If you go back and watch a movie like All the Presidents's Men, it will really hit you how massively our country has changed in my lifetime. It was unthinkable for any of today's headlines to ever even exist back then.
A lot of you think it's always been this bad, but it hasn't. It really hasn't.
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“Fat Thumbs Tonight” is my Bluesky theme song. Key of D.
A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit:
A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...
It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:
Not. Soon. Enough!
The modern dilemma. Feel that way about photography.
Somehow got a VHS of this movie, probably in ‘88. Kept watching with my chin on the floor. Mr. Jittlov was ahead of his time. And space.
It’s an outrage that Bill Maher is getting the Mark Twain Prize! I mean Greg Gutfeld is right there!
Is this a writing exercise? Find the last battery? ‘Cause I’d read that.
Ha! Funny. I came up with “better” endings for Robert Frost poems. Didn’t think to submit it.
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Friend of a friend turned 2nd bedroom of his apt. into a theater, with 16 & 35 projectors, actual movie seats, a piano and organ. Was lucky to see Wings with Clara Bow accompanied by Andrew Simpson, who had not seen it before but hit every moment. Magic.
Ha! I recently submitted a Criterion Closet story to McSweeney’s. Got a kind rejection letter. This is very funny.
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It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”
The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.
@bcdreyer.social I apologize in advance, but the apostrophe S when the name ends with S just looks bad to me. The NYT headline about poor Britney Spears’s troubles set me off. Can there be no exceptions? Here’s a picture of my copy of your book to help sales. Thank you.
The only show that matters.
Hillary Clinton’s fire and fury opening statement to the House Oversight Committee.
The press needs to just stop asking Trump questions. He doesn’t know anything and his incoherent ramblings just become outrage fodder, which too many journalists keep trying to make into “policy statements.” More investigations into the actual damage he’s causing.
True fact: I met Susan Sarandon when she was sitting by a friend’s pool reading the script for Paddy Chayefsky’s “The Hospital.” I guess they went with Diana Rigg. But, hey what a cast. This is too much of a name-drop for a Sunday. I apologize.
I just donated to my friend @bethmacy.bsky.social’s run for Congress in Virginia. Been meaning to for awhile. (Sorry for the delay, Beth.) There are no other candidates like her: a real writer (Dopesick, Truevine, Papergirl) & a real reporter. Brave as all get out. bethmacyforcongress.com
Love this. I have lots of film negs of the back of Congressional, Twinbrook, Pike Plaza and more.
Also, long story but I left the agency by slamming my fist on the boss’s desk and shouting, “Fuck you, I quit!” My finest hour.
Power of dance. Of art. Of the people.
Mid-vacation I had to go back to the office to get my check. As soon as I stepped in the door I literally felt, as my pal Obi-Wan put it, a disturbance in the force. Seriously I’d only been away a few days but the mad tension was palpable.
EPB started buying up other agencies. Called it mergers. But boss said after, “We own them.” Lovely.
Off Wisconsin. Might be another agency. All ad people think they’re it. You’re lucky to have escaped. Ad exec once quit on a Friday so he could ruin the owner’s weekend.
Earle Palmer Brown was the biggest. I worked there before I knew anything. They had the Roy Rogers account.
