on right now and pay for indie media & creativity (if you can) www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

tagging smarter TV minds than mine @sepinwall.bsky.social @lindaholmes.bsky.social @tvmojoe.bsky.social

one interesting dynamic in the suspension of JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, and the involvement of affiliate networks, is that late-night shows, despite declining ad revenue, are important tentpoles for affiliate local 11 o'clock news, which do tend to be profitable. This was behind the whole Leno/Conan thing!

I'm not sure there's a more perfect distillation of the Person Who Is The Polar Opposite Of Me than "would purchase a fridge that serves them ads in their home"

Very important: Jimmy Kimmel Live has NOT been canceled. Did the odds of that happening go way up today? Sure. Ditto the chances of Kimmel deciding to walk over how this has played out. But despite Trump celebrating and some here mourning, as of 7:22 p.m. PDT, JKL has not been axed.

Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

oh man this is so painful it plays out like an SNL sketch

someone's obviously still smarting from the "isn't it past your jailtime?" joke

Goggles up, Shota and Seiya rawdogging bubbly