Oh, Warner Bros. Is it going to be PSKYWBD? Or P/SKY/WB/D or what? Madness... Though, Adolph Zukor would be thrilled. He tried to take over WB a hundred years ago. I wrote about it last month...

Recording with @jaynemansfield.bsky.social be like

I submitted my research statement. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Jayne Mansfield's tragic death is one that has shocked and fascinated people. Jayne Mansfield expert @jaynemansfield.bsky.social breaks down how MY MOM JAYNE examines that life-altering event. Watch the full episode on the doc over at Patreon.com/TicklishBiz. #tcmparty

Can someone tell the HBO Docs people to stop colorizing photos with an app? I own this poster. It looks hideous on the advertisement.

I’M GOING TO BE CO-HOSTING TCM FOR TWO NIGHTS IN MARCH. Lifelong fan, first time co-host. Tune in to @tcmtv.bsky.social on 3/6 (8 pm) and 3/13 (9:15 pm) to see me and Jacqueline Stewart discuss Black Women Independent films from a program I’ve curated. More info: www.tcm.com/articles/Pro...

The audacity of this man to take the established tour guide’s tour to create his own for a brand partnership with AirBNB is the most disgusting thing I’ve seen on social media relating to Old Hollywood in years.

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

Hello! If you're a new follower, I cover silent films and the silent era with tangents. DW Griffith was a racist who invented nothing. Pre-WWI film deserves more attention. Silent movies did a lot more than most people realize. Thank you, have a nice day!

The Christian Nationalist State of North Dakota.

Happy that someone is unearthing the fascinating history of Thelma Todd and her cafe. Happy it survived the fires. I always enjoy driving past this property on the PCH.

so the thing is just because someone is not posting about every horror, does not mean they aren't paying attention or being active in opposition, and I do hope people can learn to read for other signs of resistance rather than demand people create a 24/7 feed of screaming it's actually not helpful

NEW: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social + I analyzed over 400 of RFK Jr.'s appearances since 2020 and found that he has disparaged vaccines in at least 114 appearances, falsely linked vax to autism in 36, and argued that White + Black people should have separate vaccination schedules wapo.st/4jwQS2R

Having dealt with the old movie crowd for quite a few years, one pattern I see repeatedly is "We've already dealt with XYZ, can't we leave it alone and go back to enjoying movies?" Reassessment is ongoing and eternal. It never stops.

Significant news on the academic social media front: as previously announced, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social sent out notification this morning that today is the last day it will post on X/Twitter, and adds, "We hope you will join us on Bluesky, where an active & lively community...has gathered."

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

The AI talk for GTAs is absolutely flopping, and I love it.

New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

Jessica’s posts are what got me into musicals years ago. Highly recommend following her series. 💗

Musical biopics are the focus of Musical Mondays in January. This week's musical focuses on entertainer and "queen of the nightclubs," Texas Guinan, played by Betty Hutton. Full review here: cometoverhollywood.com/2025/01/06/m...

Wasn’t expecting to cry over a Golden Globes speech tonight as I’ve been flying all day, but here we are. 💗

Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Wiley, Sage, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press have AI partnerships, too!

The loss of solid middle class incomes for the mid list in all creative endeavors is a choice, a choice made by the people who dominate publishing, journalism, cinema, TV, music … and it doesn’t have to be this way.

Name the Movie 🎬

“You’ll be visited by three spirits” The three spirits:

Looking for recommendations on beauty/charm/personality/diet books written by female celebrities between 1930-1960. I’m not looking for people who became celebrities through this (ex: Sylvia of Hollywood), but established stars (ex: Joan Bennett, Anita Colby, Margaret O’Brien).

It’s interesting to me how the bar continually shifts when discussing Monroe’s death. For years, it was an injection, then an enema. Now that the general consensus (a large claim for the MM community, but I’m talking about people who genuinely study her) seems to match the autopsy results of a self-

This is wild. I have no opinion about Blake Lively and don't follow celebrity gossip accounts, but a few months ago I started being served posts trashing her. Apparently it was part of a ghoulish op to discredit her after she made a sexual harassment complaint. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

The songs “Singin’ in the Rain,” “You Were Meant for Me,” and “An American in Paris”—most associated with Gene Kelly musicals—will be public domain in 2025. 👏

so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges (this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)

Saturday-

Brilliant opportunities for two postdocs to work on an amazing project with a large team of absolutely wonderful colleagues. Proper dream postdoc stuff here - get those applications in!

Quoted briefly in this BBC piece discussing the internet thirst for Mangione. I have a lot more to say about celebrity, criminality and digital face culture…digging out my research on “hot felons.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is wild seeing university administration jump on the A.I. bandwagon as this hot new technology they can say they embrace when it's really just plagiarism, a thing they expel people for.

Time to focus more on how RFK jr and his pals helped measles kill dozens of children in Samoa. and now he wants to bring his plan to the whole USA. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...

Exciting news: The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the Ethel Waters Papers. www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releas...

It sucks, but after 17 years my time at Film School Rejects – and FSR itself – has apparently come to an end. It’s a changing online landscape and tough out there, but I still didn’t expect our founder/publisher to walk away from it all late last year and never look back. 1/6

Hi all! I write about fandom. Here are some things I've done that I hope are of interest to you if you're following me: First off, yes, I did write that article about being a villainfucker for @polygon.com.

Some of my students have sent me the nicest emails about how much they’ve enjoyed my comp class this semester. Nearly all of them discuss how much they’ve enjoyed learning about rhetorical strategies, and how to identify them on social media.

Today my composition students and I shared the best sentences from our “This I Believe” essays/final exams. Instruction: 1) pick a sentence that is an ABSOLUTE BANGER. 10/10 best sentence you wrote. 2) make sure it’s grammatically correct OR ensure you’ve actively chosen to deviate from standards

“Musicians are struggling, but libraries like the Internet Archive are not our problem! Corporations like Spotify, Apple, Live Nation and Ticketmaster are our problem" www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Recently in a Marilyn Monroe group, Arthur Miller was accused of not getting his wife’s hearing impairment correct on this medical document from 1957/58. Luckily, we now have confirmation from Marilyn herself via an annotation she wrote in a script for SGTG in 1961.