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Entertainment business writer at The Washington Post. Film/TV/music/sports junkie, politics enthusiast, Connect Four grandmaster-in-training. Just curl, baby.
Nov 14, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
For anyone who missed it or doesn't want to believe it, here's a top-of-my-head list of the moments of casual anti-semitism in Chappelle's SNL monologue:
🧵 1. "Holocaust denialism is ok if you weren't anywhere near it."

2. "Apologies are a joke, just be offensive and don't worry about it."

3. "Apologies can easily manipulate Jews into thinking they're your friend, so use one if you can when insulting them."
Oct 21, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Open letter from Katzenberg and Whitman in announcing the shutdown:

“Quibi is not succeeding. Likely for one of two reasons: because the idea itself wasn’t strong enough to justify a standalone streaming service or because of our timing." "Quibi was a big idea and there was no one who wanted to make a success of it more than we did. Our failure was not for lack of trying; we’ve considered and exhausted every option available to us."
Dec 26, 2019 12 tweets 2 min read
Everyone's ranking the best movies of the decade so I thought I’d rank the best movie _years_ of the decade. There were some auspicious ones. And some….less auspicious ones.
Note: this is a wholly accurate and objective list.
(thread) 10. 2010
Apologies all ye Social Networks stans—this was the year of great directors doing lesser work (see also: Inception, True Grit). Twilight was going strong. And Tim Burton for some reason decided to make Alice in Wonderland. Even The Fighter & Black Swan couldn't save it.
Jul 23, 2018 11 tweets 2 min read
Georgia state representative Jason Spencer just texted me his response to last night's #WhoIsAmerica episode, in which he now infamously exposed himself and yelled racial epithets during a fake training session [thread] “In 2017 I received countless death threats in connection with my introduction of legislation involving the wearing of masks. The threats escalated to the point that my wife received threatening phone calls concerning her and my children.