Still the best damn photo of Judy Garland I’ve seen (and, sister, I’ve seen a lot). At The Sahara, Las Vegas 1963.
In which show runners take to Twitter to lament their mistakes.
Lol where is Dan Harmon in this conversation, though? This sounds like his kind of party.
every morning for the last couple weeks while driving to work through South LA, there’s been a story on KCRW about the 20th anniversary of the riots after the Rodney King trial.
basically every single piece has been a compelling, complex approach, but this one is still in the back of my mind. it’s about a radio station right in the heart of where the riots emerged that reacted by completely changing their format:
“The phone started lighting up, and my jocks shut down the music,” Slade says. “They stayed on the mic — they took the calls. And probably for the next three days, we just became all talk.”
Colleagues Recall L.A. Riots Unfolding Like ‘A Movie’ : NPR
this is one of the only versions of this very common blog topic i’ve seen that gets at the heart of what from outside can look a lot like people being shallow. i LOVE los angeles - living here, working here, how everyone has ideas about what they want to do and be. i wrote a screenplay that was underneath not even about gender or sexuality or my love of pop music as much as it was that desire.
you should read the whole essay, but these are the parts i’m talking about:
Americans are already quite individualist, but Los Angeles is the most individualist part of America. Because so many people are employed by the entertainment industry, most people are self-employed freelancers. They’re very focused on themselves. People talk about themselves a lot because they feel they have to, for survival, for self-promotion. Just as you can’t fault anyone in the world for doing something for survival, try not to fault them for being so self-promotional. Learn to lovingly listen like you’d listen to an 8-year-old who excitedly tells you about their train set for an hour.
Every culture values different things. In some places, it’s your bloodline. In others, your university. In others, it’s where you live. In LA, it’s who you know. Since the entertainment industry is all about short-term projects, everyone survives by their next project, and these projects always come from a connection. So everyone is collecting contacts. (Again: it’s survival.) Friendships are pragmatic and often short. Don’t fault them for talking about who they know, the same way you wouldn’t fault someone from India asking about your family. Introducing people to each other, people who could potentially work together, is the most valuable thing you can do, as it raises your value and theirs. LA people want (NEED!) to have powerful well-connected friends, to survive and thrive.
Not just LA but California is the most optimistic place on earth. The side-effects of this can confuse outsiders. When you say, “Will you come to my event?” or, “Want to help with this project?” - they will almost always say yes, full of enthusiasm, and actually 100% sincere, fully intending to be there, to help, whatever. They honestly and optimistically think that they will be there and do it. They have the best of intentions. But when it actually comes to that time, and they’ve optimistically said “yes!” to a dozen other things too, or perhaps they’re just nestled in the comfort of their California home, then… well… they reluctantly “flake” - and won’t follow through. Don’t get bitter and write them off as fake, or backstabbers. Just understand that it’s a side-effect of sincere optimism, and adjust your expectations accordingly.
Suits Season 1 gag reel (from Dave TV website)
there should be 1000 percent more louis in this, but it is still amaaaazing.
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“I’ll be quite frank with you — I didn’t know about Hunger Games — so when I’m telling kids and they say, ‘Who are you playing?’ and I say Cinna, they go, ‘Oh you’re playing the gay guy.’ That was an actual answer. I’ve never brought that up yet. That’s how they perceived it. So I thought about it, and I read the book and I don’t see that he is or isn’t [gay]. He’s a designer, he’s a stylist, he has gold eyeliner—that doesn’t mean anything either way.”
duh, obviously Cinna goes all ways. Cesar is the gay guy.
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By their own description, this installation by Dutch desginers SpaceOperaForm sounds like sheer magic: Huge sheets of “thermally-bonded polypropylene filaments” hang from the ceiling at an old Austrian salt factory; and, as people walk between them, their own static charge causes the curtains to billow outwards, creating a “reactive experience” meant to explore “the phenomenological and visual affects of extreme weather conditions.”
Cenk talks to Alex Pareene about his Salon.com ebook, “The Rude Guide to Mitt Romney,” including his demands that his grandkids call him “Ike” (after his favorite president), why “weird” isn’t code for “Mormon” and his shocking — shocking!!! — arrest record for a true rich man’s crime (improper display of a boat permit).
description people who know me can probably tell I’ve written
The Arlington (TX) Police and Fire Departments and the Texas-based nonprofit a Wish with Wings joined forces to realize the dream of a young cancer patient who wanted nothing more than to become Batman for a day.
Officers and firefighters, assisted by the Mayor’s Office, organized various comic-inspired crimes around the city requiring the ass-kicking skills of a caped crusader.
Accompanied by police and Big Batman, 7-year-old Kye, who suffers from leukemia, roamed the streets of Arlington as Little Batman, mopping up an attempted bank robbery by the Joker, and putting the kibosh on a city hall bomb planted by the Riddler.
At the end of a long day of crime fighting, Kye was awarded the Key to the City by Assistant Police Chief James Hawthorne.
(via City Helps Fulfill Sick Kid’s Dream Of Becoming Batman For A Day)
I hope john green sees this because it is truly a make a wish worthy of TFIOS.
Lowell Bergman, TV News Corrects Itself, Just Not on the Air - NYTimes.com
Nobody likes to eat crow in plain sight, especially in front of millions of viewers, but there are other imperatives at work. Lowell Bergman, who works for PBS and has done work for The New York Times, spent many years at ABC and then at “60 Minutes.” He said that part of the problem with corrective reporting on TV is that it pulls back the blankets on the apparatus. The omniscient anchor, the dashing correspondent — most of them are just the spigot for a news product manufactured by many others.
