Michael Schulman
@michaelschulman.bsky.social
Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
Nuzzi - Sydney Sweeney
Lizza - Adam Scott
RFK Jr - Mickey Rourke
Hines - Kristen Wiig
Thoughts?
Lizza - Adam Scott
RFK Jr - Mickey Rourke
Hines - Kristen Wiig
Thoughts?
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Nuzzi - Sydney Sweeney
Lizza - Adam Scott
RFK Jr - Mickey Rourke
Hines - Kristen Wiig
Thoughts?
Lizza - Adam Scott
RFK Jr - Mickey Rourke
Hines - Kristen Wiig
Thoughts?
I went on Slate’s “What Next” podcast to talk about the modern press tour and why you can’t stop hearing about “Wicked.” slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Why You Can’t Avoid Wicked
Defying both gravity and explanation.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I went on Slate’s “What Next” podcast to talk about the modern press tour and why you can’t stop hearing about “Wicked.” slate.com/podcasts/wha...
post a famous bathroom scene
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
post a famous bathroom scene
While we're talking about Ozian revisionism, this is an extremely satisfying takedown of the inane AI "Wizard of Oz" at Sphere, from Be Kind Rewind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgEm...
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere Is Nightmare Fuel
YouTube video by Be Kind Rewind
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November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
While we're talking about Ozian revisionism, this is an extremely satisfying takedown of the inane AI "Wizard of Oz" at Sphere, from Be Kind Rewind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgEm...
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Oh I’m SURE they’re delighted
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Oh I’m SURE they’re delighted
This is a liquidation. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Wicked: For Good” Is Very, Very Bad
In the second of two movies adapted from the Broadway musical, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo battle fascism, bigotry, and some fairly dreadful filmmaking.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This is a liquidation. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
This short doc is an absolute heartbreaker.
In March, 2022, the people living in Lakeside Park Estates mobile-home park, in Hollywood, Florida, learned that they were being evicted. A new short film follows three women as they navigate the subsequent months of uncertainty and upheaval. Watch here. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/eD_3OU
Lives in Upheaval After an Eviction, in “Last Days on Lake Trinity”
Charlotte Cooley’s short film follows three women as they navigate months of uncertainty after the shuttering of a Florida mobile-home park.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This short doc is an absolute heartbreaker.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
She’s fucking Mark Sanford,
I’m battling bamboo.
Violets are blue,
She’s fucking Mark Sanford,
I’m battling bamboo.
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
She’s fucking Mark Sanford,
I’m battling bamboo.
Violets are blue,
She’s fucking Mark Sanford,
I’m battling bamboo.
Oedipus with Special Guests the Muppets
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Oedipus with Special Guests the Muppets
Don't shoot me but I liked this profile. The absurdities of the subject are presented straight, lending the whole thing a sliver of irony that doesn't come across in screenshots. I do not think the reader is meant to swoon over the love story. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love
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November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Don't shoot me but I liked this profile. The absurdities of the subject are presented straight, lending the whole thing a sliver of irony that doesn't come across in screenshots. I do not think the reader is meant to swoon over the love story. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
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Eyes as blue as the flame
Shedding tears for a rose:
Sights that wrench a girl’s heart
Like whale juice stings the nose
His love, so insatiable
Complex and dark
More perplexing by far
Than roadkill in a park
He promised a baby,
A bullet--no pain--
A future as long
As the worm in his brain.
Shedding tears for a rose:
Sights that wrench a girl’s heart
Like whale juice stings the nose
His love, so insatiable
Complex and dark
More perplexing by far
Than roadkill in a park
He promised a baby,
A bullet--no pain--
A future as long
As the worm in his brain.
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Eyes as blue as the flame
Shedding tears for a rose:
Sights that wrench a girl’s heart
Like whale juice stings the nose
His love, so insatiable
Complex and dark
More perplexing by far
Than roadkill in a park
He promised a baby,
A bullet--no pain--
A future as long
As the worm in his brain.
Shedding tears for a rose:
Sights that wrench a girl’s heart
Like whale juice stings the nose
His love, so insatiable
Complex and dark
More perplexing by far
Than roadkill in a park
He promised a baby,
A bullet--no pain--
A future as long
As the worm in his brain.
Never tell a straight man that you don’t like the television show “The Bear.” They will not understand, they will not accept. It just won’t compute.
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Never tell a straight man that you don’t like the television show “The Bear.” They will not understand, they will not accept. It just won’t compute.
This week in Talk of the Town: Nicholas Christopher, who plays the Russian chess master in "Chess" on Broadway, visits Brighton Beach to show me how he learned to be Russian and a chess master. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Nicholas Christopher, Broadway’s Grand Master
To prep for his role in the new revival of “Chess,” by Tim Rice and two ABBA members, the star headed to Brighton Beach to dine with locals who know a thing or two about the game.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This week in Talk of the Town: Nicholas Christopher, who plays the Russian chess master in "Chess" on Broadway, visits Brighton Beach to show me how he learned to be Russian and a chess master. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“David [Lynch] knew I could be anyone and held everything inside me. And I did not know that about myself.” A new interview with Laura Dern. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/laura-dern-has-the-spirit-of-seventies-cinema
Laura Dern Has the Spirit of Seventies Cinema
The actor, who plays George Clooney’s publicist in “Jay Kelly” and Will Arnett’s estranged wife in “Is This Thing On?,” has spent her life surrounded by Hollywood luminaries.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“David [Lynch] knew I could be anyone and held everything inside me. And I did not know that about myself.” A new interview with Laura Dern. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/laura-dern-has-the-spirit-of-seventies-cinema
I had a long talk with the luminous Laura Dern about her roles in "Jay Kelly" and "Is This Thing On?," her New Hollywood childhood, her lifelong collaboration with David Lynch, and her mother, Diane Ladd, who died a few weeks after we spoke. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
Laura Dern Has the Spirit of Seventies Cinema
The actor, who plays George Clooney’s publicist in “Jay Kelly” and Will Arnett’s estranged wife in “Is This Thing On?,” has spent her life surrounded by Hollywood luminaries.
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I had a long talk with the luminous Laura Dern about her roles in "Jay Kelly" and "Is This Thing On?," her New Hollywood childhood, her lifelong collaboration with David Lynch, and her mother, Diane Ladd, who died a few weeks after we spoke. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
A wonderful actress who also happened to be Laura Dern's mom. Watch them both in "Wild at Heart" for something truly bonkers. RIP. apnews.com/article/dian...
Diane Ladd, 3-time Oscar nominee, dies at 89
Diane Ladd, the three-time Academy Award nominee known for roles in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and “Wild at Heart,” has died at 89.
apnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A wonderful actress who also happened to be Laura Dern's mom. Watch them both in "Wild at Heart" for something truly bonkers. RIP. apnews.com/article/dian...
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How did no one at the Times notice that Micah’s dick was out in this pic
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
How did no one at the Times notice that Micah’s dick was out in this pic
In this week's Talk of the Town: how one ordinary extraordinary day in the photographer Peter Hujar's life in 1974 sparked a book, a movie, and a trip to the Morgan Library archives with Linda Rosenkrantz and Ira Sachs. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Remarkable Quotidian of Peter Hujar
In 1974, the photographer described his day to a journalist: a shoot with Allen Ginsberg, a chat with Susan Sontag. The delayed result: “Peter Hujar’s Day,” a film by Ira Sachs.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In this week's Talk of the Town: how one ordinary extraordinary day in the photographer Peter Hujar's life in 1974 sparked a book, a movie, and a trip to the Morgan Library archives with Linda Rosenkrantz and Ira Sachs. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I live near the Cherry Lane and @a24movies.bsky.social is partying so hard for Halloween that I can hear it in my bedroom at 1 a.m. Turn it down, auteurs! #ifihadlegsidkickyou
November 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I live near the Cherry Lane and @a24movies.bsky.social is partying so hard for Halloween that I can hear it in my bedroom at 1 a.m. Turn it down, auteurs! #ifihadlegsidkickyou
Jonathan Groff shared this story with me onstage last night, and I could barely speak. (He said it was the reason he agreed to do the New Yorker Festival after an 8-show week.) I’m floored and so moved. These princes. www.vulture.com/article/gavi...
Jonathan Groff Reconnected With Gavin Creel Right Before He Died
“He texted me congratulations, and that was the last interaction we ever had.”
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October 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Jonathan Groff shared this story with me onstage last night, and I could barely speak. (He said it was the reason he agreed to do the New Yorker Festival after an 8-show week.) I’m floored and so moved. These princes. www.vulture.com/article/gavi...
Reminder that I'll be talking with some of my colleagues about the craft of profile writing (and its strange psychology) at the New Yorker Festival on Sunday at 10 a.m. festival.newyorker.com/event-detail...
Event Details - The New Yorker Festival
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October 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reminder that I'll be talking with some of my colleagues about the craft of profile writing (and its strange psychology) at the New Yorker Festival on Sunday at 10 a.m. festival.newyorker.com/event-detail...
Can people running for office just try to be the least bit normal? (I ask this of no one else.)
October 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Can people running for office just try to be the least bit normal? (I ask this of no one else.)
"A Complete Unknown": People are angry at a folk singer for playing rock.
"Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere": People are angry at a rock singer for playing folk.
"Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere": People are angry at a rock singer for playing folk.
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
"A Complete Unknown": People are angry at a folk singer for playing rock.
"Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere": People are angry at a rock singer for playing folk.
"Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere": People are angry at a rock singer for playing folk.
This was extremely fun: for Talk of the Town, I ran around SoHo with Ken Burns as he expounded on Revolutionary War generals beneath the street signs that bear their names. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
If These Streets Could Talk, They’d Sound Like Ken Burns
For the documentary filmmaker, SoHo isn’t about galleries or boutiques. With his new PBS series, “The American Revolution,” about to air, he sees the area as a cemetery for dead generals.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This was extremely fun: for Talk of the Town, I ran around SoHo with Ken Burns as he expounded on Revolutionary War generals beneath the street signs that bear their names. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist