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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 15h

I wish I was surprised that Deadline claims it asked questions that were actually asked by me and other journalists at this James Gunn press conference. No one from Deadline even *submitted questions* for it (and I know, because I moderated). This is just brazen and sad.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 4h

I’m also not sure if it’s possible to assert that a writer whose work you’ve only read in translation has “beautiful” prose. Ex: the only Han Kang book I’ve really liked is The Vegetarian, and apparently its translation is very inaccurate. The more faithful translations are… much more boring!

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 4h

This is admittedly a pet peev of mine but if we are going to describe writing as beautiful as part of an argument we are making, we must describe what makes it beautiful. There is no such thing as objectively beautiful writing.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 14h

It’s not that he can’t do comedy (DDL is frequently hilarious) it’s that he doesn’t appear in comedies very often, which is too bad.

Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 14h

in TWBB he has machine-tooled comic timing and S-tier face-pulling. whoever is saying he can’t do comedy is picking your pocket

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 17h

Could not disagree more with the Big Picture folks on their assessment that Daniel Day-Lewis “can’t possibly do comedy.” He’s fucking hilarious in ROOM WITH A VIEW *and* THERE WILL BE BLOOD! I feel like I’m going insane.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 15h

I mean sure it’s one of the better looking borderline unwatchable films out there

Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 16h

Nothing says “America First” like letting a foreign power set up a military base in Idaho.

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Hegseth says US will host Qatari air force facility in Idaho

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday the U.S. will host a new Qatari air force facility in Idaho, where pilots will train to fly F-15s. Hegseth said the Trump administration has signed …

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 16h

All the Americans in this film are doing terrible English accents and then Natasha Richardson is doing a terrible American one?

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 16h

Really tough to spot the uncredited Stoppard rewrite too. there isn’t an ounce of intelligence in this screenplay.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 16h

Watching sleepy hollow with my kid. Terrible film but it looks like citizen Kane compared to much of Burton’s work after.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 18h

i mean she made a propaganda film with the secret cooperation of the cia so…

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

One really great thing about ALTERED STATES is seeing William Hurt before the schtick took over (and even deep in the schtick, like in SMOKE, he can still be quite good)

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

people on here apparently need to learn a lesson most of us learn in elementary school, which is that it’s fucking rude to correct people on zero stakes things and doing so leads rightfully to social ostracism

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

So we still aren’t ready to call the multipage long sentence a cliche of European prestige writing, huh.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

again, that we were able to push this deal through once Trump got fed up with Bibi just shows that we could’ve ended this shit whenever we felt like it. it’s a horrible stain on our nation‘s history, on Biden, on Trump, and on their administrations.

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Colin Tait, Ph. D. 🇨🇦 @rcolintait.bsky.social · 3d

Very proud to have my research and work on Robert De Niro mentioned in @isaacbutler.bsky.social amazing piece on Daniel Day-Lewis.

Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 5d

I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.

slate.com/culture/2025...

Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?

He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 3d

More like this please. Dems should be hammering home Trump’s cognitive decline.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 4d

“10/7 was bad and everything that followed in aftermath was worse” is a perfectly moral and popular position. it’s more or less the American consensus on 9/11.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 4d

It is very clear that from the vantage point of 2025, DDL has well eclipsed them both. He’s the consensus greatest living screen actor. Gary oldman plays a farting spy on television.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 5d

I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.

slate.com/culture/2025...

Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?

He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.

slate.com

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 4d

don’t be “in a fandom.”

grow up, get a hobby, make friends.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 4d

This is a terrifically written, really smart piece. Great perspective on an actor's career and reputation.

Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 5d

I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.

slate.com/culture/2025...

Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?

He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.

slate.com

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 4d

Fine it has exactly one brief mention of him winning the Oscars. Incredible gotcha.

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Ed Stern @edstern.bsky.social · 4d

If you are even ambiently curious about the art and craft of acting, I can’t recommend this feller’s history of The Method highly enough. Unsurprisingly boffo on DD-L to boot.

Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 5d

I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.

slate.com/culture/2025...

Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?

He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.

slate.com

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