If you pick up the new issue of
@Zoomer
with
@cher
on the cover, you'll find a four page spread for my interview with Francis Ford Coppola.
We get into life, love, regrets, the daughters and granddaughters succeeding the legacy and Megalopolis.
Exclusively in print. Get it.
Fascinating to see a guy accused of workplace sexual harrassment interviewing Charlize Theron about her workplace sexual harrassment movie.
#GoldenGlobes
Not a single Emmy nomination for Reservation Dogs is a travesty!!! Easily one of the best shows of the year. And you had the whole crew at last year's Emmys presentation championing Indigenous representation??!!!
I asked
@IssaRae
and
@ReetaFajita
about WAP. Did not expect it to get here. Put this one in the hall of fame please. Watch the whole convo on Rap Sh!t here:
This is it.
This is the final masthead.
This is the small team (owed 21-weeks of salary) who put together a spectacular issue dropping tomorrow night.
I am so incredibly grateful to them all.
And also to the people who gifted us their contributions to this issue.
There's a quiet storm brewing in Canada's film industry. Directors writing manifestos. Producers writing to the Culture Minister. Some call for overhauls while others don't want anyone touching their bank.
As
@LaineyGossip
said: Parasite is a movie about people who are deemed less worthy infiltrating a privileged home. And that movie just infiltrated the Oscars. "It's So Metaphorical."
#Oscars
I can finally tell you: I spent the last two days talking to Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons and Martin "motherfucking" Scorsese!!!!!!
The Canadian exclusive out of Cannes. No pics so here's me on the balcony of the room where it all happened.
And finally, NOW’s staff writer Radheyan Simonpillai (
@justsayrad
) is now our Social Media and Culture Editor. As part of his new role, he is writing this tweet in the third person. 3/3
I binged
@CBC
's Trickster with my kids. They were so into it, they wouldn't even wait for me when starting the next episode. And then they got on the phone with
@NORTHERNGRRL
to demand more. Here's my review.
🧵 As you just heard on
@cbcradioq
, I am leaving NOW after this weekend. If I can compel you to check out one last thing before we go, it's this podcast with
@realsarahpolley
& Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. These are the kinds of conversations we live for. 1/3
Hollywood can't keep COVID-19 away from the biggest star on one of it's biggest productions, with strict attentive social distancing measures. But Doug Ford still thinks we'll be fine packing kids in classrooms.
This is it. I'm done. I have come down from the mountain. I have seen the burning bush. I can never top this moment in my career.
Interviewed Martin Scorsese, Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro at Cannes for
@zoomermag
.
Not here to defend Lizzo from the allegations. But tweets that curate Marty Singer's client list like this are intentional. Marty Singer is the most renown entertainment lawyer who represents all the biggest stars(see below) in whatever battles, including contract disputes.
Lizzo is being represented by Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer for her harassment and toxic workplace lawsuit.
Singer’s clientele ranges from a variety of stars, including Bill Cosby, Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, Chris Brown, Brett Ratner, and currently, Jonah Hill.
This is happening tonight! Don't forget to follow
@tiff_net
on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube (pick your flavour) and join our conversation with Finn Wolfhard.
Grateful to all the people who made sure that a Tamil-Canadian writer (me) got to publish the first interview with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (
@ramakrishnannn
), the star of
@MindyKaling
&
@loulielang
's new
@Netflix
series. Read that here.
EXCLUSIVE Uniformed Peel Police sergeant is all hugs with supporters of HUF gym before and after one of their group members pursued me. No masks. He offers me a hug, too. I decline. City ordered gym closed; they refuse.
@PeelPolice
@globalnews
#Mississauga
Love the North Indians who remind you to be respectful and grateful, with zero self awareness that they enjoy the South Asian version of white privilege.
🧵 I'm incredibly proud of my small team at
@nowtoronto
for enduring these harsh times and putting together a spectacular 56-page issue. Grab a copy or check out these stories about incredible people and the summer ahead in Toronto. 📸
@Lachancephoto
I just double-checked. After winning Best Picture no one thanked Hugo Green (the creator of the Green Book) or Dr. Don Shirley. Instead: "It all started with Viggo."
#Oscars
After 15 years in this biz, I'm doing Cannes for the first time. It just never made practical or economic sense before.
Anyways, feeling both excited to do it and overwhelmed by everything I got to do. Hope we can find time to see some of you peeps on the Croisette!
Such a downer day considering where this dumpster fire of a province is heading but still gonna celebrate this moment. Been married to my rock for a dozen years now.
Some thoughts shared for journalists in Gaza at the News Emmys, where Bisan won despite those attempts to delegitimize her reporting and revoke her nomination.
This is the first award I've ever received. Love that I'm getting it from the community at
@CSI_UofT
that nurtured and supported everything I love and do.
Very proud to see Nayani become the first Tamil-Canadian to premiere a movie at
#TIFF22
. This Place asks our communities to consider how to be better allies. Discussed that with the This Place team here.
Favourite part of
#TIFF24
was running into Iman Vellani as she was making her way towards her 49th movie. That Marvel star remains a hardcore cinephile who was giving me reccos on all sorts of international docs that I need to catch up to.
Love that Jerrod Carmichael brushed off the
#GoldenGlobes
superficial diversity efforts and reminded that everyone is just there to celebrate themselves and get their bag.
People are afraid that NOW's arts coverage is dying. When
@TIFF_NET
cherry picks who gets embargoed releases in advance (NOW did not) gifting those US publications and the Globe with clicks, they help seal the deal for local publications. Thanks for that!
@lingerie_addict
This is a big response y'all are having to a parenting joke. And you're picking on someone who has been a very vocal ally for so many. Browse some timeline history and consider the tone.
My one and only interaction with Ray Liotta was after the Revolver premiere at TIFF. He walked up to us, said hello and asked, "Did anyone understand what the hell that was about?"
Pleased to announce that long-time contributor Radheyan Simonpillai (
@JustSayRad
) has joined now as a Staff Writer specializing in culture, film, TV and arts. Give Rad a follow and catch his stories here
Appreciate how hard it is for the my friends at TIFF who have to keep this show going while being careful not to shutdown voices that matter. Only people I find disappointing are the ones yelling "Go home."
I am extremely grateful to the NOW team who tried their best to keep a vital part of the Toronto arts and culture ecosystem alive, despite being owed up to 25-weeks salary. If anyone does end up buying NOW, never let them forget what they owe to the people who kept it going. 2/3
I am especially grateful to
@glennsumi
who gifted me my very first paid byline almost 15 years ago, has nurtured and guided my voice since and was the only person at that time to give me hope that there was room in this industry for voices like ours. Love you Sumi!
FIN.
Just watch Dave Chappelle position himself as a hero for freedom of speech and expression in that Netflix thing that dropped a few days after Hannah Gadsby said this.
Thank you so much to
@bitterasiandude
and family for opening up their home for my first
@Zoomer
cover story. We also got extra contributions from Weyni Mengesha,
@andrewphung
and
@danieldaekim
. The July issue is on stands now and can be purchased at .
This has been a long time coming. Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is on the cover of NOW's Best in TV issue. She talks growth, representation and the mounting pressure as she heads into Never Have I Ever season 2. And Mindy chimes in too.
The PG-13 rating for Women Talking feels like such a huge victory. There was a time when the MPAA would make the kinda conversations this film has impossible for young people to access.
Thread: This is a good story by
@etanvlessing
in
@THR
. But I want to get something else off my chest. And this by no means is a diss against Etan, who is a cool dude, but the entire colonial media industry. 1/17
So by now you've heard the exciting news about
@jessewente
's two book deal. In a somewhat less exciting development, I'll be keeping his seat warm for the summer, playing pop-culture columnist at
@MetroMorning
. Every Tuesday starting tomorrow.