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FOUND: Martin Scorsese’s Glasses

FOUND: Martin Scorsese’s Glasses

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Oct 11, 2022
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Martin Scorsese’s glasses are of particular interest to Hung Up. So is Martin Scorsese — although I would never stoop so low as to share a ranking because you’ve got to be crazy to even try and also most rankings are humiliating anyway. Last week, a random op-ed called him an “uneven talent.” It reminded that I have a critical update about Scorsese’s glasses to share with you here — the only thing uneven about Martin Scorsese is his glasses-wearing.

I feel about Martin Scorsese the way Lady Bird (in Lady Bird) replies when an NYU boy tells her she has shit taste in music because all she listens to are greatest hits albums:

Asking where his glasses were was the first idea I ever had for this newsletter when I started it nearly two (!) years ago. It was a perfectly niche, idealistically Hung Up idea: “Some days I think: ‘Obviously I will wear glasses. Martin Scorsese wears glasses!’ Other days I think: ‘Obviously I will not wear glasses. Rihanna does not wear glasses!’” I wrote in that e…

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