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Read Didion and Babitz, a dual biographical study rather than formal biography. I knew Eve Babitz slightly, enough to appreciate this melancholy portrait. Los Angeles in the ‘70’s. Lotta memories.

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As a kid, I was disappointed in the film, Judgement at Nuremberg; I wanted to see Nazis on trial, not judges. I didn’t understand the film’s prescience. Judges are the enablers. Don’t believe me? Aileen Canon, Brett Kavanagh,Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito…

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It BEGINS... Republicans Face Angry Voters at Town Halls, Hinting at Broader Backlash www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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Trump 2.0: We’re all suckers and losers if we don’t push back open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...

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If the Pussy-grabber-in-Chief and his cronies were just a little bit smarter… they’d qualify as half-wits.

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Let’s hear it for my daughter, Dylan Meyer, now making her feature directing debut, Wrong Girls, from her own screenplay, starring Kristen Stewart, Seth Rogen and a cast of thousands.

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Definitely think Trump belongs on Mt. Rushmore. All of him.

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I strongly recommend EVERY VALLEY, Charles King's moving account of how Handel wrote Messiah. I thought I knew all about this (I read the backs of record jackets), but King has unearthed a trove of startling detail about how this wonderful piece of music came to be. You won't be sorry.

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Behind every fortune is a crime.

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You can’t blame folks for acting in their own best interests; that’s human nature. The problem arises when people don’t understand where their best interest lie. Enter Trump and the Clown Car…

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Who Will Stand Up to Trump at High Noon? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

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We can be dismayed that Trump's Clown Car is heading off a cliff. But it is not OK to stay silent. Silence implies assent - To ignorance, bigotry, fascism and tyranny. To quote Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: "the only causes worth fighting for are the lost causes." Then they're not lost.

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How to Channel Your Anger at Trump into Meaningful Action open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

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While I applaud the efforts of liberals to keep up the good fight, I do wish they’d stop the propaganda. “Trump fuming” and who “dropped the hammer” are shopworn cliches. Honesty may work better to inform and rally opposition to the Pussy- grabber-in-Chief and his enabling scoundrels.

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The coup continues and no one lifting a finger to stop it. The Democrats, demoralized, without a strategy, guts or leadership. Craven Republicans lying prone to say Yes to idiots and criminals. Who could have written this script??

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SECONDS, (1966) directed by John Frankenheimer, photographed in nightmarish black & white by James Wong Howe, music by Jerry Goldsmith and featuring a staggering performance by - of all people - Rock Hudson. Best thing he ever did. SECONDS was first!

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Those who see the stylish (and gory!) black comedy, THE SUBSTANCE, may be interested to learn that in 1966, John Frankenheimer made what might be termed the first version -

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What strikes me remarkable is the almost total lack of opposition to Trump and his fellow coup d'etato-heads. Fear is pervasive. Senators and judges cower and stay silent. Judges especially. What I learned watching Judgement at Nuremberg, Nazi jurists on trial. Judges are the enablers.

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Attended the Saturn (sci-fi and horror) Awards yesterday. When these began in the 70's, there was maybe two dozen folks and between Time After Time and my Star Trek films, I cleaned up. Today, it's more like 1,000 people and televised! Shatner received an appropriate lifetime achievement award.

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I draw your attention to the Italian claymation operatic treatment of The Wrath di Khan. It's quite wonderful and available on line somewhere.

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Elon Musk is staging a coup. open.substack.com/pub/waleedsh...

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Elon Musk is staging a coup. open.substack.com/pub/waleedsh...

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What you can do open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...

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Pussygrabber in chief blaming diversity programs for fatal dc air catastrophe? Guy writes all his own material.

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When you’ve arrived… #SherlockHolmes

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Tolstoy said, “if evil men can band together to get what they want, why can’t good men - and good women - band together to get what WE want?” And “all that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men - and good women - to do nothing.” And if we do nothing, how good can we be??

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Clowncar already careering off the road. Pussygrabber doesn't have a driver's license, Nazi riding shotgun screaming at the loose nuts and the guy with no medical or scientific degree in the back seat. May you live in interesting times.

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Banning books, prosecuting (persecuting) women, doctors, lawmakers and controlling media. We eagerly embrace a new Dark Age, fear driving us to prostrate ourselves, deny our history and beliefs, all afraid to resist or speak out. Like Peter, repeatedly denying Christ... we betray ourselves.

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The Achilles heel of democracy has always been its capacity of voting an end to itself. We’ll reap what we’ve sewn. Here comes the fourth reich.

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Nosferatu: incomprehensible, stylish fun. I’ll watch anything directed by Robert Eggers.

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Systematically, they are attempting to dismantle our society and institutions. Judges, federal agencies, union and environmental protections. Fight them tooth and claw.

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There's an understandable temptation to throw in the towel. Instead, let's take a deep breath and try to save our country. Brains allied with principles gotta good for something and I bet there's ways to find money - maybe not THAT kind of money, but still. Yes?

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Still drinking from plastic bottled water north of San Vicente, with no word yet that I've heard from the DWP as to what's going on or when our water will be safe to drink. Why is it impossible to get a candid answer? Even, "we don't know" would be something...

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Lotta cabinet appointments for the ridiculously unqualified, but none as foolhardy as Pete Hegseth, a drunken sexual molester with nothing like the experience to run something as big, complex, (and dangerous) as the Pentagon. You can see how frightened of Trump republicans must be to ok this.

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Residents on the north side of San Vicente Blvd. in Santa Monica, CA are told their water is unsafe to drink. Not one official from Santa Monica has troubled to tell us what is going on, just bureaucratic buck passing about whose water it is and people's health and safety ignored.

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Following the Clown Car. Nazi salutes? Haven't we seen this movie??

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With the fabulous Monica Schmidt at the Baker Street Irregulars banquet

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Trump & Co. As Mark Twain said, "It would be hilarious. If it weren't mortal."

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I always assumed (raised on a century of Hollywood endings), that the good guys would win. It never occurred to me that America would turn into Russia, a government of the oligarchs, by the oligarchs, for the oligarchs. Nor did I think judges and hoi polloi would enable it. Live and learn.

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I see the clown car is on the move. Fasten seat belts, America.

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