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VP of Communications, executive coach, TED speaker, Host of PechaKucha Orlando. Writer and film historian. My biography of Basil Rathbone coming in 2026 from UPK. ♊️🍸☮️🏳️🌈
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When I think what else he might have done, I'm okay with simple removal.
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I am not 100% sure it's real. But it's dumb enough to be real, so I went with it.
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The Bush administration's lies were patently false and yet NOBODY dared to say it. The morons supported them as always, but then Dems went along too, after years of being painted as weak by Reagan and Gingrich. I was 44... and the whole spectacle was so ugly/fake it made me physically ill.
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Can confirm.
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Well that's the hope of course…
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That got you a follow! 😁
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[grabs a beer, loosens tie and collar, settles in to savor this comment thread]
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I think it's scarier, because you care about the people more, and it hurts when they get transformed. But you do miss that McCarthy era paranoia of the original.
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Splendor was pretty great.
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IMO this is the purest expression of early 20th century queer sensibility on screen -- for the entire length of a film, rather than in isolated moments. Only the horror genre could have provided Whale enough cover to get away with it.
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Not only is this NOT a Christian nation, it's explicitly non-religious according to its founders. Using the goverment to further any religious agenda is un-American. Gutting science and the arts because they contradict a religion is un-American. Say it. I don't want to live in a caliphate.
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Swedish poster slaps too.
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He was often terrible, and liquor did him no favors either. But every once in a while, he would demonstrate real talent. And he was unarguably a star, something you can't fake.
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Me too.
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Try THE LADY OF SCANDAL, not a great movie by any means but the best showcase he had as a romantic leading man in 1930. He is photographed and costumed particularly well, and he has a great "telephone" scene.
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He was a huge sex symbol in London and New York theatre in the 1920s, a fact that's been sadly forgotten. So your crush is understandable.
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The bulldog seems redundant, somehow.