Podcast #212
John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers
https://john-steppling.com/2026/05/withdrawal/
https://x.com/55SweetThing/status/2062163275001856136?s=20
https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/2061850835324215533?s=20
https://counter-hegemonic-studies.site/pal-apartheid-ft/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZIwZ6WCugx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
https://x.com/kos_data/status/2061513546245288161?s=52&t=5-ipaSJXSay80dqFOj_nPA
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interracial-cuck-porn-theory-of-everything/
Great discussion of acting. Fosse said something similar: “Don’t try to be real, just tell the truth. Believe in this little black box. And most importantly — let them come to you.” —Bob Fosse
I work with younger dancers and a lot of times their idea is to slam the audience over the head with energy--the dancer version of "indicating". It's very compelling to watch performers who don't do that- they somehow have something internal going on.
Your anecdote about Jon Peters made me wonder if you saw Bradley Cooper's portrayal of Peters in the PTA film Licorice Pizza. It's an odd one --- not PTA's best, but certainly nothing putrid like One Battle. The Peters scenes seem to capture the insanity I had only read about, but maybe you'd know better from experience.
I had a strange reaction to that film. Half way through, I thought the story strained credulity and I wondered what made PTA dream up such a wacky plot. I paused to read up on it a little and found that it was only a marginally fictionalized version of a real Hollywood bit player.