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As a lover of big-swing divisive films, I loved @diggerthemovie — and I also was quite tickled by the near instantaneous reclamation it’s receiving. Read now on Tossing Shirts:
open.substack.com/pub/tossin…
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One of my faves of the year — openly wept three times, just as I’m sure Chuck Jones intended! (Cackled plenty too!)
THANK YOU to each and every person who saw and spread the word about our little underdog movie. You’ve shown ACME that Wile E. Coyote is not just a low-life, cave-dwelling desert dog with no connections, no family, and no friends ❤️💥
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Responses to this are incredible because it’s just people having the concept of a hypothetical scenario gently explained to them in increasingly higher detail while they just respond with “NUH UH.”
“What if you were born in Sudan”
“But I was born in America”
“I know, it’s a hypothetical, how would you feel if you were born in Sudan”
“But that’s impossible, I was born in America”
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Loved this piece about Mother Mary, which, in addition to being delightfully hypnotic is also an automatic entrant into the “Great Fashion Movies” canon.
I wrote about MOTHER MARY for @TheFilmStage.
thefilmstage.com/mother-mary…
Fascinating take. My read: Bob is a bozo, but a good dad: we first see him in the present being super proud of Willa. He spends most of the film moving heaven and earth to find her. Once he does, he gives her exactly what she needs(unwavering emotional support). Great father IMO!
The dad (DiCaprio) stayed with his daughter, parented her, obviously did a good job despite his issues; the film despises him for it. He's treated as an unreliable doofus. And the mom who abandoned her after murdering a security guard is treated as a brave model to emulate.
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Not thrilled about them beating my beloved Yankees, and still pulling for the Dodgers, but this is a true class act move that ALLLLMOST makes me hope they win. Good on Toronto!!
Every Blue Jays reliever had 51 written on their hat during Game 6 to pay their respects to Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia, who is away from the team to deal with a personal matter
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This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how these jobs work. From small business to major conglomerate, there arent entry level jobs hiring for 40/hr/pr wk. It’s specifically done to avoid paying benefits. Arguing
otherwise shows you’ve never worked a real job in your life
(1) A young married couple, both unskilled, take convenience store jobs at $15/hr in a moderately prosperous state. The big convenience and fast-food chains offer pretty good benefits. They both work 48-hour weeks, giving them a combined annual income of $74,880, enough to pay for a nice place to live everywhere except a few megalopolises, and even enough to put some money aside to help pay for a baby.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The figures are misleading. For one, the annual combined income does not take into account fed/state income taxes. Also, a 48-hour workweek is not typical for hourly work: roughly 8% of hourly workers are routinely FLSA-eligible for OT, meaning they usually work >40 hrs/week.
budgetlab.yale.edu/news/240917/no…
Wow, L.A.’s 12 professional sports franchises (including the @RamsNFL @Dodgers and @Lakers) have united to donate a whopping eight times the amount pledged by Jamie Lee Curtis to wildfire recovery efforts… sports.yahoo.com/all-12-los-…
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Masterpiece. I could spend a decade parsing out “Best Kidman” performances, but this is, without doubt, one of the greatest pieces of work from our greatest working actress. Criminally underseen.
20 years since Birth was released. It’s still under-appreciated; it needs a restoration and re-release. Very disturbing, very controlled, incredibly sad. Nicole Kidman’s best performance, for me. The ending is devastating
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A very special Fashion Week Tossing Shirts. A massive thank you to the-ever compelling Marc Jacobs who sat down with me for this week’s newsletter. On everything from the creative process to D.H. Lawrence, Marc is, as always, thoughtful, and compelling:
tossingshirts.substack.com/p…
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With the strike EXTREMELY imminent at this point, I thought I’d offer a visual guide to why UPS teamsters are fed up, free of UPS propaganda. This is what it looks like when our preloaders are sorting and loading all the packages for delivery that day. 🧵 1/?
Not all heroes wear capes! Some of them drive green trucks. Got an incredible reminder of that today while dealing @lacitysan to solve an unexpected issue. Not only did Robert take care of things and efficiently, he did so with verve and quite a bit of workwear style.
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Not all heroes wear capes! Some of them drive green trucks. Got an incredible reminder of that today while dealing @lacitysan to solve an unexpected issue. Not only did Robert take care of things and efficiently, he did so with verve and quite a bit of workwear style.
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David Zaslav’s commitment to being the unequivocal villain of the strike is, frankly, impressive
“Creator Paul Schrader” -nasty work
#wgastrong
The new HBO Max (MAX) has eliminated writer/director credits in their interface in favor of a vague "Creators." This is what Raging Bull currently looks like. It's so fucking over.
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That’s right!
Duffers here. Writing does not stop when filming begins. While we’re excited to start production with our amazing cast and crew, it is not possible during this strike. We hope a fair deal is reached soon so we can all get back to work. Until then -- over and out. #wgastrong
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