Benjamin Dreyer

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abstruse in the sense of recondite

author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • America's Copy Editor® • retired Random House copy chief • he/him/his

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Louis Kersten

It's just perfect, isn't it.

today's random theater photos: Marie Antoinette, starring Grace George, 1921

Happy Jimmy Cagney's birthday!

I’ll also never really understand why Instagram thinks that my blocking one fascist or Christofascist account means that what I really want to see are twenty more of them, immediately.

I’m…confused.

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Farran Smith Nehme

Wishing her all the best as always, but I struggled tonight with Ginger and Doris Vs. The Klan. Even Ned Glass couldn’t keep me riveted. Sigh.

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her)

I'm sorry to learn this, Bebe. I hope you're quickly on the mend.

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Mark Harris

For the love of God (, Montresor)!

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Genuinely possible that Vance is too gross and clammy and weird even for this moment.

He does seem oddly moist and fetid, doesn’t he.

Don’t of course confuse the vontz with the Vance.

I see that Bret Stephens is trying to out–Ross Douthat Ross Douthat. What a spectacle.

what’s his excuse then

Ramaswamy: "you get ahead in this country not on the color of your skin but on the content of your character"

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checking in on night 2 of the RNC

It's just like Spartacus, except with idiots.

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MSNBC just showed Eric Trump talking about how his father "almost had his head blown off" (or something like that) with a really creepy smile on his face, and ... maybe look at that will, Donald?

HELP IS ON THE WAY LIFE IS WORTH LIVING Oy.

Let me just say that if you try to find a still of Maureen Stapleton sticking her head in the MacAfees' oven in Bye Bye Birdie, you're apt to upset Google very much.

Mayor Eric Adams, asked by a reporter about the lack of air conditioning at migrant shelters during a heat wave, says, "Every day New Yorkers don't have air conditioners. We make do." He recommends paper fans and says his mom told him to put his head in the refrigerator. —Emma G. Fitzsimmons, NYT

Or even Kay Medford.

1,561

This is not advice, because I don't give advice except about commas, but I have since arriving here methodically blocked a mere 1,558 people and my days (largely) pass pleasantly, my glassware is spot-free, and now Robert always asks for a second cup of coffee.

JF, and I can’t stress this enough, C.

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I am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such filth as thou art.

Don’t make me say it don’t make me say it don’t make me say it don’t make me say it Brenda Vaccaro gasp don’t make me say it don’t make me say it etc.

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Myrna Loy, 1932 - photo portrait by George Hurrell

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Jack Frazee

Brainstorm,* Lovin' Is Really My Game (B. Woods, T. Womack) Honorable mention: Vicki Sue Robinson, Hold Tight (D. Gates) Donna Summer, Spring Affair (D. Summer, G. Moroder, P. Bellotte) *or the remake by Sylvester

I like when an enforceable ethics code is enforced. Let's see what happens!

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

Somehow I got through this entire piece without quoting “He was in Luther and Nobody Loves an Albatross and a lot of television plays and television commercials," but I still think it's pretty good.

A New York Storyopen.substack.com [in which I do some inferring]

I think that we can safely assume that Guy Woodhouse replaced Richard Mulligan in Nobody Loves an Albatross at some point during its 212-performance run.