Michael Bloom

What an Emmy night! What a team and what a journey. An honor… ⁦@Topic_Studios⁩ ⁦⁦@HBO⁩

Topic Studios on 'A Real Pain' Lessons and Bringing 'Splitsville' to Cannes hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…

Our film A REAL PAIN opens this weekend in NY & LA. Everywhere Nov 15. Jesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin are astounding. I'm so proud of this one. | NYT “Critics Pick”..."A nearly perfect little film”…“A masterpiece”. @Topic_Studios @searchlightpics youtu.be/b2et8Vpu7Ls?fe…

My dad passed away suddenly on August 16th. He was an incredible man who made every day better for those of us lucky enough to be in his world. The obituary we wrote provides a small window into the essence of who he was: schlossbergchapel.com/obituary/james…

Our latest film, in theaters in October - A REAL PAIN | Official Teaser youtu.be/nYPJIOF0ys4?si… via @YouTube

Deaccessioning the Delights of Robert Gottlieb | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

A new study found that performing 10 bodyweight squats every 45 minutes during an 8.5-hour period of sitting improves blood sugar regulation better than a single 30-minute walk. Brief, intense bursts of activity, often called 'exercise snacks,' offer a potent strategy to mitigate the health risks associated with our sedentary lifestyles. How easy is it to get up and do 10 bodyweight squats every 45 minutes! Study link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sm…

John Spencer, expert in urban warfare, explains to Sam Harris what was unique about the October 7 footage. First, Hamas members were absolutely euophoric as they were going off to rape and murder. As someone who has led men into battle, he tells us that “this is not normal”. Most striking was the reaction to the sound of a young boy moaning to death. In a normal battlefield situation, even when there is an enemy combatant, there is usually an instinct to render aid. Here, a boy’s eyes were gone, his father just killed, and the Hamas fighter nonchalantly goes and grabs a beverage from the refrigerator. This war has clarified so much for me. I keep talking about why Hamas is worse than Nazis, and the moral culpability of Palestinian civilians. People don’t like these opinions. They still remain true. If you have a position on this conflict other than “Israel keeps going until Hamas is destroyed” you have failed one of the great moral tests of our time.

I urge everyone to watch this documentary and to share it with everyone they know. youtube.com/watch?v=zAr9oG…

I am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus. Hate has no place in our city, and I have instructed the NYPD to investigate any violation of law they receive a report about and will arrest anyone found to be breaking the law.

Wow, they turned my 293 page book into a 7 minute video! This is a really compelling telling of how the phone-based childhood replaced the play-based childhood, and what we must do now. Thanks @kiteandkeymedia! @LetGrowOrg

Jewish faculty at Columbia denounce the weaponization of anti-Semitism and call for the defense of the university as a "site of learning, critical thinking, and knowledge production." Really good letter, worth reading in its entirety. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

"For thousands of years, people all over the world believed that women were inferior to men and could never be priests, teachers, or rulers. It took a lot of people all over the world doing a lot of brave things to change the story of women. One of them is Malala Yousafzai, who was born in 1997 in the town of Mingora, Pakistan." ------ This excerpt from my children's book 'Unstoppable Us: Why the World Isn't Fair' attempts to condense thousands of years of painful history and to celebrate the revolution that gave women a choice/voice – in a way that's digestible for middle-grade readers. Let's hope that in the future, equal opportunities will prevail and this text will read like science fiction. Happy International Women's Day. Illustration: Ricard Zaplana Ruiz

“The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous with yourself and others; you stay deeply in study about your craft. Whatever is yours will then arrive.”​ — Marian Seldes

It’s happening peoples…

Reports of this death are greatly exaggerated, but it's a positive sign: 'Cancel culture is dead': University of Michigan board approves new free speech statement. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… via @detroitnews

MAPS PBC Closes $100m Series A, Rebrands to Lykos Therapeutics - Psychedelic Alpha psychedelicalpha.com/news/maps-pbc-…

66 Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023. Not feel-good fluff ("Puppy befriends Orangutan") but significant progress in global health, clean energy, poverty, suicide, education, women's rights, homicide, conservation. Thanks, @future_crunch, for counteracting journalism's negativity bias. futurecrunch.com/goodnews2023/

Today I was among the journalists who have attended a private screening of the raw footage of October 7th and I want to express to you what I saw since it’s not been made public. It’s been a very heavy day. A decision was made that Jews are less than human, and treated that way in words and deeds..I now know that’s exactly the message Hamas sent on purpose — at scale. I wasn’t aware of that before. I saw bodies were burned but I did not understand or appreciate how intentional the effort was - they did it methodically, you hear it in the voices, the commands the ease, the excitement of finding and mutilating victims.

Don’t you love when someone has the courage to stand up to the bully? Gotta love Douglas Murray for not falling into the greatest trap of public debating – which is letting the bully cut you off in order to ruin your argument. You also have to love Murray’s ability to express a very simple truth: 1) The definition of terrorism is the deliberate targeting of civilians.  2) On October 7th, Hamas murdered, raped, decapitated, and kidnapped more than 1,000 innocent Israelis, deliberately targeting civilians. 3) The IDF only targets terrorists; but in EVERY war, there are unfortunate civilian casualties. This is not only Douglas Murrary being Douglas Murray; this is a masterclass on how to debate the types of bullies who will try to cut you off while you attempt to share an argument that would undermine their entire narrative. Douglas Murray – you are a credit to everything worth being credited.