RIP Tom Noonan. In 2009 I convinced the @nytimes.com to let me interview him about his tiny role in Damages because he was so great. He was really smart, funny, & severe: www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/a...
RIP James Van Der Beek. In my 1998 @EW Dawson review I wrote "[He] has handsome features attached to a face shaped like a cereal box." Years later, he told me he was "haunted" by that, & had a good laugh. ew.com/article/1998...
It's the idiocy combined with arrogant condescension... imagine having to put up with this kind of crap.
RIP Raul Malo. What a voice. Just call up “What a Crying Shame” in your phone right now and listen.
Copyediting, a lost art. "He often wrote under the pen name 'William Boot,' a self-deprecating homage to Evelyn Waugh’s supercilious journalist in her 1938 novel, Scoop." That Waugh, whatta dame...
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Today on @nprfreshair.bsky.social I’m reviewing the new 50th anniversary release of Patti Smith’s debut Horses followed by excerpts from Terry’s interviews w Smith over the years. Give a listen
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So we’ve now reached the point where we dread having Harper come up to bat at a critical moment. #phillies
Someone said it's Bryan Ferry's birthday www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBrj...
Finally got around to The Lowdown, a show that's pret-ty pleased w itself. Gotta say it was odd to make Joe Brainard a plot point but use his least-typical piece of art (if it even was?), but then have a C Comics cover in a later background. I guess I'm not cool enuf to "dig" it.
Well, what a pure pleasure this is.
Exactly.
I think I can hit the hay. It’s not going to get better than Katherine LaNasa and Jeff Hiller. #emmys
A Paul biopic w a script by Jonathan Lethem wd be far preferable to this Sad Boss thing.
I love Vince Gill but I’d much rather have seen a 3 minute clip of Teri Garr on Letterman #emmys
I hear Hannah Einbinder as Christgau landed on the cutting room floor.
I cannot imagine how funny Bruce and Jon Landau must find the fact that they’re being played by the 2 most pretentious actors in America in that sad looking movie.
I never want to hear Seth Rogan talk again #emmys
youtube.com/watch?v=c5v4... oh good: still no reason to subscribe to Peacock
Lotta stupid Emmy noms announced this morning (so many for the mildly amusing The Studio?) but at least Katherine LaNasa, central to the pleasures of The Pitt, got nominated.
Illiterate lit musing ("much of the architecture of book discovery is informally targeted at women"). Gee, maybe men (& women!) wd read good books if they were taught literature in school instead of "getting recommendations online from celebrities and influencers." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/b... Hilarious: the closure “came as a shock.” Because we all know what a venerable publishing house TikTok is.
Fellow Mouseketeers: Allow me to mention that my review of Sam Tanenhaus's mammoth biography of Wm F. Buckley Jr. will appear in this weekend's edition of Air Mail, the newsletter magazine that deftly massages the mind.
RIP Joe Don Baker
Wonderful John Cameron Mitchell & @nytopinion.nytimes.com repudiating everything the Times has promoted for the past decade. Free article. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...
Today on @npr.org @nprfreshair.bsky.social I did a piece about the death of David Thomas and his importance, got to play some of my favorite Pere Ubu music. Link here to listen now www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...
Because of course "strong ticket sales" is the reason we award shows www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a... When it came to sibling harmony I was always more of a McGarrigles fan, but as always this Garner piece is vastly entertaining.
Francis was a wonderful critic and this terrific appreciation captures his tart sense of humor as well.
