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Creative Director, VP The Paley Center for Media. Tweets personal. Of Swiss, Norwegian, German, & Irish/Belfast ancestry. I owe all those immigrants everything https://mapeel.blogspot.com/2007/02/thomas-hardy-and-titanic.html
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Martin Balsam appreciation post, very different character #TCMParty #Allthepresidentsmen youtu.be/93sGl1mWDlA?...

I love that shot of the other newsroom people watching the press conference on Eagleton withdrawing from the VP role while he calls Dahlberg. #TCMParty #AllThePresidentsMen

"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts" #AllthePresidentsMen meets #LawrenceofArabia #TCMparty

Here to be nostalgic about when Watergate seemed like the most nefarious thing to happen ever and journalists worked to cover it. #TCMParty #AllThePresidentsMen

Journalism class is now in session! #AllThePresidentsMen #TCMParty

The Schiller short is actually "Don't Look Back in Anger." Morris misspoke--Look Back in Anger is the original John Osborne play--and it's been repeated. Adding "Don't" in 1978 put a whole different spin on it--no anger. #SNL50

For the commercials, how did they miss New Shimmer: It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping" one of the first classics #SNL50

Serving size for Ritz crackers should be “1 sleeve.” Anything less is not based in reality.

Best. Ending. Ever. #Casablanca #TCMParty

“We’ll always have Paris.” Happy Valentine’s Day! #TCMParty #Casablanca

I love that Bogart had almost years of playing gangsters before this, so he was very believable & authoritative when pulling a gun #TCMParty #Casablanca

When she runs to the door, you think now she'll say "I love you" to Victor, and it just doesn't come out. She says "be careful." She just can't say it #TCMparty #Casablanca

⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

As has been noted, the kid as a peculiar idea of what's common knowledge. He allows what to me are unknown chemistry terms, like that that solution thing; but not a simple music term like INTROIT. #nytspellingbee

The PM of Canada is announcing his response to Trump’s tariffs—a major inflection point in Trump’s trade war and relations with our closest ally. CNN, MSNBC, ABC News Live and NBC News Now aren’t carrying his speech. They’re in reruns. Another quiet way media aids and supports the Trump regime.

If you are in midtown Manhattan this weekend, the Paley curators highly recommend going to the SNL 50 Experience pop-up (open through Sunday) and living out your SNL hosting dreams.

Happy #BurnsNight to all our pals who celebrate!💙🥃🐭

It's nearly #BurnsNight! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Our @chapelchoir.bsky.social perform 'Blyth hae I been on yon hill' - a piece Burns said was ‘one of the finest songs I ever made in my life’. Enjoy this beautiful tribute to Scotland’s National Bard 🎶 @glasgowburns.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/D-oSj...

Hardly a surprise but it's still difficult to fathom the level of contempt Republicans have for servicemembers to allow this low-life untreated-alcoholic rapist TV show host with no qualifications and no redeeming qualities to be Secretary of Defense.

If you’d have told me 10 years ago that we would eventually watch an unelected, tech bro ket-head throwing nazi salutes at the inauguration of a convicted felon & rapist, I don’t think I would have believed you. Sad day.

It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

Carmen Sandiego just daring the ACME detective agency to come get her

The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration. It’s fucking brilliant.

At least we have this photo of David Lynch and Billy Wilder.

“So much of Lynch’s work amounts to individual entries in a decades-spanning meditation on mortality and what comes after life…Lift every Lynch scene about birth, death, and transformation and string it end-to-end and you’ve have a chapbook of elegies.” www.vulture.com/article/noth...

Kyle MacLachlan: Last Man Standing. Jesus, is that depressing…

The only thing anyone needs to know about Greenland is in this brilliant scene from The Young Pope when their Prime Minister visits the Vatican. Jude Law and the entire series does not get enough attention. Plus there's "Senza un perché" by Nada @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social youtu.be/D_vhwZZjgac?...

Caught up w #SaturdayNightMovie, now on a mission: when Billy Crystal gets in a taxi we hear: "Long Island, Massapequa Park." WTF. [At the least he's frm Long Beach.] Would LOVE to know why Jason Reitman Gil Kenan wrote this throwaway line @sepinwall.bsky.social @jasonlynch.bsky.social #SNL

Happy New Year to the Hive! I never like the chemistry class bees, and the --EEs that I always forget because they are so odd, but it's always enjoyable. #nytspellingbee

Flight from LaGuardia to Key West delayed an hour, perfect time to finish #MurderUndertheMistletoe @RevRichardColes

Midtown #NYC between Christmas and New Year's--not for the faint of heart! I was going to take a last 2024 stroll down 5th Avenue, but I gave up.

#MerryChristmas! I'm enjoying the WPIX #Yulelog, I am exactly who it was made for: "Created in 1966 by Fred M. Thrower, president & CEO WPIX as a televised Christmas gift to those residents of New York who lived in apartments without fireplaces." The soundtrack from the 1960s is priceless

3/3 Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.  The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs.  #AChristmasCarol  #CharlesDickens

2/3 "There's the door, by which the Ghost of Jacob Marley entered. There's the corner where the Ghost of Christmas Present, sat.  There's the window where I saw the wandering Spirits.   It's all right, it's all true, it all happened. Ha ha ha!"

You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇

My mom had that very same brown coat, some kind of soft plushy fabric, I remember how it felt to touch. It's unconstructed, no belt or buttons to close, so when my mom was pregnant she said she could just wrap it a little looser. #deskset #Tcmparty

"Never mind I'll call the Explorers Club" HA! I just had a drink and a tour of the club, amazing place on East 70th. Sir Edmund Hilary's ice axes from Everest are in pride of place. #DeskSet #TCMparty

I'll Be Home fr #Christmas by Crosby 1943. Kudos to all the covers that keep "w presents on the tree" not under the tree-Second issue: you can "plan" or "count on"-- Crosby says both! Count is odd, the GIs were not really going to be home @guitarwatson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYOv...

For me one of the loveliest about Christmas is that the noise of the world is still for just a few days and we can focus on the things that really matter - family and friends, and for me, music, because music is what binds us all together. JR

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social