Giant Red Ball
This has been everywhere, but it’s still fun to watch on a Monday morning. It’s from an art installation in Toledo:
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Update
I’m working on I Shudder, a pilot for TV Land, with the wonderful producer Dan Jinks. With the help of the superb casting director Bernie Telsey and his associate Conrad Woolfe, we’ve been assembling a...
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Ignorance 101
Towards the end of Tony Kushner’s magnificent Angels In America, a character predicts a brighter future, claiming, “the world only spins forwards.” I’ve always loved that moment, even though the world...
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Things the Internet Is Making Me Worry About
1. The morality of a Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costume. 2. Is Joe Biden serious about running for president? Why? 3. Taylor Swift is now routinely bringing celebrities onstage during her concert tour,...
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First Lady
Last night at the VMAs, Kanye West announced that he was running for President in 2020. While this was thrilling news, what really excited me was the prospect of First Lady Kim Kardashian. Here’s what...
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God to Kim
Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who’s refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, claims that God has instructed her to behave this way. Here are some other things God’s whispered to Kim: “Get...
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Worst Kinds of Waiting
1. Waiting for medical test results 2. Waiting behind a person who’s decided to discuss a purchase from three months ago with the cashier 3. Waiting for someone who still hasn’t started packing when...
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At The Barricades
Last night I went to a movie on West 55th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, just as the Pope was appearing at St. Patrick’s Cathedral a few blocks away on Fifth Avenue. I was meeting friends, but I...
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Matt Damon
I think Matt Damon is a terrific actor, and not an awful person, but he keeps getting himself into trouble, most recently with his awkward, misguided remarks about gay actors. He said, essentially,...
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Libby Gelman-Waxner: Space Case
Okay, here’s what I love about the space stations in The Martian: they’re spotless. Even when Matt Damon gets stranded on Mars, his encampment is filled with gleaming white equipment and carefully...
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Urbane Legends
These are the topics which cause certain New Yorkers to sigh and rage and hold endless, pointless, deliriously satisfying conversations: – The price someone paid for an entire building in the Village...
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Robert de Michiell
The wonderful artist Robert de Michiell has passed away, following a long illness. He’s pictured above, with his husband, Broadway General Manager Jeffrey M. Wilson. I knew Robert because he...
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Dear Ariana
Ariana Grande recently tweeted the following; “dear world, more compassion, niceness, encouragement, less judgement, intolerance, labeling bullshit pls”; she also tweeted, “if you don’t have anything...
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I Shudder
We’ve been shooting the pilot for the I Shudder TV series all this week. Here are producer Dan Jinks, our glorious star Hamish Linklater and yours truly on a Soho street corner, where we’ve just staged...
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Important Moments In World Culture
1. Whenever a decorator on an HGTV show refers to a room as “a masculine space.” 2. Whenever a host on home shopping refers to a pair of brown leggings as being “on-trend in all of the upscale...
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David Rakoff
Last night there was a terrific tribute to David Rakoff, held at the Symphony Space uptown. I was the host to an amazing lineup of David’s friends, who read pieces from The Uncollected David Rakoff,...
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Paris
During, and after, the hideous terror attacks in Paris, social media went berserk. The internet became a source of invaluable information, with links to the European TV feeds with the most immediate...
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Here’s the apalling and entrancing new ad for Moschino Barbie, which includes a little boy:
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Libby Gelman-Waxner: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Can I just say something? The title of this movie reminds me of my own name, because it includes way too much punctuation. In the first Hunger Games movie, Jennifer Lawrence, as the determined, sullen...
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Chanukah Thoughts
There’s a 32 foot tall menorah in Brooklyn, lit by a rabbi in a cherrypicker. The rabbi’s wife has to carry the matching 32 foot tall dreidel. I’d like to create a menorah using all the Republican...
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