Peter Fish
@peterafish.bsky.social
Writer, editor, focusing on California and the American West.
A smallish but indelible (and bloody) supporting role in The Manchurian Candidate. No one embodied doomed rectitude better.
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A smallish but indelible (and bloody) supporting role in The Manchurian Candidate. No one embodied doomed rectitude better.
Please Don’t Eat The Daisies!
September 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Please Don’t Eat The Daisies!
Reposted by Peter Fish
The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
And a nice late turn in Last Night in Soho.
August 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
And a nice late turn in Last Night in Soho.
1. Shadow of a Doubt, Teresa Wright
2. Lifeboat, Tallulah Bankhead
3. Notorious, Madame Konstantin
4. Notorious, Ingrid Bergman
5. Strangers on a Train, Patricia Hitchcock
6. Rear Window, Thelma Ritter
7. Rear Window, Grace Kelly
8. North By Northwest, Cary Grant
9. The Birds, Suzanne Pleshette
2. Lifeboat, Tallulah Bankhead
3. Notorious, Madame Konstantin
4. Notorious, Ingrid Bergman
5. Strangers on a Train, Patricia Hitchcock
6. Rear Window, Thelma Ritter
7. Rear Window, Grace Kelly
8. North By Northwest, Cary Grant
9. The Birds, Suzanne Pleshette
August 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
1. Shadow of a Doubt, Teresa Wright
2. Lifeboat, Tallulah Bankhead
3. Notorious, Madame Konstantin
4. Notorious, Ingrid Bergman
5. Strangers on a Train, Patricia Hitchcock
6. Rear Window, Thelma Ritter
7. Rear Window, Grace Kelly
8. North By Northwest, Cary Grant
9. The Birds, Suzanne Pleshette
2. Lifeboat, Tallulah Bankhead
3. Notorious, Madame Konstantin
4. Notorious, Ingrid Bergman
5. Strangers on a Train, Patricia Hitchcock
6. Rear Window, Thelma Ritter
7. Rear Window, Grace Kelly
8. North By Northwest, Cary Grant
9. The Birds, Suzanne Pleshette
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
White Heat
The Importance of Being Earnest
White Heat
The Importance of Being Earnest
August 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
White Heat
The Importance of Being Earnest
White Heat
The Importance of Being Earnest
Very sorry to hear this. I enjoyed your columns and learned a lot from them.
July 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Very sorry to hear this. I enjoyed your columns and learned a lot from them.
Hell Or High Water is great.
June 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Hell Or High Water is great.
1. I Shall Be Released, The Band
2. Simple Twist of Fate, Joan Baez, mainly for Baez' Dylan imitation.
3. Gotta Serve Somebody, Mavis Staples
2. Simple Twist of Fate, Joan Baez, mainly for Baez' Dylan imitation.
3. Gotta Serve Somebody, Mavis Staples
May 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
1. I Shall Be Released, The Band
2. Simple Twist of Fate, Joan Baez, mainly for Baez' Dylan imitation.
3. Gotta Serve Somebody, Mavis Staples
2. Simple Twist of Fate, Joan Baez, mainly for Baez' Dylan imitation.
3. Gotta Serve Somebody, Mavis Staples
Pauline Kael on his comic cameo in Young Frankenstein:
"to a masterly bit contributed by Gene Hackman as a bearded blind man. (Hackman’s inflections are so spectacularly assured I thought there was a famous comic hidden under the beard until I recognized his voice.)"
"to a masterly bit contributed by Gene Hackman as a bearded blind man. (Hackman’s inflections are so spectacularly assured I thought there was a famous comic hidden under the beard until I recognized his voice.)"
March 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Pauline Kael on his comic cameo in Young Frankenstein:
"to a masterly bit contributed by Gene Hackman as a bearded blind man. (Hackman’s inflections are so spectacularly assured I thought there was a famous comic hidden under the beard until I recognized his voice.)"
"to a masterly bit contributed by Gene Hackman as a bearded blind man. (Hackman’s inflections are so spectacularly assured I thought there was a famous comic hidden under the beard until I recognized his voice.)"
Romeo and Juliet Prowse
February 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Romeo and Juliet Prowse
There goes the Monty Python reunion, the Milton Berle Tribute and screenings of Some Like It Hot
February 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
There goes the Monty Python reunion, the Milton Berle Tribute and screenings of Some Like It Hot
A lovely sad story. Thanks for sharing it.
January 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A lovely sad story. Thanks for sharing it.
This unhinged rant is the worst thing the New Yorker has ever published.
December 3, 2024 at 3:03 PM
This unhinged rant is the worst thing the New Yorker has ever published.