Then again it’s HE’s sight-unseen view that Cocaine Bear (Universal, 2.23), however darkly funny it may or may not be, is rooted in cruel, callous attitudes about innocent wildlife.

Posted on 12.4.19:

…there’ll be hell to pay. Just saying. Word around the campfire says James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla (biopic of Priscilla Presley) will also make the Côte d’Azur journey. They’d better!

Sam Smith, 30, is the king of the world…a perfect person wearing nipple tassels. The only problem is that he’s put on too much weight. I liked him more when he was slender and dark-haired.

Comment thread excerpt from this morning’s (2.1) “Brokeback Zombies” piece:

I’m not sure if Myrna Loy (1905-1993) ever gave a great performance. She shares a great “welcome home” scene with Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (‘46), and is dryly amusing in a somewhat stiff-necked way in The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (‘47). But she was certainly in full command of a sexy exotic vibe in her late 20s and early 30s. She also gave great vibe in the Thin Man series.

Previously unreported fact: I stood five feet from the still curiously radiant Loy at a National Board of Review awards ceremony in late ‘81 or early ‘82. Ragtime costar James Cagney was also there; ditto Warren Beatty, who said something flattering about Loy — something about her beauty still making his pulse race a bit.