Thanks Rick. That place you work in is pretty cool.

I went to see Interstellar at the Royal Albert Hall last weekend, with a live score by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the original soundtrack organist Roger Sayer. It was a profoundly emotional experience, which I've written about here.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Truly sorry if you're on the W̶i̶r̶e̶Spineless line-up this year and were looking forward to playing but if you don't pull out you are supporting something unequivocally horrendous.

A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line.

An issue made with a lot of love. TWO mega Spielberg exclusives by Ian Freer, with an out of this world shoot by Art Streiber in LA. A huge interview with Jet Li by Kevin EG Perry. Hayley Campbell on set of Rivals s2. Mother Mary! The Sheep Detectives! We contain multitudes.

Genuinely quite shocked by Wireless’s decision. He has a song called Heil Hitler! He sold swastika T-shirts! He’s wildly antisemitic! Booking him is amoral to the point of nihilism

Four Jewish ambulances set on fire in north London, with Starmer calling attacks 'horrific' The attack on the Jewish community ambulance service in north London is being treated as an

Antisemitism, arson AND attacking the ambulance service in one go? While getting caught doing so on camera? Well done, morons. Fighting the good fight there.
This is no surprise though. Enough of Jewish people being dismissed for feeling unsafe in the UK. This is no joke.

Cinema.

John Davidson, on Facebook this evening. A prince.

A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was ... The BBC Tourette syndrome furore shows that the stigma exposed by the I Swear film is ongoing

“The misplaced criticism arises partly from a failure to understand the realities of coprolalia. It arises, too, from the ways in which we now think about racism and diversity.” My Sunday @theobserveruk.bsky.social column online early on Thursday: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye By failing to remove John Davidson’s tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled people, says Guardian assistant Opinion editor Jason Okundaye

I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye

Thanks. I totally went overboard for the first few questions. It definitely got more interesting when I let them talk!

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Empire’s Alex Godfrey catches writer/director duo Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans on Golden form – diving deep into the movie’s origins and its subsequent success.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6Ixs...

Guilty as charged

Catherine O'Hara was amazing forever, but even in the last couple of years alone it seemed she was having the time of her life, scene-stealing like there was no tomorrow. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, The Last Of Us, The Studio... she just WENT for it, every time. A gigantic force.

10 years ago I interviewed Dexter Fletcher. I asked him about Alan Rickman, who'd been a proper guardian angel to him, saving his career and possibly his life. I've stuck a bit here, but there's much more on, erm, Tumblr - it's a sweet read about a beautiful man.
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Fact or Fiction - leo leigh

If you want to know more about eccentric table-tennis genius/hustler/superstar Marty Reisman - obviously a major inspiration for Marty Supreme - Leo Leigh's brilliant 2014 feature documentary about him is here, now for free. It's an hour long and you'll have a great time with it.

Skeksis Dinner - The Dark Crystal - The Jim Henson Company YouTube video by The Jim Henson Company

Christmas lunch.

Thanks so much - very very nice of you to say. Really appreciate you reading it and I'm glad you liked it - thanks.

Me too.

Improvised on the spot, too.

Thanks JK. It was a dream. He was too, I spoke to him a couple of times over the years. He loved what he did so much.

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

Reading about Rob Reiner & his wife Michele, I am heartsick.

I think of this line from Stand By Me: “Two men got into an argument. One of them pulled a knife. Chris, who had always made the best peace, tried to break it up…”

Rest in peace. Life is not fair, but we do the best that we can with it.

Seeing a lot of people reporting on this and I don't know why anyone would think for one second that this unverified Instagram account is actually Daniel Day-Lewis. As if he would chose this as his profile photo.

Writing about Boogie Nights. PTA really went for it with the John Holmes recreations.

Cult cinema hero Udo Kier: ‘I like the film, it’s very brutal' He has worked with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier – as well as gone underage drinking with Rainer Fassbinder and chatted up hustlers with River Phoenix

I spent a glorious hour talking to Udo Kier in 2019. He was at home in the desert with his dog, Liza Minnelli. He talked about meeting gigolos with River Phoenix (for research). He told me about directing himself as a paraplegic transsexual telephone sex-worker. Obviously I loved him.