Ahmed, 7, Syria.
"The side effects of the chemo wouldn’t kick in for at least a week, so she spent her days with Delia powering through a TV pilot they were writing for Scott Rudin… Because of my mother’s tremendous sense of will and a modest dose of steroids, the script was finished before the chemo was."
— Jacob Bernstein writes about his badass mother, Nora Ephron, in this great New York Times piece “Nora Ephron’s Final Act”
because 20 kids didn’t deserve to die today.
fuck the second amendment.
a baby elephant in a custom-made raincoat photographed by Michael Nichols. read “Orphans No More,” a heartbreaking but hopeful story about orphaned elephants in Kenya. it made me feel all the feelings.
fuuuuuuuuck. i shoulda known with all the Hitch postings on my dash yesterday that he had died. RIP Christopher Hitchens. i often did not share your views but was always damn glad you were there to write or speak about them because they were always articulate and well-argued.
this squabble seems like good (read: free) publicity for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The New Yorker — win-win all around. well played, sirs, well played.
i mean if this were real, Scott Rudin would probably be all Les Grossman in David Denby’s face. besides, who ‘leaked’ this email correspondence anyway?
3pm est…nm, shit just got real.
and AAPL’s already down 5% after hrs. FFFFFUUUUUU—
listening to the Donmar Warehouse’s production (2007-08) of Othello. so fab.
Othello - Chiwetel Ejiofor
Iago - Ewan McGregor
Desdemona - Kelly Reilly
Cassio - Tom Hiddleston
Roderigo - Edward Bennett
Emilia - Michelle Fairley
directed by Michael Grandage
some highlights:
Apple now offers something called Final Cut Pro X (pronounced “10”). But don’t be misled by the name. It’s a new program, written from scratch…
The bottom line: The rewritten Final Cut is much, much easier to use than the old one, and its immediacy keeps your creative flow going.
But not everyone will fall in love. Switching to the new Final Cut from the old one is like coming home from college to discover that your parents remodeled your bedroom…
The biggest disappointment is that Final Cut X can’t open old Final Cut projects. They’re now orphaned, stuck forever in the old program.
