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Carrie Courogen

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writer for hire author, miss may does not exist: the life and work of elaine may, hollywood's hidden genius: https://bit.ly/missmaylanding editor @ bright wall/dark room prev: video @ conde nast (conde union 4ever)

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · May 28

contrary to previous reports that i would “never write a book again” because “writing biographies is for insane people” i have in fact been working on book no. 2 for a bit now, because for better or worse, i *am* one of those insane people

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 8d

New today on the site!

"The Courage to Teach" - @eccantwell.bsky.social on George Roy Hill's SLAP SHOT

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Slap Shot (1977): The Courage To Teach

One could criticize Reggie Dunlop (Newman), “player-coach” of the Charlestown Chiefs in George Roy Hill's chaotically raunchy Slap Shot, for a wide variety of character flaws & professional failings—b...

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 22d

wrote about robert redford bit.ly/redfordfamin...

a famine of beauty

Robert Redford represented all that was good—and fleeting—about America

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 22d

the greatest to do it.

on sneakers, for @bwdr.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/23/s...

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 29d

what do you MEAN everyone in the rilo kiley crowd is old as the audience of The Dance??? what do you MEAN?????

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 29d

realizing the rilo kiley reunion tour is millennials' equivalent of boomers' fleetwood mac reunion tour i'm gonna be sick

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Aug 30

New York’s hottest club is Lawrence of Arabia on 70mm at the Paris Theater. This club has everything: an honored intermission; elderly people standing up randomly before that; men’s room line of 520 women’s room line of 15; a Dimes Square girl saying “there aren’t any fucking women in this movie”

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Aug 14

The reaction I get from people when I tell them I’m watching Mad Men for the first time is more enthusiastic than if I told them I was getting married

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jul 30

audrey girls where u at

Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Jul 25

"The older I get, the more I find myself impressed by Audrey Hepburn as an actor who was great in spite of her packaging; by the evolution of her raw and untrained talent over the span of her relatively short career; and most of all, by the undeniably prickly undercurrent of her most iconic films."

An Audrey Girl

The older I get, the more I find myself impressed by Audrey Hepburn as an actor who was great in spite of her packaging; by the evolution of her raw and untrained talent over the span of her…

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · Jul 27

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight

A love letter to music listings

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jul 26

Coming home from the beach and showering and sitting on the couch nice and clean with a popsicle and a fresh tan wet hair so happy tired because what a fun day you had and you see THE PARENT TRAP is on tv………………………………..lowkey that may be the moment in which god is real

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jul 24

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?

A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jul 24

hulk hogan rest in piss bitch

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jul 23

(last fall i scrapped a proposal for a buckingham nicks book in favor of the slightly less chaotic cassavetes and rowlands and this is a lightly reworked version of that)

Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jul 23

wrote about buckingham nicks everyone act surprised!!!!

hate gave you me for a lover

on buckingham nicks

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jul 23

it's so beautiful that Fleetwood Mac running out of archive material of which to release a millionth cash grab super deluxe reissue forced their hand to finally trot out Buckingham Nicks but in the most go girl give us nothing way possible lmao

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jul 17

wrote about HAVING A COLD and being TOTALLY NORMAL ABOUT IT !!!

diary of a hypochondriac

2,000 or so words about having a summer cold

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jul 17

I am not a chid of divorce but I am a fan of both Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, and that's got to count for something, right

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lindsey romain @lindseyromain.bsky.social · Jul 15

for @bwdr.bsky.social’s jonathan demme issue i wrote about rachel getting married, a movie that is very special to me for reasons vulnerable to admit but that i put into words anyway.

thank you to @ohhhaeee.bsky.social for the gorgeous art and @carriecourogen.bsky.social for her brilliant edits!

Rachel Getting Married: Yesterday Is Gone & Tomorrow Is Not Here

So much of Jonathan Demme's 2008 film Rachel Getting Married is about needle-fine moments of grace and clemency.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jul 15

an absolutely incredible piece of writing from @lindseyromain.bsky.social. i mean, fuck.

Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Jul 15

New today on the site!

The Jonathan Demme issue continues, with @lindseyromain.bsky.social on RACHEL GETTING MARRIED

(art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social)

Rachel Getting Married: Yesterday Is Gone & Tomorrow Is Not Here

So much of Jonathan Demme's 2008 film Rachel Getting Married is about needle-fine moments of grace and clemency.

www.brightwalldarkroom.com

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jul 14

reading that prompter like he got popcorned to read out loud in class and is fighting for his life

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · Jul 14

Cuomo announces his general election run by proving the Mamdani sauce ain't so easy to cook up on the spot with half the ingredients

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jun 27

who cares

Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jun 27

I was going to say the media should treat Zionists—with their rampant fear mongering, delusional false claims, and complete ignorance of facts & physical reality—as rigorously as they treated Qanon freaks but then I remembered how much the New York Times covered shit like Pizzagate in earnest, oop—

Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jun 26

anna wintour resigning from vogue the day after zohran won.......huge week for pushing out the gerontocracy

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · Jun 26

i'm in new york,,,,,,,, straight up "globalizing it" ,,,,;..... and by "it" haha. well.,, ., let's just say "the intifada"