Welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what's keeping them entertained. Today's special guest is Dan Zak, a senior editor who works on features. Dan recently succumbed to the emotional pull of Paradise's second season, and he enjoys watching Face/Off, just about any performance of Emma Thompson's, and old episodes of What's My Line'. He also has a unicorn named Stacy in his life. More on that later. An actor I would watch in anything: Emma Thompson, a splendid actor who is also the perfect celebrity: wise, witty, and excellent in any genre or form, as a character or as herself. She can do Merchant Ivory and Jane Austen and Tony Kushner and violent thrillers'specifically, violent thrillers with Dead in the title: Dead Again, in which she and Kenneth Branagh are haunted by their past lives, and Dead of Winter, in which she and Judy Greer beat the hell out of each other in northern Minnesota. Thompson can also do late night...
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