Bob Cucuzza
@bobcucuzza.bsky.social
Professor of Theatre Arts
Vice Chair of Arts, Media & Performance
LA Mission College
Father of humans and canine
25 years of Downtown NYC theatre with the likes of Richard Foreman and Elevator Repair Service
Vice Chair of Arts, Media & Performance
LA Mission College
Father of humans and canine
25 years of Downtown NYC theatre with the likes of Richard Foreman and Elevator Repair Service
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Fires. The military occupation. The ongoing paramilitary occupation. Repeated attacks on peaceful demonstrations by local cops. Continued hardships as the studios don't do more production in the city. Los Angeles is struggling this year. This win means a lot.
Los Angeles suffered tremendously because of the wildfires. The president of the United States has wanted to make the immigrants who make the city suffer and declared war on the city. But all throughout it, L.A. makes it work daily. It’s a place where people go to make it. LA deserves this.
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Fires. The military occupation. The ongoing paramilitary occupation. Repeated attacks on peaceful demonstrations by local cops. Continued hardships as the studios don't do more production in the city. Los Angeles is struggling this year. This win means a lot.
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
We’re doomed.
This is a hell of a thing to read.
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
open.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
We’re doomed.
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It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉
May 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
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I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
March 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
This—and only this—is the way that these ignorant ghouls should be interviewed. The transcript doesn’t do Michel Martin justice for how she handled him.
DHS official defends Mahmoud Khalil arrest, but offers few details on why it happened
Homeland Security deputy secretary Troy Edgar offered few details on the Trump administration's legal reasoning to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
www.npr.org
March 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This—and only this—is the way that these ignorant ghouls should be interviewed. The transcript doesn’t do Michel Martin justice for how she handled him.
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I’ve been feeling a particular affinity for the French these days … not just because I’ve watched Casablanca so many times lately that I know the words to the first verse of La Marseillaise forward and backward
March 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I’ve been feeling a particular affinity for the French these days … not just because I’ve watched Casablanca so many times lately that I know the words to the first verse of La Marseillaise forward and backward
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Tremendous new addition to the Louvre
February 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tremendous new addition to the Louvre
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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
There was a hostile takeover of the US Treasury today by the richest man in world, but do go on about tomatoes, Mr. Speaker.
You’re worried about tomato prices.
Wait till Trump’s Mexico tariffs raise your tomato prices.
Wait till Trump’s Mexico tariffs raise your tomato prices.
February 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
There was a hostile takeover of the US Treasury today by the richest man in world, but do go on about tomatoes, Mr. Speaker.
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Target Margin director David Herskovits remembers his colleague Richard Foreman's silence and elisions as much as the things he did say, writing that the late auteur worked both intellectually and carnally, both instinctually and critically. (And don't miss the story about María Irene Fornés.)
Richard Foreman Meant It
A colleague remembers the playwright/director/auteur/founder of NYC’s Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, who died on Jan. 4 at the age of 87.
www.americantheatre.org
January 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Target Margin director David Herskovits remembers his colleague Richard Foreman's silence and elisions as much as the things he did say, writing that the late auteur worked both intellectually and carnally, both instinctually and critically. (And don't miss the story about María Irene Fornés.)
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Ahem. In more useful and kinder ideas, please donate to the LA LGBT Center, as they help EVERYONE in the community who needs food, medical care, temporary housing, and more. lalgbtcenter.org
January 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Ahem. In more useful and kinder ideas, please donate to the LA LGBT Center, as they help EVERYONE in the community who needs food, medical care, temporary housing, and more. lalgbtcenter.org
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The death of the irreplaceable theatrical auteur Richard Foreman last week led us back into our archives. We will be publishing more on him soon but for now, the following thread contains some choice Foreman pieces from our shelves.
January 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The death of the irreplaceable theatrical auteur Richard Foreman last week led us back into our archives. We will be publishing more on him soon but for now, the following thread contains some choice Foreman pieces from our shelves.
An irreplaceable giant. Acting in three of his shows and directing ten of my own at his theater between 1992 and 2003 has essentially made me the person I am today.
Writer/Director/Genius Richard Foreman has died at age 87.
“I’m there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing from my life. And if other people don’t like it, I’m very unhappy, but I can’t do anything about it.”
“I’m there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing from my life. And if other people don’t like it, I’m very unhappy, but I can’t do anything about it.”
January 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
An irreplaceable giant. Acting in three of his shows and directing ten of my own at his theater between 1992 and 2003 has essentially made me the person I am today.
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If you start watching Game 5 at 10:26:37, you can watch the ball drop in New York at midnight.
December 31, 2024 at 3:02 PM
If you start watching Game 5 at 10:26:37, you can watch the ball drop in New York at midnight.
It’s okay, though, because it’s for critical things like this:
December 28, 2024 at 6:41 AM
It’s okay, though, because it’s for critical things like this:
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It’s rare to read an interview with an actor that captures the essential and mysterious artistry of the craft, but with an interviewer like MZS and a subject like Dafoe, it happens in extraordinary fashion. Must read.
"Cinema is not just about telling stories. It’s about people having experiences in front of you, where, if it’s transparent enough, they can experience it with you. You become them. They become you. That’s the communion. That’s the experience."--Willem Dafoe
www.vulture.com/article/will...
www.vulture.com/article/will...
Willem Dafoe on the Art of Surrender
Four decades into the actor’s career, he is more curious about his craft than ever.
www.vulture.com
December 7, 2024 at 5:57 PM
It’s rare to read an interview with an actor that captures the essential and mysterious artistry of the craft, but with an interviewer like MZS and a subject like Dafoe, it happens in extraordinary fashion. Must read.
No matter how many things in this obit you may have expected, there are a dozen more that will make your head spin.
RIP. Learned a few things in this obit about a sprawling career. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/m...
Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen’s Co-Writer on Hit Films, Dies at 85
The duo won an Oscar for “Annie Hall.” Mr. Brickman went on to write Broadway shows, including “Jersey Boys,” and make movies of his own.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:51 PM
No matter how many things in this obit you may have expected, there are a dozen more that will make your head spin.
Saw Wicked last night and can honestly say that the only good thing about it is that it’s one of the greatest movie musicals of all time.
November 30, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Saw Wicked last night and can honestly say that the only good thing about it is that it’s one of the greatest movie musicals of all time.