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should there be child actors?
Two recent New Yorker pieces posed a question I'd never thought about, should there be child actors? For me the answer was a fast "yes." Just as I'd give a fast "no" to the question of whether there should be billionaires. The first mention I noticed was in Adam Gopnik's piece "What Do We Want from Our Child Stars?" which survey's the history of child acting, from Shirley Temple to Jeanette McCurdy. He makes a good case, with a century of evidence, that child actors have alw
Nov 11, 20253 min read


a foggy day, in Griffith Park
I've never seen downtown LA peeking through the clouds like this. SF cosplay. outlook is cloudy hollywood hills above the clouds, and a cameo from the moon in the upper right there's a person up there!
Nov 7, 20251 min read


Joachim Trier made me go to Oslo
I don't think I had seen a Norweigian movie until The Worst Person In The World , part of Joachim Trier's Oslo trilogy . Part of it must have been that I saw it in 2021, when international travel was still mostly at a standstill, but I got it into my head that I needed to go to Oslo. The way he uses locations in his films makes you (you meaning Americans, or at least me personally as an American) want to immediately go to Norway and see if it looks and feels as magical as it
Nov 4, 20253 min read
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