Stanley Kramer's "Judgement at Nuremberg" (1961) is hard to beat.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-massacre-october-revenue-falls-to-27-year-low-1236410517/

As the editor of Splice today has pointed out to me, this is really a 4th version, not a 3rd, since the 1978 Heaven Can Wait was a remake of 1941's Here Comes Mr. Jordan. I was in kindergarten in 1941 and have still never seen that film.

Back when i was dating my now wife, I told her about Canton (one of my favorites for their Peking duck and pork spareribs) and Shun Lee West for Dim Sum. After several months, I finally took her to NYC and we went to Canton. We walked around for over 30 minutes before I finally conceded that it must have closed down. To this day she remembers the name of the restaurant she never visited.

Shohei Ohtani's outstanding performance in game 4 of the NLCS both on the mound and at the plate was definitely praiseworthy even though it came against an injury riddled and depleted Brewers pitching staff and a slumping, lackluster Brewers lineup that managed to score a total of just 4 runs in the 4 NLCS games. Looking at Ohtani's career postseason offensive stats after 106 AB he is batting .226 with 9 HR, 26 RBI and 41 SO with an OPS of .869. These are solid stats but not remarkably so compared to many other postseason performers. On the mound he has pitched a total of just 12 innings and while his stats are impressive they reflect a very small sample size. Because Ohtahni is playing for the perennial World Series contending Dodgers he will have ample opportunity to pad his postseason stats but until he does it would be advisable if the hyperventilating sportswriters took a deep breath and held off on the hosannas..

Fire John Dickerson? He's brilliant and I love listening to him. Why fire him?

The "manosphere" he describes (an echo chamber of unproved beliefs) mainly reminds me of the NYT.

My son DeWitt and I were interviewed about DeWitt Clinton by WHEC, Rochester TV: https://www.whec.com/top-news/meet-dewitt-silber-the-15-year-old-5x-grandson-of-erie-canal-champion-gov-dewitt-clinton/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNT4KNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFmZTdlR3VzVGxGZjZuMzFPAR72hB8MGY8k2rZ_oihk_jt3PJCXLwUWTLBKw8YndwBkJoJAIZaNeGzf0xtyyw_aem_Avz7X_Ebdo3Rafgl-DB_Hg

This was great. But an even larger problem is that the government's anti-racism and anti-poverty programs cause racism and poverty. And anti-racism and anti-poverty activists can get 6 figure jobs in those programs so they will not criticize them.

The Unknown Hoya looks a bit like ARMY MAN from the same era. One of the negatives that came with the blossoming of the WWW a decade or so later, was the extinction of such photocopied-and-stapled 'zines, which were entertaining treasures in their physical form alone. Later in the decade, Adam Parfrey (with a now-forgotten partner) jump-started the first of his publishing houses with the original edition of Apocalypse Culture, a compilation of the lurid and satirical and eldritch that was recognizably the product of 'zine culture. No need to advise the reader, "For Purposes of Entertainment Only," this stuff occupied a sphere of creative research all its own.

It was impossible to watch Blasey Ford tell her tale to the Senate and not detect a nervous, unpracticed liar being caught out. As I recall, she first made her claims on WhatsApp, after a few drinks 'round midnight.

You must agree with Noah, the most morally elevated person on Earth, or you are a fascist.

We probably have similar politics, but your point of view (as indicated by the above) gives away that you don't understand how the industry/game works, or what its limitations are, so you end up writing a review that is totally unsubstantial. For ex: you cite as a believability problem "the painful incongruity of De Palma's baroque meta-stylings"-- give me a break. What's next, was Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life actually being apologetic about racism by "centering the white mother's perspective"? If anything, Casualties goes further than the other big-budget Vietnam weepies by making the whole incident a formal process in the end-- one that actually occurred, plus or minus a few cinematic exaggerations along the way. That is more than the others can say. Do you remember the way in which the rape report goes up the chain of command? It's a great showcase of the rotten American mentality when it comes to the scope and ambitions of Superpower. There, we see the machine is barely accountable for its own cruelty in the contradictory process of "spreading democracy abroad." Cinematic gamesmanship (manipulations of the audience through script and camera) can only do so much with a real human interest story like this, and as such, Jimmy and Mary-Sue in the audience become more likely to believe the total presentation, to see it as more than just a Hollywood tale. The fact that the story is staged from the perpetrator's perspective, setting aside the issue of basic fidelity to the real events on which it is based, makes it useful as a propaganda vehicle and useful in an economic sense (i.e., popular white stars get white asses into seats). If you want to impose your politics and narrative-framing-preferences on a flashy American genre director's big-budget star movie, it is fine to wish for better, but your sparse coverage and snide attitude is not adequat

So I guess Adams was not dark or charismatic enough for you? Maybe he was too much of a realist.

Two looks at Furious Minds I particularly recommend: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mole-in-magas-midst/ A Mole in MAGA’s Midst, by Alexandre Lefebvre. https://open.substack.com/pub/damonlinker/p/the-intellectual-right-goes-to-war?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=tn2fl The Intellectual Right Goes to War with Itself, by Damon Linker.

Have they all dated each other?

Jesse, Obama and Zohran... you couldn't have come up with a better triumvirate of dusky empty suited stooges if you tried.

Todd can you not write from Nashville or Tampa?

Fran Lebowitz's first book was really funny and in the 80s people even thought she was a kind of libertarian. How she has dined out - and allegedly dated many beautiful women - in Manhattan on this one achievement is a real mystery.

Ape City

As recently as the late 1980s the U.S had majority control of rare earth mineral mining and production but myopic and inept U.S leadership particularly during the Clinton administration squandered this long term strategic advantage while China made rare earth mineral mining and production a strategic priority using government subsidies, export quotas, duties VATs, rebates and other forms of market manipulation to lower production costs and create a global competitive advantage. Today China has a near monopoly on rare earth mineral production controlling over 90% of the industry....https://www.commonplace.org/p/fatal-attraction

Ok I was with you on the dislike of Blake Li Ely and how she’s fake and boring u til you started ranting and raving and saying racist shit and basically bagging in all white people - you’re obviously unhinged and delusional and used BL as click bait for your racism I hate white people rant - check yourself before…well you know the rest - take your meds, seriously you’ll feel better - all the best, peace (cos you really seem to need a lot of peace and tranquility 😬) and take care of yourself, seriously, cos I’m worried about you!

Palmer Luckey is a technological innovator and developer of cutting edge state of the art military weaponry and defense systems not a geopolitical strategist. He should leave foreign policy to wiser people and focus on developing defense and weapons systems. Making the U.S more prepared militarily acts as a deterrence to hostile actors such as China. One of the keys moving forward is to ramp up the mining operations of rare earth minerals within the U.S and to onshore the production of vital tech components like microchips. The heavy reliance on Taiwan for computer chips and China for rare earth minerals leaves the national security of the U.S vulnerable. The U.S has a huge supply of rare earth minerals within its borders and the technological expertise and production capacity to manufacture computer chips and develop more sophisticated AI capabilities. What the U.S needs to do with urgency is to prioritize the implementation of a Manhattan Project style program and make this happen. Brilliant innovators like Palmer Luckey, Elon Musk and others are indispensable to U.S National Security. By having a technologically advanced miliary the U.S can make the consequences of going to war so great that countries like China will decide that the costs of going to war will exceed the benefits. This should be the foreign policy objective of the U.S because a war with China would be a disaster for both the U.S and China and for the rest of the globe.

On "Coffee with Scott Adams" today (11/11) Scott Adams says, in discussing how to persuade people, you should watch Cheryl Hines on podcasts, and in particular this episode, if you want to know how to be on a podcast.

That and GQ?

I think seeing The Sting as a young teen or pre-teen helped turn me gay. THAT was a hot couple!

Trump has won twice, but neither of these guys have the slightest idea of why that happened. Try harder, Splice Today.

Hard to imagine thinking that Marc Maron has any real insights into the future of American politics. He's a good comedian and decent interviewer, but his talent stops there. And in this clip, he's talking to a fellow insufferably smug progressive, Sam Seder, who hasn't had an original thought in decades. Posting such material is a total waste of time. Thanks for nothing.

Actually the second littlest one was not her son because he was younger than my dad, i unfortunately don’t remember which cousin he was but the tallest boy was my great aunt’s son.

They are not going to school, my grandfather filmed this. It was a leisurely trip to the end of the line by lake Roland. The little blondie in white was my dad and the dark haired second tallest boy in stripes was my uncle. The lady that was on camera before they boarded was my aunt Bea and the two other boys I think were her sons

Such a great song. So sad youngin's don't know our music in the 60's and 70's was SO much better than their music is.

"If you only know a cup this way, you don't know the cup." David Thomas threw off sparks every time he opened his mouth.

A loving/moving biography of Les Baxter: https://lesbaxter.com/pages/biography

This is great. please add a blusky link one of these days.

Just saw it yesterday. She was terrific.