Except it’s just The Adventures of Cliff Booth. Forget the “Continuing.”
One problem: When F1 opened a few weeks ago, Brad Pitt’s hair was tennis-ball length. Which is way too short for 1977. Nobody who swaggered around in the disco era had tennis-ball hair….nobody. Not even gay guys.
The great Marlene Warfield died…uhm, three and a half months ago. Chequita Warfield, Marlene’s sister, apparently needed time to recover from her painful loss before finally breaking the news to The Hollywood Reporter.
Marlene was 83 when she passed on 4.6.25 from lung cancer in Los Angeles. Born in ’41, she was 34 or 35 when she played Lauren Hobbs in Sidney Lumet‘s Network (’76).
“You can blow the seminal infrastructure out your ass!”
If I was a 70something Spinal Tap veteran/survivor, I would definitely pay for some neck-wattle surgery before the final concert.
Paul McCartney, overweight Elton John, hefty-frame Garth Brooks, overweight Questlove, Trisha Yearwood, Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Lars Ulrich as themselves.
I found the films of Yorgos Lanthimos weirdly engaging at first. Well, not “engaging” as much as oddly diverting with an emphasis on the weirdly doleful. Then came The Favourite and I — everybody — was fully on board. I was pretty much delighted by Poor Things except for the last 10 or 15 minutes. And then I slammed on the brakes after seeing Kinds of Kindness….fuck was that? Now I’m kinda down on the guy. This morning I told a friend that “I don’t like Lanthimos anymore,” but that’s not really it. I just don’t want to sit through another Kinds of Kindness experience again…ever!
Released within industry circles in mid-July of 1995, Windows 95 was open for Average Joe purchase on 8.24.95. It sold for $209.95, or roughly $440 in 2025 dollars. Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator (which initially surfaced in ‘94)…I can already feel a headache coming on from the memories alone.
An operating system from hell, Windows 95 was a steep, craggy mountain that I struggled daily to climb. Ropes, pick-axes…a real motherfucker.
I recall hanging out at a computer retail place on Pico Blvd. back then and asking advice from guys who worked there about some of the gnarlier tech issues. Quote: “Windows 95, man! Better men than I have been beaten down by it. Do not take that operating system lightly!”
I’ve been a Mac guy since ‘09 or thereabouts…what a comparative breeze. Because I grappled and fumbled and sweated within the Microsoft realm for the better part of 15 years or more. I don’t want to think back on those times, but it was rough going. The viruses alone.
