Ya know, #Cavaliers made it a 4-pt game in 2Q, #Warriors made it 11 in the blink of an eye...5 pt in 3Q that become 11...7 pt in 4Q then that #StephCurry prayer &...
At least #GeorgeHill & #KevinLove continue to play hard.
At some point #LeBron has to get some calls.
#NBAFinals
#AmericanAnimals: Terrific truth-isn't-just-stranger-than-fiction-it-*is*-fiction meta-heist/calling-card movie by the talented young director Layton! Reinforces, then hilariously upends genre conventions. Entire cast, incl young leads are aces, esp Keoghan. Not to be missed!
Whatever the German word for resigning oneself to inevitable defeat is I'm glad #Cavaliers dont know it. They (#KevinLove, #Nance)'ll fight.
That charge non-call against #LeBron was rubbish
#Warriors like to chirp...once safely ahead
#Draymond's h*lluva player but the worst, no?
#Trust: G*d Bless #DannyBoyle! Epic, sensationally entertaining, ripe, melodramatic meditation on...everything?! Fraser-aissance! Sutherland not content to go gentle into that good Lifetime-Achievement-Award night!👏
PS Anyone else up for A Port in Calabria: The Rise of Primo😅🤭
Woah, the #FrenchOpen just started and already the upsets are coming fast & furious: #Venus, #Ostapenko(!), #Osaka, #Konta, #Tiafoe (😧), #Kohlschreiber...
... & #Wawrinka (#Stanimal!) & #Ferrer... pls don't tell me it's getting close to the end for them 🤭
#RG18
Ya know, #Celtics may turn into #Warriors East... #BradStevens/#JaysonTatum/#JaylenBrown/#AlHorford all great... but any loss for a Boston team is a win for all that is great/just/good in this world
#LeBron🐐
PS Did #JRSmith make key defensive plays?!
#Cavaliers #WhateverItTakes
Somehow the #Cavs weather that 9-0 #Celtics 1Q run to keep the game close. For #LeBron it'll all come down to ... #JeffGreen & #GeorgeHill 😰
Boy, that was some classic #Divac-esque diving by #MarcusSmart... #BradStevens is awesome but *all* Boston sports teams are insufferable.
#Solo: Don't listen to all the negativity, it's a lotta fun!
Look, *no*one's gonna replace Indy & Billy Dee, but all the kids give it their best shot, the action is very well handled, tons of awesome #StarWars Easter Eggs &, really, every franchise could use a little Harrelson.
#Solo: Don't listen to all the negativity, it's a lotta fun!
Look, *no*one's gonna replace Indy & Billy Dee, but all the kids give it their best shot, the action is very well handled, tons of awesome #StarWars Easter Eggs &, really, every franchise could use a little Harrelson.
Devastating #LFC loss, that match was theirs.
Gutted esp for #MoSalah.
Still, what an incredible season... #Klopp has set them up for future glory, no?
And, you always gotta feel happy for the classy #Zidane.
PS. #SergioRamos can rot in h*ll for all I care 🤬
#Liverpool #UCLfinal
Roger #Federer Can't Be Stopped … from @jasongay's lips to G*d's ears!
For some reason, these awesome articles always make me nervous, almost like they're lifetime achievement awards (which are usually given out when…🤭)
@WSJMag
Somehow #Cavs make "defending" a 7-pt game (down from 16!😫) feel like a 2-pt game!
Thank G*d for #GeorgeHill, #JeffGreen, #Korver...
... & just another #LeBron 46-11-9, incl 2 stepback dagger 3s... no sweat 😉
#Cavaliers #WhateverItTakes
Bad luck for #KKR who came up against a buzzsaw called #RashidKhan(?). Respect to #SRH, #KaneWilliamson & #Brathwaite.
Still, great #IPL turnaround from #DineshKarthik. Sets the stage for bigger things to come... as long as we have #Narine (1-24, 26 off 13!)...& #Shubman...&...
RIP #PhilipRoth. I'll defer to the more literate TBH about this legendary figure's literary legacy. I read the bare minimum and realise, now, that I really should've read more, a lot more. Not that many larger-than-life novelists left after his departure.
Speaking of #TonyKornheiser, did #Ovechkin win Game 7…on the road…to reach the Finals…of the #StanleyCup?!?!
That's so awesome.
Just, ya know, too bad he had to run into the (2nd)-Greatest Sports Story of the Year: #GoldenKnights!
Oh well, can't win 'em all…
#NHL #Capitals
Man, (#CyYoung) Awards Season starts earlier every year, huh?
Nice work by #TonyKornheiser to lobby for, I mean interview, *interview* (the great) #Scherzer on @PTI… 😉
PS. Equal time dictates a #Kershaw Five Good Minutes, no? 🤗
@ThisShowStinks
Man, these young #BradStevens-es, er I mean #Celtics, *Celtics*, just don't know when to quit.
So, once more unto the do-or-die breach for #LeBron... let's hope his #Cavs friends show up...
#Cavaliers #WhateverItTakes 😧
Great win for #KKR, took the match from RR with some great... bowling?!... in the #IPL?! Whoever heard of such a thing?! Seriously, there's a #Moneyball movie in there somewhere...
PS. #Karthik turning #Narine into an opener... 👏👍
Whew! Somehow the #Cavs can turn a 19-pt first half lead into a nerve-racking win! 😬
#LeBron was great (as always)... he's gonna need that ... & #Korver/#Tristan to keep on keepin' on... 🤷♀️
Somewhere #BradStevens is plotting...duh-duh-duh
#Cavaliers NBA #WhateverItTakes
Now's a good a time as any to bring up this nice little interview with #DineshKarthik by the excellent #NagrajGollapudi. #KKR will take all the winning it can handle in the post-#Gambhir era! #IPL
So, I guess the #Warriors put the Rockets & #NBAFinals to bed, wait I mean, Western Conference Finals, the *Conference* Finals to bed... 😇
Everyone got caught up in the #LeBron vs #MJ debate, but should we start having the Warriors vs #Bulls debate?! 😦
#NBA
#Deadpool2: Best (Superhero) Sequel (Since #AvengersInfinityWar), Ever! Best Post-Credit Sequence(s), Ever! Best #MaximumEffort-Between-Actor/Role, Ever! Best Yeah-Not-Quite-As-[insert-pithy-sarcastic-take]-But-Still-Most-Fun, Ever! PS Taika, Neill, Dennison...Rhys Darby next?!🤗
Not dead yet!
#MaximumEffort by the *team* (6 players in double figures?!) helps #LeBron, er I mean #Cavs, stay alive in series vs #Celtics.
Now comes that all-important Game 4... 😬😨
#Cavaliers #WhateverItTakes!
PS. LeBron... king of the #humblebrag... 🤣👏👍💪
I know nothing about #horseracing but when #Justify made that second-to-last turn at the #KentuckyDerby I told TBH he was gonna win the #TripleCrown...
but I was sorta cheering for #GoodMagic! 😏
Great race.
#BobBaffert #MikeSmith
#Preakness
#FirstReformed
Great #LightSleeper-Meets-#Affliction film! D*mn if it doesn't leave a lasting imprint. Great cast: Hawke, Seyfried, kid Ettinger, Cedric! G*d bless (or not?!😇) Schrader, still raging after all these years...👏👍🎥 PS. That gut-punch of an ending...woah!😳
🚨 🚨 Someone call TBH!!! 🚨🚨
#JustinTurner's back! 3-4, 2 2B, 5 RBI!
#Dodgers (finally) win!
Coincidence? Don't think so...
(Also, it helps to be playing the #Marlins 😇)
RIP #TomWolfe. Discovered him with Bonfire of the Vanities & Right Stuff (h/t late, great #BarryNorman). Only much later I realised he was, you know, a celebrated author & pioneering journalist. Looked exactly like how you'd expect a larger-than-life East Coast novelist to look.
Ya know, for a sec when #LeBron was in destroyer-of-worlds form, there was hope...
...but then #BradStevens, I mean #Celtics, did to the #Cavs what they had done to the #Raptors...
... and it was all over. 😒
#Cavaliers #WhateverItTakes (will, apparently, not be enough)
#NBA
RIP #MargotKidder.
Discovered her as #LoisLane in Superman. Boy was she *great*! Such a sparkplug of derring-do, turned the archetype on its head & set a template that's been pretty impossible to achieve. Eclectic filmography with tremendous filmmakers. What a career. Sigh😞
Wait, what?! #Capitals...came from behind...to win on the road... & finally get to the Conference Finals...by beating...#Penguins?!
Finally, #Ovechkin gets over the (insufferable) #SidCrosby hump!
PS. Does this mean I need to start watching the ice hockey playoffs?!
#NHL
#Kedi: Cuteness overload, sure, but these adorable/tough creatures gently probe the darker, melancholic issues hovering around the edges: mental illness, loneliness, gentrification, gender discrimination etc. PS *Loved* the cat's/bird's-eye-view cinematography! 🎥🐈😻👍
First, #LeBronTo, then #LeBronTosaurus, what next, #LeBronAda?! 🤣 🇨🇦
Thankfully #Cavs realised they had #KevinLove... & #Raptors forgot #Valanciunas.😇
With #LeBron, #Cavaliers should have a shot against #BradStevens, er I mean, #Celtics, right? 😬
#WhateverItTakes #NBA
So, with the #Cavs up by 16 you'd think that ... naturally the game would come down to #LeBron hitting 100' fadeaways, kamikazing his way to the basket and "getting" calls, and finally hitting a miraculous buzzer-beating shot!😱
The #ClevelandDeMayo Miracle anyone?!
#Raptors #NBA
Valiant effort by #VictorEspinoza & #BoltDOro but it looks like #Baffert & MikeSmith might have a future in #horseracing 🤗. Confident run by #Justify to win.
PS. Don't know much about betting but someone must've made money on #InstilledRegard (85-1!) right?!
#KentuckyDerby
#MayTheFourth be with @VancityReynolds...
...Poor chap is like fifth-billed in his own movie (tho something tells me that #Deadpool would approve 🤣)!
#Deadpool2
The announcer in 3Q:
#LeBron James is eviscerating the #Raptors right now!
LeBron James tearing up Toronto!
#LeBronTo?!
LeBron is hotter than fish grease(?)!
But, to contradict #BillPlaschke, it's *not* over... with the #Cavs it never is!😱
PS #KevinLove! 🤩
#WhateverItTakes #NBA
PS. Who is this #Shubman *kid* (18?!)... smashed 57?! 😁
One of these days *someone* (ahem...) has to make a #Moneyball film about the #KKR front office! 🏏 🎥 💪
#ShubmanGill #IPL
Look, not sure if today's #KKR victory helps them win #IPL but any win over villainous #CSK is always a good thing. 😏
#Karthik (45 off 18?!💪) & esp #Narine (2-20 *&* 32 off 20!!🤣) - wow!
PS. #Dhoni's still got it, huh? 😯
Whew! #Klopp's defense hung on by the skin of its teeth, eh!😱#Roma kept #MoSalah & #Firmino in check ... but thank G*d for #Mane, #Wijnaldum...& #Karius's left arm!
#Zidane's #RealMadrid is gonna be tough in #UCL final, so let's just enjoy this while we can 👏
#LFC #Liverpool
#Baskets: I'm not saying it's the best comedy on TV, but it's my favourite! Kudos to #Galifianakis for graciously ceding the spotlight to the great Anderson (#ChristineBaskets!👏). What a strange, intoxicating brew of whimsy, irony, earnestness, melancholy, slapstick… #BasketsFX
To quote #MarkJackson: Mama, there goes that man!
Un-bl**dy-believable! #LeBron takes an exhausted, overmatched team all the way to #TheNorth and hangs on to beat the top-ranked #Raptors! No matter what happens from here on out the #Cavs will always have this!
#WhateverItTakes!
#AvengersInfinityWar: Best *Every*-Superhero-Including-The-Kitchen-Sink Movie, Ever!
One of the most *spectacular* unnerving endings I've ever seen! 👏👏👏 for #KevinFeige to rest the fate of a $15B (yup, with a *B*!!) franchise on something like that.
PS. Thor+Rocket+Groot=😂
#WhateverItTakes...
No #LeBron no problem?! The #KevinLove Show?! #Tristan finally out of the TMZ doghouse?! #Cavs pull a #KevinFeige & assemble the B-Team to save the day!
PS. Did #OKC secure #Pacers' future with #Oladipo & #Sabonis('s kid)...🤷♂️
#NBAPlayoffs...man!😯
#NBA
RIP #WilliamNack. Discovered him thanks to TBH's love of horseracing.
Do yourself a favour & check out the longform pieces in @SI_Longform/@SInow vault, esp #Secretariat...& Jackie Robinson...& Bobby Fischer...& (original)GOAT Ali...&...
#PureHeart
Well, that was something...
But, #LeBron has to win a First Round Game 7 at home, right?! Right?! 😐
Yeah, #Cavs, #WhateverItTakes is right!
PS. The #Oladipo show!
PPS. #Lance: 🤯 or 🤣?!
Wait?! What?! #MasonRudolph?!😱
So... #BigBen needs to compare notes with #Flacco, huh?! 😰
#Steelers #NFLDraft
#LetTheSunshineIn: Denis, #Binoche & #Depardieu: together at last! Delightfully tart/meandering rom-dram (romantic dramedy?🤓) anchored by a luminous Binoche. PS Watch this space, JB & CD have an intriguing sci-fi(?!) in the works. In the immortal words of #BartScott: can't wait!
OMG!!!! #Shazier!!! #Shalieve
👏😭
#Steelers #NFLDraft2018
Oh no, say it ain't so #Martavis... gone... for a 75th pick?! Oh man, seems like a bad move, but luckily I'm not an #NFL GM, so what do I know? 🤷♀️
Oh, well, it sure was fun while it lasted, eh?!
#Steelers #HereWeGo
#Lucky: Wonderful little valentine/sendoff (sigh…😔) for Stanton, one of our great character actors. Chockfull of piquant perfs from a cast stuffed with other great CAs. Great debut by one of *my* favourite CAs (JC) Lynch. PS (The other?!) Lynch is great in *front* of the camera
Death... Taxes... #Rafa winning a clay title...
Congrats to #KingOfClay for 11th(!) #RolexMCMasters. One of these days people will realise that #Nadal's clay record is one of *the* greatest achievements in #tennis/sport/humankind
PS Congrats to #BryanBrothers for winning too😀
Not dead yet! Thank G*d for... Kyle Bl**dy #Korver?! #LeBron lives to fight another day. #Cavs
PS. If #LanceStephenson's gonna act like a WWE heel, he may as well pull some wrestling moves on the court 😯. This whole #INDvCLE thing's a dogfight!
#NBA
Man, it just keeps getting better for #Klopp's troops. #MoSalah wins #PFA #POTY (was there ever any doubt?! 🤗)! So... that means the treble is still alive... #BallonDOr, #UCL next 🤩
#LFC #Liverpool
RIP #VerneTroyer. He was so good as #MiniMe in #AustinPowers. Good example of not letting a seeming "handicap" get in the way of a full life.
Look, I was bracing myself for the end of this run... but I had no idea that I needed to brace myself for a... #Bogdanovic?! Who?! Wha?! 7-9 3pts?! #LeBron (& #Cavs) drop that all-important Game 3 to #Pacers. 🙀 #INDvCLE #NBA
Oh, hey, if it isn't part-time (😇) #tennis player #Federer on the *cover* of #TIME! #peRFect! #TIME100
Ya know, for a brief sec there I thought it was gonna be an easy win, then I realised, it's *never* easy with the #Cavs. #LeBron grabbing a rebound, running down the court... only to find his kid teammates can't keep up with him... so it goes 🤷♂️ PS. #KevinLove 😱 #CLEvIND
RIP #HarryAnderson. I actually knew him from probably his least-known endeavour #DavesWorld. I was immediately taken by his charming, seemingly effortless, avuncular screen presence, the type to instantly put a smile on your face. No too many like him left.
#TheRitual: H/T @ my awesome nephew for telling me about this awesome lil' calling-card B-movie that does a *lot* with little (budget). Young Brucker will get snapped by some CU, until then enjoy this tight exercise in suspense. (Romania tourism might want a word or two, tho'...)
You Know You're Too Old When: #JamesHarrison retires(?). Okay, so the end was ugly, but hopefully TBH & the rest of #Steelers nation forgives & accepts him back into the fold. Deserves to join #HinesWard in #NFL #HOF based on the Greatest #SuperBowl Play, Ever! #HereWeGo #Deebo
RIP #RLeeErmey. One of my favourite character actors. Like everyone else, I discovered him in #FullMetalJacket. Poor chap got a bit stereotyped for the rest of his career, but he was so good, esp when given the chance to stretch. His indelible screen presence will be missed.
Waitasec...in a year when the #Warriors are apparently vulnerable and the #NBA title is "wide open" the #Cavs may not make it out of the first round! Man, #LeBron's gonna give me heartburn for the next 2 months!
PS. #Oladipo's a great story, love the kid.
RIP Milos Forman. Growing up my dad used to pester me about his films. Then, when I saw Cuckoo as a college student, & Amadeus w TBH, & Larry Flynt, & Valmont, &... well, I understood. 2-time #Oscar-winning dir/BP puts him in the very upper echelon, where he definitely belongs.😔
Good stuff from @minakimes about future Euro unicorn #LukaDoncic. My own personal theory is it all stems from the great #ArvydasSabonis, who changed the #NBA as much as anyone. PS When will poor Doncic go down with a season-ending injury?🤓 #MinaKimesCurse
The #NBA season is (finally) over, long live the post-season...tho it was fun to see:
#LeBron play 82 (for once😇) & have an #MVP season
#Harden put up thirsty stats
#Russ average a triple-double again(?!)
#76ers complete #TheProcess
#KD whine
#AnthonyDavis raise eyebrows (🤣)
You Know You're Too Old When: #MartellusBennett Retires. Wait, when did that happen?! Became a fan after watching him & his puppies on Hard Knocks...during his rookie season. Apparently, he went on to have a great career...😁
Congrats to (Calcutta's own😇 ) #LeanderPaes on setting record & sparking #IND's comeback win. Still going strong as ambassador for #tennis, sport, India🇮🇳...everything!
PS. #DavidFerrer, still fighting...to...the...*bitter*...end (poor #Kohlschreiber).
#DavisCup #Leander #Paes
Congrats to #KKR on starting the post-#Gambhir era with a win v #RCB (#Narine! Imagine the international career he could've had if only, ya know... 😇). Too bad they couldn't bring it off vs #CSK (like all horror movie villains they...just...won't...die...)
#IPL #KKRvRCB #CSKvKKR
#AQuietPlace: Best Actors-Really-Want-To-Direct-High-Concept-More-Thriller-Than-Horror Movie, Ever! Krasinski, all that *and* he can direct too?! Great stuff from Blunt & esp Simmonds who steals the show. Sound #Oscar nom, sure, but howbowdah foley, eh?👍 35mm cinematography!🎥👏
Bad luck for #JordanSpieth (poor chap, again) & #RickieFowler (gave it a run!). Kudos to #TonyFinau, what fighting spirit! Congrats to #PatrickReed on either being lucky or showing steely resolve under pressure. PS. #RoryMcIlroy psyched his own self out. 🙄#TheMasters
#Spieth!!!!! Oh no!!!!!! #TheMasters
#Spieth!!!!!!!!!!!! OMBG!!!!!!!!!! #TheMasters!!!!!!
RIP #IsaoTakahata. Legendary #StudioGhibli co-founder. Fantastic director in his own right. Made the underrated #Ghibli gems, incl my own favourites: #TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya, #OnlyYesterday (*love* this movie!) & of course the *devastating* #GraveOfTheFireflies. What a legacy
#SweetCountry: Stunning! One of the year's very best. Beautiful, melancholy, but ultimately hopeful *cinematic* experience. Legends Neill & Brown together at last, but this belongs to Morris (making his *debut*!) Director Thornton deserves an Oscar nom…for cinematography(?)!🎥👏
RIP #StevenBochco. Never knew his legendary status when I snuck #HillStreetBlues reruns, then watched #LALaw (still remember that one ep where...), & then of course, #NYPDBlue. What a career.
Wait, he worked on #Columbo with #Spielberg?!
#DoogieHowser, #CopRock, #MurderOne...!!
Ho-hum. #Earthquake.
Kinda gentle, rolling one. Almost put me to sleep...and another #SergioGarcia ball in the water😂 (poor chap...).
#Masters
You had me at running riot!
#MoSalah...he can score, he can assist, perhaps he can win the #BallondOr?! 😇
Great win for #LFC...let's not get too excited, apparently they still have to play a Leg 2.
PS. Great Defense, #Klopp (wha?!) 😉
#Liverpool #UCL #LIVMCI
#LeanOnPete: I'm always down with coming-of-age kid-and-animal movies, *always*, but this was… unexpected. Delicate, melancholy, funny, hopeful, shocking. Not everyone's cuppa, but it ends up sticking with you. Great perfs from Sevigny, the great Buscemi, & esp young Plummer.
RIP #WinnieMandela. I'll let the experts discuss her complex legacy but as a kid growing up she was just as visible and powerfully inspiring an image of the (seemingly neverending) fight against oppression as Mr. Mandela.
So, the #SunshineDouble turned into an #AmericanDouble, eh? Congrats to #Isner pulling out another long match, and #Sloane finally pulling away to win #MiamiOpen. Well done! 🎾👏
PS. #Zverev & #Ostapenko... #NextGenATP is Gen Now! 😌
#ATP #WTA
