“Guadagnino, in successfully courting a wider audience for the film, has somewhat diluted its queerness.”
Guardian Somewhat Problematically Finds Reticence About Explicit Sex In Call Me By Your Name “Problematic”

“The artist as a person should certainly be subject to rebuke, censure, or penalty for unacceptable actions in the social realm,” Ms. Paglia said. “But art, even when it addresses political issues, occupies an abstract realm beyond society.”
“Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work?”

Charlie Rose Workers Likely Out On Street

“The problem for Mr. Pai is that government agencies are not free to abruptly reverse longstanding rules on which many have relied without a good reason, such as a change in factual circumstances. A mere change in F.C.C. ideology isn’t enough. Mr. Pai’s rationale for eliminating the rules is that cable and phone companies, despite years of healthy profit, need to earn even more money than they already do — that is, that the current rates of return do not yield adequate investment incentives.”
The Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality, Writes Tim Wu

Looking Thirty Years Back To The Making Of Oz Post-Punk Classic Dogs In Space

“Tommy’s talked about my movie a bit but he hasn’t told me anything specific and for the first time he was like, ‘You know, your movie make me emotional,’” Franco began. Wiseau flashed back to his real-life friendship with Sestero. “He said, ‘Greg really do that for me, and that scene make me emotional,’” Franco said. “It was amazing, and so sweet. And he said, ‘I just want you to know: You get my SAG vote.’”

Going ‘Round The Blocks With The Room‘s Greg Sestero

“The problem with auteurism is that it presupposes that one person can impress upon 95 people, so clearly, that the manifestation of whatever it is going on in your head can be clearly attributed to them. The reality of moviemaking is, y’know, it’s a ratfuck.”
David Fincher

“He holds all the power on that set. Brett Ratner holds All. The. Power. And he’s not accused of ‘hitting on women.’ He’s accused of offering speaking roles to background actors in exchange for sexual favors. Totally different. A heterosexual man hitting on women at say, a bar, is healthy and natural behavior. A man who holds all the power on a set approaching women who have no power on the set and asking them to come to the bathroom and have sex with him in exchange for a promotion is a cruel and sadistic abuse of power that actually has very little to do with sex.”
“‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Boss Offers Point-by-Point Rebuttal to Ratner Assault Claim Denials”

‪India Ruling Party Figure Offers $1.5 Million Reward To Behead B’wd Actress Deepika Padukone And Padmavati Director‬ Sanjay Leela Bhansali

“Whatever it is that people are reacting to in these superhero films, it’s not what they say they’re reacting to. They clearly don’t care about consistent characterization, original storytelling, or anything else they say they do, because if they did they’d be a lot more picky. What they really like is what we all like: confidence. Movies boil down to someone – or a group of someones – telling us a story. And telling a story well takes confidence. If a storyteller has a great story packed with interesting characters and exciting developments but they stumble over the order of things and mumble during the important bits, the experience is going to suck. Likewise, if the story is poor but they tell it well it’ll be a good time even if afterwards we realize it didn’t make any sense.”

In 1960, Warner Brothers execs George Avakian & James Conkling, took a chance on a nascent comedian who had never played a nightclub. They produced "The Button Down Mind" which won Album of the Year. George died today at 98. Thank you George & James for taking that chance.

— Bob Newhart (@BobNewhart) November 23, 2017

“Recently, there have been some individuals who have stated negative things about me on social media maintaining that I was inappropriate.”
Chicago Comedy Figure Brian Posen Resigns A Second Gig

“Grey Gardens gave up the last of its ghosts over the weekend. The once-squalid home of the most notorious mother-daughter dyad since Tennessee Williams poured his own family into ‘The Glass Menagerie’ went into contract last month, and its contents were unloaded in a three-day estate sale.”

“The daily stream of revelations about sexual harassment should be viewed, at least in part, as a belated backlash to Trump’s 2016 victory, which came despite the emergence of the ‘Access Hollywood’ video and several women who accused him of misconduct.”

Bilge Ebiri On The New Generation of Character Actors

Danny Masterson Publicist: Woman Cannot Be Raped By Boyfriend

It’s Only Money
“Peter Thiel may be looking to buy Gawker after funding the lawsuit that bankrupted the site last year”

“There’s a continuum of conduct. On the one end, there’s Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, seemingly criminal misconduct, and I don’t have a lot of sympathy for those people at all. They deserve whatever befalls them. And at the far extreme on the other end, there are people who are just obviously, borderline pathetic, but also sick. Some of these people — and this does include Louis C.K. and other names that haven’t become public yet — I can tell you, there are names you wish to unhear.”
Kim Masters

“The art of animation will always be in debt to him, and it’s hard to imagine what the company will look like without his oversight.”
Bill Desowitz Writes That No One Can Replace John Lasseter At Pixar Or Disney Animation

Mona Fong, 83, Widow Of Sir Run Run Shaw And HK Singer And Broadcast

Chris Smith On The Kino Kismet Of Arriving At “Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton”

Netflix To Go It Alone On Golden Globes Party (Unlike This Year’s Share With The Weinstein Co)

Anthony Lane On Churchill And Ac-Tors

Bilge Ebiri On Early Bertolucci On The Big Screen

Christopher Plummer Won’t Retire

Saoirse Ronan Says: Take Female-Led Films Seriously

Alicia Silverstone On Cameo’ing

Harvey Weinstein’s Secret Settlements, By Ronan Farrow
Plus – Two Legal Documents Excerpted, Including Rose McGowan’s

David Cassidy Was 67

“The subject of the phone call was, ‘Shit, what are we going to do about John?’ Lasseter is the crazy-horny 13-year-old who you have to keep in check all the time. But there’s no No. 2 for John. He’s the beating heart of Disney Animation and Pixar. He’s a genius. Nobody can do what he does.”

“Rumors have circulated within the studio over Inside Out and Up director Pete Docter taking the helm. Employees at the Emeryville-based company on Tuesday were reeling from the news, trading gossip, and coming to the realization that the culture has been toxic for several years.”

Olympic Gymnast Gabby Douglas Says She Was Abused By Team Doctor Larry Nassar

“The breakneck speed at which journalists have been naming the next perpetrator renders some reporting irresponsible. We did not leave Pixar because of unwanted advances. That is untrue. We parted ways because of creative and, more importantly, philosophical differences. There is so much talent at Pixar, and we remain enormous fans of their films. However, it is also a culture where women and people of color do not have an equal creative voice. We encourage Pixar to be leaders in bolstering, hiring and promoting more diverse and female storytellers and leaders. We hope we can encourage all those who have felt like their voices could not be heard in the past to feel empowered.”
Rashida Jones

“By ending net neutrality the FCC and the Trump Administration are siding with telecom giants against internet freedom. This move hurts people across the country who need and deserve consumer-friendly internet regulations. It also severely harms small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs who depend on a free and open internet to grow their businesses.”

“I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the leader I am today compared to the mentor, advocate and champion I want to be.”
John Lasseter Assembles Thoughts On A Page

“Lee was dressed more or less as himself, with a white Yankees cap, blue plastic frames and a diamond stud gleaming in his left earlobe. He had draped bright blue-and-orange plastic necklaces and two long gold chains suspending a chunky crucifix over a dark blue Yankees jersey. He also had on Knicks-colored Nikes, a Knicks-colored G-Shock watch, numerous matching blue-and-orange plastic bracelets and a beautiful one made out of solid gold. The sheer quantity of flair on his person was Pharaonic.”
NYT Sunday Magazine Cover-Stories The Spike Lee History

Medusa Assembles To Combat Sexual Harassment and Assault at New Orleans Restaurants and Bars

“tronc still earns $1.5 billion in annual revenue and remains profitable. A disproportionate amount of those profits are lavished on the salaries and perks of a handful of richly-compensated tronc executives.”
LATGuild Itemizes Concerns Over tronc Spending On Behalf Of Los Angeles Times

“I still keep the hope. I didn’t know what happened. We had a script [for the remake of Le Cercle Rouge] ready to go, and all of a sudden, CanalPlus had budget problems.”
John Woo On Making Manhunt, Hong Kong vs. Chinese Cinema And Budget Versus Action Movies

From The Yale Law Journal, Ninety-Six Pages On “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” By Lina M. Khan