Glenn Kenny
@glennkenny.bsky.social
Critic and author and occasional cut-up. Just a soul whose intentions are good. Books include "The World is Yours: The Story of 'Scarface'" and "Made Men: The Story of 'Goodfellas'.”
In Primetime, "Rob Pattinson plays Hansen as a pod person who has decided to live among humans, or maybe a minor demon who took a job in TV hoping to corrupt as many people as possible. His inhumanity is disquieting, then scary, and finally, horribly funny." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/prim...
Primetime review: An ethics drama with a horror movie heart
"Primetime" gets under your skin and stays there.
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That’s it, I’ve seen enough. Time to fire this guy from FX’s The League
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTrump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
This mural of an orange tabby cat is by street artist Nego. It’s located in Torrellas, Zaragoza, Spain. photographer unknown #art #mural #streetart #spain #cats
Somebody made a compilation of all of Siskel and Ebert's reviews of the films Dolly Parton appeared in, and I am grateful beyond words. I love Roger, Gene and Dolly. Miss them dearly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4yw...
Siskel & Ebert & Dolly (1980-1992)
YouTube video by The Misadventures of Siskel & Ebert
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BOTD Bob Newhart!!! Monumental stand-up figure From us on the Newhart Show: midcenturycinema.org/2022/09/04/5... More: Great Judd Apatow short: www.newyorker.com/culture/cult... @glennkenny.bsky.social: decider.com/2024/07/19/b... @jasonzinoman.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/a...
Bob Newhart Holds Up (Published 2024)
He basically invented the stand-up special in 1960 and continued to be a source of comic brilliance until his final years.
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50 years ago "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" is a song by the American punk rock band the Ramones, released september 1976 as the second single of the band #punk #punks #punkrock #ramones #iwannabeyourboyfriend #history #punkrockhistory #50years
John Fetterman is a horrible, lazy, self-centered, pathetic excuse for a human being. What a truly terrible person.
Cook it out, baby daddy I just come back from Minneapolis Where I just beat Verne Gagne and Dick the Bruiser, daddy They know it You can bring on, Haystack Baloon Eric Bloom, I don’t care who ya bringing it here, daddy
This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾
From JG Ballard's 2005 notes for his unfinished final novel World Vs America. Feels like next year's news headlines. Thanks to @jaywbabcock.bsky.social for pointing me in this direction.
![America will be approached ‘as if the country was as dangerous as Nazi Germany or the Stalinist S.U. [Soviet Union]. Not an ironic and ambiguous ending. Given that most people’s feelings are broadly admiring of the US, taking it as the enemy (like a book written by a Viet Cong) would be all the more startling. An ironic ending would weaken it... Sept 11 suggests a psychological approach striking at the US’s main weaknesses — its sentimentality, religiosity, adolescence...’. The planned end-phase of the conflict, and America’s elimination, will form an all-consuming cataclysm with a ‘frenzied and brutal’ form.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pen6g4gaisumaynbdlqkgkdt/bafkreiguwcgtyuogafclmeigo77ntx5oo7bule7ey7xn3nklmfykeqsi64)
“Thirty years later, as we’ve only become more societally fractured and reliant on the firehose of information that comes from our constant access to technology, ‘The Trigger Effect’ feels perhaps even more potent than it did at the time of release,” @chlopinions.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/PVIYXCx
https://crookedmarquee.com/the-trigger-effect-at-30-david-koepps-bleak-beginnings/
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Lake America. So weak. Absolute loser shit. So embarrassing and small and foolish. The sort of idea a drunk asshole has right before he falls off the roof and onto a picket fence.
1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.
