Five great arts and culture accounts to follow on Twitter

Mark Harris -- the author of the great nonfiction book "Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood," which analyzes the 1968 best picture Oscar nominees and extrapolates a whole lot about American society and the entertainment industry -- is funny, informative, and at times righteously indignant about the dangerous nonsense going on in our country.

Sample tweet:

Tug at this Oscar stat and you will find a fascinating history of gender-opportunity inequity: The Post is the first time Meryl Streep has been nominated for being in a Best Picture nominee since 1985.

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) January 24, 2018

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Rahul Kohli, who plays the wry and intrepid Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti on "iZombie," is caustically funny at times, but his tweets also reveal great affection for his co-stars on the show. He and I once had a delightful back-and-forth regarding "iZombie" star Rose McIver's Netflix movie "A Christmas Prince," which the internet hungrily and hilariously devoured last month.

Sample tweet:

“I remember watching #iZOMBiE when I was 14 years old, after binging 3 seasons, I realised I wanted to be an actor. My life changed after that finale.”

Daniel Day-Lewis pic.twitter.com/GoMyvfS20n

— Rahul Kohli (@RahulKohli13) January 17, 2018

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"The Big Sick" co-writer and star Kumail Nanjiani‏ is a newer follow for me, but I appreciate his charming sense of humor and sincerity, along with a significant dose of humility, which was particularly evident when he and fellow screenwriter (and wife) Emily Gordon were recently nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay.

Sample tweet:

Also, how cool is it that a Guillermo del Toro monster movie is the leader in Oscar nominations? The answer is very. It’s very cool.

— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) January 23, 2018

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My fellow Oberlin College graduate Emily Nussbaum, who now writes for a little magazine called The New Yorker, also happens to be my favorite TV critic. (She penned one of my favorite TV pieces ever, an aptly cutting assessment of "Dexter.") Nussbaum tweets a lot, and often hilariously, about all things pop culture and some things political.

Sample tweet:

I hope that Prince hologram goes rogue and settles some scores for all of us. Carrie At The Prom-style MAYHEM.

— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) February 3, 2018

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Barry Jenkins won an Oscar last year for his "Moonlight" screenplay, and the film itself won the Academy's best picture trophy. Yet the man's Twitter feed is a model of humility; Jenkins largely uses it to amplify other artists' achievements, with particular emphasis on black filmmakers, writers, musicians, etc. For one of the finest directors and screenwriters working today, he seems remarkably, and believably, like an honorable, modest everyguy. But don't be fooled: His cultural observations are far sharper than the average bear's.

Sample tweet:

BLACK PANTHER is PEAK double consciousness. It’s a Marvel movie, sure. And a blockbuster, absolutely, covers those bases and covers them well. But a film that features that vegetarian bit? Or Kilmonger’s last line? Ryan’s made two movies at once. And he crushed them both 🙌🏿

— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) February 18, 2018

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Twitter is eating "A Christmas Prince" alive

And it's snarky pop culture vulture HEAVEN.

To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?

— Netflix US (@netflix) December 11, 2017

Words can't describe how bad #AChristmasPrince is. Words also can't describe how good it is.

— Tony Daussat (@TonyDaussat) December 5, 2017

I'm watching #AChristmasPrince and I don't think I've ever gotten Stockholm Syndrome this badly for a movie this terrible

— Hawk the Herald Ripjaw Sings (@realHawkRipjaw) December 4, 2017

I can't decide if #AChristmasPrince was the best hour and 32 min of 2017 or the most terrible. @netflix

— Rachael (@rachlray88) December 6, 2017

'Now come on, we'd better get these in the oven'

BITCH YOU MADE TWO COOKIES #AChristmasPrince 🎄

— Gabrielle Leimon (@GabrielleLeimon) December 7, 2017

Writer 1: shit we need a coronation ceremony speech

Writer 2: just use wedding vows, but like instead of marrying a woman he's marrying the country

Writer 1: nailed it #achristmasprince

— A Christmas Prince #1 Fan (@JennaGuillaume) December 5, 2017

Me: I only watch serious cinema. I have excellent taste.
Also me: #AChristmasPrince pic.twitter.com/gsxpGD2652

— Molly Heslop (@MollyHeslop1) December 11, 2017

I’ve had dishes dirty in the sink longer than these two have known each other, but he still proposed #AChristmasPrince #AChristmasPrincelivetweet

— Casey McLaughlin (@Caseyleelove) December 7, 2017

Always nice to get feedback

Not only did Grace Rex read my post about her film "This Is She," she was kind enough to tweet back, as follows:

I'll see if I can swing an (email) interview with her to post as a follow-up.

"That's low, JDate. That's low."

Blogger Sasha Pasulka, aka Evil Beet, whom I've known since our teenage years, got attention from Gawker for this Yom Kippur-themed beauty:


As if there weren't already enough reasons to wonder about JDate. In other Sasha news, she gave a shout-out to the Kibbutz in her Yom Kippur post, where she links to this blog and my housemate Steven Blum's. It's always impressive when people as successful as Sasha remain so grounded and generous.

Palin's iPod

I'm pretty much done writing about Sarah Palin, but I felt the urge to post one of her last tweets as Alaska's governor, an abbreviated account of a recent road-trip soundtrack:

RdTrip7 hrs wKid Rock/Martina McBride/Big&Rich/Grtchn Wilson/Billy Currngtn/Hank/Toby/VanP/Blk I P's/Greenwd/Straight/etc&USO artists=heaven

Proof positive that one person's heaven is another's hell. Have fun in "retirement," Sarah.

My thoughts exactly

“But can you tweet a minyan? I don’t think so.”

The New York Times examines the intersection between social networking and religion. (Is the article just an excuse to use that headline?)

Superiority complex

Hat tip to Michael Wittie for letting me know about Tweeting Too Hard, an Internet oasis for the haughty and the bored.