LA Bureau Chief at the Wall Street Journal, editing entertainment and media coverage. Previously Senior Editor, Hollywood Inc. at the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2009
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If three kids in your son’s class dress as Spider-Man, you are legally required to take this photo.
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“He is in his happy place when he is being attacked by the left,” said @MattWelch, editor at large at Reason magazine. “Attacked by the left and Donald Trump in the same week? Perfect.” wsj.com/business/media/bill-…
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Legit one of the most insane business stories I’ve ever read: wsj.com/business/the-wild-ri…
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Patrick Stewart’s villainous turn in GREEN ROOM has stayed with me longer than I ever anticipated. His casual delivery of “I need a true believer” has echoed in my mind for a decade.
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Experts say you should wait 60-90 minutes after waking up before drinking coffee.
But here’s the thing.
No.
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Skydance is offering voluntary buyouts to staff, per an email from David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz.
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A24 spent three years secretly filming Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes in “You Can See Everything,” scoring the biggest non-music documentary debut in decades. on.wsj.com/4i2TNSi
My favorite part of this episode is how Bill calls the sequel 'They Follows' for more than an hour before anyone calls him on it
Getting followed by the 'It Follows' entity after a one-nighter ... a young @BillSimmons is saying 'f-ck it' and rolling the dice 😂
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I strongly disapprove of this
Some parents are ditching plates and silverware for a “dump dinner,” pouring the meal straight onto a foil-covered table and letting the kids dig in. For these families, it’s less about manners and more about making memories.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The "dump dinner" is a viral social media trend of staged videos primarily for engagement, not a common family practice. Children in videos often react with alarm rather than requesting it.
thebiglead.com/dump-dinner-vi…
theguardian.com/food/2026/feb/…
newsweek.com/table-dump-din…
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Nathan: Do you see why this is funny?
Elizabeth: He’s wearing a hot dog costume?
Nathan: Yeah, he is. But what about his feigned innocence at not being the one who drove the hot dog car through the wall?
Elizabeth: Well…he’s saying he didn’t do that.
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Scooooooooop: New Anthropic draft prospectus. $80.7 billion net loss, $750 billion in potential future compute spending, red-hot revenue growth, risks galore. @anissagardizy8 got the details. wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-re…
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NATHAN FIELDER: This is one of the most famous comedy sketches of the last 30 years.
*Plays SNL More Cowbell sketch*
FIELDER: Now what was funny about that?
*Pause*
BERNIE MADOFF: They're a rock band.
FIELDER: Yes but what's the joke.
MADOFF: They have long hair, I don't know.
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NATHAN FIELDER Now do you understand what the principal and the superintendent are arguing about? You just saw him climb out the window to buy hamburgers across the street
ELIZABETH HOLMES They're ... they're talking past each other?
BILLY EVANS Ok, let's stop tape right here
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Tensions at Netflix have been building for months with co-CEO Ted Sarandos lamenting about the lack of hits. Many newsy nuggets here (including that thel layoffs initially were going to be broaders) $NFLX W/@benfritz @JBFlint wsj.com/business/media/netfl… via @WSJ
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ELIZABETH HOLMES: of course it worked. the lights turned on. it was on the cloud
NATHAN FIELDER: ok. but you know what feelings are, right? like you have them?
WEIRD COCAINE HUSBAND: [watching youtube at 2x speed] babe it says here the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell