The closure of the Cinerama Dome and Arclight Hollywood, for six years now, still feels like an open wound for me. I genuinely spent more time in those cinemas than anywhere else in L.A. and it remains very sad that this moviegoing mecca can't come back. I still hold out hope.
(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.
OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?
A thread on some of of our findings:
Congratulations to Meryl Streep for winning a Children’s & Family Emmy for her reading of ‘The Three Questions!’ Her outstanding storytelling has earned our program its first-ever Emmy Award. 🌟📚
Watch Meryl’s award-winning reading at https://t.co/ErrqXRliIJ.
Willem Dafoe reunites with ‘THE FLORIDA PROJECT’ director Sean Baker after Baker won 4 #Oscars in one night.
“Sean! You was robbed! 😂”
See the full winners list: https://t.co/cDPncK6OIM
Follow jazz legend Hazel Scott’s meteoric rise as a jazz talent and major Hollywood star before being blacklisted during the Red Scare. “The Disappearance of Miss Scott” premieres TONIGHT at 9/8c on PBS.
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RICHARD KELLY is set to shoot his first film in over 15 years -- A fall 2025 production has been set up for the mysterious film (via @prodweek)
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Annie DeWitt: "It’s important to talk about the reality of being a writer. You wonder what direction your life is going in without knowing whether or not you’ll succeed. That’s, to date, the hardest thing I’ve had to face. My own self-doubt." #writing
Some of the worst screenwriting adviceout there is to NOT direct on the page.
Directing on the page is a HUGE part of your job.
But that doesn’t mean calling out the camera and dictating shots.
It means guiding the emotional and visual journey for the reader. You want them to see the movie.
If you're not directing the movie in the reader's mind, who is?