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❤️ movies 😉, chatting with folks about movies, TCM-Partying (when I remember) and always up for a cheeky pint at the Queen Vic 🍺
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One of the most versatile and well-respected actors of his generation, we say goodbye to Oscar winner Gene Hackman. Hackman’s impressive career spanned over six decades, encompassing exquisite performances on stage and screen. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

I have your March TCM Schedule here. Also I wrote a book and you pre-order it (tomorrow)! #precode -- pre-code.com/big-announce...

Congrats @pre-code.com!

I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward photographed by William Helburn in Times Square, New York, New York, 1955. The photo accompanied an editorial in Town and Country magazine.

Happy Birthday to Joanne Woodward who turns 95 today! Pictured here in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).

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Steven Spielberg's new UFO movie is now filming 🛸🎬 Cast includes: • Emily Blunt • Wyatt Russell • Colman Domingo • Colin Firth • Eve Hewson • Josh O’Connor In theaters June 12, 2026

Happy 95th birthday to the gorgeous and very versatile Joanne Woodward 💖

Here are the rest of the #MCU projects releasing in 2025

#RIPGeneHackman … long years and great art #TheConversation

Gene Hackman has passed away at the age of 95

I am sure this is guaranteed to only draw the most honorable upstanding individuals.

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Breaking News: Scientists from the University of the Basque Country have discovered a groundbreaking molecule, WIN55.212-2, that reverses early cognitive damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.

I'll be playing at the Kansas Silent Film Festival this week, on both piano and organ, for films with Wallace Reid, Clara Bow, Laurel & Hardy, and Max Linder. Admission for all events is free! #silentfilm www.kssilentfilmfest.org/kssff2025/20...

The Grammy Award-winning artist and educator had shared an ALS diagnosis in 2022. She was best known for ballads such as "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

🚨 #HazelScott ALERT!! 🚨 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MISS SCOTT premieres TONIGHT, February 21, 2025, on @pbs.org! 🔗: www.pbs.org/video/the-di...

In honor of #AnnSheridan, here’s an idea (made one years ago but with blue curaçao because that was all I had):

Coming this March, TCM and Julien's Auctions the Harry Belafonte: A Man of Action auction. This collection includes manuscripts, musical instruments, memorabilia and personal objects. Learn more here: bit.ly/4103jeY

Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn

Congressmen when they are asked if they will cut THEIR budgets and lay off staff as well:

Nutella co-creator Francesco Rivella has passed away at age 97

Four deputies to New York mayor resign in fallout over dropped corruption charges

Happy birthday to the magnificent Dame Patricia Routledge 💖

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Happy 51st Birthday to Mahershala Ali 🎂

#BlackPanther released 7 years ago today

Special remembrance: June Brown (16 February 1927 – 3 April 2022) 💖

Jane’s world: fans and admirers pick their favourite Austen characters

‘Let’s start a chapter of our own’: the couples who found love in bookshops

HAPPY NATIONAL INTERNET FRIENDS DAY 🫶💜💕

Just a fluke: whale spits out kayaker in incident captured on camera

You can always tell when A-ha have been in to return their books.

Tickets are now on sale for the “Screwball Sundays” series at the Camelot Theatres! Here’s the final schedule, which includes an introduction and Q&A about NOTHING SACRED (1937) by yours truly. Link below for details.

Celebrating actress and painter Kim Novak, who turns 92 today! If you could recommend only one of her films, what would it be? Mine would be Picnic.

Happy birthday Judy Blume #BookSky

It's been 25 years since Peanuts creator Charles Schulz died. He drew Charlie Brown, Snoopy and friends for 50 years before his death, and they still remain very popular.

UPDATE: The White House defended its decision to block The Associated Press from covering two official events on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

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The gorgeous Tina Louise, 91 today 💖

Moira Shearer, The Red Shoes, 1948.

The Puppy Bowl may look like lawless fun. But there are rules to the annual competition, now in its 21st year. Here's what to know as Team Ruff and Team Fluff hit the turf on Sunday.

Denzel Washington says he's 'been around too long' to care about not getting Oscar nominated for #Gladiator2 (via NY Times)