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This is a real "opportunity for the funniest thing to happen" moment.

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Oprah’s Latest Pick Exposes Secrets on a Remote Scottish Island (Gift Article)

I loved Douglas Stuart's novel John of John, reviewed it for the NYT, and am delighted to see that it just made the Booker Prize shortlist. Read it! (You can skip the reader comments on my review; they're mostly from people who are mad at Oprah Winfrey, which...fine.) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/b...

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In the powerful and surprising “John of John,” Douglas Stuart sends a young art student back home to a family he thought he’d left behind.

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I'll save a real discussion of Elsinore for when it opens but right now I'll say A) every bit of praise you're hearing for Andrew Scott's performance is justified and B) he has a very witty, smart, surprising script to work with. (Don't get me started on the glibness of calling this "Oscar bait.")

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know Swift doesn't mean anything bad by it, but...yeah. This is not great.

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What? Are you all too busy or something?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Putting all my thoughts about this egregious Paramount/Warner settlement in this (growing) thread. (tl;dr: I am not a fan.)

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

All the people here criticizing Mamdani for this A) apparently have no memory of how it went the last time B) make me happy and relieved that Bluesky is a bubble. To paraphrase Dean Wormer: Self-righteous, smug, and ignorant is no way to go through life, son.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If I had someone lecturing me that i need to do their makeup six times faster maybe I, too, would put Bette Midler’s old-age face from “For the Boys” on him and call it a day.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In today's installment of the most tin-eared awards campaign of the year so far, Tom Cruise basically DOGE-brags about how he made the make-up people on Digger work faster because he's an efficiency expert. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Tom Cruise Reveals How He Cut ‘Digger’ Transformation Time From Six Hours to Under One

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s dark comedy with an unrecognizable Cruise as the lead opens in theaters Oct. 2.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am not a Bourdain cultist and I don't have a lot of patience for macho-but-hurting-inside chef drama. But I just saw the movie Tony and thought it was very strong and well-made. I was esp. impressed by Dominic Sessa; his remarkable debut in The Holdovers was not a fluke. (Bonus: Ptown locations!)

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

While we wait to see if Digger gets Tom Cruise an Oscar, here's an essay I wrote about his three Academy Award nominations, his hard turn away from that early quest, his strengths and weaknesses, and the limits of "intensity." A decade later, I think it still applies. grantland.com/hollywood-pr...

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» Cruise’s Oscar Years: One Decade. Three Nominations. Myriad Lessons.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Correction: A company marketing a cartoon character obtained the cooperation of an opportunistic journalist for an infomercial, and it failed.

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Informed1 @informed1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I do not laugh out loud to memes very often, but this one really got me.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just called my husband a horrible antisemitic slur because I was texting too fast, how is your morning going?

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You might want to follow this Dem candidate for an LI House seat--the victim of a homophobic smear campaign.

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Bret's friends are just out of camera range.

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A detail about The Graduate from my book research: The one scene in which they couldn't plausibly make Anne Bancroft, 36, look old and sun-damaged was the goodbye in the rain (it was 60 years ago and makeup in color was still tricky). So you get a glimpse that's close to what she really looked like.

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I'm getting all kinds of reminders tonight that The Graduate is not a movie for people who like their good guys and bad guys cleanly delineated.

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The crucial sympathy-shift in experiencing The Graduate is when you go from his age to her age.

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New York Performing Arts Library Gets $60 Million Gift for Preservation (Gift Article)

Each of my books has depended on the archives of the Performing Arts Library, of which I made free use because I'm lucky enough to live close by. This gift robs me of my unfair advantage & I hate it. (Seriously: A miracle that will transform performing arts research.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...

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The anonymous donation, the library’s largest ever, will support digitization of archival items related to theater, dance and music.

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I think the deep, dug-in loathing for Trump is...because of literally everything he is, says, and does, OK yes sure, but also, because we've never experienced this with a second-term president: We haven't had to put up with him for six years, but for ten. He can't recover from that. (I hope WE can.)

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I don't think I can count the number of writers I know who have The Writing Life on their shelves, or who drew inspiration from Annie Dillard's work and guidance. RIP.

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I am fascinating by the ongoing Ed Sheeran story and the way it strikes right at the heart of the fading viability of "Oh, I don't do politics."

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Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center (Gift Article)

"I will destroy the Kennedy Center unless you name it after me" isn't surprising because it's petty and petulant and exposes the morally vacant core of a sore loser. But the political ineptitude of it is jolting. We're deep in Trump's "tantrum minus strategy" era. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a...

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President Trump threatened to cancel a $257 million renovation of the performing arts venue if the judge’s ban was not overturned.

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Trump is in a very strange place these days. This is, in language he would understand, a loser move, a bitch move, one that will not win a single Republican a single vote. And he doesn't care, because for him, it's all about collecting trophies before he dies. It's a new kind of scary.

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Still thinking about the bungled Emmys, in particular, the death tribute. Macaulay Culkin and the Schitt's Creek folks looking like a very uncomfortable blended family at a wake. A Dolly Parton tribute that could have focused on her great, funny TV work on Carson and various talk shows, but instead>

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