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Editor and theatre critic, Lighting&Sound America. Film fanatic in my spare time. Also fond of cocktails and wisecracks.
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It wasn't an epic in those days if they didn't roll out Orson Welles as a great personage of history.

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Note to Congresspersons: Read those bills... www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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The only way to deal with bullies.

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Oh, baby.... variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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Gee... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Double amen.

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Off Broadway: Another example of our national pastime of book banning: www.lightingandsoundamerica.com/news/story.a...

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Satire can't keep up.

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Some are "associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity, have quoted Adolf Hitler, or have reportedly threatened to burn a synagogue to the ground." Otherwise, no problem at all... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Edsel was more popular: arstechnica.com/cars/2025/05...

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He is peerless. Everything he touches turns to junk: variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Zero percent.

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We will remake Escape from Alcatraz...

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Cognitive Decline Watch, May 4, 2025

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Stalin's five-year-plan promised more abundance.

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Janet Mills shows how to deal with bullies.

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Broadway: If you're looking for a musical piratical, best that you know what you're getting into: www.lightingandsoundamerica.com/news/story.a...

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He has a point.

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Foley Square yesterday. Plenty of good energy:

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Fighting back works: "The judge referenced cases from the 1950s and the specter of McCarthyism, saying this was 'not our proudest moment".” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

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Wonder what he'll say in six months when we're even deeper in the tank.

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It’s weird how concerned he is about public opinion when it isn’t about forcing us into an unpopular, illegal war that will cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people

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Absolute proof that the rule of law has been replaced by the rule of whim: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

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Dawn breaks too late: www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...

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"He urged his questioners to disregard a budget blueprint he recently voted for that called for slashing $2 trillion in federal spending, potentially including to cuts to Medicaid. 'That is as good as the paper it’s written on,' he said." Then why vote for it? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/n...

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“Those same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on our defense of Black people, of trans kids, of immigrants, instead of their own lack of guts and gumption,” Pritzker said. Presidential timber? apnews.com/article/prit...

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“It was a shame that he crashed and burned his reputation,” said Ernest Pereira, 27, a Democrat who works as a lab technician in North Carolina. “He bought into his own hype.” apnews.com/article/musk...

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NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

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This is a very, very complex and exceedingly thorough process that involves extensive use of the president’s TiVo remote, so please, please, everyone, give it time www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...

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… people are saying—and I’m not the one saying it, but people—that I’d make a fantastic Pope. The best pope really. I already have the crowds. Bigger even. He told me before he passed, “Sir. You were right, I should have branded the holy water.” Frankly though, I’m overqualified.

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Someone whose credit cards are maxed out.

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This is from a Trump political appointee. “Hegseth’s team has developed a habit of spreading flat-out, easily debunked falsehoods anonymously about their colleagues on their way out the door. ..the building is in disarray under Hegseth’s leadership.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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