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
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 7d agoDystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
I get that classical-scholar-vs.-director is prime Odyssey discourse, but did you also know that John Leguizamo called the dog who plays Argus a PENDEJO? That's right, it's swineherd vs. hound.
Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · last wk.For this week's Talk of the Town, I spoke to John Leguizamo about his scene-stealing role as Eumaeus the swineherd in "The Odyssey," and we made a field trip to an ancient art gallery, where he made a two-thousand-year-old impulse purchase. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
For this week's Talk of the Town, I spoke to John Leguizamo about his scene-stealing role as Eumaeus the swineherd in "The Odyssey," and we made a field trip to an ancient art gallery, where he made a two-thousand-year-old impulse purchase. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
John Leguizamo Is a Noble Fellow
The “Ice Age” actor steals Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” as a loyal swineherd to Matt Damon’s Odysseus. Back in New York, he bought the director a two-thousand-year-old thank-you gift.
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Wasn’t there a ghost who already showed us this dude’s backstory?
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w agoFirst poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”
The Siren song of overpriced smoothies at Erewhon...
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2w agoThere is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
An array of smart, goodhearted, and illuminating letters in response to that quite bad "I'm Gay, Not Queer" essay from the other week. tl;dr: Lighten up, Mary. But these writers are much more thoughtful than that. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/o...
Opinion | What Do the Words ‘Gay’ and ‘Queer’ Really Mean? (Gift Article)
Readers respond to a guest essay about the labels used to describe those in the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
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I enjoyed Bill Irwin as Cyclops and was amused by the camera angles employed to obscure what must be one big blue […]
Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · 3w agoI liked "The Odyssey"! It reminded me of a Cecil B. DeMille spectacular, in the best way. But also very much about a dad who's away on a work trip and feeling bad about it.
I liked "The Odyssey"! It reminded me of a Cecil B. DeMille spectacular, in the best way. But also very much about a dad who's away on a work trip and feeling bad about it.
You must. It is inconceivable that the show was not this all along
Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · 3w ago“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” is closing on Aug. 8. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever seen on Broadway, and I do not even like the musical “Cats”! Go if you can. Now and forever. Meow.
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” is closing on Aug. 8. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever seen on Broadway, and I do not even like the musical “Cats”! Go if you can. Now and forever. Meow.
Tonight I happened to turn on an episode of “Girls” with Louise Lasser in it. Such a lovely, sharp late-in-life performance. RIP
when they tell you that the past (1994) is a foreign country this is what they mean
Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · last mo.New at The New Yorker: my interview with David Wain about his comedy career, from the State to "Wet Hot American Summer" to his latest film, "Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass," about a woman on a quest to do Jon Hamm. (Aren't we all?) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
New at The New Yorker: my interview with David Wain about his comedy career, from the State to "Wet Hot American Summer" to his latest film, "Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass," about a woman on a quest to do Jon Hamm. (Aren't we all?) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
David Wain’s Wet Hot American Comedy
The comedian and director David Wain talks about the State, making his first film in eight years, and the challenges of creating original comedy in Hollywood’s bleak landscape.
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America may be turning 250 today, but Eva Marie Saint is turning 102 and still kicking!
In geopolitical news: Patti LuPone and Turkey are now at war. deadline.com/2026/07/patt...
Patti LuPone "Furious" That LGBTQ+ Cruise Ship Banned From Turkey Ports
By banning a cruise ship full of American LGBTQ+ travelers from docking, Turkish authorities have drawn the wrath of Broadway's Patti LuPone.
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Finally saw “Obsession,” purely for the AC… …at an otherwise abandoned mall out of “Backrooms.”
"Big Night" (1996): a perfect movie. That omelette! Was there ever such an omelette!
Oh, fuck this guy who only wants the rights he can square with his Bible and thinks he should tell other people what to call themselves. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
Opinion | I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters.
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Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks! Here’s some great advice he gave me back he was a wee lad of 95. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wnq5zrvcdraakbiw77x6atog/bafkreig3mb76yej32emu5nce6zcd4iedlz4zryvque55exqhfx7vdv7hcu)
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
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A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds
A new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.
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If your Supergirl movie doesn't have Brenda Vaccaro riding on a toy train it is #NotMySupergirl
New favorite Paul Schrader anecdote just dropped, courtesy of @isaacbutler.bsky.social and THE PERFECT MOMENT, out today! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
A story for Father’s Day: from 2023, Ian Shaw on his father, Robert Shaw, the star of “Jaws.” “I’m not fearless and so, well, alpha male. But I’m honest, which is what he was, I think.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
An Oedipal Fish Story on Broadway
The actor Robert Shaw used to bring his son Ian to the “Jaws” set. Now Ian’s playing his dad in “The Shark Is Broken,” his play about the mechanical predator.
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I can't claim to have read all of them, or most of them, or even many of them, but all the same this surely has to be on the short list of best profiles ever written in the history of magazine journalism.
Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnother sad loss today: the longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer. Here's his marvelous profile of Ricky Jay, from 1993. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
