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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 1d

Who what why?

James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 1d

Agent Scully is skeptical but Agent Mulder has heard reports of hybrids breathing through their earholes.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 1d

"I understood that reference." --Captain America, THE AVENGERS

Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 1d

He looks like he's watching Marxism die.

Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 1d

Harold Brodkey - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 3d

I believe Pope Leo has granted them absolution in this matter.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 3d

Martin Luther King: "I have a dream."

Andrew Cuomo: "I have a thumb."

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

Corruption goes courtside.

A screenshot of a post on X from Andrew Cuomo showing him sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden next to Mayor Eric Adams.

The tweet says: "No better way to celebrate winning tonight's debate than making it to the @nyknicks game in time for the 2nd half."

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 3d

Cuomo going on Sid Rosenberg's radio show is in itself ipso facto verily I say unto you the act of a crumb-bum.

Whatever respect I lost for Cuomo has now been quadrupled.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 4d

About as much as his sleeveless shirts.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 4d

Michael Rapaport and his boorish acting are the reason viewers of taste and discernment SHUN season five of JUSTIFIED and do their best to eliminate it from memory. (Season five: non-canon.)

Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 4d

Since this guy has no compunction about coming off as a total jackass, I should share the story of how he once pitched me to run his Tupac eulogy in PREMIERE. Which isn’t much of a story. But the idea is enough. “Fraud Class,” you bet

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 4d

Good thing I'm not an art critic because no matter how many times I internally correct myself I keep getting Lucian Freud mixed up with Francis Bacon and vice versa. I'm sure others have this problem and I just want to assure them that they're not alone in their confusion.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 10d

I admit, I've never gotten the hang of the Alan Partridge phenomenon in any of its stages. Just when I think Steve Coogan has phased him out back he comes in another gimmicky guise.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 10d

Her quirky mannerisms are no match for Meryl Streep's mannerisms (for one thing, Streep still retains facial mobility).

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 11d

Watching ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING and Renee Zellweger is like misfiring animatronic device whose head isn't securely fastened. Truly weird and somewhat troubling.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 12d

The beloved Diane Keaton dies and the dung beetles can't wait to rank her films from best to worst or some other listicle as if she wasn't a human being but a collection of algorithmic bits.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 12d

I'm done with SLOW HORSES. Too much rot has set in.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 27d

Not sure if I can make it to opening reception but this is an exhibition I'm definitely attending once I'm Back...

www.howlarts.org/event/the-dr...

The Drag Queens of New Yorkby Julian Fleisher30th Anniversary Exhibition

Opening reception Thursday, October 16th from 5 to 8pm. This fall marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of the landmark The Drag Queens of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide (Riverhead)…

www.howlarts.org

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 27d

Armond White is already on the case.

"It’s a macabre coincidence that One Battle After Another opens so soon after the assassination of peaceable conservative debater Charlie Kirk. The film undeniably romanticizes political assassination."

[No link, to spare innocent eyes from National Review.]

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 28d

$22 million opening box office weekend for ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER doesn't indicate the Zeitgeist juicer many were expecting/rooting for.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 28d

"As Art Cashin once observed over dinner – 'If there was a report tomorrow that heroin addiction was skyrocketing among teens, the first question you’d hear on Wall Street is ‘Who makes the needles?’” --from John Hussman's most recent market letter

www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc25...

Singularity and the Buzzard - Hussman Funds

Division by zero is known as a 'singularity.' It’s the point where equations break down, values become 'indeterminate,' things stop working normally, and variables shoot toward infinity and suddenly c...

www.hussmanfunds.com

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · 29d

THE MORNING SHOW (Apple TV) persists in acting as if going before the cameras and reading off a TelePrompter and bantering in between requires gladiatorial stamina and steely nerves, absurdly embodied by America's Sweetheart, Jennifer Aniston, and America's Other Sweetheart, Reese Witherspoon.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · Sep 24

THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE!

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · Sep 24

That exclamation mark expresses the jubilant spirit of the American West (Hollywood division).

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · Sep 23

I mistakenly left off the exclamation mark for THE BRIDE! And we all know that an exclamation mark in a movie title is a guarantee of excitement.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · Sep 23

The trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal's volts and bolts THE BRIDE makes for quite a goulash.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · Sep 23

Whatever one thinks of the storylines, guest stars, etc., one undeniable plus of the new season of ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING (Hulu) is that Selena Gomez is looking fabulous, beaming with presence, and glamorously costumed.

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James Wolcott @jwolcott.bsky.social · Sep 22

I appreciate Gene Tierney in it.

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