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Bluer than velvet was the night.

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In Memoriam: we will always disagree about details based on personal preferences. I appreciated extra care for Hackman, but sad that S. Duvall, D. Sutherland, and G. Rowlands barely got a moment. Gena said "Love is a stream," robot caption was "love is a string." FFS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqPi...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Brilliant!

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Had not seen Le Circle Rouge in a while, but tonight was the night. Love it. Where to even start? Best DTs acting? Best talking and driving? Best sharpshooting turtlenecks? Best do-not-give-a-F house cats?

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What a picture!!!

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My latest from TNR newrepublic.com/article/1920...

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Yesterday I thought changes at WaPo made them more like WSJ. Today I'm thinking, high five WSJ.

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Right on.

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Agree. He has an audience as well. His countrymen don’t want to see their President groveling before a Putin lackey. Their determination is grounded in their national pride. Zelensky powerfully vindicated that today. To see your President stand up to the two greatest powers in the world? Priceless.

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

submitted 3 days ago • 3410 comments

Back by popular demand! Come talk about John Lewis, whose courage, determination, and hopefulness we need more than ever. March 25 at the NYPL! With the great Nick Lemann. www.showclix.com/event/greenb...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I still sometimes think of the ‘lonely cop’ in THE LONELY GUY who asks if the store where they rent cardboard cutouts of people has Gene Hackman and Charles Grodin immediately replies, “Yes they do, but you have to reserve him a week ahead.”

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Still more Gene Hackman: @szacharek.bsky.social: time.com/7262470/gene... @williambibbiani.bsky.social: www.thewrap.com/gene-hackman... Kyle Smith: www.wsj.com/arts-culture... @mrmichaelphillips.bsky.social: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/27/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

WaPo subscription: cancelled.

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Right on.

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Let's see, new WaPo mottos... "Autocracy Thrives in Darkness"? "Democracy, meh"? "Ben Bradlee is Spinning in His Grave"?

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It's been a hard day, and this is a perfect, perverse morale booster. Related: I met Skelton in a mall in North Carolina when I was 11 years old and got his autograph, which read "Heather Dear, Red Skelton." And with that, goodnight.

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Ugh!!!

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 11 days ago • 478 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 13 days ago • 237 comments

"They arrived at U.S...to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled & flown by U.S. military to Panama...stripped of their passports...locked in a hotel, barred from seeing lawyers & told they would soon be sent to makeshift camp near the Panamanian jungle." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Ah, a bit of fresh Elliott Gould content on the Internet! "It's always fun to watch winners in action!" explains the narrator, describing two of cinema's all-time great losers.

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I screened Shoah over the weekend, with some of my grad students. Always a tough watch, but this is the first time I've heard students list moments/details/feelings that resonate so strongly with the present. jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/jd-vance-tel...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Yep, Kim Novak. Love her in particular opposite Jack Lemmon in Phffft!, doing a goofy Monroe parody.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

You might say that comedy has always been just restating reality. But still...

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Oh yeah, gotta go to Nashville to talk about Nashville! Gala premiere there in August 1975 featured cast members, baton twirlers, and square dancers. Also, much local news, including coverage by cub TV reporter Oprah Winfrey!

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It's the 50 year anniversary of Altman's Nashville! My BFI monograph on the film will appear in October. Meanwhile, am hoping there will be lots of revival screenings in 2025. Need someone to give a lecture on this epic, moving, political, intimate, beautiful masterpiece? "Let me be the one!"

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“While I had previously supported the leopards eating people’s faces, I have been recently informed that the leopards are planning to eat my face, so I am asking for a new strategy where they do not do so.”

submitted 22 days ago • 26 comments

OK, so I literally just sent an email to a friend in which I noted how this meme just never stops working. That's really sad, but also, thank you Tim Robinson.

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2/4/70: Patton D Franklin Schaffner; W FF Coppola/EH North w/George C Scott, Karl Malden (Nixon viewed obsessively before invading Cambodia, but that's not the movie's fault - @hoanssolo.bsky.social: thediplomat.com/2019/02/how-...) More via @alexvont.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2008/no...

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There’s no need for a new law and you’re never going to get it passed in the minority anyway. Just demand that the authorities apply the current laws to stop the actions that are already illegal

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So much of the news is bad, but here's something I was glad to see. Amber Ruffin is really great. Check out her work (both writing and acting) on Detroiters. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Right on, 60 Minutes.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Good. @60minutes.bsky.social is the golden asset of CBS. It’s unconscionable for Paramount to allow its reputation and the integrity of its correspondents to be tarnished by needlessly bending the knee to Trump.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Yes, this. Chicago Sun-Times is also excellent source on what is going down here in Chicago.

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We’ve come a long way from the days when a CBS president (Frank Stanton) would defy a congressional subpoena and risk jail time rather than hand over raw interview footage to the government. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLyd...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Our piece on the presidential tradition of consolation, why it has embedded so many memories and how Trump used his opportunity in the wake of the greatest air disaster of the last 20 years. substack.com/profile/5411...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Well, I believe that what I am seeing is "free range," but not so sure about "eggs."

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hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

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Here's a fact most Americans don't know: The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is the largest purchaser of wine by dollar value in the world. The LCBO has shut the flow of all American beer, wine, spirits. We will drink "Freedom wines" from our allies and beer from our communities.

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