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Chris Yogerst
@chrisyogerst.com
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Writer, professor, media historian. Columns at The Hollywood Reporter, Time, Washington Post, LARB, Atlantic, etc. Author: The Warner Brothers; Hollywood Hates Hitler www.chrisyogerst.com chrisyogerst.substack.com
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 10h
He absolutely was taken advantage of by his caretaker. It's an incredibly sad story. His whole family was estranged by the time he died. Still, the legacy of Jim's work should be celebrated nonetheless.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 17h
"I don't hate it. I just think it's slick shit." This is how Casablanca co-writer Julius Epstein described the classic film in conversation with my friend Pat McGilligan.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 11h
Definitely! He knew the Cagney family quite well.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 1d
In order to help us sift through the synthetic and identify valuable information, Boorstin defines pseudo-events as having four components. First, a pseudo-event “is not spontaneous, but comes about because someone has planned, planted, or incited it.”
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 17h
Those backstory books are amazing. All OOP right now and I've been pushing Pat to get them republished. Let me know when your book is out! I'd love to learn more about it.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 17h
I will! He's been an extraordinary mentor to me as well as so many others through his work.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 17h
"I don't hate it. I just think it's slick shit." This is how Casablanca co-writer Julius Epstein described the classic film in conversation with my friend Pat McGilligan.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 19h
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, so SCOTUS was bound to get something right.
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot...
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 1d
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Image is Everything
Daniel Boorstin and Pseudo-Events in the 21st Century
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 1d
Awards shows are constructed solely for the purpose of being reported on, analyzed by journalists and fans, thus creating buzz about the industry that will lead to more product sales.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 1d
Boorstin saw film and music awards shows as a perfect example: the nominated products, which have already been released, now come with their own marketing campaigns.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 1d
In order to help us sift through the synthetic and identify valuable information, Boorstin defines pseudo-events as having four components. First, a pseudo-event “is not spontaneous, but comes about because someone has planned, planted, or incited it.”
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 1d
So moving. Now I need to revisit Uncle Buck and The Great Outdoors!
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 2d
Daniel Boorstin was right about the changing status of fame and celebrity. “Wherever it reaches,” he observes, “it confuses traditional forms of achievement. It focuses on the personality rather than on the work. It puts a premium on well-knownness for its own sake.”
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Daniel Boorstin and Pseudo-Events in the 21st Century
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 2d
This also makes the sad side of this story all the more heartbreaking. So much brilliance and tragedy.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 2d
#NowWatching ...I think John Candy was the first celebrity loss I remember (with Kurt Cobain shortly after). He was a towering figure and I realized that quickly as a kid. The joy his comedy has brought me is so delightfully shared by his colleagues interviewed in this doc.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 2d
Ugh....this timeline is awful.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 2d
Examples he cites include authors like Hemingway, Salinger, and Mailer, who all eventually became known more for their personalities than for their work (in his opinion). This “personality as celebrity” template would take over in the coming decades…
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 2d
Daniel Boorstin was right about the changing status of fame and celebrity. “Wherever it reaches,” he observes, “it confuses traditional forms of achievement. It focuses on the personality rather than on the work. It puts a premium on well-knownness for its own sake.”
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Daniel Boorstin and Pseudo-Events in the 21st Century
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 2d
Thanks for including my @thr.com column!
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d
SNL premiered 50 years ago tonight.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d
Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)
Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 3d
This is a killer essay, still so strikingly relevant. I’ve been discussing Thompson in class the last few years. Here’s a Substack I wrote about the example she set for journalists today. open.substack.com/pub/chrisyog...
Dorothy Thompson: Fearlessness in the Face of Fascism
The journalist we should all know more about
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 3d
@agordonreed.bsky.social was fantastic in the new Jefferson doc. Sharing this to remind myself to read it later…
Whose Independence?
The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 3d
Movies have survived one major technological shift after another for well over a century. I'm not surprised here, but that won't stop the "movies are over" crowd from keeping up their narrative -- a narrative as old as movies. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Movies Increasingly Drive Streaming Revenue
A Parrot Analytics analysis of thousands of titles across Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, and Max finds that movies deliver disproportionately high engagement relative to the volume of content h...
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