Gene Klein

Watched a 3-hour documentary in a packed theater this weekend. Didn't see a single phone, everyone was SO locked in, big reactions at the intended moments. Will be rooting for YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING for a multitude of reasons this season, but that communal viewing experience was a dream.

The camera panning from the clock at 0:07 to Pierce Brosnan. Absolute cinema.

I Play Rocky played like gangbusters in the #tiff world premiere. Beyond high expectations

"The Family Stone 2" is officially happening and is titled "The Families Stone." The returning cast includes: • Rachel McAdams • Sarah Jessica Parker • Claire Danes • Dermot Mulroney • Craig T. Nelson • Luke Wilson • Tyrone Giordano • Elizabeth Reaser • Paul Schneider • Brian White The synopsis: "Twenty years after their mother’s passing, the Stone family reunites for Christmas only to face the season’s biggest surprise: their father has unexpectedly invited the woman he’s fallen in love with to meet the family." variety.com/2026/film/news/f…

Warmer ocean temperatures brought on by this season’s El Niño conditions have been bringing some subtropical species closer to Southern California shores, where they are rarely seen. Among such unusual marine visitors could be the highly-venomous yellow-bellied sea snake, scientists say. ktla.com/news/california/el-…

Please. Stop. Adding. Playoff. Teams. I beg you, MLS.

Eddie Vedder and Markéta Irglová perform 'The Song of Good Hope' alongside Thomas Bartlett and The Frames at the funeral of Glen Hansard 🤍

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed…. Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence… A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces... Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street. To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place. When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience. Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form. ….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case. May you rest in the peace you gave to so many. Bono

THE AGENCY is the best show streaming has produced in years and it’s baffling no one talks about it.

Lots of Europeans are mad about this. I get it. But I'm as Eurocentric as Americans come (cc: @Alicia_Smith19)! It's more about national *mindset* than a right or wrong way to do things. Europeans have made peace with reality; Americans try to change it. teapaw.org/ellencarmichael/status…

Going to bed thinking about Balogun not being able to play vs. Belgium

Edward Norton talking to himself at the USA-Türkiye game 😅

From @TheAthletic: When Victor Wembanyama went to Gramercy Park before Game 3 to sketch a statue, it was more than just having fun in his free time. It was his process. As he sat there, sketching Hamlet, he saw his perspective on a tragic figure. nyti.ms/4e5Q9ne

Mitch said no

Pitchfork giving me low score but being generally kind I’ll take the fuckin wins where I can get them

The Masters has released a trailer for its feature on Ken Griffey Jr., who shot Rory McIlroy's win at Augusta last year as a credentialed photographer. "Photographer No. 24" will premiere April 5 on NBC.