"Norwegian Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister joins The Substance (2024) and Shell (2024) in an increasing number of films that use body horror to address the way the beauty industry shapes, mutilates, and grinds up women." splicetoday.com/moving-picture…
"Harland Williams beat Sam Hyde because he never broke character while Hyde attacked him. In fact, he enjoyed his adversary’s violence even more than Hyde did."
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"You don’t need a gold toilet to sit on the commode throne to rule and ruin; rue the decades of blood, slaughtered, sacrificed, and laid bare to die in some faraway land, fighting for vagaries. War, the great enemy of equality."
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Obscure YT of the day: Nicolas Roeg (DON'T LOOK NOW, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH) directs Elizabeth Taylor & Mark Harmon in Tennessee Williams' SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (1989)! Rip Torn & Valerie Perrine costar!
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"At this point it’s a vast body of work, sprawling masterfully over the history of American music. But when I was a kid in the 1970s, it was a musical education."
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"Those that expected The Lowdown to be a hard-hitting jubilation on the merits of independent journalism may be disappointed to find that Rayborn’s personal ethics are matched by his ego." splicetoday.com/pop-culture/a-…
"Americans must ask: do they want their democracy wired into a grid of perpetual observation? Data isn’t neutral when it’s harvested at scale and filtered through software designed to predict, to police, to punish."
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"Kimmel returned to the air. Having stuck his foot in his mouth about an assassination, he took it out on his own terms—no apologies, but humane words about the tragedy of Kirk’s death."
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"The picture above is of my dad and an older brother (with his wife raising a skeptical eye) at a holiday gathering at our Uncle Joe’s many years ago. I’m sure they were jabbering about Vietnam, Nixon and the 1-A draft status of two other brothers." splicetoday.com/politics-and-m…
"A man for the hour, for the times, 1960, big guy, good-looking guy, with a smile that inspired heavy rotation, untold hip-swivels, and a hell of a good time." splicetoday.com/music/a-man-fo…
"Bergdorf’s display language leans dramatic but miniatures depend on the invite to lean in and discover. I strove to bridge those worlds: something visual enough to catch attention across a distance, but layered with tiny details for those who come closer"
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"Geldof: Even that is very limited: working at a slaughter-house, riding heavy-machinery—yada yada yada.
Fraatz: I started working at a bar called Fischlabor. I started fashion college, but left after a year because I hated it. I couldn’t dance to it." splicetoday.com/pop-culture/i-…
"My friends and I were punk fans, at the time, and a lot of it was the ability of the bands to question not only Reagan’s America, but Manhattan and Hollywood’s as well."
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"Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? Maybe a non-zero amount of people won’t turn it off. I’ll be one of them, looking for my name in tiny font at the end of the credit crawl, if there is one—memory serves, but not today." splicetoday.com/moving-picture…
"Although Bateman was perhaps a bit too sarcastic and self-deprecating to make it as a traditional leading man in the wake of the critical acclaim of Arrested Development, he transformed into one of the most consistent auteurs in prestige television." splicetoday.com/moving-picture…
"But Eleanor the Great turns into the plot of Dear Evan Hansen, as the lie continues to spiral and results in media coverage. Eleanor soon befriends a college journalism student (Erin Kellyman), grieving the recent passing of her own Jewish mother." splicetoday.com/moving-picture…
"I can’t stand Judge, because he’s a Yankee, and have hoped against hope that he’d be caught in a PED scandal (or a Wander Franco situation), but doubt that’s in the cards." splicetoday.com/moving-picture…
"Professors and bureaucrats gain influence through institutions, credentials, and connections. Entrepreneurs gain it by risking everything and delivering results. That’s why so many academics distrust Musk. He bypasses the gatekeepers."
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"Some cracks in Joe Rogan’s comedy empire in Texas are starting to show, which is inevitable when one comedian wields so much power. That’s especially true when that comedian isn’t funny."
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