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Clara Jeffery

5 Apr, 9 tweets, 2 min read

A few weeks ago I asked my movie club if we kept picking films about mid-life crises or if it just felt that way because I was in one.

Missed last week. Open the text thread to see what we're supposed to watch tonight. It's The Big Chill. 😱🤣

This movie came out when I was still in high school and it always felt like a passport to Boomerland.

What's the GenX Big Chill? There must be one but can't think of what it is.

Before I even start this thing, just going to say that it's truly bizarre that the Trump campaign used "You Can't Always Get What You Want" as one of/the main theme songs. Even without this movie, but with it? My god.

Trying to peg the age of these folks. Late 30s? early 40s?

Haha, never realized that the license plate of Hurt's Porche is SVP-914

Dunno if this is just Minnesota apocrypha, but supposedly You Can't Always Get What You Want was prompted by some dinner experience the Stones had in like Edina or Shakopee or some such?

"I'd hate to think it was all fashion."

The fetishization of: running shoes, aerobics outfits, and Con Air hairdryers in this movie is really spot on.

Why the turkey blaster wasn’t deployed—Sarah’s even a doctor!—is a bit of plot stretch

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All I want is to convene a labor or historian, a trauma specialist, a costume designer, and experts in the various ethno/social groups at hand to discuss Peaky Blinders in depth.

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All that heavy breathing/Ghost/aggressively sudden phase light stuff in a couple S5 eps could have been cut and the season would have been totally the better for it!

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How big a percentage is a question I wish sociologists and psychologists would ascertain so that we could better risk assess.

https://twitter.com/RadioKitty/status/1378167983097454593

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We need more men confronting each other, and themselves like that

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1/ While the end of @benyt's piece on Harper's scratches the surface of the insane, persistent dysfunction and inequity that powers that place for decades, the top feels crafted by the unnamed spokesperson (GM) and Rick. nytimes.com/2021/03/28/bus…

2/ Harper's operates like a cult, one that swears even those who leave to some kind oath of silence, in part because they were complicit in the way that staff are underpaid and treated. It takes *decades* for many to wake up.

3/ The fact that no former editors or very senior editorial staff is on record in this piece is telling. Ben's a great reporter, so I'm sure he asked...some of them. Anyway i'd just like to call absolute bullshit on this:

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