Zoë Marcus
@zmarcus.bsky.social
“i see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street… looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”
“the story of wtf has been of a man learning to let some things go, moving toward gratitude, & trying to become a fuller person. maybe that adds to why its closure feels so right. even something this great… can turn into a crutch if you hold on too long" www.vulture.com/article/marc...
So What Was Marc Maron’s Podcast All About in the End?
The story of WTF has been of a man learning to let some things go, moving toward gratitude, and trying to become a fuller person.
www.vulture.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“the story of wtf has been of a man learning to let some things go, moving toward gratitude, & trying to become a fuller person. maybe that adds to why its closure feels so right. even something this great… can turn into a crutch if you hold on too long" www.vulture.com/article/marc...
diane keaton on turtlenecks:
October 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
diane keaton on turtlenecks:
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Certain celebrity deaths are harder to process than others because the person in question was so full of life and creativity and originality that you just assume it's never going to end.
October 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Certain celebrity deaths are harder to process than others because the person in question was so full of life and creativity and originality that you just assume it's never going to end.
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I don't argue with anyone who won't watch a Woody Allen movie; it's a personal choice, different for everyone. But Diane Keaton is a big reason I almost never say "[Movie X] is dead to me." My argument isn't "Separate the artist from the art"; it's that movies are never just one person's legacy.
October 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I don't argue with anyone who won't watch a Woody Allen movie; it's a personal choice, different for everyone. But Diane Keaton is a big reason I almost never say "[Movie X] is dead to me." My argument isn't "Separate the artist from the art"; it's that movies are never just one person's legacy.
diane keaton singing “seems like old times” in annie hall
October 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
diane keaton singing “seems like old times” in annie hall
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Oh man, I loved Diane Keaton— Annie Hall had such a huge influence on me as a teen, everything about her style & her energy, the clothes she wore & the way she talked! She just felt like such a model of New York City intellectual life, jittery & adventurous & original
October 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Oh man, I loved Diane Keaton— Annie Hall had such a huge influence on me as a teen, everything about her style & her energy, the clothes she wore & the way she talked! She just felt like such a model of New York City intellectual life, jittery & adventurous & original
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as I just said over text to a friend, I’ve been trying to be her since I was old enough to try to be anybody
October 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
as I just said over text to a friend, I’ve been trying to be her since I was old enough to try to be anybody
“redford was not just an extraordinary leading man and a major box-office draw. he was the movies, in all of their escapist and ennobling glory.”
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Robert Redford Was the Definition of a Movie Star
Redford, who died at 89, was a groundbreaking environmentalist, the patron saint of independent film, an Oscar-winning director — in short, an icon.
www.rollingstone.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“redford was not just an extraordinary leading man and a major box-office draw. he was the movies, in all of their escapist and ennobling glory.”
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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Holy Christ, if a cultural institution like Rolling Stone is letting go of an absolute giant like @sepinwall.bsky.social ... we are in dark times man alansepinwall.ghost.io/dont-stop-be...
Don't stop believing
Some news, as they say
alansepinwall.ghost.io
September 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Holy Christ, if a cultural institution like Rolling Stone is letting go of an absolute giant like @sepinwall.bsky.social ... we are in dark times man alansepinwall.ghost.io/dont-stop-be...
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We are saddened by the passing of Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight veteran.
Lovell's life and work inspired millions. His courage under pressure helped forge our path to the Moon and beyond—a journey that continues today. https://go.nasa.gov/41tbrpq
Lovell's life and work inspired millions. His courage under pressure helped forge our path to the Moon and beyond—a journey that continues today. https://go.nasa.gov/41tbrpq
August 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We are saddened by the passing of Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight veteran.
Lovell's life and work inspired millions. His courage under pressure helped forge our path to the Moon and beyond—a journey that continues today. https://go.nasa.gov/41tbrpq
Lovell's life and work inspired millions. His courage under pressure helped forge our path to the Moon and beyond—a journey that continues today. https://go.nasa.gov/41tbrpq
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I wrote about Theo Huxtable wearing the Gordon Gartrell knockoff shirt, the comic gifts of the late Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and the complicated feelings of watching other actors shine on The Cosby Show:
Malcolm-Jamal Warner Wore the Gordon Gartrell Shirt Like No Other
Remembering 'Cosby Show' star Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who died July 20, with a flashback to a classic episode about a Gordon Gartrell designer shirt.
www.rollingstone.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I wrote about Theo Huxtable wearing the Gordon Gartrell knockoff shirt, the comic gifts of the late Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and the complicated feelings of watching other actors shine on The Cosby Show:
“those transcendent words and happy/sad melodies will be there for all-time, waiting for each new generation”
June 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“those transcendent words and happy/sad melodies will be there for all-time, waiting for each new generation”
“grounded in dreams of an idealized youth, his songs reflected vast ambition enmeshed in the belief that pop could be a conduit to the sublime” www.npr.org/2025/06/11/8...
Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind The Beach Boys, has died at age 82
The Beach Boys' co-founder, songwriter and producer transformed pop music into high art, and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.
www.npr.org
June 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“grounded in dreams of an idealized youth, his songs reflected vast ambition enmeshed in the belief that pop could be a conduit to the sublime” www.npr.org/2025/06/11/8...
“though sam owned, and loved, cheers, norm was cheers, and vice versa. his identity was inextricably wrapped up in that place, and in his trademark stool.”
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Remembering George Wendt: Why Everybody Knew Norm's Name
No one could have played Cheers' quintessential barfly Norm with more warmth and world-weariness than actor George Wendt, who died today at 76.
www.rollingstone.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“though sam owned, and loved, cheers, norm was cheers, and vice versa. his identity was inextricably wrapped up in that place, and in his trademark stool.”
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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A supercut of every time Norm entered Cheers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXED...
Cheers | Every Time Norm Peterson Enters the Bar
YouTube video by Peacock
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May 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A supercut of every time Norm entered Cheers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXED...
“you can’t put a square peg in a round hole, and that’s what we had"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“you can’t put a square peg in a round hole, and that’s what we had"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
"above all, twain was a patriot in the best sense of the word. he loved america but knew it was deeply flawed. twain wrote, ‘patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8q...
Excerpt from Conan O'Brien's Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech
YouTube video by Conan O'Brien
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March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"above all, twain was a patriot in the best sense of the word. he loved america but knew it was deeply flawed. twain wrote, ‘patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8q...
"in the film, gene hackman’s performance doesn’t ask you to like him. he plays each scene simply and truthfully and with full commitment, but always with a sensitivity and humanity underneath it all.”
ben stiller on gene hackman: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
cc: @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
ben stiller on gene hackman: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
cc: @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Opinion | Ben Stiller on Gene Hackman’s Simple Truth
What he told me on the set of “The Royal Tenenbaums” has stayed with me ever since.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"in the film, gene hackman’s performance doesn’t ask you to like him. he plays each scene simply and truthfully and with full commitment, but always with a sensitivity and humanity underneath it all.”
ben stiller on gene hackman: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
cc: @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
ben stiller on gene hackman: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
cc: @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“mr. hackman has the amazing ability to register belligerence, tenderness, confusion and guile within the space of a few lines of dialogue. you never know where he's going, but it always turns out to be exactly the right place.”
nyt review of the royal tenenbaums: www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/m...
nyt review of the royal tenenbaums: www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/m...
FILM REVIEW; Please Do Not Feed or Annoy the Woebegone Prodigies (Published 2001)
Excerpts from A O Scott's Oct 5 review of movie The Royal Tenenbaums, shown as part of New York Film Festival and now in commercial release; photo of star Gene Hackman (M)
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“mr. hackman has the amazing ability to register belligerence, tenderness, confusion and guile within the space of a few lines of dialogue. you never know where he's going, but it always turns out to be exactly the right place.”
nyt review of the royal tenenbaums: www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/m...
nyt review of the royal tenenbaums: www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/m...
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Hackman's signature was a kind of immersion in his roles that was so free of artifice or visible contrivance that when you watched his performances, it was easy to think his greatness was just a matter of perfect casting. It never was. He was just that good. RIP.
February 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Hackman's signature was a kind of immersion in his roles that was so free of artifice or visible contrivance that when you watched his performances, it was easy to think his greatness was just a matter of perfect casting. It never was. He was just that good. RIP.
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It's time! Darlene Love sings "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" in our 2024 supercut 🎄👶🏼🏠
youtu.be/x18rIFgPej4
youtu.be/x18rIFgPej4
Darlene Love Sings "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" Supercut 2024 | David Letterman
YouTube video by Letterman
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December 18, 2024 at 5:30 PM
It's time! Darlene Love sings "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" in our 2024 supercut 🎄👶🏼🏠
youtu.be/x18rIFgPej4
youtu.be/x18rIFgPej4
“… this tiny little gem of a show, in which barely anything happens, but in a way that can be so emotionally overwhelming, it feels like everything has happened” www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2024
From 'Shogun' to 'What We Do in the Shadows,' 'Ripley' to 'Shrinking,' critic Alan Sepinwall picks the series that stood out this year.
www.rollingstone.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:23 PM
“… this tiny little gem of a show, in which barely anything happens, but in a way that can be so emotionally overwhelming, it feels like everything has happened” www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
“back in 1994, goodwin’s final line (‘i thought we were going to get television. the truth is, television’s going to get us.’) seemed heavy-handed. today, as we welcome the fake entrepreneurial genius of the apprentice to the white house a second time, it’s undeniable.”
I've been wanting to write about the great QUIZ SHOW for a long time, and between the election and its 30th anniversary, I finally had a good excuse: thereveal.substack.com/p/quiz-show-...
‘Quiz Show’ at 30: The Last of the Middlebrow Masterpieces
Hollywood has stopped making movies like Robert Redford's impeccably crafted drama about the '50s quiz show scandals. We're poorer for it.
thereveal.substack.com
November 13, 2024 at 5:52 PM
“back in 1994, goodwin’s final line (‘i thought we were going to get television. the truth is, television’s going to get us.’) seemed heavy-handed. today, as we welcome the fake entrepreneurial genius of the apprentice to the white house a second time, it’s undeniable.”
