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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 2h

this is well said

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 3h

Chicago undated

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 4h

In that sense you're quite right

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 4h

Cash was one of the first to identify there was a lot more to Dylan than the folkie thing - he wanted to make a record with him as early as 1964

mikemolloy @mikemolloy.bsky.social · 4h

Excerpts from Bob Dylan's remarks on Johnny Cash's passing

Johnny was and is the North Star…the greatest of the greats then and now…I knew him before he ever heard of me. In ’55 or ’56, “I Walk the Line” played all summer on the radio, and it was different than anything else you had ever heard

Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 3d

'I somehow never appreciated the only person equally worshipped by punks, rappers, preachers, cowboys, metalheads, rastas, soul singers, bluesmen, grandmothers, & Bob Dylan - the fault must be everybody's.'

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 4h

Was just informed that Diane Keaton produced Gus Van Sant's Elephant, the only movie to actually get in a mass shooter's head. '..it isn't hammering me on the head with a message. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of these quick-paced [gags] telling you what to think.. it gave me the opportunity to listen.'

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 4h

Deep respect for the great TC but I must say - Pierce & Buchanan enabled the Civil War, Johnson hobbled Reconstruction, Hoover worsened the Depression, & Bush started two disastrous wars while wrecking the economy. RN has a lot to answer for but he's a few down the list...

T.C. Boyle @tcboyle.com · 4h

The former #1 worst president in U.S. history. Guess who has pushed him into the #2 spot?

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 5h

this is a very good way to put it

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 5h

Cash is the only person who could kick drugs by wrestling with God in a cave, then later get back on them because an ostrich attacked him, and you say 'oh, ok'

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 11h

Ah yes the famously uncool Johnny Cash.

Johnny Cash smoking and being slutty in some never mind thigh high, some nearly ass high leather boots. Probably on his estate which he bought with his dumb uncool nerd money that idiots gave him.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 7h

As he mentions, Curry is one of the uniquely fantastic actors turned out by Glasgow Citizens Theatre bsky.app/profile/wych...

Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · Aug 26

His success underwrote cheap seats. He made Brecht into a draw - Glasgow lends itself to that - & did a four-hour adaptation of Proust called Wasted Time. There is a huge tree of fascinating actors who worked at the Citz, because it constantly forced you to be an entertainer & an artist.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 7h

The rare, rare actor who improves every single thing he does - his performance as Pennywise has only lately gotten its due, I think

Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 8h

I absolutely loved having this long conversation with Tim Curry, whose memoir comes out Tuesday. He told terrific stories about, among others, Meat Loaf, Ivana Trump, John Huston, Truman Capote, and Miss Piggy. What a life! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Tim Curry Does the Time Warp

The actor and singer discusses the origins of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.

www.newyorker.com

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 21h

Uecker appearing on Carson, Oct 13 2025: 'You know, you get older... God talks to you... one day he said to me, you really think this team can advance carrying three catchers?'

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, surely

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 21h

Several times people have made this argument with a straight face recently. People still talk about Oasis, therefore Oasis are truly great. They consider this logic airtight. I want to scream.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 21h

The two great mainstream shows I love - The Sopranos & Mad Men - I love precisely because they work against everything mainstream is supposed to be

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 21h

Get syphilis on tour, take mercury, book passage to London for 'exhaustion', fall in with Shaw/Granville Barker, several plays at their version of the Court, get annoyed with Shaw, abandon GB when he remarries, marry suffragette, end life writing pamphlets for Leonard Woolf, cremated @ Golders Green

Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 22h

What is your American Gilded Age sona?

(Mine is Silas P. Warpohl, inventor of "dog cocaine" and noted bigamist.)

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 22h

this is brilliant

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 22h

There's a lot of overlap between Dahmer & Nilsen - I'm surprised it's not said more. On that score Masters was the only one to understand Dahmer.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 22h

Beckett wrote in French in the fifties because he wanted to strip his English down to bare essentials

Robert Randall @robertwrandall.bsky.social · 23h

No wonder Godot came around the same time Pollock struggled between drip and figure and Rothko gained notice--1952-55. Pare off the unessential; get at the core.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 22h

Looking for Mr Goodbar is a novel but generally a true story - Roseann Quinn lived & died like that

Jenknitstoomuch @jenknitstoomuch.bsky.social · 23h

I read that book maybe when I was too young to understand and have never seen the film. I’m going to try to find it.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 22h

It’s on youtube 🙏

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Daniel Lafleur Baron de Cadillac @lafleurmtl.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest compliment Keaton received was when French cineast Jean Luc Godard said she was a French actress

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 1d

This is why we get on 😂

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 1d

Above all Meisner teaches you to develop your imagination, & listen & do things actively. He banishes psychology & forces you to come in with richly imagined circumstances that are unique to you, then you get in the boat with your partner & hold each other tight. That is exactly what she did.

Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

Few actors exemplify the delightful wildness and mess that was the hallmark of Meisner technique better than Diane Keaton. What an incredible actor and career. impossible to imagine Reds, Godfather II, or Annie Hall, three of the best American films of the new Hollywood era, without her. RIP!

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for Mr Goodbar. A movie so dangerous that til recently it was hard to find, it's never screened... a nice young woman can't bear being herself, so she fills the hole with sex & rage & engineers her own death. Only Diane Keaton would dare, & only she could make it work.

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