THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Monday 26 August 2018


Steve James and America To Me; Neil Simon; David Lynch Memoir; Women's Dreams In Horror; A New Jeff Nichols Short with Michael Shannon; Derek Jarman's Keith Collins; Kevin Smith and that Fifty-First Pound; A Timeless Tony Curtis Tale; and more.




"I was trying to figure out, am I just going to be picking white kids to hold them up as a kind of example of cluelessness or white privilege?" Steve James on the Challenges of "America To Me" NYTimes

 Neil Simon Was 91: The Times Obit, With 11'39" "The Last Word" Video NYTimes

 John Lahr's Essential 2010 New Yorker Profile of Neil Simon New Yorker

"Was it that time had passed him by, or that his audience had just become impatient with a man who could do one particular thing better than almost anyone else and wanted to keep doing it?" Mark Harris On Neil Simon Vulture new link

"Losing Neil Simon, a Writer From a Lost Time": Frank Rich Vulture

 "I love curtains. Are you kidding me? I love them because they’re beautiful in and of themselves, but also because they hide something. There is something behind the curtain and you don’t know if it’s good or bad." Wendy Ide Minds David Lynch's Memoir Prospect

Gretchen Felker-Martin on "the horrific feminine and the use of women's dreams and interiority in horror film" VRVBlog

Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre Sold Outright to Longtime Leaseholder Chronicle

Charlie Phillips On Agnès Varda Observer

A Michael Shannon Music Video Became a Jeff Nichols Short Vulture


Tweet Relief

This @weightwatchers Ambassador is thrilled to announce that I’VE LOST 51 POUNDS! Six months ago from right now, I was in the hospital recovering from a heart attack I’d had the night before. When I went to my Doctor a week later, she told me “The best thing you can do for yourself now is to lose 50 pounds.” Half a year later, I can report that I followed Doctor’s orders: I started at 256 and now I weigh 205. This is the lightest I’ve been since high school! My hope now is I can slowly lose another 10 with #weightwatchers and get down to my birth weight of 195! But for now, I’m ecstatic to have reached this chunky milestone! I wanna thank #pennjillette for his book #presto, @raycronise for getting me started with his potato famine, and the good folks at #weightwatchers for their app-based program that made it easy to keep track of and control my eating! And I also wanna thank my kid @harleyquinnsmith - the little vegan astronaut who explored this meatless/milkless galaxy ahead of me, leading by example. Since I never wanted to see the inside of a hospital ever again, I simply copied the Kid. So this wasn’t a diet: these results came from a total lifestyle change of eating solely plant-based foods (which is tough because I hate vegetables). But mostly, I wanna thank all of you as well - for the kind and encouraging words along the way. Never underestimate the power of positive feedback: you folks telling me I looked better or healthier helped me stick with it. An encouraging word can really make a difference in someone’s life and your compliments kept me going! And just look where I went! #KevinSmith #WWambassador #WWFreestyle #WWFamily #WWBros #weightlosstransformation #weightloss #WWCommunity #ad *People following the Weight Watchers program can expect to lose 1-2lbs per week.
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