J.D. Connor
@jdconnor
For alerts when something new drops: USC Cinema & Media Studies but opinions my own
This is the Klee piece—mounted like this, almost out of view—that got to me.
Surprised to see that in the new Cocomelon movie the cartoon kids reenact Cathetine Zeta Jones’s sexy laser sneak from Entrapment
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway make millions of dollars a year being on podcasts, but the most annoying thing about them is that they don't have home teleprompters so they can look down the barrel when they are on podcasts which they are on CONSTANTLY
He was dressed as a firefighter— —as a cop— He had an umbrella— Ginuwine's "Pony" started to— All of a sudden it was raining men—
What I appreciate about @andybeach.bsky.social's "Engines of Change" newsletter is that he moves so smoothly between the technical transformations of media & entertainment technology and the socio-organizational changes that necessarily attend them. This from www.enginesofchange.ai/p/when-ai-st...
Hey Amazon you run the most important shopping site in the U.S. are there any books out there about Zach Cregger's Weapons?
A thing about actual movie stars—when, for whatever reason, they are *your* movie stars—is that this is basically enough. Yes, the look is serious enough that it amounts to a challenge to a generation who knows the show only as a meme. But, you know, you can also just stare.
@labuzamovies.com found the facebook post that started it all. And it was a Tubi original, Twisted by Love, not a microdrama. Here's the video again
The improv comedian who still had something shockingly funny in the tank 5 1/2 hours into the taping? Now it can be told: It was Gabrus
All over the business web you can see people quoting Steven Spielberg saying "The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves" with no citation. Potentially fishy, but nope! Time 5/18/97 "Peter Pan Grows Up"
Legends like Bari Weiss and Tony Dookie Pill. The kind of independence that got most of 60 Minutes fired.
From Van Gogh's shoes/Heidegger to Warhol's shoes/Jameson to PAWNSHOP. This is a membership-forward sportsbar in a former pawnshop with a James Beard–winning chef. The convergence of immersion and optimization. Maybe I'll get drunk and pretend to be Derrida and write it up as The Truth in Plating
And we're live with the CFP for next year's Hollywood Conference. lmk if you have questions; hope to see you at USC! www.thehollywoodconference.com