Thx for this. Horrifying. I have a basic Q, knowing nothing about this world: are those cumulative numbers? I assume there normally isn’t a huge amount of new grants and renewals at the end of each year as compared to the beginning…?

Um…Iraq invasion much?

Someone please fire his stylist. I don’t know what they’re going for – rugged soy boy? Nerd Miami Vice?

I couldn’t watch anything of his after Royal Tenenbaums. And I’d LOVED Bottle Rocket and Rushmore. The New Yorker profile in the 00s included a photo of him in front of “one of his favorite” taxidermy shops in Paris. That was the moment I realized just how annoying he was.

Ohhh, his last question is very intriguing. Let’s find out!

Bari Weiss really never heard of Barbara Streisand?

In other contexts this note would be incredibly mundane. In the context of Jeffrey Epstein, it makes my skin crawl.