MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2019
LAFCA is very pleased to announce that Elaine May will be the recipient of this year's Career Achievement award. We will be honoring this legendary actress/writer/director at our annual awards dinner on Jan. 11, 2020. pic.twitter.com/IFsMaxtHj2
— LA Film Critics (@LAFilmCritics) October 31, 2019
Having been in media — and building media — longer than any of these media writers of today, I’d say this is an easy conclusion to make, but the wrong one. Don’t confuse the incompetence of entitled men with structural malaise. https://t.co/966OXOrwsn
— Rafat Ali, Media Operator (@rafat) October 31, 2019
Fucking 2019. All the dystopia, none of the offworld colonies. https://t.co/JFZiRLdD1W
— Nick Harkaway (@Harkaway) October 30, 2019
there's almost no space for writing anymore that's joyful or an attempt to be creative. hardly anyone is playing around with form or even just trying to entertain. so much of the joy has been sucked out of the internet unless its crowdsourced by platforms from ppl who aren't paid https://t.co/2hnx2IpLXw
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) October 29, 2019
i once wrote a viral "arugula has been treated unfairly" take for our large adult politics-and-society website, for chrissakes! just hire good writers and let them write things. deadspin was profitable, and proof that it works.
— Amanda Mull (@amandamull) October 31, 2019
Ford V Ferrari does a number of intricate complicated things with its traditional-seeming format. Easily Mangold’s best work. https://t.co/EvuffmQKrN
— larryagross (@larryagross) October 31, 2019
I don't think "we don't even need the money, we just love watching the world burn!" is as good a defense as FB apparently seems to think it is. https://t.co/XOpIQPSqCP
— Anil Dash is… Dark Mode (@anildash) October 31, 2019
Anything that remotely brushes the zeitgeist is red meat for some. Easier than actual analysis. https://t.co/ac7TooDMi8
— Kris Tapley (@kristapley) October 31, 2019

In Opinion
“This can’t possibly be the outcome you and I want, to have crazy lies pumped into the water supply that corrupt the most important decisions we make together,” writes Aaron Sorkin in an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg https://t.co/5Gx4kNLJkj
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 31, 2019
“Ajit Pai repeatedly *claimed* that banishing net neutrality would lead to significant increases in investment by the nation’s top telecom companies. In fact, the opposite has happened.” https://t.co/xYsygfEwkU
— Craig Aaron (@notaaroncraig) October 31, 2019
Didn't know it was you. Saw Halloween anonymity and rank trollery and you were fully camouflaged. But as to your grand accusation of a moral compromise, Matt. We lived with every detail of for two years, examining all, listening, talking to many. Our stance is ethical and fair. https://t.co/BfiiJ9vx6M
— David Simon (@AoDespair) October 31, 2019
45 years ago today Phantom of the Paradise was released. Almost no one noticed. To steal a Sam Goldwyn quote … “They stayed away in droves!” Many thanks to Katherine Turman and Billboard For this kindness. ❤️🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/tJrDw3oIKN
— Paul Williams (@IMPaulWilliams) October 31, 2019
Imagine getting into a serious accident with a Redbox in the car. You wake up from a coma a month later and now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you paid $40 for a DVD copy of Smurfs 2 without a case. Horrific.
— octopus/caveman (@OctopusCaveman) October 31, 2019
Sincerely, the media industry is the only industry I am optimistic about. It’s not vanishing; it’s catching up. https://t.co/xQVMtU94QP
— Stu VanAirsdale (@StuVanAirsdale) October 31, 2019
just a reminder, G/O Media owns:
Deadspin
Gizmodo
The Root
Jezebel
Gizmodo
Kotaku
The Onion
The A.V. Club
Clickhole
The Takeout
Jalopnik
Lifehackera lot of properties we all love are at risk of going the Deadspin route, so pay attention to how Jim Spanfeller handles this 🤷🏽♀️
— ashes-to-ashes ray (@arayyay) October 30, 2019
first thing my high school journalism teacher advised about working in this industry was to keep a "go to hell" fund for the day your bosses clash with your principles. Thought about using mine more than once, haven't yet. All respect to the Deadspin folks for their bravery today
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) October 30, 2019
Watching all this discourse over college athletes being paid makes me want to see “High Flying Bird” be optioned into a series on Netflix so badly. I’d love to see @octarell tackle this. https://t.co/wW5bJpx7yK
— Rebecca Theodore-Vachon (@FilmFatale_NYC) October 30, 2019
watching his films you get the sense that he genuinely loved people, even when they were broken, even when they were damned, even when they were monsters. Strong heart.
— Willow Catelyn Maclay (@willow_catelyn) October 28, 2019
David Lynch’s acceptance speech at the #HonoraryOscars pic.twitter.com/LTsLz8akNC
— Amanda (@DuganAmanda) October 29, 2019
Beats me how people are still obsessed with the sheningans in DC when we've just lived through the dismantling of Box Office Mojo
— Ankler Rushfield – (@richardrushfield) October 25, 2019
First of all, in order to select this movie from hundreds of options, you have to agree to a “parental advisory” that warns you that viewer discretion is advised. Once you click “proceed” it seems like you’ve agreed to watch the movie in its original form. Instead…
— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) October 30, 2019
— They cut the second half of the animated doll sequence — because naked doll bodies – made for children – are too shocking even with no genitals. Speaking of which, they cut the word “genitals.”
— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) October 30, 2019
What message is this sending to viewers and especially to women? That their bodies are obscene? That their sexuality is shameful?
— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) October 30, 2019
Twitter still has a litany of problems that need to be addressed — including rampant hate speech, coordinated harassment campaigns, and artificial amplification — but credit where credit is due. Banning political advertising is an important step in the right direction. https://t.co/OEVy65pj24
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) October 30, 2019
This is the dumbest, most disingenuous rationale for stealing the intellectual property that it took other people years of time and millions of dollars to make that I've ever seen. And that's saying something.
— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) October 30, 2019
i used to work for a company owned by something called “ziff davis” (OK boomer!) which is where i first encountered this very confusing equation
— Kathryn Jezer-Morton (@KJezerMorton) October 29, 2019
[spins wheel] [Hannibal Buress] is canceled over [rent control]
— Whet Moser (@whet) October 30, 2019
He opened for Chris Rock at the Chicago theatre a couple years ago and had a part about kicking some med students out of the building he just bought on the South Side.
— Chris in Chicago: aka Sterling Bae. (@ChrisInCHI) October 30, 2019
“It took you long enough,” I said.
“And I thought, Holy shit, this is so disturbing and, sadly, a perspective that I did not have because the only perspective I had was in here.” Dave gestured to himself. “I’m sorry I was that way and I was happy to have read the piece because it wasn’t angering. I felt horrible because who wants to be the guy that makes people unhappy to work where they’re working? I don’t want to be that guy. I’m not that guy now. I was that guy then.”
"You could call it fan service, if the service is to teach fans that mimicking Stanley Kubrick’s chilly elegance—and even reshooting scenes from the original film with lookalike actors, a crime bordering on sacrilege—doesn’t make your take nearly as scary." https://t.co/QdCqugNdi9
— Jason Zinoman (@zinoman) October 30, 2019
“When you are a star they let you do it!”
A brilliant and brutal piece by @amandacarpenter @Timehttps://t.co/gqRabCYmUp
— E. Jean Carroll (@ejeancarroll) October 30, 2019
“Life is a racket,” he added. “Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything’s a racket.” https://t.co/nhU4GbfEnk
— New York Times Music (@nytimesmusic) October 29, 2019
This is so exciting and cool: a recently discovered mixtape that Lou Reed made for Andy Warhol, in which Reed sings songs based on “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).” https://t.co/6RPAaShJhi
— Sarah Larson (@asarahlarson) October 30, 2019
Thanks, but we’re not interested in making new Star Wars movies…we’ve got our Netflix deal instead https://t.co/WkcakxwHRn
— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) October 29, 2019
One of New York’s great art house titans, he was known for uncannily picking films that could play long runs. Held “La Cage au Folles” at the 68th St. Playhouse until its sequel was ready.
Meyer Ackerman, 96, Whose Theaters Were Loved by Cinephiles, Dies https://t.co/4zL6nwJrgG
— Janet Maslin (@JanetMaslin) October 29, 2019