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She’s so beautiful... (Yeah, there’s a lot of female beauty out there.)

Today’s #DoubleFeature... • Philip Kaufman’s THE WANDERERS (1979) • Joel & Ethan Coen’s INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (2013) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies

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Animal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic diaries has rekindled the debate over the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Here's how scientists have weighed in.www.npr.org

Conservatives today don’t like a black thespian playing on film a character often imagined in the West as white ( #HelenOfTroy in #TheOdyssey). But in 1990, conservatives championed a white thespian playing an Asian character on Broadway. The common thread seems to be whatever elevates whiteness.

Today’s #DoubleFeature... • Richard Lester’s A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964) • Julie Taymor’s ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (2007) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies #TheBeatles

Thou art translated. #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #aMidsummerNightsDream #TheGreekAndRomanPlays #TheOdyssey

Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul: see where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. —Christopher Marlowe, ‘Doctor Faustus’ #ShakespeareSunday

“Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only” THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957): Odysseus comes home to Penelope.

“What’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera?”

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I’m jazzed that a discussion of ~3,000-year-old ancient Greek culture and literature has been made trendy again. But I’m also unsettled that much of the discussion stems from dogmatists who seem to believe that people of color don’t have a place in the heritage of the West. (image made with A.I.)

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Apparently, the high-profile news outlets are just accepting the McConnell camp’s say-so that the senator is recovering, and they dismiss any speculation of the team running out the clock on a special-election window—no matter how plausible—as a conspiracy theory.

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