Dasha Nekrasova had a burgeoning acting career, including a significant role in "Succession." She is also co-host of a podcast, Red Scare, which was originally associated with socialism but moved increasingly right over the seven years it's been broadcast, culminating in an interview with antisemite and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Now, she's been dropped by her agent and lost a coveted film role, but only because of a two-year pressure campaign by actor-turned-producer Jonathan Daniel Brown. “You have Bronze Age Pervert. You have Curtis Jarvin. You’ve got all these really nasty, fascist bastards — and they are actively trying to infiltrate mainstream Hollywood via these ‘It’ girls,” Brown told [@THR]( ). #Hollywood #Entertainment #Film #Cinema #Television #Podcasts #Succession
Alice Wong, the disability justice advocate and author, died at the weekend at age 51. She was best known for founding the Disability Visibility Project. She also wrote multiple books and a column for Teen Vogue, and her final project was Crips for eSims for Gaza, which raised over $3 million to help connect people living in Gaza to the internet. Here's [@19thnews]( )'s tribute to her. #AliceWong #InMemoriam #DisabilityVisibilityProject #DisabilityRights #Gaza #Books #Activism
MTV is killing off its music channels in Europe. In the U.S., it's cranking out reruns of "Catfish" and "Ridiculousness," "Jersey Shore: Family Vacation" is in its eighth season and playing barely any new music, even though the audience for music videos is bigger than ever. [@RollingStone]( )'s Rob Sheffield takes a look at the decline of the once-great music video network. #Music #Television #MTV #Entertainment #MusicVideos
American Thanksgiving is just 11 days away. No doubt, the gatherings can be awkward. Don’t add to the social uneasiness by doing something like showing up with your laundry (one of us might have done that in college). Here are some Thanksgiving mistakes to avoid from [@foodandwine]( ), and what to do instead: #Culture #Thanksgiving #Holidays #Etiquette
Hollywood’s got it all wrong when it comes to remakes. The problem is they keep redoing the classics. Big mistake. They ought to go after the bad ones and make them better. Good remakes of bad movies are “Hollywood’s greatest fount of untapped potential this side of video game adaptations and seeing what might happen if you gave Ridley Scott a kilo of cocaine,” film critic David Ehrlich writes. Read more from [@IndieWire]( ): #Culture #Film #Hollywood #Movies #Entertainment
Have you thought about buying a gun since President Trump won a second term last November? Many liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans have done so out of fear in the last year. [@npr]( ) reports on the U.S.’s changing face of gun ownership: https://flip.it/IIyJnJ #Culture #America #Guns #Safety #LGBTQ
"The Running Man" 2025 is getting so-so reviews (63% on Rotten Tomatoes) but we'll still watch it because we love the work of director Edgar Wright. Here's what [@IndieWire]( ) thought of the movie, an adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 novel. We want to know, which do you think is the best Edgar Wright movie? (We're excluding this one, which we assume you haven't seen, his 1995 debut, "A Fistful of Fingers," which we also assume you haven't seen, and his "Sparks" documentary.) #Movies #Film #Cinema #Entertainment #EdgarWright #CornettoTrilogy
What's going on on X? Joyce Carol Oates has turned her attention to Elon Musk. In response to Musk getting defensive about Tesla, the novelist, essayist and poet wrote: "So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.'” The tech billionaire clapped back, showing his own mastery of the English language: “Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human." Here's more from [@AVClub]( ). #JoyceCarolOates #ElonMusk #Culture #Literature #Film #Sports