Justin Sherin

I love this video, will always rt it

dear me, what happened?

it's really short! But you never FEEL it's short. It's like Beckett or Pinter or Churchill in that way, 15 minutes from them is 90 from anyone else

One reason the John Inman THIS IS YOUR LIFE is fun is seeing these butch guys (inc. his brother) from Preston & Blackpool that he did plays with as a kid. His first boss at a gents outfitters let him sew costumes in the fitting room instead of serving. The past is never as intolerant as you think..

I went because knowing myself I knew if I was ever going to get anywhere I needed to do it every day for a while. It did good & bad things but I’m not sorry I did it.

Casablanca did have something like 6-7 writers depending on how you count, but the Epsteins maintain this was mostly notes/outlines from other people & they had main control of the pages - recent research shows this is basically true & why the movie feels consistent anyway.

The Letters of Transit make no sense

Apart from its countless other pleasures, I, a professional screenwriter, will never figure out how you write something with a plot hole the size of the Lincoln Tunnel & it just doesn't matter, nobody cares, maybe you notice it but then you forget, the movie is just that good

Wilde, Lewis Carroll..

Good for him & fuck those people & their statement justifying

I'm unfamiliar, but that's really marvellous. Thank you so much for it.

oh that's all there yes

Penguins have their own language & society for heaven’s sake

😂

Much as I love New Order's version - top tier, perfection - my mind goes back to the JD one - all the delicacy & beauty is there but suddenly Ian screams - with a notably different lyric - I'LL BREAK THEM ALL, NO MERCY SHOWN...

a guy in Europe volunteers to play classical music to animals at preserves. Lions who've never seen him before will come sit calmly in touching distance to listen, with far more delicacy & decency than many people

that's a really excellent way to put it

She passes my messages along from time to time, yes @scumbelievable.bsky.social

Ever seen F FOR FAKE, by the way? His final movie. Not a minor work, a late one. It's funny & devious. Like Prospero counting his chips at the end of the night...

Welles was Welles because he was a megalomaniac, but at least 70% of the late period excess is being furious that his art forms - where he once thought he was making a difference - locked him & those like him out. Get him talking about how acting works, how a scene works, there's nobody better.

Did I say that?

Ideas aside, 'rough men' isn't like Orwell. That's a posh euphemism, the work of someone trying to sound English. He was far simpler & clearer than that.

I agree with every word

Orwell never said this. The first usage & attribution was by Richard Grenier (prankster & far-right madman) in the Washington Times, 1993. The closest approximation is from Notes on Nationalism - 'Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.'

My yellow 1960s London Evening News van matchbox, with banner advertising football results

I saw this actual van roll by in an old BBC clip recently, was unnaturally excited 🤪

Matt Foley, SJ also didn't know Farley was going to do it on SNL. One Sunday morning he woke to his phone ringing off the hook..

Apropos of nothing, am reminded that the real Matt Foley is a Jesuit priest, Farley's childhood friend who turned up to see him perform not knowing he was going to use his name. He loves it. He officiated Farley's funeral & is still very close to his family.

A frowning, egg-shaped mascot with a cross on his head and a yellow and blue samurai helmet stands in a car park.

Uto City's mascot, Uton Yukinagasyan, is a a legendary local lord but egg-shaped.

I don’t think it does 🤔

oh... rather 🤪