Bradbury Kuett

A few days before the private screening of Diva, lunch with Jean-Jacques in a Chinese resto, 7ème. Across from us, alone at a table, Jeanne Moreau. At that moment, two generations of French cinéma, I mused, now passed from sight.

@GovPressOffice Photo au Quai d'Orsay. Tout s'explique.

There is no other option: DEMOCRATS. MUST. SHUT. THIS CORRUPT SYSTEM DOWN. NO GOVERNMENT FUNDING! Trump, Miller, and Noem have ICE out on the streets killing Americans!

@peterbakernyt @WhitStillman @sbg1 Woolgathering

"In rambling on so much, Trump reveals just about everything one could ever want to know about him—his lack of discipline, his ignorance, his vanity, insecurity, and crudeness, and a mean streak that knows no limits," writes @sbg1 newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

@maddenifico The apt adjective of his meandering monologues: "woolgathering."

Constantly conflating Greenland with Iceland, falsely claiming the 2020 election in which he lost to Joe Biden was rigged, the loathsome piece of shit actually got horrible reviews on his "WORST SPEECH EVER" in Davos.

@DougJBalloon The apt adjective of his meandering monologues: "woolgathering." @JoyceCarolOates

Trump's shambolic press conference raises new questions about Joe Biden's fitness for office.

@gtconway3d The apt adjective of his meandering monologues: "woolgathering."

Greenland, Iceland, Iceberg, Greenberg, Goldberg, Hamberg, Hamberder, Covfefe, Arnold Palmer, Hannibal Lecter, Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV, Giraffe, Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!

@JoyceCarolOates Trump failed Geo in school. In his woolgathering monologue in Davos, at least four times he mistakenly referred to Iceland in place of Greenland. Once, mind you, quite emphatically. @Daractenus

beginning to wonder if his handlers are allowing him as much rope as he needs to hang himself publicly each time he gives a "speech".... these lengthy Captain Queeg monologues are exposing to the world the dementia & malice that are now T***p's most prominent features. clearly he believes his own lies & silly misinformation, no one ever corrects him. Ubu Roi caused chaos but finally came to a (comical) end.

@gtconway3d What about the stress/confusion born by your Welsh Corgis, bereft of gracious lawns and tranquil space, in adapting to a high rise, trotted out on dirty sidewalks & teeming High Line. Engage a dog therapist to nurse your precious creatures' horrifying trauma of city existence.

I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home. We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss. We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.

@jmseabrook Michael Sandel of Harvard coined the term “the skyboxification of American life,” to highlight the corrosive effect of widening inequalities on the erosion of public places. Voilà SOFI. @David_Ornstein @johncanzanobft @LATimesfarmer

How the working class cathedrals and became luxury hotels, by me. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

@dieworkwear Aye. Brody une clope au bec.

Some things I saw recently that I think are cool: — Name bomber (kinda Margiela five-zippy) — Kaptain Sunshine traveler coat (IMO top 10 fall outerwear) — Costume designer Kate Forbes repro-ing Adrien Brody's Brutalist sweater — Norman Carver 3k sq ft home in Kalamazoo for $600k

@nytimes I recall Hitchens saying that King Charles' phrase for his better-favoured younger brother Andrew was: “the one with the Robert Redford looks”. Never thought this was fair to Robert Redford.

Breaking News: Andrew, the younger brother of King Charles III, is being stripped of his title as prince, Buckingham Palace said. nyti.ms/47NS8KZ

@freedom_007__ I recall Hitchens saying that King Charles' phrase for his better-favoured younger brother Andrew was: “the one with the Robert Redford looks”. Never thought this was fair to Robert Redford.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle next! Bet they didn’t think King Charles would strip his brother of everything—and so quickly. Only a matter of time, Harry and Meghan Mountbatten-Windsor. 🕰️ Tick tock.

@TimothyDSnyder Récemment dans Le Monde: Formidable Timothy Snyder, historien : « Se laisser impressionner par les démonstrations de force de Trump, c’est accompagner une transition vers l’autoritarisme » @frasermatthew @AlexandreJardin

When we say No Kings, we mean Freedom. My speech for #NoKings Cincinnati, Oct 18 (abridged video) One great thing to see at the Cincinnati rally was lots of people engaging with local organizations that had tables there. Looking for a next step? Reach out to a local organization

@CStucchio @JoyceCarolOates Photo snapped at the 2023 retrospective of Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton which brought together some 115 works from the largest international institutional collections. Stupéfiant!

@JoyceCarolOates This Rothko from 1956 titled "Orange and Yellow" is hanging just four streets my house at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo NY.

Divine Rothko

@alissamarie J. Salter: "To go into NY restaurants with him & his wife..eyes turned to watch.The glory seems to be yours as well. There was a dreamlike quality,perhaps because Redford seemed to be just passing through, not really involved. It was washing over him, like a casual love affair."

My appreciation of the late Robert Redford, the star of THE CANDIDATE, who knew the power of the camera and tried to turn it in the right direction. nytimes.com/2025/09/16/mov…

@brooksbarnesNYT J. Salter: "To go into NY restaurants with him & his wife..eyes turned to watch.The glory seems to be yours as well. There was a dreamlike quality,perhaps because Redford seemed to be just passing through, not really involved. It was washing over him, like a casual love affair."

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 nytimes.com/2025/09/16/mov…

@kylebuchanan You're ripping so many ledes that you must be leaning on AI.

Time for the AFTER THE HUNT press conference

@cgberube @RadioFreeTom Lawrence Durrell likened retsina to turpentine drained through a bishop's socks. @Kasparov63

WTF I love Grok now

@lancerichardson Does James Salter make an appearance

@peterbakernyt Robert Kaplan refers to Trump as "post-literate" and ahistorical. Post-literates (PLs) are people who do not read books. They are absorbed in cell phones, and the passion of social media. To wit, this phenomena is not limited to the youth. @ShawnMcCreesh @StevenErlanger

During the campaign, Trump said it would be so easy to end the war in Ukraine he could do it in 24 hours and in fact would do it before being inaugurated. Three months after his inauguration, his chief diplomat now says it is so hard he may stop trying. nytimes.com/2025/04/18/wor…

@JoyceCarolOates Roth composed an elegiac lament of an earlier time: “…thousands and thousands of Americans destroyed in those years, political casualties, historical casualties…techniques to strip a man of his significance and empty him totally of his pride.” Encore une fois

what has happened politically in the US was represented in a distorted-mirror way on Twitter. before 2016 engagements were more likely to be lighter in tone & comical/surreal; the original function of Twitter was to make announcements--(information about films, bookstore signings, lectures, etc.); many special-interest accounts. then, with the shockingly strident, unprecedentedly polarizing 2016 campaign Twitter became a battleground & has continued since then through the years to a point where now anything like a nuanced opinion about anything (including the most complex, knotty subjects) will draw virulent attacks from those to whom issues are crystal-clear. the Twitter universe is Manichaean: either/or.