Theodore Bouloukos

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[Theodore Bouloukos @itheodore]

Proustian madeleine.

[GBH Archives @GBHArchives]

Show open from WGBH's iconic children's program 'Zoom' that premiered in 1972 and aired until 1978.

[Amunet @freakoutsideofx]

Tippi Hedren, 96yo, and her daughter, Melanie Griffith, 68yo ❤️❤️

[Theodore Bouloukos @itheodore]

@s2200003 👌🏻

[Theodore Bouloukos @itheodore]

@xleanate And loving it!

[Theodore Bouloukos @itheodore]

@pradayamusic You look as good as you sound.

[Tom Chamberlin @tfchamberlin]

5 Styles of Gentlemen’s Jacket I think you should know about.

[Theodore Bouloukos @itheodore]

@thehunghairyone Yes. Or in a deep homo panic.

[Theodore Bouloukos @itheodore]

@WhitStillman You’re too sui generis for any of that kind of classification.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters. https://t.co/W5Jx40HbuS

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Coincidence? I don't think so.

For nearly 500 years, hundreds of millions of people looked at the most famous painting of God ever made, and none of them noticed what was hiding in plain sight.

Then, in 1990, a doctor looked up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and realized that God is wrapped inside a human brain...

The painting is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, finished around 1512. You know the image even if you don't know its name: God reaching out from the heavens, His finger almost touching Adam's, the spark of life about to leap across the gap.

But look at the shape around God, the swirling red cloak that holds Him and the angels aloft. For five centuries it was seen as just a billowing robe... but in 1990, a physician named Frank Lynn Meshberger published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association arguing that the red shroud is something else entirely: an anatomically precise cross-section of the human brain.

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

The outline of the cloak traces the outer curve of the brain. A fold in the fabric forms the Sylvian fissure, the deep groove that separates the brain's major lobes. The angel curled beneath God is positioned exactly where the brainstem would be, and the green scarf trailing down becomes the vertebral artery. Even the pituitary gland and the optic chiasm, where the nerves from the eyes cross, fall precisely into place.

This was not a man likely to invent such a thing by accident. Michelangelo had spent his youth secretly dissecting human corpses in a monastery in Florence, studying the body from the inside with an obsessiveness that, by one early account, exceeded that of professional anatomists...

So what did he mean by it?

Meshberger argued that the painting has been misnamed. He suggested it should be called not the Creation of Adam, but the Endowment of Adam. In the Bible, God gives Adam life. But in Michelangelo's fresco, Adam is already alive, his eyes open, his body lifted. What God is reaching across that famous gap to give him is not life. It is intellect. The divine spark of human thought itself, delivered, fittingly, from inside the very organ that produces it.

One of the most looked-at images in the history of the world may contain a message that took half a millennium to be read, hidden by a man who understood both the human body and the human soul better than almost anyone who has ever lived, and who seems to have decided to bury his deepest idea about us where only the most careful eye would ever find it...

[Leo Robson @leorobsonwriter]

How to be a critic. . . I talked to The Ideas Letter about criticism with Leonard Benardo, cameos from Kenneth Tynan, Kael, Susan Sontag, Adam Mars-Jones, John Updike, Henry James, Ebert, Barthes, @WhitStillman @TimParksauthor . . . hyperlinks throughout
https://t.co/o0EPzNyNnj

[Daniel Marley @UlteriousFilm]

#BOTD #BruceDavison
LAST SUMMER (1969)
#BarbaraHershey
#RichardThomas

[Film at Lincoln Center @FilmLinc]

👏 The beyond LEGENDARY Elaine May and longtime producer Julian Schlossberg take the stage to kick off our retrospective celebrating the 50th anniversary of MIKEY AND NICKY and May’s brilliant directing career!

🎟️: https://t.co/hnRjBuDVKV

[Theodore Bouloukos @itheodore]

@atrupar Crazy because we hadn’t seen that level I’ll criminal deceit from the highest office in the land before.

[Theodore Bouloukos @itheodore]

@MAGACult2 Serves them right for having allowed that illiterate pig wrestler, or whatever he is, to disparage her without impunity on the White House lawn while that disgusting excuse for a president smiled assentingly.

[Caroline von Golum @carolineavenue]

Thanks to everyone who came out for our S🌞LSTICE screening of "Revelations" at Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland!

Californians, our next "shewings" are Tues 6/23 at @2220Arts and Mon 6/29 at Now Instant!

🎟️ https://t.co/OAhbW0mUmA

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Alan Greenspan bade us farewell today. A man who was celebrated as the central bankers' central banker based on the conviction that markets are divine and volatility is a virtue.

His epitaph? A singular, glorious confession: “I found a flaw in my model of the world.” A flaw, he said, as though it were a leaky pipe, not a total collapse of the intellectual architecture that anointed him Oracle. For decades, he preached that the self-interest of the predator was the invisible hand of the common good.

Then, in 2008, the beast devoured the table, and to his credit he blinked, admitting that his entire worldview—the one that central bankers canonized and the world swallowed—was a fairy tale for rentiers.

He did not, of course, admit to culpability. That would require a moral compass, a device notably absent from his Ayn Randian toolbelt. No, he merely noted the flaw, as a meteorologist might note a gust of wind, and returned to his well-earned silence.

So farewell, Maestro. You helped erect a broken global casino economy, but at least you had the decency to read the autopsy report aloud. Alas, countless millions are still paying for your asterisk. https://t.co/ftWXeIeAQr

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

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[Theodore Bouloukos @itheodore]

Only my favorite film of all time. Able to recite every line of it in my sleep, if need be, having co-opted it as a family obsession that sprung from our first screening in May 1972, and watched religiously at least a hundred times since.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Peter Bogdanovich on working with Barbra Streisand on

WHAT'S UP, DOC? (1972)

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

This woman did to trump what no other woman has done to him before. She neutered him. Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy. @GiorgiaMeloni

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Imagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this — not in a million years.

Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. 🇺🇸