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Things you might want to know, for Mar 21, 2023:

• ‘Wild Things’ would’ve included a sex scene between Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon if one of them didn’t refuse to film it, the director says — There were only a handful of movies in the ‘90s that I paid to see multiple times in a theater: Dead Again, Forrest Gump, Seven, Pulp Fiction… and Wild Things. Why? See above.
• Ciarán Hinds says he was put off by amount of sex in ‘Game Of Thrones’ — Um, dude, you’re one of my favorite character actors, but come the fuck on… you were the star of HBO’s Rome, which paved the path of global/family politics and gratuitous nudity/violence/rape/slavery/incest that Game of Thrones so eagerly traveled.
• Roger Deakins Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films — 🍿
• The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past — I’m willing to concede that this is the scariest time in human history… our communications infrastructure is such that billions of people can all share individual, specific fears, an historically unprecedented state of affairs. But it’s still the best time to be alive.
• Stock photo sites’ abuse of public domain images countered with better copies and a $0 price tag

• why is the ocean so pretty? #shorts – 🍿
• The hilarious story of 1908 “fake rescue dog” who pushed children into the Seine and then rescued them for steak rewards — In case you were wondering if credulous journalism was a modern phenomenon.
• Safety pin: A tiny tool Indian women use to fight sexual harassment — Go get ‘em, girls.
• Helen Mirren on Superhero Movies, Tarantino Westerns, and Why She Got Tattooed — This interview should be subtitled “How COVID boredom and the economic downturn leads famous old people to try slumming it.”
• Why the Prestige is unlike any other Christopher Nolan movie — Well, the main this is that it’s very good.

• Miracle on the Sea of Thieves: How a Single Idea Powered a 10-Year Journey — A game I want to love, but, well… other people ruin everything.
• Microsoft ‘Confident’ It Can Get Call of Duty Running on Nintendo Switch — Or: “Microsoft ‘Confident’ It Can Shovel Whatever Shit It Must To Keep Sony From Embarrassing It Indefinitely”
• Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry — It’s a temporary fix to a complex and evolving problem, but if it makes people consider the implications of emerging tech, then it will deliver long-term benefits.
• ‘Tetris’ Review: Taron Egerton In Sensational Video Game Origin Story That Plays Like A Nail-Biting Cold War Spy Thriller — The opening paragraph of the review states that the writer has never seen or played Tetris before watching the movie. Proving the writer is either culturally incompetent or a liar.
• A fashion TikToker is selling a Rick Owens vest with the word ‘urinal’ on it for $425 and viewers aren’t sure how they feel about it — 🍿