Weekend reads, August 10-12, 2018

The Sumner of All Fears?; Cartooning Herzog Park Ranger; Spike Lee's Time Cover And Carrie Mae Weems' Photographs; Joe Leydon's Personal History on Spike Lee's Ten Best; Jacqueline Decker On Making Immodest Masterpiece; New Wave Lesbian Sex Scenes; Last Temptation of Christ at 30; The Legendary Voice Behind Movie Trailers; and Tweet Relief from Albert Brooks, Brian Stelter, Matt Pearce, Kate Aurthur, Seth Abramovitch, Mark Agee

Is 95-Year-Old Sumner Redstone Capable of Making Decisions On A CBS-Viacom Merger? The Reporter

Time Cover-Stories Spike Lee Rembert Browne; On Carrie Mae Weems' Accompanying Photos Time

Joe Leydon's Personal History on Spike Lee's Ten Best Variety

Jacqueline Decker: "I’d just done the biggest thing that I’d ever done in my life and had the biggest audience I’d ever had, and I was just like: ‘In the grand scheme of things, more people are going to know about their local grocery market closing down than are ever going to know about these movies. What am I really doing with my life?'" IndieWire

"'What you are experiencing is just a metaphor.'" A. O. Scott Reviews Madeline's Madeline NYT

“Historically, lesbian sex scenes have predominantly been directed by men, and have a male gaze, the male fantasy of ‘girl on girl action’, much like that found in pornography."
“We’ve seen many sex scenes over the years that are really a functional punctuation point at the end of a sequence of scenes. They’re about seduction, and focused around male pleasure. This does not give a true depiction of the quality and focus of lesbian sexual expression." Guardian

Redd Pepper: "The Legendary Voice Behind Movie Trailers" Video from Great Big Story

Comic: Herzog Park Ranger The Believer

The Last Temptation of Christ at 30 Charles Bramesco

Scott Macaulay Points To Filmmaker's Pieces by Esther B. Robinson On Career Risk vs. Security, Including Joe Swanberg (pre-"Easy" in 2014)

Shorting The Long Read For Material in Hollywood Exec Suites Guardian

Tweet Relief

Oooh, the story was "planted." It's all a nefarious plot to write interesting stories and Hollywood fell for it. pic.twitter.com/qL5MbDcX1s

— Seth Abramovitch (@SethAbramovitch) August 10, 2018

"White anxiety" is the term you use when editors won't let you use "racism." https://t.co/847kL48lQt

— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) August 10, 2018

It's not true that an editor made you use the term, you mean, Brian? Because I otherwise see Matt's point.

— Kate Aurthur (@KateAurthur) August 10, 2018

Haven’t tweeted for a while and have never felt better. Although I do miss writing stuff for free and still being horribly criticized.

— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) August 10, 2018

It's kind of funny Idris Elba never said anything about wanting to be James Bond but after a decade-long pressure campaign y'all succeeded at making a 45-year-old man have to learn parkour

— Mark Agee (@MarkAgee) August 10, 2018