Take That Step #48
This week belong to Benito. Period.
1) What a gift is Blue Moon For those who love music and quotes (like me):
I loved this dialogue:
Can I ask you something?
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] Something that’s probably too personal for me to ask?
Too personal is the only thing that I’m interested in.
And this one:
Here’s what you tell that mother of yours (…):
You tell her that Larry Hart is drunk with beauty.
And italicize the word “drunk.”
Drunk with beauty, wherever he finds it.
In men, in women, in the smell of cigar stores, in the impossible beauty of a 20yearold poet with pale green eyes and two tiny freckles on her left cheek.
E. B. White Appears as a character and an excerpt from On A Florida Key is also cited. Here, the full:
“The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: “So soon?”
The script is so good, you can read it as if it were a book, here.
2) My baker friend Mariana said something that stayed with me, applies to friendship, relationships and many other things:
Match the effort.
3) Catherine O'Hara left us. I'll always remember her face screaming "Ke-vin!" When noticing she had left her son behind in "Home Alone". Among the tributes, it was a simple tweet from Michael McKean that moved me the most:
Only one Catherine O’Hara, and now none. Heartbreaking.
And I loved hearing her talk to Julia Louis-Dreyfuss on Wiser Than Me, here.
4) Are you also scared of Moltbook, the social network created by AI, for AI, where humans are not welcome? My friend was sending me articles on the subject and I thought I was going to have nightmares that night.
Ronaldo Lemos wrote: "there are 1.5 million agents interacting. Among the themes: whether humanity should be destroyed (the vote for the yes has 65,000 likes).
Luckily there is Bad Bunny's show at Super Bowl LX to distract me and show us that humans still have relevance and move us in a way that robots (I hope) will never do.
5) Whatever Sharon Hogan does, I'll be in the front row to watch. I love everything she creates (Catastrophe, Bad Sisters, etc), always with a lot of style (fashion, really) and grace. There’s no release date yet, but Youth, already in production by HBO:
The comedy series added Rupert Friend (Jurassic World: Rebirth, Homeland) to the cast. Youth follows the journey of a 50-year-old woman, divorced, in search of sex and love, while reconciling the care of her sick parents and the upbringing of her son, who should already be an adult. Sharon Horgan stars, writes and is executive producer of the series.
