Acting Easy
with Jeremy O. Harris
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Apocalypse Now
Invoked as the casting ceiling for extras, joked about who gets hired for war reenactments. Jeremy O. Harris
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Selling Sunset
Grasped at while trying to remember which reality franchise gave Persians their representation.
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Inferno
Defended, seriously, as the best book he ever read: pure ride, indelible prose. Jeremy O. Harris
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Frasier
Harris crowns the hosts the Frasiers of podcasting, then makes them divide up the brothers. Jeremy O. Harris
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Mad Men
The Don Draper brushoff, deployed against a man he beat at love on Fire Island.
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A Raisin in the Sun
The furthest young people get, he suspects, into Black letters. Jeremy O. Harris
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Succession
One half of the pitch for his shelved show about a chair and three generations. Jeremy O. Harris
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Death of a Salesman
Its worst seat, at three hundred dollars, stands in for everything wrong with Broadway.
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Eraserhead
Lynch held up as the filmmaker who took care of the people holding the lights. Jeremy O. Harris
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Euphoria
Its shutdown crew is the reason the profit sharing story that follows matters. Jeremy O. Harris
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Malcolm & Marie
Everyone on the crew got points, and some of them bought houses. Jeremy O. Harris
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Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
The comparison point: friends making a movie in a friend's apartment, and the vibe holding.
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Theatre of the Oppressed
Boal's poor theatre for everyone, which Harris decides was really the Knicks winning in five. Jeremy O. Harris