Benjamin Dreyer
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author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
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author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
OH MY GOSH IT'S BABY DAMIAN LEWIS
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
OH MY GOSH IT'S BABY DAMIAN LEWIS
At this point it's possible that so many of us have been touting The Holly and The Ivy as This Marvelous Obscure Christmas Movie You Have to Check out that everyone's seen it, but if you haven't: Oh boy, it's great.
December 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
At this point it's possible that so many of us have been touting The Holly and The Ivy as This Marvelous Obscure Christmas Movie You Have to Check out that everyone's seen it, but if you haven't: Oh boy, it's great.
This is why you study the classics.
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is why you study the classics.
Happy birthday, Jim Messina!
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Happy birthday, Jim Messina!
today's random theater photo:
William Faversham, Viola Allen, and Henry Miller in Henry Arthur Jones's The Masqueraders
William Faversham, Viola Allen, and Henry Miller in Henry Arthur Jones's The Masqueraders
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
today's random theater photo:
William Faversham, Viola Allen, and Henry Miller in Henry Arthur Jones's The Masqueraders
William Faversham, Viola Allen, and Henry Miller in Henry Arthur Jones's The Masqueraders
Happy Fritz Lang's birthday!
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December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Happy Fritz Lang's birthday!
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For what this is, it's perfect. I have nothing to suggest, alter, fix.
(And I can't, retroactively, imagine what its actual copy editor might have done or not done to get us here.)
(And I can't, retroactively, imagine what its actual copy editor might have done or not done to get us here.)
December 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
For what this is, it's perfect. I have nothing to suggest, alter, fix.
(And I can't, retroactively, imagine what its actual copy editor might have done or not done to get us here.)
(And I can't, retroactively, imagine what its actual copy editor might have done or not done to get us here.)
today's nearly random theater photos:
John Granger, birthday boy Horst Buchholz, and Kim Stanley in Chéri, by Anita Loos (after Colette) (1959)
(costumes by Miles White)
John Granger, birthday boy Horst Buchholz, and Kim Stanley in Chéri, by Anita Loos (after Colette) (1959)
(costumes by Miles White)
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
today's nearly random theater photos:
John Granger, birthday boy Horst Buchholz, and Kim Stanley in Chéri, by Anita Loos (after Colette) (1959)
(costumes by Miles White)
John Granger, birthday boy Horst Buchholz, and Kim Stanley in Chéri, by Anita Loos (after Colette) (1959)
(costumes by Miles White)
Happy birthday to Jeff Bridges, for the love of gawd.
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Happy birthday to Jeff Bridges, for the love of gawd.
things you can wreak
1. vengeance
2. 👇🏻
1. vengeance
2. 👇🏻
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December 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
things you can wreak
1. vengeance
2. 👇🏻
1. vengeance
2. 👇🏻
I’ve been spotted at the Library of Congress!
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I’ve been spotted at the Library of Congress!
I didn't see the restaging with Kate Burton, but I wouldn't mind going back to 1932 to see Miss Le G's first production.
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I didn't see the restaging with Kate Burton, but I wouldn't mind going back to 1932 to see Miss Le G's first production.
Here's a thing I didn't know till right this second:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was musicalized as early as 1886, with LC's participation.
Not that I'm campaigning for a remake: I think that any stage (or film, for that matter) adaptation of Alice is doomed to fail.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was musicalized as early as 1886, with LC's participation.
Not that I'm campaigning for a remake: I think that any stage (or film, for that matter) adaptation of Alice is doomed to fail.
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Here's a thing I didn't know till right this second:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was musicalized as early as 1886, with LC's participation.
Not that I'm campaigning for a remake: I think that any stage (or film, for that matter) adaptation of Alice is doomed to fail.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was musicalized as early as 1886, with LC's participation.
Not that I'm campaigning for a remake: I think that any stage (or film, for that matter) adaptation of Alice is doomed to fail.
Henry Miller (Agnes's father) and Viola Allen in same.
(Seems to be one of those tangled "but you are my long-lost child" kinda plays.)
(Seems to be one of those tangled "but you are my long-lost child" kinda plays.)
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Henry Miller (Agnes's father) and Viola Allen in same.
(Seems to be one of those tangled "but you are my long-lost child" kinda plays.)
(Seems to be one of those tangled "but you are my long-lost child" kinda plays.)
today's random theater photo:
Agnes Miller in Sowing the Wind (1894)
Agnes Miller in Sowing the Wind (1894)
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
today's random theater photo:
Agnes Miller in Sowing the Wind (1894)
Agnes Miller in Sowing the Wind (1894)
Giulietta wishes Nino Rota a very happy birthday!
December 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Giulietta wishes Nino Rota a very happy birthday!
tonight's fancy Poirot guest starrage:
Zena Walker and Jeremy Northam!
Zena Walker and Jeremy Northam!
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
tonight's fancy Poirot guest starrage:
Zena Walker and Jeremy Northam!
Zena Walker and Jeremy Northam!
Seems that the only collaboration of tomorrow's birthday boys cinematographer Sven Nykvist and composer Nina Rota was 1979's Hurricane.
Well, OK, but that was not what I was expecting to find.
Well, OK, but that was not what I was expecting to find.
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Seems that the only collaboration of tomorrow's birthday boys cinematographer Sven Nykvist and composer Nina Rota was 1979's Hurricane.
Well, OK, but that was not what I was expecting to find.
Well, OK, but that was not what I was expecting to find.
today's unrandom theater photo:
birthday boy Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and unidentified fellow, photographed by Stanley Kubrick
birthday boy Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and unidentified fellow, photographed by Stanley Kubrick
December 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
today's unrandom theater photo:
birthday boy Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and unidentified fellow, photographed by Stanley Kubrick
birthday boy Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and unidentified fellow, photographed by Stanley Kubrick
Not forgetting, of course...
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Not forgetting, of course...
birthday after birthday today
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
birthday after birthday today
Happy Maria's birthday too!
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Happy Maria's birthday too!