Stephen Silver

Dad, Writer, Critic. Cofounder of @philafcc, member of @criticschoice Words: @phillyinquirer @JTANews @broadstreview @splicetoday2022 @substack

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

Happy to introduce my new @substack newsletter, The SS Ben Hecht: https://t.co/FBkJNGqIY5

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

I can hear Philip Baker Hall yelling, "The New York Times ran a blow-by-blow of what we talked about behind closed doors! You fucked us!"

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

One of many eye-popping exchanges between Scott Pelley and Nick Bilton in this morning’s meeting:

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

@touchingblood His partner, of course, was even more problematic

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

Still wild that Big Bossman's gimmick was that he was a prison guard who would handcuff his defeated opponent to the ropes and then do live police brutality in the ring https://t.co/f9fa3LH6UK

[The Wrestling Memory Grenade 🎙 / Ray Russell @RasslinGrenade]

Arsenio Hall welcomes the Twin Towers & Slick to his show. Slick proclaims that Akeem will be the first BLACK WWF Heavyweight Champion. Arsenio's facial response gets me every time. 6/16/89

[JT @Jtaylor0_3]

Shoutout hbo max for listening to the fans and making bugs barry lyndon real

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I'm pleased to invite @Wemby to our second Commission on Government Efficiency hearing on Wednesday June 10th 5-8pm, where we'll be asking the public for their thoughts on how government can run better. Would love to have you there for the whole time!

[Brian Graham @iroasmas]

am i sure the death star is going down? look at my quant. look at him! you notice anything different about him? look at his eyes. i’ll give you a hint—his name’s a fucking number!! he doesn’t even speak english—it’s all beep-boop shit!! yeah, i’m sure.

[Steve Popper @StevePopper]

As someone who covered the 1994 NBA Finals, it's a big assignment with a lot of work to do on deadline so I'd like to ask celebrities not to get in any slow car chases with police traliing a white bronco tonight.

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

https://t.co/iws0s0VwKS

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

That movie's greatest legacy is Helen Martin going on Conan to promote it and declaring, "I LOVE reefer"

[Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq]

Amazing Siskel & Ebert argument over the Wayans Brothers' Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

pretty decent encapsulation of the last few years on here

[Kolchak the Daywalker 😇 🐊 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦🍌 @ArthurKolchak]

You can tell by the mournful tone here that this take is coming from a place of awareness that the golden age of woke media criticism has well and truly passed and that its rhetorical postures and gestures no longer have power for the woke, the anti-woke, or the merely unwoke. Folks are just bored and tired, so they read critical broadsides like this and neither feel compelled to affirm nor to oppose. They instead yawn, shrug, scroll past, or take it as an occasion to sharpen their snark.

[Gizmo 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @basedgizmo]

Now THERE’s the Twitter I know and love

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

I wrote for @politribune about Marco Rubio maybe lying to Congress https://t.co/O3PnD1AHfy

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

Was the "mental illness is sexy" monologue written by him?

[FilmBart @FilmBart]

wait the dude running 60 MINUTES was a writer on THE IDOL? and not even a full fledged writer but a *staff* writer?!? it's truly losers all the way down at Bari's CBS News.

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

This is good, by @JVLast. Bari's entire origin story was about how poorly she was treated on her way out of NYT, and she wasn't even fired by them https://t.co/EWnYlcu5By

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

Minnesota also has separate arenas for the NBA and NHL, but they were built ten years apart, and both were built to attract expansion teams

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

It makes absolutely zero sense for a basketball and hockey team in the same market to build two different new arenas at the same time

[Eric Prisbell @EricPrisbell]

Why the Mavericks and Stars say American Airlines Center is obsolete. Both teams are planning to leave the 25-year-old venue to build arenas elsewhere. My deep dive:
https://t.co/JhcSyzOmIc

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

On Israel and the Middle East, Fetterman is far to Trump's right https://t.co/9FMPewmRNa

[Emily Jacobs @emilyfjacobs]

New: Sen. John Fetterman is growing increasingly concerned that Trump may make a deal with Iran

JF to @jewishinsider: "Nuclear dust, that’s the reason why we’re here. This is why I was reasoned and OK with setting myself politically on fire to be the only Democrat for the last 90 days voting against these war powers acts. Presidents always talk about their legacy. At this point, if you cave just for political convenience, what kind of legacy is that?"

https://t.co/s7F1FyXU2e

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

I just went 74-8, think you can go 82-0? https://t.co/qixz35k5kA #NBA #82and0

[Stephen Silver @StephenSilver]

Here’s the June documentary review 10-pack, with reviews including THE AI DOC, EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET, THE PINK PILL, SUMMER OF ‘94, and a bunch of stuff on PBS this month https://t.co/682VjIh7nD @philafcc @OFCS @CriticsChoice