Cameron Wells

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?

Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives

Maya Rudolph to make her Broadway debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in ‘Oh, Mary!’

Starting from April 28th for a limited 8-week run.

A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

As I've probably already noted far too many times, one of the delights of JG's Gwendolen is that, without belaboring it, she makes it clear that she's Edith Evans's Lady Bracknell's daughter and is certainly going to grow up to be her.

Katharine Hepburn interpolating an ‘r’ in the middle of ‘daquiris,’ MY GOD

One thing that’s concerning about this (beyond the obvious) is that anything you dump this many billions of dollars into necessarily creates a massive and well-funded political constituency for its own perpetuation.

West Side Story male chorus rehearsal 1957

Thinkin about Radvanovsky warming up with “Chi il bel sogno di Doretta” to take her into “In questa reggia.” Astounding singer.

“Orange JUICE,” one of the great mis-stresses

some of you are getting bread AND circuses???

All About Eve finale, but Louis Armstrong is there:

Gives the game away to redefine "American culture" as "English-Scotts-Irish." There was never any point where that was the American culture; it exists solely as a mythical past invented by white nationalists to justify their actions.

Heck, if you asked the Founders, they'd say, "you mean British?"

You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????

Seen at least 7 undergrads shopping for flowers

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Brecht lights a cigar as he gets ready to testify in front of the Committee & a bank of microphones.

Leonard McCombe's photojournalism background & his interest in psychological portraiture come together in this shot: Bertolt Brecht testifying before HUAC, 1947

Brecht's HUAC transcript is here: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Brecht_...

Happy birthday to Her Majesty Leontyne Price!

ooo…. lady gagita

18. ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ (Asquith, 1952)

“And where did the charitable gentleman who had a first-class ticket for this seaside resort find you?”
“In a hand-bag.”
“A hand-bag?”
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“The cloak-room at Victoria Station?”
“Yes. The Brighton line.”
“The line is immaterial.”

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

Thank you.

Which is to say, turning a blind eye to her daughter’s suffering was (part of) the price of her meal ticket?

How do you mean, blow up her work?

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

🎶And the wig and the weights / And the wig and the weights / And the wiiiiiiiig!🎶

We’ve got to call the weirdos weird.