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Elon Green@elongreen· 24d

Anyway, Charlie Watts had one of the great expressive faces.

Charlie Watts

Elon Green@elongreen· 24d

Apparently this is topical this morning www.insidehook.com/culture/worl...

Of all your characters, whom do you most identify with?
Parker, from Alien. He decided to give his life up for the woman. He's totally a hero. He never blinked once. He knew he wasn't going to make it off the ship and he knew he was going to protect Lambert, and that's what he did. He was more of a hero than Sonny Boy Mosby, who was a different kind of an angry hero; the act of killing the Caucasian male in The Liberation of L.B. Jones had never been done before in Hollywood. The only thing we got close to was a slap from Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night. But the next year, Willie Wyler said, "You're going to be the first black man to strike back violently."
That role psychologically impressed me, but he was not the hero-he was the antihero.
But Parker is a hero, completely. TIl never forget that character. He was ready to die.

Elon Green@elongreen· 29d

Sam Neill ®
@TwoPaddocks
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MONTANA People keep asking me if I ever saw Montana. Well yes I did, and I painted a little pic of a couple of mountains there one evening. Not great.
Obviously. But I still like it. So here's something else to do in #lockdown- paint. Needn't be a masterpiece. Just enjoy it.
8:34 AM • Jul 7, 2020

Elon Green@elongreen· 29d

rare W for the Trump DOJ

Elon Green@elongreen· 29d

well, he’s probably not getting reelected

Lindsey Graham was facing reelection in November. What happens now?

Elon Green@elongreen· Jul 11

for the kitties who like starting wars in the Middle East

Elon Green@elongreen· Jul 9

I'm sure you're tired of seeing this in your timeline, apologies, but I'm gonna share the opening because I'm proud of it

Until 6:30 p.m., the evening of Dec. 29, 1975, had been like most others at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport. The main terminal wasn’t terribly crowded. Two flights had arrived in the past hour: one from Indianapolis, the other from Cincinnati. Most everyone had cleared out by then, but there were stragglers.

Among them was Enoch Stamey, 38, who stood just outside the airport’s doors. The gifted artist with an eye for color had just returned from visiting his mother in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was joined by Bynum Patterson, who, like Stamey, had traveled on Eastern Airlines Flight 564. Both awaited cars to take them to Connecticut. Patterson, 37, was a display director for the Bloomingdale’s in White Plains. He, too, had been visiting his mother.

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The Forgotten Bombing of LaGuardia Airport
It’s been called “one of the greatest cold cases of the 20th century.” It remains unsolved. But what happened next is almost a worse crime.
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Until 6:30 p.m., the evening of Dec. 29, 1975, had been like most others at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport. The main terminal wasn’t terribly crowded. Two flights had arrived in the past hour: one from Indianapolis, the other from Cincinnati. Most everyone had cleared out by then, but there were stragglers.

Among them was Enoch Stamey, 38, who stood just outside the airport’s doors. The gifted artist with an eye for color had just returned from visiting his mother in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was joined by Bynum Patterson, who, like Stamey, had traveled on Eastern Airlines Flight 564. Both awaited cars to take them to Connecticut. Patterson, 37, was a display director for the Bloomingdale’s in White Plains. He, too, had been visiting his mother.
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Inside the terminal, Edythe Bull, 72, had missed the bus and was waiting for the next one. Hailing from Brevard, North Carolina, she worked for the nonprofit Keep America Beautiful. Bull was set to begin an around-the-world trip with a friend in Wilton, Connecticut. Milling about, too, was Othelyn Elaine Little, 25, an insurance underwriter from Yonkers, New York. She’d spent Christmas in Durham, North Carolina, with her mother, Bessie.

Nearby, a driver for a limousine service chatted with his dispatcher. “I got my Wantagh passenger,” he said. “Where do you want me to go next?”

The dispatcher heard a sudden roar. “It sounds like a bomb at TWA,” she joked to her co-workers.

Elon Green@elongreen· Jul 9

An utterly perfect show.

From Forest Hills

Elon Green@elongreen· Jul 7

I've read about all manner of atrocity, but even so, the violence of this bombing floored me. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The explosion was immense, commensurate in intensity with 25 sticks of dynamite. It was as if a twister had hit the terminal. A 12-foot-wide hole was torn in the 8-inch-thick concrete ceiling. A football field’s length of plateglass windows were blown out. Pieces of red lockers littered the parking lot. Water geysered from the busted pipes.
All told, an estimated 75 people were injured, and 11—including Stamey, Patterson, Bull, and Musicaro—died as a result of the blast. The violence was such that, within minutes, 175 pints of blood were immediately shipped to city hospitals from the bank on Amsterdam Avenue. Corpses sat on-site in pine boxes before transport to the medical examiner’s office. There was an account of a human head resting on a window ledge, and puddles of blood soaking the island next to the parking lot. “The explosion ripped upwards and outwards,” reported CBS News’ Ike Pappas the next evening, with the deceased “caught in the crossfire of glass and metal that sheared off limbs and tore through bodies.”
It was, recalled the EMS dispatcher on duty that night in Queens, “a horror.”

Elon Green@elongreen· Jul 6

On Being a Mets Fan by @aprilglick.bsky.social

Elon Green@elongreen· Jul 4

Hill headline: Trump can't recall saying he has one of the world's best memories

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 29

the kicker: flaminghydra.com/hillbilly-bl...

Given that his description of the family dynamics matches the Drehers’ exactly, it’s hard to imagine that this friend could be anyone else.

Which, if you think about it, is extraordinary. The sitting vice president—perhaps future president—printed, in his own memoir, a friend’s accusation of narcissism and torture against his ex-wife? And then disparaged this friend for having insufficient “Christian humility”? Was this the betrayal of a confidence, or something else?

I emailed Dreher’s ex-wife for comment. She has not responded.

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 24

Bunny

Bunny

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 23

Or this classic

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 23

Non-denial denial

STAT does not know who the patient is. But given the patient demographics and the unusual nature of the application, STAT asked the White House whether the patient was President Trump, who turned 80 a week ago, is overweight, and has expressed interest in obesity drugs.
White House spokesperson Kush Desai directed STAT’s inquiry to the Health and Human Services Department. In response to STAT’s question about whether Trump has obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension, Desai said a White House memo detailing Trump’s most recent medical evaluation “covers this.” The memo makes no mention of obstructive sleep apnea or pulmonary hypertension.
HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard did not address the retatrutide application or the patient’s identity when responding to STAT’s questions.

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 22

if you're wondering how this compares to 2018...

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 22

From the concluding paragraph of the Yale Daily News review of Gorky's The Lower Depths (1972): ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu?a=d&d=YDN197...

"For the rest, there are any number of good and bad moments within the company, but Joseph Costa as Vassily and Meryl Streep as Vassilissa are consistently good."

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 22

Read more Coleridge. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43986/...

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch
Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 22

Christopher Lloyd in NOBODY 2

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 20

I’m sure this won’t come back to haunt the cops.

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 19

dying

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 17

A+ correction.

Correction: In the previous edition of this newsletter, I characterized The WaPo’s removal of writings by a racist right-wing author as a black eye for the opinion section’s editor, Adam O’Neal. It turns out, however, that O’Neal has no oversight over the Ripple vertical, which automatically publishes pieces from partner outlets. Apparently, the section bizarrely has no editorial supervision? That doesn’t sound great. In any event, we regret the error.

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 14

Caption for the ages.

Knicks fans climbed, or perhaps levitated, atop a bus in Times Square. Dave Sanders for The New York Times

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 13

Ted Danson

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 13

look at this idiot

Among current and former union Trump supporters at the AFL-CIO convention, three, including Jason Small of Montana, told The Post they had soured on him.
“Unfortunately, when he stepped in the office this time, he crashed the infrastructure bill that Biden had put together, which would have been so many American jobs for construction workers,” said Small, 47, a union boilermaker and leader in the Montana AFL-CIO who voted for Trump in 2024 and 2020.

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 12

Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 11

Ok, that’s funny

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 8

Drowning man meme

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 8

never has a man been more divorced

rod dreher, embarrassing himself

Elon Green@elongreen· Jun 6

That's right. thereveal.film/in-review-ma...

Here’s the thing about Masters of the Universe, a new adaptation of the seemingly deathless toyline/multimedia franchise launched by Mattel in 1982: Late in the movie, there’s a shot of the film’s hero, Prince Adam (Nicholas Galitzine), and his warrior companion/sort-of love interest Teela (Camila Mendes) riding into battle astride a giant, mostly green talking cat. It’s kind of a litmus test. Those completely immune to the appeal of such silliness will probably check their watches and roll their eyes. The rest of us will have to acknowledge that they’re watching probably the best possible Masters of the Universe movie imaginable.