Our favorite late-night clips of the week feature Stephen Colbert bullying Christopher Nolan, Alan Cumming’s naughty little secrets, and prop comedy on ‘After Midnight.’
I must admit, I didn’t do what I had proposed in my application, and it was the best decision I made. I had written that I would work on some of my video projects, which the residency time away from New York could have provided. But even before I left for Venice, I realized I needed to do some things that situated me specifically in the place—the uniqueness of Venice—rather than working on video footage that has nothing particular to do with this magical place that I could easily work on back in NYC. And so I began to envision how better to take advantage of being in Venice during that month.
Who was Marisol (1930–2016) and why had I never heard of her? Though I corrected my ignorance, Marisol’s odd obscurity endured. “Odd” because in the early to mid-1960s,
Anticipatory heartbreak haunts even the most steadfast of loves, as timelines are inevitably cleaved from one another. While this truism is broadly applicable to mortal relations, I feel it most acutely in my relationship with my eight-year-old dog, Beckett, for whom years carry a different weight.