(Male) Tennis GOAT (Analytical) Debate

‪One of these days I'll have to finally distill my "Best versus Greatest" interior monologue into something coherent enough for public consumption...‬

‪...until then please enjoy this nightmare fuel for the weekend😬🤭!‬

‪PS. Dear @atptour & @WTA ... when's #tennis coming back🙏?!‬

https://bit.ly/33dgixK

https://twitter.com/braingametennis/status/1289311627855060992?s=12

Europa Europa (1990)

‪#EuropaEuropa (1990)‬

‪Challenging, unforgettable film that earns its legendary reputation. #AgnieszkaHolland's gentle, furious, funny, sad, emotional, surrealistic, episodic action-adventure never loses sight of the elemental horror at its root. #MarcoHofschneider, what a debut!‬

Lakers Squeak by Clippers in First Game in Restart

‪😲🤭😰😱‬

‪Thank G*d for #LeBron's...GM skills🤗!‬

‪#AnthonyDavis👏👊✊!‬

‪PS. Welcome to the #Kuzma-#Waiters-#Caruso show🤩!‬

‪PPS. #YannickNoah's kid still getting under the skin🤨‬

‪PPPS. D*mn, #PaulGeorge's gonna be a handful😳‬

‪#Lakers #Clippers #NBA‬

Dodgers Sweep Horrible Astros

‪ #Dodgers sweep the hated #CheatStros, er, I mean, #Astros!‬

‪How does #JoeKelly get suspended for 13% of season and the actual cheaters get nothing🤔 ‬

‪I'm sure #RobManfred's not being taken to task for all of his well-thought-out decisions🙄‬

‪PS. Where did #EdwinRios come from😲‬

NASA Mars Rover Takes Off!

‪Man, it's still awesome to see spaceships take off...for Mars (despite the ung*dly hour😴)‬

‪And it's even more awesome when we saw them building #Perseverance(TBH & @UofR 👍)‬

‪Now, I just have to get to Mars to see if they spelled my name correctly 😅‬

‪#NASA #JPL #CountdownToMars‬

Tom Pelphrey Snubbed at the Emmys (😖)

‪Dear @TheEmmys,‬

‪#TomPelphrey would like a word...‬

‪🤬‬

‪#Emmys #Ozark‬

The Assistant

‪#TheAssistant‬

‪Very thought-ful/provoking look at the all-too timel-y/ess (& familiar😬) hazard of working in the film industry. Well played by the entire cast, esp Sanders, Macfayden, & the great #JuliaGarner, who makes the whole thing worthwhile. Give her all the #SpiritAwards!‬

Paul Giamatti Snubbed at the Emmys (Again...😖)

‪Dear @TheEmmys,‬

‪#PaulGiamatti would like a word...‬

‪🤬‬

‪#Emmys #Billions‬

England Beat West Indies to Win Test Series

‪Sigh, #WIndies tried but #ENG was just too much.‬

‪At least #KemarRoach got to 200 wickets👍‬

‪PS. Has #BenStokes edged past #Flintoff and now *beginning* to creep up on #Botham😲‬

‪PPS. #StuartBroad 10-for & 500(!) Test wickets🤭?! Wasn't he dropped for the first match🤔?‬

‪#ENGvWI‬

RIP Olivia de Havilland

‪RIP #OliviaDeHavilland‬

‪Last of our Hollywood Golden Age stars. With a name like that, she couldn't be anything but a movie star, no? Combined ineffable charisma with tremendous acting ability. Incredible in #TheHeiress, GWTW, Robin Hood, and *so* many others. All-time great.‬

John Lewis: Good Trouble

‪#JohnLewisGoodTrouble‬

‪Inspirational, stirring portrait of dearly departed civil rights icon, and clear-eyed history lesson of (still-vulnerable)voting rights. Lovely to see #JohnLewis's mischevious humour & gentle nature. Archival footage still chilling. Julian Bond sequence😲‬

Dodgers Beat Giants MLB Opening Day 2020

Yes! #Dodgers win!

This #DustinMay kid's gonna be a lot of fun! #MayDay😁

As is #KikrHernandez's moustache💪!!


PS. #KungFuPanda's still around!

PPS. #Mookie's slide was worth the $392M👍!!!

#Dodgers | #ITFDB | #MLB | #OpeningDay

https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1286516340648534018/video/1‬

Liverpool Beats Chelsea (Despite Pulisic’s Brilliance) to Lift PL Trophy

‪I was gonna say something about the strikes from #Keita, #TrentAlexanderArnold(that pass🤩!), the counterattack...‬

‪...and the "over"rated #Pulisic(😳😲)‬

‪...but, as they say, I'll let these pictures say thousands of words!‬

‪#PL Champs | #LIVCHE | #YNWA #Liverpool | #LFC‬

7500

‪#7500‬

‪Terrific, real-time/location calling-card thriller fun, tersely directed with euro-cool no-flair precision. Tremendous work by prod design, cast esp JG-L's believably heroic everyman makes the whole thing worthwhile. PS So, the proverbial stereotype-elephant in the room😬‬

Jessica Koslow's Jam Recipe in Entertainment Weekly

‪Yo! #EntertainmentWeekly, I think you missed a *key* ingredient in #JessicaKoslow's #Sqirl jam recipe... 😏😂🤣😅😇‬

‪(h/t: TBH) ‬

The Invisible Man (2020)

‪#TheInvisibleMan (2020)‬

‪Tremendous "horror"-by-way-of-socially-conscious CU-launch fun (just don't think too hard about plot logistics🤗). Speaking of, ahem Upgrade, massive directorial one from young #LeighWhannell. Great sound design (so "little: of it). #ElisabethMoss - wow!‬

RIP John Lewis

‪RIP #JohnLewis‬

‪Civil rights giant, and a huge part of why people like me enjoy the freedoms and opportunity we do. He helped organise & spoke before the famous #IHaveADream speech…at age 23! Can you imagine? Thank you for never being afraid to get into #goodtrouble for us🙏‬

LA Galaxy 2 - LA FC 6(?!)

‪Dude! Rubbish penalty and offside calls against #LAGalaxy...‬

‪...as for *all* those other #LAFC goals... I dunno, I just parachuted in 🤗‬

‪PS. Where did this #DiegoRossi kid come from😳?!‬

‪#ElTrafico #VamosGalaxy #MLS ‬

Capone

‪#Capone‬

‪In the annals of #PeakHardy, I believe we may have reached the Peak! I *love* #TomHardy; I hope whatever market forces are shaping Hollywood these days, the MFs will become a force for good & allow us to enjoy PH for years, decades to come! PS. Genuinely touching ending.‬

RIP Kelly Preston

‪RIP #KellyPreston‬

‪Charismatic screen presence, gone way too soon. Should've gotten more opportunities than her typecasting. So many standout performances in so many movies: #SpaceCamp, #ViewTromTheTop, #JerryMaguire, underrated in the underrated #CitizenRuth...& many others.‬

Greyhound

‪#Greyhound‬

‪Terrific, you-are-*there* near-real-time boomer WWII-action-movie fun! Look, the CGI isn't that bad. And, man, does #TomHanks deliver as a borderline unlikable(wha😮?!) lead, *and* as the no-nonsense, jargon-filled, terse screenwriter(wha😮?!). Very enjoyable.‬

Palm Springs

‪#PalmSprings‬

‪Tremendously Entertaining #GroundhogDay-Meets-#WeddingCrashers? #Passengers? #DefendingYourLife? #Millennial? Stunted-Man-Children-Allegory(or is it Metaphor🤔?) Rom-Sketch-Com #JKSimmons+#CristinMilioti Fun! PS #JuneSquibb..what's her #PalmSpringsMovie look like🤔?‬

RIP Jack Garner

‪RIP #JackGarner‬

‪Great film critic and integral part of #Rochester culture. I was always too chicken to talk to him because he was famous, but I'll never forget how he let us attend screenings with him; and how kind he was to us. #ROC‬

‪Via @DandC‬

‪https://t.co/z60KwxPExC‬

First Cow

‪#FirstCow‬

‪Oh #KellyReichardt, you've done it again!‬

‪Achingly beautiful melancholy that deliberately builds to its inevitable, emotional end (laidback tension?!). Prod/costume/sound designers, DP, and cast, esp our two leads👏. #Oscars for a small film? Wouldn't that be nice😼‬

West Indies Upsets England in First Test 2020 ENG v WI

‪Fantastic, gutty win for #WIndies over fancied #ENG! Great stuff from #JasonHolder, #ShannonGabriel & esp #JermaineBlackwood(95...poor chap😵!)‬

‪PS. Empty weekday stands?, rain delays?, perish the thought😏!‬

‪No, I keed, kudos to #England for getting #cricket going👍‬

‪#ENGvWI‬

Tughlakabad Fort

‪Not quite the the Jungle Prince of Delhi, but still pretty spectacular‬

‪PS. As always, #StaySafe #StayPositive🙏‬

‪#Tughlakabad #NewDelhi #India‬

RIP Saroj Khan

‪RIP #SarojKhan‬

‪Almost singlehandedly choreographed the soundtrack to our youth. If there's a #Bollywood movie you remember from those halcyon days, she had a massive hand in it. Essential part of Indian cinema history. Now excuse me while I loop #HawaHawai & #KateNahinKatTe &...‬

RIP Ennio Morricone

‪RIP #EnnioMorricone‬

‪Giant of cinema history, an accounting of which would be incomplete without his incomparable work. #Morricone will be here long after we're gone. Now excuse me while I go put #GabrielsOboe (or, as I always mistakenly call it, #GodsOboe) on an infinite loop🙏‬

Hamilton (Disney+)

#Hamilton

G*d bless #DisneyPlus, I no longer have to hang my head in my shame amongst my peer set for not having borne witness to the Greatest Theatrical Experience in the history of mankind about the greatest founding father in the history of mankind. This truly is G*d's Work, no?

And, thank you for finally explaining that iconic #GotMilk commercial(directed by Michael Bay, wait, wha?!) from *years* ago. Man, that kid'd better put some respek on Aaron Burr's name!

And, this entire catchy, revisionist, terrifically entertaining enterprise is worth it for the "Rewind" sequence (aka Satisfied) alone. And Helpless is gonna be gangbusters in the inevitable Bollywood version.

And, LMM, thank you for teaching me more about (American)history in 2h40m than I ever learned in my entire lifetime(annotated, as ever, by TBH's helpful-with-a-side-of-eyeroll explanatory notes)!

The boldface(i.e. the kids I've seen in movies/TV) names are excellent throughout: everything-threat fellow-FedFan LMM(books, lyrics, music, rapping, singing, acting, producing, the list goes *on*), Groff, Cephas Jones, Ramos, Soo, the awesome Diggs. The relative "unknowns" kinda stole the show: Onaodowan, Jackson, and, esp, Goldsberry(absolutely fantstic!). But, gotta say, Odom Jr. was simply sensational, and, in a musical named for A (dot) Ham, it was A (dot) Burr's story that ended up being the emotional core of the whole thing…perhaps LMM's subversive point all along🤔?

Like I said, I'm not a student of history, or of anything really, but d*mn, that Laurens chap seemed like quite a figure, and, is it just me, or did good ol'(boy😜?) ThomJeff end up looking like a bit of d**k in all of this?

And speaking of (missing?)history, at the end they just kinda threw in…*all* the stuff that (poor long-suffering, almost-by-definition no?)Eliza Schuyler did with her life😳…was there an Act 3 that I missed where they explored all this?

Loved that turning-stage doo-hickey thing-y…and that final Got Milk duel…and Wait For It….and pretty much that whole dang thing(how *could* I not, I don't want to hang my head in shame any longer)!

PS. No one else was in the room where it happened…I wanna be in the room where it happens… I hear ya bud, I hear ya…


#LinManuelMiranda #ThomasKail (The Great)#DeclanQuinn(!)
#LeslieOdomJr #DaveedDiggs #ReneeEliseGoldsberry #PhillipaSoo #ChristopherJackson #OkierieteOnaodowan #JonathanGroff #JasmineCephasJones #AnthonyRamos
#HamilFilm @hamiltonmusical @disneyplus

Hamilton

‪#Hamilton‬

‪G*d bless #DisneyPlus, I no longer have to hang my head in my shame amongst my peer set for not having borne witness to the Greatest Theatrical Experience, Ever! about the greatest Founding Father, Ever! Great job by LMM, cast, esp Odom Jr & Goldsberry 👏‬

‪#Hamilfilm‬

Happy Fourth of July 2020

‪Happy #FourthOfJuly y'all!‬

‪PS. Please celebrate responsibly! 😬 ‬

‪#StaySafe😷 #StayPositive👍‬

‪Enjoy this 📷 by TBH from #Sequoia ‬

‪#SequoiaNationalPark #CA‬

Maya Moore's Extraordinary Quest for Justice

‪😮👏✊‬

‪Manohmanohman... #MayaMoore is simply mind-boggling. Until the inevitable #Oscars-sweeping biopic*, here's a tremendous article by the excellent @katie_barnes3‬

‪* I nominate #CondolaRashad(eternally-underused on #Billions) & #ChinonyeChukwu!‬

‪https://t.co/lVKRtAhjiY‬

RIP Carl Reiner

‪RIP #CarlReiner‬

‪Multi-talented/faceted award-winning writer/producer/director/actor of stage, screen(big & small), written & spoken word…everything! Didn't realise at the time he was behind Oh, God!, early Steve Martin films, DvD Show, guess he was there all along True *legend*‬