How’s about an Indie double bill: Janet Planet and Take Out. Utterly, utterly different takes on cinema: Sean Baker all doc close-up, Annie Baker all staged intimate wide-shot.
I don’t have any friends..it’s a complete mystery to me.
America! Everyone now’s a bit confused. Cats and canines. Can’t speak for the snakes. Think writer Clive James hypnotized with that one. You know, in New York over the past decade, a conversation could not be had about Trump. No dialogue, no dialectic. Starting point, the Republican party also off-limits, that by now we all know is a totally different kettle of tariff fish. So when writer Batya Ungar-Sargon whole-heartedly supports President Trump [though not dear Elon..;)] on Bill Maher’s Real Time you know we live in interesting times not the nadir. And when Bill Maher champions Mahmoud Khalil’s freedom of speech though vehemently opposing the message he’s not performing on a dime sussing which way the penny drops. He’s invoking Noam Chomsky whose only ‘crime’: to awake people to what news outlets were telling them. Freedom of speech is precisely what Trump was railing about with Truth Social. And when Trump says he’ll turn on a giant faucet for Los Angeles water, Ok we get the rhetoric. But what if this President could turn on a giant faucet to up-end America’s healthcare system? Make healthcare equitable not greedy. RFK?? A lot of companies pissed off. Though they’d still make profits, afford their life-styles, and the people could afford healthier lives. And that’s it for ‘politics’ here folks!
So: no comic for the White House Correspondents’ Awards [sorry, DINNER]. No more Amber Ruffin. SO: jokes Seth and Amber can’t tell upon RUFFIN! [That’s a Late Night Show in-joke…it’s of no importance: wait: didn’t AMBER dream of that animal change in the White House. Oh, looky there’s SEAL jugglin’ you know as Ambassador to: schatzie, we own it all now. You’re fired! ] And so the world turns….
Such a shame Amber got ‘cancelled’ for if anyone could conjure some jokes at this time ’tis Ruffin. These White House correspondents are supposed to be fact-finding journalists! So surely they’d know the one thing Amber hates more than the current administration would to be vitriolic and unfunny. That would be worse than…come on AI kick in. Nah, all I’m getting is a frog and a toad kissing meme. Hmmm: AI inculcating kids with Richard Dawkins. And so the world turns…
