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Plus Colbert and Stewart, Jeff Tweedy and Leonard Cohen, a Hip-Hop Anne Frank.

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It’s the old Daily Show pair back to back:

• ABC extended Jimmy Kimmel’s contract for another year.

• Days after Netflix announced a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount took its own offer directly to shareholders in a bid for a hostile takeover. Paramount’s financing partners include Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia’s, Qatar’s and Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth funds.

Then there’s this:

2025 will be world’s second or third-hottest year on record, EU scientists say

Two more lowlights from Trump at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night, via NY Times:

Mr. Trump appeared to wonder from the stage if some in the audience wouldn’t be so effusive. In previewing performances by the country musicians Vince Gill, Garth Brooks and Brooks & Dunn, Mr. Trump told the guests: “They probably don’t like me very much. But all I know is they’re big, right? We want bigness. We don’t care if they like Trump — we want bigness, right?”

“So many people I know in this audience, some good, some bad,” Mr. Trump said midway through the show. “Some I really love and respect. Some I truly hate. But they’re having a good time.”

New piece at The Atlantic this week:

And at The New Yorker:

Jeff Tweedy has reunited with his part-time pre-Wilco band Golden Smog for a few gigs, and here from two nights ago in NYC he does his great song from back then, “Lost Love.”

In these troubled times, it seems apt to recall Leonard Cohen in his final album advising us to “Steer Your Way.”

Found this via Paul Krugman this week, “Emmylou,” and yes they refer to her harmony with Gram Parsons.

From Tunes to Toons

Granlund:

Bramhall:

Wuerker:

deAdder:

Goris:

Ohman:

Photo Finish

From my camera to you, “Alexander Calder at Lincoln Center, NYC,” your thoughts welcomed.