Sam Adams
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Writer, @SlateCulture. Member @NYFCC | @NatSocFilmCrix | @WGAEast Thinking about movies and cities.
Joined December 2008
This was my first full year as a staff writer at Slate, and it gave me a chance to try some new things, improve some old ones, and have a lot of fun. Here are some of the things I'm proudest of.
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here's a start: any cop who covers their badge number, turns off their body cam, or illegally stops someone from filming them gets fired, no questions asked.
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this is not a test of patience, it is a test of submissiveness
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Teenagers who were almost murdered four days ago are leading the nation on gun control. The head of Trump’s EPA is afraid to fly coach.
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like a Wanted poster or
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cool that a woman has to relive her trauma on camera so that we don’t forget the collective horror of something that happened three weeks ago.
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imagine running these numbers and thinking the problem is paying the minimum-wage worker too much
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If you’re shocked that actors have day jobs maybe you should consider paying for art.
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underlying message of the DNC (unless it’s been actually articulated and I missed it): Biden has had so much taken from him, and his humanity never faltered; Trump was given everything, and learned nothing.
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all celebrities must have a humble-looking room in their house in case they need to shoot an apology video
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a chronological feed would be pretty fucking helpful right about now.
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seeing Lizzo in Philadelphia tonight and I can only assume she will set fire to the original Declaration of Indepedence mid-set.
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the terrifying thing about an outbreak that requires people not to leave their homes for 90 days is it means the only ones to survive will be freelance writers.
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COCAINE BEAR should show the bear alienating all its friends, letting precious moments with its children slip away while it chases one more high
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WESTWORLD started off sucking and then it sucked much worse, but the fact that HBO is happy to just disappear a series it spent almost half a billion dollars on seems a little worrisome for … everything else.
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Wait til Fox finds out there's a Shakespeare play about a vindictive, delusional old man and his three scheming adult children.
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the greatest trick the devil ever pulled might be convincing people that the party of Roy Moore, Jim Jordan, Dennis Hastert, and Mark Foley is the one opposed to pedophilia.
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twist: the person who eventually got the job was Jigsaw's apprentice from the SAW movies.
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“But just think of how much we could make by *not* releasing BATGIRL”
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It is hard to think of anything more contemptible than a person born into wealth denying poor children the right to a good education.
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it is kind of fascinating how the home stretch of Oppenheimer’s Oscar campaign is Christopher Nolan just acting like a guy you want to hang with.
Catching up on the Nolan Late Show episode and I didn’t know I needed Stephen Colbert chasing Christopher Nolan around Princeton while the Benny Hill theme plays in the back until today…
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in the sequel to MY OCTOPUS TEACHER he falls in love with an eel, it's called THAT'S A MORAY.
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all I want from the Golden Globes is for Cousin Richie to hang out with Taylor Swift
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it's always a relief to see a death that is not corona-related
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wow I really should have stayed for the post-credits scene
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one of the worst things this app has done is promulgating the idea that a performative lack of empathy is a political act.
123k likes on a tweet dunking on an old man for losing his wife and talking about the grief he is experiencing. being online has genuinely made people so cruel and soulless
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if the Joker's mother also turns out to be named Martha I will stand up in the theater and applaud.
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It is actually part of a critic's job not to care about this.
“I think if most critics knew how much it hurts the people that made the things that they are writing about, they would second guess the way they write these things.”
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@LegsFrank I don’t know whether I feel more pity or confusion for people who think this way.
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reaching a dark moment on the sets of BARBIE and OPPENHEIMER, Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan inadvertently Freaky Friday themselves and have to complete the other’s movie.
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I’m so old I remember when fans were people who liked things.
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motion capture broke his brain, but for 25 years Robert Zemeckis was unmatched in his understanding of how to blend cutting-edge technology with old-school technique. He was the boomer Méliès.
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and Lily would have lost to Da'Vine anyway. The problem, so to speak, isn't the size of Gladstone's part but the fact that it's the kind of quiet, internalized performance the Academy loves to nominate but not award.
At the after-parties, many pundits said Lily Gladstone should've gone supporting. But there's more to a film career than winning an Oscar. By going lead, Lily told Hollywood to treat her like a lead. And she just booked another lead, which many supporting winners struggle to do.
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Trump getting COVID was Greek drama, but a ceremony honoring an illegitimate SCOTUS pick turning into a superspreader event is Old Testament shit.
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how am I supposed to enjoy the movie about a woman murders dogs and wears their skin when you acknowledge that homosexuals exist
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Heartbreaking: The Worst Person in the World Just Got Two Oscar Nominations
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the thinking behind "We have to give the giant corporation our money or next time they won't do what we ask" is diseased
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and earthquake and an eclipse inside 72 hours is enough to turn anyone into a medieval peasant.
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I increasingly feel like the only or at least the most important story is how private equity is hollowing out and destroying every aspect of our existence.
In a memo to staff, Vice CEO Bruce Dixon announces hundreds of layoffs and that the company will no longer publish on Vice dot com. He also says VMG is in advanced talks to sell Refinery29.
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cool that the new CNN is just reporting the views of straight-up racists as “some say”
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Taika Waititi spending the day getting kicked around film Twitter because he made the inarguable point that most people don’t know who directed CASABLANCA is why you never start a sentence with “Nobody” or “Everyone”.
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are you aware what happens to bears around Florence Pugh.
If I had made 8 jars of marmalade last night I'd have one for each day of the week and a spare to share with a friend. @Florence_Pugh.
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I have heard approximately one million times more about Furiosa despite its lackluster box-office than I have about Atlas, the #1 movie on Netflix.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos argues that ‘BARBIE’ and ‘OPPENHEIMER’ would have been just as big on Netflix. “There’s no reason to believe that the movie itself is better in any size of screen for all people. My son’s an editor, he watched ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ on his phone”
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the fact that the cocaine bear movie is also a triple reunion for The Americans
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one doesn’t wish to generalize but the number of times you click on these people’s bios and the first word is “Christian”.
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“Actually they’re not really cages” is definitely the side of history you want to be on.
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“Cancel culture” is the new “virtue signalling” in that the instant someone says it you can stop listening to them.
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In fairness, there’s a reasonable chance Trump doesn’t know which one the second amendment is.
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Samy Burch’s first two screenplays:. May December nominated for Oscar. Coyote vs Acme destroyed by David Zaslav.
‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is now expected to be shelved and deleted forever. Warner Bros wanted $75M - $80M for the film and rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon & Paramount, refusing to let them counter-offer. (Source:
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I know this is crazy but hear me out: what if, for a little while, no one played Batman.
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don’t raise theater kids, raise crew kids who can hang with the theater kids but don’t need the attention.
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start with these fuckers
Back outside the White House. Today the perimeter has been pushed back another half block. Federal law enforcement of some kind, but they won’t identify themselves, and all insignias and name plates have been removed.
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maybe the most quiet part out loud quote of all time.
“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”
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The last scene of Girls is Hannah writing the Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad.
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the trade press struggling to make an "AVATAR's in trouble" story out of a $435 million opening with an A CinemaScore and a 16% Fri-Sat dropoff is going to make me insane.
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People like Bret Stephens believe in the marketplace of ideas until they realize you can’t ask to speak to a manager.
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another one of those “heartwarming” stories that shows how utterly broken our society is.
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@naomirwolf @PeterCronau if you are still framing COVID behavior solely in terms of personal risk and not increasing the risk to others, you are either a liar or a sociopath. Choose your fighter.
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it’s amazing how much of AOC’s superpowers boil down to “she actually does her job”.
Imagine this: "One advantage Ocasio-Cortez has over some colleagues is that she consistently attends even the most mundane committee hearings, since she does not spend any of her day calling donors for money."
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lol Jerrod making a Shelly Miscavige joke to utter silence before introducing two actors from TOP GUN MAVERICK.
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The Olaf short is being removed from Coco, and being added to the Republican tax bill.
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Your move, Big Bang Theory.
More TV shows need to have the guts to kill all their characters in their final episodes.
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If KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON outgrosses THE MARVELS it would truly be the funniest result of all time
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You: I haven't showered or put on pants for days, I'm surviving on a diet of homemade seltzer and dry cereal. Freelance writer: Did you remember to invoice.
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The realest moment in The Post is when a copy editor is handed a breaking story of immense national significance and immediately crosses out the first sentence.
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it's really moving how Jeremy Strong's colleagues have stepped up to defend him from accusations that he is a serious actor.
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Dennis Miller would like to clarify that he meant by close of business.
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@Get_Ripped_City @jbouie another reason why police unions are a huge part of the problem. They should be working to make better cops, not protecting bad ones.
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I lived through the entire run of this show and I still can’t believe it was allowed to exist. We lived in the garden once.
Let's take one bad thing about one man, and apply it to all of them.Let's conflate all the guys.LET’S GENERALIZE ABOUT MEN.
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the sad thing about this is you know Rose and Jack could both have fit on that A.
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At the risk of being like "nooo, my precious n-word," the uncensored FRENCH CONNECTION should be the only one in circulation, whether on TV or in theaters. I don't think it's a stretch to say that Friedkin knew exactly what having his detective protagonist use it said about him.
Disney has apparently censored The French Connection by removing a line of offensive dialogue without notice, warning, or statement. This censorship carries over to The Criterion Channel and theatrical screenings. #Disney #TheFrenchConnection #censorship .
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@jbouie if you let a nine-year-old have coriander, pretty soon they’re moving on to the hard stuff.
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And our grandkids will be like “Why the fuck didn’t you do anything about climate change”
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The cancellation of Roseanne is not censorship. It’s capitalism.
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Glen Powell is 1000% the name of a star MGM would have set up in a PR relationship with Ava Gardner, people will just say anything on here
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it is fucking insane that Keri Russell did what she did on The Americans for six years and never won a damn Emmy.
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a dazed Eric Alper staggers through the streets, grabbing people by the shoulders and asking “what’s the most quotable movie ever”.
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They're going to build a new wall, and the Night King will pay for it.
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the #Oscars honoring "The Flash Enters the Speed Force in Zack Snyder's Justice League" is the embarrassing shit we're all here for.
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all the things the press is trying to make sound bad about Megalopolis actually sound great.
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a stunning moment that also makes me wonder if we’ll ever again get to experience the power of a long-running series pulling a swerve like this in its 85th episode.
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if Democrats take both GA seats the party will face perhaps its greatest challenge: actually governing like they won.
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my most Gen X-coded belief is that although there is probably no way of clawing it back, we lost something important when the concept of “selling out” vanished.
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