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Film critic for @wsj and theater critic for @NewCriterion.
Sep 24, 2024 5 tweets 1 min read
Premiere of MEGALOPOLIS went off the rails when Francis Ford Coppola, Robert DeNiro and Spike Lee introduced the film. Coppola said we’re just like Rome and will soon have an emperor….dead silence in room…. De Niro and Lee started urging people to vote Democratic (wandering away from the topic, which was the film Coppola tried to get made for 30 years). Then De Niro asked the audience….
Aug 19, 2024 6 tweets 1 min read
Tim Walz fanboying all over the Chinese Communist Party WTF Image He recalled seeing pictures of Mao and parades in his honor….as a boy growing up in the Midwest??
Feb 25, 2024 10 tweets 2 min read
Underreported aspect of the media job hemorrhaging is that after progs began to pressure and shame advertisers whose ads wound up on conservative sites, the advertisers decided it'd be safest to just pull their ads from anything remotely political using trigger words. [1/2] So Jezebel types were hoist of their own petard. checkmyads.org/branded/jezebe…
Jul 17, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Understand the American wealth explosion with one chart Image An amazing story that we can all see and yet most of us pretend is not happening. We have become fantastically rich. liberalpatriot.com/p/not-your-fat…
Apr 19, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Every so often I remind myself I live a 20-minute walk from @LCTheater - the greatest performing-arts center on the plan. Yeah I said it @NationalTheatre Image
Mar 31, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
this is one of the days when we observe that the left is deeply confused by the idea of having principles. a) I don't like Trump. Can't stand him in fact. I said on Jan. 6 that he had disqualified himself from ever being fit to hold office again. (Not that he was fit in the first place.)
b) This does not mean I throw overboard my understanding of how the law should be used.
Mar 24, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
Truly amazing display from CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy as he steps up to serve as outside flack for TikTok I’d say this is a strange thing for which to burn a reputation but: what reputation?