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Thursday April 14, 2016
Lancelot Links with a Walkoff Win
- Who knew “Mark Trail” was still a thing? Who knew anyone liked it? Who knew Jeff Moravec and Kevin Cannon could create such a lovely, straightforward tribute?
- Can we believe in the Mariners again? by Art Thiel. Great title, great story, great writer. My answer? Talk to me in July.
- Related: Geof Baker of The Seattle Times with a piece on a NY company that measures fan loyalty. In last place for MLB this year? You got it. The Times headline needs work: “When it comes to loyalty, Mariners fans sorely lacking.” How about: “After 15 years of futility, M's fans last place in loyalty.”
- Even more related: David Schoenfield shows statistically that Felix Hernandez is the unluckiest pitcher alive. I.e., in his career he's had 45 starts where he gave up zero or 1 run and didn't get a win out of it.
- *I* got lucky, though: My first game of the season was a 4-2 walkoff win over Texas in 10: Touch 'em all, Dae-Ho Lee.
- It's even better in Korean.
- This is from last fall but I just saw it and fell in love: Hamilton's Angelica, Renée Elise Goldsberry, lip-syncing the Schuyler Sisters rap with, as the Schuyler sisters, the three King George IIIs: Bryan d'Arcy James (Eliza), Jonathan Groff (Angelica) and Andrew Rannels (“and Peggy”). Fun! This is how you lip-sync, Hollywood.
- These come and go quickly from YouTube, but some nice half or quarter scenes from “Hamilton” here.
- Sigh. Someone had to do it eventually and the winner is the New York Times: Just how accurate is 'Hamilton'? You can start with none of the founding fathers being black. But overall, the argument sounds like any argument in any history dept.
- The trailer is out for “David Brent: Life on the Road.” So perfectly painful.
- How cool is Ant Man's reaction to Captain America? Psst, DC: This is how you do it.
- Sarah Larson of The New Yorker follows around Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy as the two former SCTV stars promote their award-winning Canadian TV series “Schitt's Creek.” BTW: “Schitt's” is on Amazon Prime. P and I have watched the first three episodes. Much recommended.
- My friend Motoko Rich has a piece in The New York Times on how Hollywood portrays teachers. Basically it's two extremes: buffoons (for upper-middle-class white kids) or saviors (for poverty-stricken minority kids). The latter is how we want teachers to be, the former how we remember it or experience it.
- Vox uses metacritic to attempt to quantify good and bad acting. A fun exercise if not exactly shocking. Daniel Day-Lewis and Michael Fassbender are good, Adam Sandler and Ashton Kutcher are not. But there are a few surprises: John C. Reilly, for example. It's also less “bad acting” than “actors in bad movies.”
- Ross Barkan, political reporter for the New York Observer, has quit his job over his paper's cozy relationship with Donald Trump. Meaning: 1) the paper is one of two to actually endorse Trump, and that's chiefly because, 2) the owner is Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Yay for democracy.
- Meanwhile, most Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump as if he's an aberration. Not so fast, says Jonathan Chait.
Posted at 11:17 AM on Thursday April 14, 2016 in category Lancelot Links