Marco Barahona

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Kenneth_Belkin Do I look like I’m a part of the elite oligarch class. This was taken at a super 8 motel off I95 by the way.

[Boppa 🧟‍♂️ @ihatebbls]

You just had to be there

[Da Boot @DaBootTragedies]

Next time I see Mickey Loomis

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Cillian Murphy said yes to Oppenheimer before he’d read a single page of the script. Nolan flew to Dublin to hand him a copy, printed on red paper so it couldn’t be photocopied. From that point on Murphy disappeared for six months. He dropped about 28 pounds, ate so little that Emily Blunt said it was “like, one almond” most nights, and skipped every single cast dinner. Matt Damon said they invited him every night. He never came. He was in the bath learning lines.

He read American Prometheus, the Pulitzer-winning biography the film was based on. He read the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu holy text that Oppenheimer quoted after watching the first nuclear bomb test. Then he found old recordings of the real Oppenheimer giving physics lectures and started walking beaches near his home in Ireland, reciting them out loud to his dog Scout.

At one point he hit a scene where Oppenheimer gives a lecture in Dutch. He asked Nolan what they’d do about it. Nolan: “You mean what are YOU going to do about that.” So Murphy got the film’s cinematographer, who happens to be Dutch, to record the lines into his phone. Slowed the audio way down. Spent three weeks memorizing the whole thing. Robert Downey Jr. said the rest of the cast would plan weekend trips around Santa Fe while Murphy would just go, “I have to learn 30,000 words of Dutch. Have a nice time.”

The weight loss got competitive. His own words: “You become competitive with yourself a little bit, which is not healthy. I don’t advise it.” During the 57-day shoot he pulled 18-hour days and said he hit a zone where food just stopped mattering. Nolan kept the air conditioning cranked during the interrogation scenes because the character is being humiliated, and Murphy was so hungry and so cold it actually helped the performance. The real Oppenheimer lived the same way. Ran on cigarettes and double-strength martinis. Throat cancer killed him at 62.

Murphy’s wife Yvonne once described what happens when a character finally leaves him. Her words from his years playing Tommy Shelby on Peaky Blinders: “OK. Tommy’s gradually leaving. I’m getting Cillian back.” Murphy puts it his own way. “I cancel reality for a while.”

Oppenheimer won 7 Oscars and pulled in $950 million at the box office. It gave Murphy his first Best Actor win after decades in the business. So when a doctor asks how he copes with playing deeply traumatized characters and he laughs and calls being a doctor “a real job,” he means every word. The job costs him six months inside someone else’s head, a body he has to starve into someone else’s shape, and a family that has to wait for him to come home.

[JOELVENILE @joelvenile]

Trade deadline in 5 hours:

Joe Dumars and Troy Weaver staring at each other across their desks

[LSU New Orleans Men’s Basketball @PrivateersHoops]

HE! CALLED! GAME!

@BensonColeton drills this 3-pointer in the final seconds!

PRIVATEERS WIN 79-76!

PUT THIS ON SPORTSCENTER!

@SouthlandSports @MarchMadnessMBB @SportsCenter @sctop10

#NOLAsTeam ⚔

[JOELVENILE @joelvenile]

Willie Green would’ve started Kevon Looney in OT

[Jason Staples @DocStaples]

There's a legendary Harbaugh story that actually kind of confirms this.
https://t.co/0HJbk4wJuF

[Marco Barahona @imymarco]

Damn near made me cry fr , go watch this show

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Director of WHIPLASH (2014) reveals what happens to Andrew after the finale:

“Andrew will be a sad, empty shell of a person and will die in his 30s of a drug overdose.”

“Fletcher will always think he won.”

“I have a very dark view of where it goes.”

[michelle @lcveslayla]

i finished this damn book yesterday

[Marco Barahona @imymarco]

Man when this happened I deadass was like “FINALLY he’s good for something” lmao

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The ‘STRANGER THINGS’ cast react to the Will Byers plot twist at the table read.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The greatest trailers are the ones that trick you in the best way.

[Marco Barahona @imymarco]

Mega ass

[Boot Krewe Media @BootKreweMedia]

The committee to steer the transition of UNO back to the LSU system has shared some mockups of the university’s purple and gold branding as “LSU New Orleans”

Thoughts on this? 🤔

via @ByPiperHutch

[Marco Barahona @imymarco]

UNO is so fucking back

[Southlandish @Southlandish_]

Currently deep into the 1st halves, SLU leads Ole Miss, UTRGV leads Baylor, and New Orleans leads TCU

[vince @vincestaples]

As you can tell, the marketing budget is smaller than the show budget, so please make sure to share amongst your friend group. The Vince Staples Show Season 2 is airing on Netflix in FOUR DAYS. November 6th. Find it in the clearance aisle.

[Marco Barahona @imymarco]

He’s a hot Bud Ice

[Hold The Mayo @snowlikejonn]

Describe the Brian Kelly era in beer terms

[Marco Barahona @imymarco]

This is so egregiously bad and lazy lmao

[Tampa Bay Buccaneers @Buccaneers]

The art of football 🎥🎨