Amy Argetsinger
@amyargetsinger.bsky.social
Editor and occasional writer on the features staff of The Washington Post, author of “There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America” (S&S, 2021)
Watched the 2021 remake the other night. It was shockingly good.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Watched the 2021 remake the other night. It was shockingly good.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (mostly for that one transcendent scene)
Goodfellas (it’s actually a comedy)
Jackass: The Movie (possibly the hardest I have laughed in a room by myself)
Goodfellas (it’s actually a comedy)
Jackass: The Movie (possibly the hardest I have laughed in a room by myself)
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (mostly for that one transcendent scene)
Goodfellas (it’s actually a comedy)
Jackass: The Movie (possibly the hardest I have laughed in a room by myself)
Goodfellas (it’s actually a comedy)
Jackass: The Movie (possibly the hardest I have laughed in a room by myself)
... Is that they are great actors *because* they are great listeners. They are unusually present in the moment, observant, taking in all the stimuli around them. This level of focus and absorption allows them to act and react naturally. Not coincidentally, it makes them extraordinarily charming.
September 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
... Is that they are great actors *because* they are great listeners. They are unusually present in the moment, observant, taking in all the stimuli around them. This level of focus and absorption allows them to act and react naturally. Not coincidentally, it makes them extraordinarily charming.
Please don’t tell me I have to actually see the movie if I want to continue alluding to it in learned fashion.
August 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Please don’t tell me I have to actually see the movie if I want to continue alluding to it in learned fashion.
It only got 75 shares!
August 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It only got 75 shares!
Do one this summer and the other next summer?
July 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Do one this summer and the other next summer?
Nice choice to have to consider. Which country?
July 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Nice choice to have to consider. Which country?
"Lovely irony that Washington — a city full of swaggering mercenaries, political theater kids, walking LinkedIn profiles — becomes, for three months out of the year, an open-air sauna that is liable to transform them, under a full sun, into a pack of sweat werewolves."
June 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Lovely irony that Washington — a city full of swaggering mercenaries, political theater kids, walking LinkedIn profiles — becomes, for three months out of the year, an open-air sauna that is liable to transform them, under a full sun, into a pack of sweat werewolves."