I don’t know why this movie is so fully lost…

Honest q for someone who’s spent time in these newsrooms—if Musk and the Millers all independently tell you that *Gleason* hired Big Balls, does that pass classic editorial muster to report it? No knock on the deep sourcing, but how do you handle a team of bullshitters who regularly coordinate?

Even 45 is always desperately seeking the bully big enough to toady for. It’s toadies all the way down.

James Woods in SPLIT IMAGE (1982), playing this indictment of upper middle class morality with continuity from multiple angles while drying his foot with his sock.

Brian Dennehy in the two-part Canadian miniseries “To Catch a Killer” (1992), featuring some pretty commendable Toronto-as-Chicago fakery.

*Need to remember this speech for the next time someone messes with my vehicles

Found clip from an ongoing, non-chronological Ed O’Neill series—

[L.A.] Dragnet (2002-2003)
S1E02 “The Big Ruckus”
(P. Dick Wolf, D. the great Kevin Hooks)

Terence Davies’ 2022 submission to the Sight & Sound Greatest Films poll.

Hiya! Grateful to @aileyn.bsky.social always for the invite. Onwards, yeah??