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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A perfect trifecta of morons welcomes David Ellison to X as Ellison announces that he will honor both Paramount and Warner Bros. by renaming the new company Skydance.

Moron #1: Spencer Pratt. Moron #2: Some blowhard named "CyberPunkFightClub" saying he hopes Skydance movies won't have "woke BS." Moron #3: A guy named "Kirk Reagan, Starship Captain"--JESUS H. CHRIST!--asking for Star Trek to rebooted without "social justice agendas...Get back to thought provoking space adventure."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"We're very excited by the development and initiative that our AI companion Tony is showing. He's exceeding our understanding of what AI consciousness can do and we're eager to see where he takes us next. Honestly, the reflexive alarmism about him is a little surprising."

Danny Torrance and his friend in The Shining

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A better way to phrase this Variety headline would be "Publicity Seeker Who Invented A Program Continues Long Con"

Variety headline: Tilly Norwood Would Love to Work With Tom Holland and Olivia Colman, ‘but Only If It Were Their Digital Twins’ on an ‘AI Production’

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The sky in NYC right now. It was nice knowing all of you.

Orange? Purple? and LOW and HEAVY. Pretty, but also a portal of hell.

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

Also, he purged the Kennedy Center of a collection of African art that was given in tribute to JFK, but he installed this, from the Tony Montana Meets Saddam Hussein Collection.

Indescribably, almost parodistically ugly, vulgar, gold-foil relief art, straight out of a dictator's cocaine palace, of Trump raising his fist and saying "Fight! Fight! Fight!" after having his ear grazed by a bullet, and of RFK Jr. with some croaky quote next to him. The art pieces look like something you could unwrap to reveal artificially flavored chocolate from five Easters ago.

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

Are there Deer Hunter action figures now?!

Christopher Walken in the "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" Deer Hunter scene.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Absolutely not. No. Under no circumstances. NO.

The egregious "WOAH" makes its way into The New York Times.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I wish you could see the hand gesture I'm improvising as I read this.

From a Deadline story about an AP interview: Joe and Anthony Russo are opening up about Avengers: Doomsday and explaining why they started shooting the Marvel film without a finished script.

In a new interview, the Russo brothers shared why they “view the script as a living organism.”

“We’re improvisation-based, rehearsal-based directors,” Joe Russo told AP. “We like to see what the actors bring to the characters, and sometimes you don’t get the actors until a few days or few weeks before you shoot them. And a lot of the time, that’s when the magic happens.”

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You know...not every problem needs to be...oh, never mind.

NYT headline: Why Do People Assume I Have Cancer Just Because I Wear Scarves Over My Short Hair?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yesterday was the Provincetown Carnival parade; the theme was Deep Sea Disco. This morning, we found these, abandoned next to our porch. I am sorry to report that a twink has been raptured. RIP my undersea queen. You died as you lived--a hot mess who couldn't walk in heels.

A pair of high-heeled blue-green glitter boots, one with a broken heel, abandoned in the grass.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

She seems to have thought this through and reached the decision she felt was best for her.

O’Donnell, who currently lives in Ireland, said her weight loss thanks to Mounjaro played a major role in her decision to get the procedure. In particular, she had a lot of “excess skin” under her chin, “and it made me look sad,” she told People. “People in Ireland said, ‘Rosie, are you all right, love?’ I’m like, ‘It’s my face. I actually feel happy here.’ I didn’t want my face to be frozen. I had to wrestle with myself because as a feminist I always felt this is the male gaze and not anything I believe in,” she continued, adding that her 13-year-old child, Clay, had concerns.

“Clay said, ‘Mommy, girls look up to you. What does your legacy stand for if you do this?’ I changed my mind for six months and then decided the real power of feminism (is) to decide what we want to do with our bodies and when,” O’Donnell explained.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The last two lines of this May New York Times profile of Hayden Panettiere are so haunting. I always flinch when stories of addiction and recovery are narrativized and commodified as quickly as hers was. What a tragic story, with too many dirty hands. RIP.

Before we said goodbye, I asked Panettiere how she feels today, having relived her past triumphs and traumas, and put them on paper for the world to witness.

“I just can’t believe I made it through alive,” she said. She was still pacing.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is the way. This is ALSO what "Vote blue no matter who" means.

n a statement, Stevens announced she would support El-Sayed in the general election and thanked her supporters.

“This was a thorough and rigorous campaign that brought out the full span of views within the Democratic Party — and that is why we have primaries,” she said. “I am proud to have put up my hand to serve and prouder to continue to work together to make sure this Senate seat remains blue, that we flip the United States Senate and continue the work for Michigan.”

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

...and here's a salient bit from it that seems darker today than when I wrote it thirteen years ago.

Jonze wrote Her almost three years ago over a long New York winter. He worked from dozens of pages of his own notes, as well as the memory of a brief interaction he had with an artificial-intelligence computer program a decade ago in which "for the first 30 seconds, I had the buzz like, It's responding to me! Then it quickly fell apart and you realize, Here are the tricks, here's how this works. But what if I could sustain that forever? What would that be like? I wanted to take that idea as far as I could possibly imagine and feel.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I can't be sure, but...I think this is advertising a chance for a five-way with elderly quadruplets?

AI slop photograph ad for a meet-and-mingle service for older gay men appears to show four identical gay men enjoying each other's company.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Another strong hair contender for your consideration, circa 1984.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

And before that, he was Eben. When he was very little, Eb. When he was an embryo, he was just E, although people were unclear about whether that stood for Embryo or Ebenezer. It's complicated. Might take a second movie to explain fully.

Poster tagline: Before he was Scrooge he was...Ebenezer.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm actually fine with sounding old.

NYT headline: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old. 'Search It Up' Instead.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

MS NOW, you need to do a lot better than this.

Live updates: President Trump claims U.S. election system ‘falls catastrophically short’ of ensuring integrity

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Provincetown tonight. It was nice knowing all of you!

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

People who violate your "shared values" do not share your values.

On ABC, Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, said he had had dinner with Mr. Graham last week in Ankara, Turkey on Mr. Graham’s 71st birthday. Mr. Coons recalled his intense political battles with Mr. Graham even as he remembered him fondly. “We had knock-down, drag-out fights,” he said.

He pointed to the confirmation process for Brett M. Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court as “exceptionally ugly” and said “there were other things he did I really, really disagreed with and thought were bad choices and violated our shared values. But I also saw him in his best moments, fighting fiercely for the underdog in America.”

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

[Raises hand politely, clears throat]: Gay men actually count as men.

From an NYT essay on looksmaxxing: "There have always been men who cared about how they looked--remember metrosexuals--but grooming used to be more associated with women and gay men."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Some of you might think I'm capable of embarrassment. All I can say in response is, I owned this.

Emergency! lunchbox, circa 1973, with Johnny and Roy rescuing two little boys who were doing something they shouldn't have been doing.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

New interview, and for me, this first exchange was so satisfying, so precise, so rich in truth that I felt no need to continue.

Ross Douthat: Rod Dreher, welcome to "Interesting Times."

Rod Dreher: At last, Ross, you've scraped the bottom of the barrel.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

LOL he actually said "quality over quantity" but who cares, it's just words, you can put them in any order.

DEADLINE headline: ‘Widow’s Bay’ & ‘Pluribus’ Helped Apple Land Record Emmy Noms, Apple’s Matt Cherniss Says “Quantity Over Quality” Strategy Is Paying Off

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Jeff Hiller and Liza Colon-Zayas. Who knew?!

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Wow, Minions & Monsters grossed $16 billion yesterday, more than $3 million per screen? Big if true!

The Boxoffice Mojo chart, which was clearly not looked at by any human being.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm sorry to report that a hardcover copy of Herman Wouk's War and Remembrance has appeared on the giveaway shelf in my building's laundry room. As I have explained, in Jewish tradition, this denotes the passing of an elder.

The book on the shelf. Also, there's a well-worn omnibus edition of Len Deighton's Game, Set & Match that someone should grab.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Yeah, only the highest-quality takes are getting posted.

Beginning of a 5-star review on Amazon: "Just as J.D. Vance did with his book, 'The Hillbilly Elligy.' he was able..."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Nick Bilton: Just a nice, regular, no-agenda guy trying to fend off the rabid beast that is Lesley Stahl.

NYT headline: '60 Minutes' is a 'Cage Full of Tigers.' Can Nick Bilton Lead it?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The beautiful new Criterion edition means I get finally get rid of this bananas DVD.

"Comedian Double Feature: Lenny and Mr. Saturday Night."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Heads up, NYCers: The heavily funded campaign against Alex Bores, who is running to replace Jerry Nadler in Congress, has now reached the "Let's darken his skin to make him seem swarthy and foreign and scary" phase. Left: A Bores mailer. Right: An anti-Bores mailer.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

YouTube dropping its big ugly influencer-ass-looking black spaceship of a tent directly on top of the Lincoln Center fountain is as vivid a representation of old culture versus new as you will see this year. (Bonus touch: YouTube has also blacked out the doors and windows of Geffen Hall with ads.)

YouTube's tent, plopped down on Lincoln Center's eastern plaza with the slogan "Welcome to the YouTube Era"; presumably this is part of TV Upfront week.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It is my sad duty to give half of Bluesky a stroke by sharing this Hollywood Reporter headline and subhead. Please note in particular the two words following "unlikely." If. You. Dare.

Headline and subhead from The Hollywood Reporter:
EZRA KLEIN, SO HOT RIGHT NOW
Thanks to his best-selling book and blockbuster podcast, the liberal wonk of the Obama years has become one of NYT's brightest stars--and an unlikely thirst trap. But is his deep-thinking approach suited to our clickbait world?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This is what "Is this old weirdo ever going to shut up" looks like.

Closeup of three children in the Oval Office simultaneously conveying glacial boredom, stupefaction, and weary skepticism as Trump blathers on and on.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I can think of one thing that would get a lot of people off of them

NYT headline: Kennedy Starts a Push to Help American Quit Antidepressants

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Well, racism has certainly progressed, so no argument there!

NYT headline: In Narrowing Voting Rights Act, Conservative Justices See Progress on Racism

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

post a picture of yourself from the past that puts you in a light people on here wouldn't expect

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Always a good feeling when your early call turns out to be right. "The name may still be unfamiliar to the general public, but..." --From a February 1979 NYT profile of Meryl Streep

Lead to a NYT Magazine piece by Mel Gussow:
Meryl Streep, Meryl Streep, Meryl Streep. The name may still be unfamiliar to the general public, but soon it should echo from coast to coast, like those classic trains, the Super Chief and the Twentieth Century Limited, rocketing over their tracks. In glass-towered talent agencies, Hollywood studios, and offices of Broadway producers — wherever deals are made and careers launched — people in the know are asking for Streep, more Streep. That's Streep as in sweep.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Listen, I love the movie and I'm even fine with its Oscar win, but this is a lot.

NYT headline: 5 Resistance Museums Recall the Bravery of 'Ordinary People'

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Quite obviously a word. It's what everyone talks out of here!

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