Disney/Mickey's Parade Pops (circa 1986-2001): A line of thick, fruit-flavored ice pops noted for their unique "snap" and texture, and shaped like Disney characters such as Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Flavors included grape, orange, and cherry

2/2 Landscape at the edge of the Alps, 1532. Another fantastic (rosy sky!) yet somewhat mysterious watercolor by Wolf Huber, whose day is today.

Here is the full version of the “Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte” special from 1969. ☺️ #TCMParty youtu.be/JNBDippDciA

"Practically perfect in every way." Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) gets the measure of her new charges in Mary Poppins (1964)

Julie Andrews at 90: the magical nanny with a sideline in the sly, sexy and subversive

This one’s for @moviessilently.bsky.social ☺️. youtu.be/y03n7lEUi_M

My pals at one of my favorite LA repertory theaters, @vidiots.bsky.social, are still thriving! New from the @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Cuts out the middle man too (Simon of Cyrene). These people are so without a modicum of appropriateness.

Birthday eve for myself and Sophia Loren. I still see no silver chariot with spinning rims outside my window.

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was: * successful at everything he tried * genuinely intelligent & insightful * desired by women * envied by men * an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with * a tireless, lifelong philanthropist ... and he died peacefully in his sleep. 10/10 life. No notes.

Together again. 💟 #RobertRedford

Hostess Flash Cakes (2010-2010): Classic Hostess chocolate cupcakes with white creme filling, featured red icing and yellow sprinkles, to evoke the colors of superhero, The Flash. Part of a massive licensing deal between Hostess and DC Comics to promote the "Justice League" brand

This lovely sanctuary, its precious animals, and its beloved partners, staff, and volunteers saw so many of us through the darkest days of the pandemic. It's heartbreaking that it has to end, but with our continued support they will find loving homes and Beth can recover her health. Please donate. ♥️

Official Statement and press release Squirrelwood.org

Celebrating Tuscon, Arizona, native Barbara Eden, who turns 94 today! Best known for her role in I Dream of Jeannie, Eden's many credits include the TV version of How to Marry a Millionaire, the Country Club Dance episode of I Love Lucy, and the 1978 comedy, Harper Valley P.T.A.

everybody come watch this with no background noise. brain reset.

"I never wanted to be a dancer...I wanted to be a shortstop." Happy birthday to one-time Brooklyn Dodgers contractee Gene Kelly. #BOTD #FilmSky

Black people told y’all that race was the foundation of all of this bullshit. And as usual we were dismissed, condescended to, and told we were wrong. And yet this administration keeps showing us what time it is. Just an observation.

Charlie Kirk, a child of the suburbs, says the increasing non-white population of NYC doesn't "belong there." He and Trump imagine the nation's cities remade as Potemkin Villages, free of the disturbingly diverse residents who actually make them the economic and cultural engines of the nation.

New in PN: Trump’s targeting of Black communities is not a coincidence "Trump has never even pretended he’s the president for the entire United States. He’s the ruler of an overwhelmingly white sub-nation that seeks to subdue the country’s racially diverse urban centers."

Another hour, another call for another conference about teaching with AI. I am so supremely annoyed and bored and 💔 by this reactionary obsession: what a waste of opportunity to think about infinitely more constructive, convivial, empowering, life-affirming and existentially consequential things

I’m not advocating for denial or ignorance. I simply hate that a bunch of doofuses convinced gullible decision-makers that the 🌏 needs this, foisting upon everyone a huge epistemological, environmental, legal, and moral burden, + thus derailing so many other *way* more important + interesting things

They might be making Trump mad, but Newsom has been throwing these at the press -- if you think these are beneath my office, why don't you say that when the president does the same thing? He's exposing that the media has a separate set of standards for Our Very Special Boy and that's good.

apnews.com/article/libr... book returned after 82 years. Note says, 'Grandma won't be able to pay for it anymore'

Nice to see this disc warmly reviewed at the essential @trailersfromhell.bsky.social, with a shoutout for the commentary that I had a great time recording with my close personal friend @glennkenny.bsky.social.

Glenn Erickson of CineSavant posits that the big plus of Bonjour Tristesse is the radiant presence of Jean Seberg as amoral heroine Cécile. David Niven is the father Cécile adores, & Deborah Kerr the romantic interloper that she can't abide. trailersfromhell.com/bonjour-tris...

The Pain and Joy of Black Fatherhood www.theassemblync.com/place/cornel...

The peak of the #Perseid #meteor shower is around the mornings of August 11, 12 and 13. Get 6 tips for viewing the Perseids in moonlight from EarthSky's Deborah Byrd and Bob King, aka AstroBob, here: buff.ly/ehgT2NF 📸 John Ashley.

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

MELON UPDATE!!!! Korean melon! Watermelon! Wee tiny Crenshaw! 🌱

That neighborhood association are a bunch of punks themselves. They literally sent Piglet on this "goodwill" mission. #TCMParty #ARaisinInTheSun #SummerUnderTheStars

I wrote a paper once about how the preference towards boys still shows up in Younger family politics. Walter is struggling and deserves some sympathy, yes, but at the same time, what he did was foolish and self-motivated. #TCMParty #ARaisinInTheSun #SummerUnderTheStars

That should say "back of an alley." Typos still want to mess with me here, apparently. #TCMParty #ARaisinInTheSun #SummerUnderTheStars

Beneatha has a reputation for being flighty, but I don't believe for a second that she would have squandered the money like that. There's still some latent sexism that drives the way that Lena's expectations for Walter and Beneatha vary. #TCMParty #ARaisinInTheSun #SummerUnderTheStars

I hope that Willie messed with the right wrong person and got his due in the back of an somewhere. What a cruel and nasty thing to do absconding with someone's dreams. Horrid. #TCMParty #ARaisinInTheSun #SummerUnderTheStars

"Don't you know that money is made out of my father's flesh?!?" It was. Literally. There's a double pain in knowing that Big Walter have to die for them to get the money in the first place. #TCMParty #ARaisinInTheSun #SummerUnderTheStars

There's a line in A RAISIN IN THE SUN's iconic climax that has always resonated with me. Walter Lee grabs Travis, turns to Mr. Lindner & says: "This is my son. And he makes the sixth generation of my family in this country." 1/ #TCMParty #ARaisinInTheSun #SummerUnderTheStars

I used to get up and do the "Ocomogosiyay!" (I hope I spelled it right) around the living room too, so you go ahead, Beneatha. We're not mad at you. #TCMParty #ARaisinInTheSun #SummerUnderTheStars

This energy only. #ARaisinInTheSun #TCMParty

Ruth had dreams, you can tell. But she's put a lot of them aside in order to fulfill the roles expected of her, and her options as a working class Black woman. Remember, she's not that much older than Beneatha. #TCMParty #ARaisinInTheSun #SummerUnderTheStars

I feel like Ruth and Rose Maxson from "Fences" would get along well. Their names even go together. #TCMParty #ARaisinInTheSun #SummerUnderTheStars