Mike Judge On Prophesy: “I definitely hear about Idiocracy a lot. If I go on Twitter it’s just all day, every day. Someone will post a clip and I’ll be like, ‘Huh, that is sort of like now.’ There are a lot of similarities [with Trump]. But Camacho has more charisma.”

“Getting up and running in this brave new world is going to be difficult to navigate. Insurers are unlikely to cover productions for virus cases when business resumes. Producers filed multimillion-dollar claims triggered when civil authorities — governments — stopping filming and forcing production shutdowns. When the business starts up, that will now be considered an identified risk, and insurers will not cover it, just as the CDC is warning of a second coronavirus wave. Most likely, everyone on a film or TV production will be required to sign a rider, similar to ones they sign covering behavior in areas like sexual harassment, to indemnify the productions. “You acknowledge you are going into a high-density area, and while we will do our best effort to protect you, nothing is failsafe and if you contract COVID-19, we are not liable,” said a source involved drawing up these guidelines. “There is no other way we can think of to address this. If you don’t want to sign, don’t take the job.”

Bezos Bucks Bloom Bounteous Billions: One-Hundred-Thirty-Eight Of Them, In Fact, As Amazon Gross Rises To $11,000 Each Second; Conglomerate Now Valued At $1.14 Trillion

“The parent company of the Guardian and the Observer has announced plans to furlough about 100 non-editorial staff to reduce costs amid industrywide falls in revenue. Although virus coverage has driven record numbers of readers to the Guardian’s website, the economic slowdown has caused a collapse in the advertising market. Revenue projections for the first six months of the financial year alone are down by at least $25 million – about ten percent of Guardian News and Media’s annual income.”

“Financial Times also expected to announce ten-percent pay cuts for dozens of senior staff and top editors to avoid redundancies, despite having a million paying subscribers and deep-pocketed owners.”

The Dangers of Disney Plus Draping Digital Hair Over Daryl Hannah’s Bared Splash Ass

“We’re looking for a more relaxed and calmer atmosphere. We can spread out the programming. We’ll have more time and less hectic energy.”
Telluride Approves Extra Day For Festival

Howard Dean: “Trump is not doing this for any reason other than to communicate with his base at a time where he can’t have rallies. This has been a problem since Trump ran. Cable television made Donald Trump, because cable television is reality television. But it has very little to do with governance. It’s dangerous. People have died because of some of the things that Trump has said on television about hydroxychloroquine and stuff like that. And I think the cable television industry has a responsibility for those deaths, not just Trump.”

White House Cuts By 20 Days Ban On Cruise Ships; Now Can Sail Again In July; Other Restrictive Language Deleted

“A 5G coronavirus conspiracy theoryy spreads across Europe: Spate of arson attacks on telecoms mast fuelled by disinformation over pandemic origins”

NYC: Keith McNally’s Lucky Strike Permanently Closed After 31 Years

Cinemark CEO: “Universal came out very clearly and made the decision when we were closing our theaters. They felt like they spent so much in marketing money and putting commitments like McDonald’s, that they had no choice. We don’t see any systemic change from all major studios when it comes to their major motion pictures because theatrical is so important to them.”

“Their Wealthy Boss, Owner Of Bowery Hotel, Jane Hotel, Waverly Inn and B Bar and Grill, Was The Director Of ‘Tiger King.’ They Got Laid Off And Can’t Pay Their Bills”

“I start writing with no faith and no direction, with the slight hope that this exercise helps me flee from melancholy and sadness, or at least that passive sadness that reduces you to the most comfortable corner of the sofa. Today I feel like the house absorbs all of my energy. It sucks me dry like a vampire, and leaves me too exhausted to face up to day and night.”
Pedro Almodóvar’s Lockdown Diary, Part III

“I just… really, really miss watching movies in movie theaters. I miss it like a flower misses the sun.”

Kevin Smith: “I’m not an armchair quarterback. Nobody needs advice from the fucking guy who made Yoga Hosers. But in retrospect, that was just a case of that movie didn’t need to be R-rated. Other than Ewan McGregor going, ‘You fucking moron,’ there’s not much in [Birds of Prey] to require it being R-rated. If you dropped it to a PG-13, I think you would’ve hit your core. It’s an aspirational movie, right? It’s about ladies getting together, girl power. And I would imagine a bunch of ‘tween girls would have really enjoyed the hell out of that. And that’s coming from a guy who’s been making R-rated kids movies his whole career. Believe me, I know.”

Jason Bailey: “Anyone who thinks film writers are either rich or don’t have to worry about money doesn’t know shit about shit. I’m a fucking freelancer and my industry was already getting decimated before any of this started. Eat giant fistfuls of shit”
Anthony McGlynn: “It’s incredible that people can simultaneously never pay for any kind of culture crit or reporting and still think we’re somehow upper class. Who’s meant to be paying us?“

Near-Monopoly Diamond Comics Distributors, Which Already Stopped Weekly Distribution of Comics, Furloughs Employees for the Foreseeable

“I have been processing the death of Dieter Laser, best known for his role as the demented surgeon, Josef Heiter, in the beloved family classic, The Human Centipede. Dieter showed us the power of togetherness, and what not to do during a home quarantine.”

“‘He Deserves to Be Put on a Pedestal’: Jesus Roman Melendez was the “backbone” of Jean Georges. On April 1, the virus took his life.”

“The company isn’t disclosing the size of what it’s calling its Journalism Emergency Relief Fund, but in a blog post, Google VP of News Richard Gingras said the goal is to fund “thousands of small, medium and local news publishers globally,” through awards ranging from ‘low thousands of dollars for small hyper-local newsrooms to low tens of thousands for larger newsrooms, with variations per region.'”
Google Says It Will Lavish Minimal Funds On An Industry The Cashflow Of Which It Eagerly Hoovered Up