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At LA Weekly, Amy Nicholson on how YouTube and Internet journalist destroyed our last real movie star:
It was Jason Tugman’s first day of work. Almost a decade later, he still remembers the screams. A former circus fire-eater, he’d taken a job as a lighting technician for The Oprah Winfrey Show after burning off a chunk of his tongue. The pay was $32 an hour and he didn’t want to screw it up. But as Tugman carefully hung black curtains in Studio B, directly behind the orange set where Oprah taped, those screams wouldn’t stop. The crowd sounded as if it was going to tear the building down.
Every outdoor movie screening in New York City this summer, courtesy of Thrillist.
Watch every whip pan used by Paul Thomas Anderson:
Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Richard Linklater about living with Bernie Tiede:
I have an extra garage apartment behind the house. It’s not a big deal. I let a lot of friends and relatives stay there for periods of time. So, you know…Bernie has a job, a place to live, a therapist. He’s stepping out to an environment, which [is a situation] most people don’t have [when they’re being released from prison]. They’re not in a supportive environment, set up for them to succeed.
Patton Oswalt visits The Academy’s collection of film prints:
At Screen Crush, Mike Ryan on why every superhero doesn’t need a universe of its own:
People love universes. Or, more precisely: People love fictional universes. At least, I hear much more about the Marvel universe and the ‘Star Wars’ universe these days than our own infinitely fascinating real universe, but I digress. This isn’t inherently a bad thing – it’s not too surprising that serialized stories, which is really what we mean when we talk about universes – are popular. If a person likes a character, why shouldn’t he or she want to see more of that character?