JD Heyman

We published a book. A little experiment in spiffy new tech and good old publishing. I’m saying it here, Twitter denizens, and respectfully asking for your support: shoot.to/ishollywooddead

🚨 New at CultureWag: Cannes 2025 preview 🚨 Trump wants a 100% movie tariff. Tom Cruise wants to jump off a cliff. 20+ picks from the Croisette + a sharp editorial detour. #Cannes2025 #FilmTwitter #TomCruiseIsCinema #CultureWagBonjour, open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

100 Days of Calami-tude. Russian-accented superheroes. Jane Austen (again). Ruth Buzzi’s handbag. And the dreamiest traffic jam song ever. The new CultureWag is out—diabolical pep, guaranteed. 👇open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

Maybe playing second fiddle in an orchestra is better for your mental health than shaking your tailfeather for the NFL. The Oscar push for Molly O'Brien's #theonlygirlintheorchestra ..and more recs Hello Genius, It's Your Weekly Recs!, by @JDHeyman open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

You'll go mad thinking about the latest outrage. Go find a corner and read instead. substack.com/profile/241018…

You can't go wrong with a comedy about cabbage smuggling. open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

David Lynch tucked a severed ear into every lawn in America. open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

You can drive around forever, looking for L.A. Reading about it is another matter. Amid the wildfires, here's a definitive list of the greatest books about an incoherent, alluring, dangerous, disaster-prone, inspiring, undefeatable town. open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

I regret to inform you that a huge number of people in Los Angeles are responding to this crisis with great generosity and high mindedness. I’ve lived here a long time and I’ve always noticed that people really step up during catastrophe.

Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis quillette.com/2025/01/12/thr…

to lose everything is not to lose a grand palace on a hill but all the dumb sweet gimcrack of life, and with them the landmarks of an extraordinary ordinary human place, wedged between the mountains and the sea

West Side LA in flames.

duh! @searchlightpics our favorite classy outfit

When you literally call all the winners. do not live blog this silliness open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

Writing about podcasting is like dancing about architecture but here are some of our favorite listens of the year... open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

In which we serve you the strange bouillabaisse that is the year's best movies... We Went to the Pictures , by @JDHeyman open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. How depressing that would be to read in an airless cubicle at TrueCar. substack.com/profile/241018…

If the glory days are over, you can still watch Gary Oldman fart. Descending the Peak: The Year in TV, by @JDHeyman open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

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@SalmanRushdie wrote one of our Books of the Year. So did: @emilynussbaum, #kavehakbar, #colmtoibin, @taffyakner ....and other geniuses There Were Some Books! , by @JDHeyman open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…

We've been tricked into believing creativity and marketing are the same thing, hence all the ME ME ME around here. But hawk our wares we must! On today's menu: the Awards Squad's 100% guaranteed Oscar pix song from #SkyFerreira, Keira Knightly & more... open.substack.com/pub/jdheyman/p…