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Happy to introduce my new @substack newsletter, The SS Ben Hecht: open.substack.com/pub/stephe…
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THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK- Opening night is a gem, starring John Turturro as a criminal from a different time, wearing an impossibly cool jacket #PFF35
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ELSINORE- I liked this more than last year's Oscar-bait film, a tragedy adjacent to "Hamlet." Scott is great, but that was just an excessive number of montages. #PFF35
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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID- I love Radu Jude, but this didn't entirely do it for me; I never thought I'd consider one of his works "not weird enough." But "you look like Mishima after his harakiri" is a Hall of Fame line #PFF35
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Josh Barro
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Important context in here around the quote -- Holmes said other things contemporaneously expressing the same idea, strongly suggesting the NYT had the quote right.
Patrick Healy@patrickhealynyt15h
In today's @nytimes Backstory newsletter, I talk to Amy Chozick about the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary and Holmes's dispute over a quote from Chozick's NYT profile of her. The movie brings up the quote several times as it assesses Holmes's veracity. nytimes.com/2026/10/22/insid…

Elizabeth Holmes Quote Drama

In today’s Backstory, the new Holmes film takes issue with our profile, Nikole Hannah-Jones unpacks her viral essay and a professor shares why he thinks we apply “conservative” and “liberal” labels...

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Let's not get mad about late-October Oscar predictions of one person on X who you'd never heard of before now
glo@Alex4hillOct 22
My most recent predictions to the Oscar
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Ali Boomaye! I wrote about 30 years of WHEN WE WERE KINGS, the best of the hundreds of movies that have been made about Muhammad Ali stephensilver.substack.com/p… @philafcc @OFCS @CriticsChoice
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Mr. Chau@SrirachachauOct 21
Early Mac in It's Always Sunny
Aaron Rupar
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Trump on Jon Husted: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"
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River Page
@river_is_niceOct 22
I like how this implies that Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd are a married gay couple who have adopted two of Bugs Bunny’s illegitimate children
ultramarathon thanker🇵🇸@christweetsllcOct 21
My new favorite boomer AI Looney Tunes slop just dropped and it is magnificent
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He never talked that way about Lindsey when he was alive…
Acyn
@AcynOct 21
Trump: You have Darline and her very handsome husband. That’s a good looking husband.
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Jacqueline Sweet
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Ohio politics blogger and Shrek penis pic texter guesses that long-time Vance advisor and former DHS Tricia's husband/ Kristi Noem $200M horseback ad-maker were the two masterminds of the Vivek Amy Acton molestation mother ad. (I just had to write that sentence because it will never again be possible to string those words together. Let me have hobbies.)
Ohio Politics News@OhioCrawlerOct 21
Replying to @OhioCrawler
All roads lead to Jai Chabria and Strategy Group CEO Ben Yoho as the masterminds of the ad. Spokeswoman Connie Luck, who was already en route to Hell, should never work in politics ever again, either, for trying to cast doubt on Acton's well-documented trauma.
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The explanation seems to be that college was a long time ago and she doesn’t remember
John McCormick@McCormickJohnOct 21
A day after Peggy Flanagan’s Senate campaign said she wasn’t a member of Phi Beta Kappa, her aides said Wednesday that the Democrat had been inducted into the national honor society. In an email, a representative of Phi Beta Kappa said the same. wsj.com/politics/policy/minn…

Exclusive | Minnesota’s Democratic U.S. Senate Nominee Inflated Academic Record

Flanagan said she “graduated Phi Beta Kappa,” but records raised questions about the claim.

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Yea man, how’s that going? Is the luster off?
ParaPower Mapping
@KlonnyPin_GoschOct 21
Live feed of Nathan Fielder discovering that Sacha Baron Cohen has been friendly fire outing his former business relationship with the Liberal Zio•nist media Mossadist. Probably did it intentionally to take some of the luster off YCSE, tbh lol
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noah kulwin@nkulwOct 21
the third paragraph of this YCSE review by @ocksportello (which obviously has spoilers) is the best thing I've yet read on the movie bkmag.com/2026/10/21/you-can…

You Can See Everything, Unless You're in Prison

In the unlikely event that you clicked on this link without first watching 'You Can See Everything,' prepare for heavy spoilers.

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Critics don't run the Golden Globes xitter.cf/TheFormalist/status/21…
The Formalist Critic@TheFormalistOct 20
Critics dismissed MICHAEL, labeling it a "glorified music video," "a concert movie," "a playlist." By doing so, they surrendered any honest right to categorize it as a traditional drama. The Golden Globes' decision is pure hypocrisy. Blatant goalpost-moving to gatekeep prestige.
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Okay, fine. I apologize to ISIS for comparing them to Michael Jackson's fans.
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Z@da26thletterOct 21
Replying to @StephenSilver @VincentFAmen
Not to mention how they had to reshoot the movie because they planned to make the molesting of Jordan Chandler out to be a misunderstanding. The movie was intended to make people idolize MJ there is no award for doing that. Especially in honor of a child molester.
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I guess the "her estranged grandpa was a serial killer" thing didn't work out, so they're pivoting to this.
Walker Orenstein@walkerorensteinOct 21
NEW: Phi Beta Kappa says Lt. Gov. Flanagan has in fact been a "member ... in good standing" since 2002. Which means, it seems the WSJ was wrong and Flanagan was wrong about being wrong. By @Allie_Kite: startribune.com/peggy-flanag…

Peggy Flanagan claimed college honor society membership but never joined

The Democrat running for U.S. Senate said in a 2016 Minnesota House committee hearing that she “graduated Phi Beta Kappa.”

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