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movie critic for The New York Times

Los Angeles, CA
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Joined February 2010
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    9 hours ago

    My friend wrote about the sudden loss of his little brother as only he can and I'm gutted and filled with love all at once.

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    9 hours ago

    NYT Editorial: TAKE THAT "GIG" AND SHOVE IT. A new California law will make it harder for companies like Uber to take advantage of workers. Other states should borrow the idea.

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  3. 9 hours ago

    this is a disgrace as are the number of horses that die each year for this corrupt, animal-abusing enterprise

    to recap -- horse fails drug test for performance enhancing drug -- horse is supposed to miss kentucky derby -- drug test buried by officals who have a financial stake -- horse wins derby -- horse's breeding rights are sold for $60 million
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  4. Sep 8

    this is epically bizarre

    Normal week in Brazil, 2019: Olavo Carvalho - the political guru of Jair Bolsonaro - stated that Theodor Adorno was the composer of Beatles’ song. “The Beatles were semi-literate in music, they barely knew how to play the guitar. Who composed their songs was Theodor Adorno”
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    Sep 6

    How an elite university research center concealed its relationship with a sex offender—documents show MIT Media Lab accepted donations directed by Jeffrey Epstein far in excess of what the university has admitted to, and worked to cover it up:

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    Sep 4

    BREAKING! California just enacted a new ban on fur trapping for animal pelts! The Wildlife Protection Act of 2019, signed into law today, prohibits commercial or recreational trapping on both public + private lands.

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    Sep 2

    Let's give a shout out to the men and women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. . / Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas.

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    Sep 2

    via

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    Sep 2

    this is deeply important as the population ages and/or gets sick: a day in the life of a home health aide On the Job, 24 Hours a Day, 27 Days a Month via

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  10. Sep 2

    Good luck, brothers and sisters!

    So many lives depend on this contract —our families, our futures, our dignity. This is why the is at the bargaining table this Labor Day weekend. Bring it home, guys ❤️✊🏽
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  11. Sep 2

    I hear you but given that today is Labor Day, an actual holiday that honors the struggles of American working people, I had to pipe up

    Replying to @ManohlaDargis
    It definitely is in my house! :)
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  12. Sep 2

    Halloween is a holiday?

    Labor Day is America's ninth-favorite holiday.
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    Sep 2

    Just in time for Labor Day, Alaska’s Republican Attorney General has hatched a new scheme to crush unions by regulating them like abortion clinics.

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    Sep 1

    Got sleepy driving south on the I-5. Stopped at the Best Western in Kettleman City. Young woman who checks me in hands me five plastic bottles of water. “Don’t put the tap water in your mouth,” she says. “It’s testing high for arsenic.” All I could think was: She lives here.

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  15. Sep 1

    this is fantastic, thanks

    Here's a great interview with Jeremy Strong about playing the "total and complete inward collapse of a person" and its aftermath, which he is doing with an almost frightening level of specificity and integrity.
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    Sep 1

    Tonight at the Aero: LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF. Join us for this beloved video essay tracking the City of Angels' appearances in movies and much more. Director Thom Andersen will give a Q&A after the screening!

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    Aug 31

    New ban on trading wild will prevent what happened at Dallas Zoo.

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  18. Aug 31

    I watched “Speed” - which ends with a crash in front of the magnificent (Grauman’s)Chinese theater on Hollywood Blvd - at the Chinese. The audience dug it.

    Replying to @ManohlaDargis
    What is remarkable is if you see this movie at the Oriental Theater in Milwaukee it will probably be the only time you’ll see a theater shown on the screen while you are in that theater.
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    Aug 30

    More coverage of the ongoing Disney/Fox repertory situation, this time at . A tidbit I hadn't heard: Disney's policy could cause the only independent theater left in Atlanta--and the only minority-owned theater--to close.

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  20. Aug 30

    I have not made a study of this!

    Replying to @ManohlaDargis
    That explains why I didn’t know! But is its organic ketchup markedly different in flavor?
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