Marc Klein

@_The_Prophet__ This is so well articulated. Bravo.

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear. It migrated inward. Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space. That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons. So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public. The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it. The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open. The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility. That is the trade. A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation. This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question. The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults. It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation. The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

One of the best things about my iPhone is its ability to instantly stop filming the thing I wanted and start documenting my footwear.

@khaleesi_101 Genki as hell!

Given his age William Shatner is sharp as a tack. Faced possibly the worst Q&A questions I’d ever heard and took it in stride

@ChrisKindaReads That's the one I read during Covid. Push through the first 100 pages and from there you'll rip through it in no time.

reading War And Peace in parts is about to make this so much easier. (i hope so)

@PeterAPeel Brilliant.

Character description from the script for Blake Edwards’ S.O.B.

@CherieCurrie3 Always loved Wavelength -- you guys had great onscreen chemistry. I consider it a hidden classic.

Losing my cherished friend Robert Carradine crushed me.. The regret, the pain, is overwhelming.. I’ve loved Bobby for 45 years and we had been spending quality time these last 6 years. We went camping, had dinners and a plan for a motorcycle ride. We loved each other… It will be this voicemail attached to this photo that teaches me to make the time.. don’t put it off. Tomorrow was too late and the regret will last a lifetime.. RIP my beloved friend.. 😭 Thank you for all the great times. I will miss you every single day. I love you Bobby. 💔

Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.

There's only one true hell in life, and that is calling @att for help. It is consistently the most awful user experience, as if designed by a sadist whose sole goal is to make you feel mentally (and emotionally) lowered into vat of acid while being forced to swallow bleach.

The oldest movie you can watch on Netflix is 1973’s The Sting. That is terrifying.

Amazing job. Love it 🤩🤩

On this day, 57 years ago, Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) premiered in Rome, Italy.

As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year. Gone, but never forgotten. Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.

I’m not saying studio films look terrible now but I saw five minutes of Jingle All The Way and it looked like an Eric Rohmer film

@redsteeze I agree. A lot of it has to do with character work. Older films invested much more screen time on the characters before the action kicked in. You cared about the people so the scenes had greater stakes and more emotional content.

The helicopter sequence is still better than any CGI sequence and any moment in Avengers or even the latest Superman. It's a testimony to a lost art form of suspense, drama & physical craftwork in film. This was a real scene. Marvel movies now are just adult nerds smashing their CGI action figures together and cheering.

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” ~ Primo Levi, Auschwitz survivor.

@Variety For my entire career, the Hollywood trades have existed to help the movie business flourish -- and to support and encourage its artistry. This article is offensive (and disgusting) on so many levels, it's hard to fathom who on the masthead thought this should be published.

Hasan Piker calls Gal Gadot “a dogsh*t actress” and quips: “She has no business [being at the Oscars] for the crime of what she has done to not only the DC franchise, but really any movie she’s been a part of.” “All jokes aside,” he continued, “Gal Gadot serves an important role in normalizing Israel as not a fascist ethno-state, but instead a place where a lot of beautiful women come from. And those beautiful women happen to serve in the IDF, because there’s also this weird sexualization of the forces as well that takes place, and it plays another role in normalizing Israel and its activities and actions, and whitewashing it.” wp.me/pc8uak-1lGxCW

Christopher Nolan doesn't see streaming platforms as an innovation for cinema: “We work in a mature business. I like to say we’re Heinz, we make ketchup. We’re not a tech company. The innovation in our industry has always been and should always be what goes on the screen, not what the screen is, not what the seats are, not whether they’ve got two drinks cup holders or one or whatever. That’s all irrelevant. It’s what we do as filmmakers, what we put on the screen, that’s where the potential is infinite and needs to be explored.”

Just found out cinematographer Adam Greenberg passed away a couple days ago. TERMINATOR 1 & 2, GHOST, Rush Hour, Near Dark, and countless others - he had an incredible eye for night photography, and his influence can still be seen everywhere today. RIP to a legend.

RIP Diane Keaton The Godfather (1972) The final shot of one of the greatest movies ever made belongs to Diane. Her career spanned decades, demonstrating both comedic brilliance and powerful dramatic range. There was a charm to Diane that can never be taught or replicated.

"My parents have been married for 75 years but few have noticed. Most of their friends have died. I contacted 6 local news stations and the Union Tribune newspaper giving details so they could do a story on their lives. Not one response from anyone. I think living into your 90's and staying married 75 years is quite an accomplishment. If you agree, please like and share my post. I want to show them people do care." Credit Eileen Atkinson