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Michelle Dean

@michelledean.bsky.social
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I wrote for websites & I wrote for magazines & I wrote a book called SHARP & I wrote a TV show called THE ACT & now I hope to find some meaning in life again (but am unfortunately mired in Hollywood) 🇨🇦

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/10/2026
the main tradeoff of going to grad school isn't money or prestige. that would be laughable. the main reason to do it is so you can ruthlessly pick apart movies that touch on your area of subject expertise
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
wholesome entertainment — that’s the Canadian way
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
always interesting to discover that in Hollywood the internet meant “go slower, take more time and money”
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Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller with the top down in NYC, 1956 #FridayFeeling #LaborDay #weekend #mood #MarilynMonroe #ArthurMiller #NYC #photo #film #photography
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He is Canada’s greatest actor
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don’t think it’s organic
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My wife walked into my life via a friend who was struck by a strong intuition we ought to meet, which hit ad he was doing COVID jumping jacks in his backyard. Love is a game of chance. No one worth the trouble is good at dating. I was unlucky at it a long time. One day I hope you’ll be lucky too. 🤞
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
sure, why doesn’t everything good die all at once
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Will always love you too…
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Dolly Parton's Iconic Smile
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I just want to say that college teaching sounds like absolute hell now, I admire those of you sticking with it for minor ducats.
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
samkriss.substack.com/p/the-carrio...
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The carrion-eaters
What we did to Jason Arday
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I loved her popping up in the Jude Law Star Wars show, too. Showed she can be quite silly.
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
thank you for being on this journey with me
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois" repost to receive his blessing
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
it was because of you
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What are simple at-home lunch ideas we can turn to in this Gilded Age of Death Lettuce?
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Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
When you get two cats, how do they decide which one will have a tiny chirp like a pixie’s doorbell and which one will wail like the ghost of a jilted bride?
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Goood morning! In 20 minutes Olivia Miles will be on a basketball court, one of the great watching pleasures of 2026.
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Olivia Miles
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“Oh my god is she wearing a gold puka shell necklace?” Me watching a British lesbian dating show
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
it’s so nice to see people collectively freak out over a review essay again
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
you, to the editors:
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
what I’m hoping for one day is a wnba/lrb crossover moment when angry people from Indiana take exception to Jacqueline Rose’s views on Caitlin Clark
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
how dare this scribbling wench write this about my favourite movie man’s movie
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“content” is a cursèd word now
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I, too, think MEMENTO is his best work.
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
all of you missed a lot of great wnba content this weekend
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You still have time.
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
true. Though I like Mank better than most and Fincher saw the genius of Amanda Seyfried there
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Yes but the youngs haven’t seen it! And I know because I live in the trenches of Hollywood with youngs who think Fincher is the “Gone Girl Guy”
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
no one will recognize this one
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
can you all start watching the wnba now
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
my review of THE ODYSSEY is that I wanted more time with Samantha Morton
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I am a writer who only leaves the house to go to the gym and the grocery store
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
today I was complimented on having great skin in spite of the apocalypse
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
bagged salads gross me out anyway
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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Taylor Farms sells half the bagged salad kits in any given supermarket.
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I wish there was a button where you could specify “music played by real people on real instruments with no auto tune” on Spotify
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m enjoying her in this game
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
he and Chloë own the show
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
what if we only eat produce from the farmer’s market does that help
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
this is when living in Cali pays off where you can buy them fresh at the farmer’s market
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
for me it’s but no one knows, how far it goes…
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
it’s honestly a good movie and also why do those damn dinosaurs still look better than cgi
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
suffering from Moana earworms, please send help
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Michelle Dean @michelledean.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
please report back about the pleasures (g-rated) of p’town for those of us moored in the west
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
mandatory reading
"SAM NEILL
- If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?
- It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill
How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Check out the NYRB US cover for Library of Brothel You can preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/libr... or from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social or any local bookseller
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