Also applies to vodka

Team Caveman Clubs

This thread after watching the documentary I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE on TCM tonight, which features James Baldwin meeting up with Amiri Baraka in Newark in 1980…Goddamn

I‘ve studied Nazi Germany, but one thing I hadn’t reckoned with is what its liberal intelligentsia must have thought about how staggeringly stupid the collaborators running things were

Catherine Deneuve by Eric Swayne (1965)

This is actually a joke in ROCKY V

Best Twitter riposte of the day. I started the morning looking at mass protest videos uncertain whether I was watching Minneapolis or Tehran. Turns out it was both.

O, that’s well said: the chair.

I think we actually made it? I never heard his name, not even from Jean Smart

So true, he was *fuming*

„Will I be the mother of the next Messiah?“ „No, why?“

Could be AI slop

Yeah, ask Laquon McDonald‘s family

Melt, and no more be seen

Never mind all the charm and talent. That much of Isiah is always onscreen and utterly obvious. Instead, a last word to let everyone know what isn't evidenced on film: He was an even better person than he was an actor; a warm and gracious delight of a man. Goodbye, friend.

A masterpiece.

„Maaaaan, what if I ran for, like, mayor?“

Noice.

Someone alert @bcdreyer.social that Fritzi has used „factoid“ in its original, Mailerian sense

Does @cavalorn.bsky.social know about the Chortlemuffin Effect? (He certainly knows the phenomenon)

Wikipedia twists the knife: „Around 300 AD, the emperor enacted…constitutional reforms…he asserted the right of the emperor to take power without the…consent of the senate…Diocletian…ended whatever illusion had remained that the senate had independent legislative, judicial, or electoral powers.“

“Don’t nod at me like that, you son of a bitch.”

I needed this laugh

The last things I watched before going to bed last night were the „newsreel“ opening of CITIZEN KANE + the penultimate ep of Ken Burns’s American Revolution doc, which features the genocidal retaliation of the Patriots against native tribes supporting the British, privateering, and John Paul Jones

Fightin‘ Bob!

Every time I‘ve ever seen a few minutes of Yellowstone, any season, the writing always, always sucks shit

I read *all* of this to find out how copyright/trademark law apply to Betty Boop and my favorite animation shop Fleischer Studios; of interest to @moviessilently.bsky.social is their assessment of the estates of Harold Lloyd & Charlie Chaplin making baseless claims web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

Really enjoying this interview by @noelmu.bsky.social, particularly as my wife has been a fan since she saw DANCE CRAZE as a teen, and she anticipated all the great reveals, esp about Pete Townshend. Thanks so much, Noel! www.imdb.com/title/tt0150... www.avclub.com/dave-wakelin...

You can find this on YouTube & whatever time of year you watch it, it's really something--Christmas Past with Hiroshima victims, Christmas Present with internment camps, Peter Sellers as a post-apocalyptic proto-MAGA demagogue, if you love midcentury "problem media" like I do you'll be in clover.

Does @glennkenny.bsky.social still have his???

Happy Christmas @paulduane.bsky.social, in case anyone hasn’t shared this with you yet

The Fascist Gemstones

The most profound moviegoing experiences I‘ve had @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social have been thanks to the great work @erikthemovieman.bsky.social and @briantallerico.bsky.social do with the Chicago Film Critics and the Chicago Critics Film Festival. Vote them up!

Very fond of this one, with a scene stealing turn by Peter Falk as a grouchy henchman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy7D...

God bless our most fun living actor. Legend.

This is amazing!

Hey, if your library has Kanopy (we just accessed it last night for the first time, holy molee, it's like the Criterion Collection in there, SO many excellent and classic films), they've got James Goldman's Christmas classic THE LION IN WINTER, which is essentially SUCCESSION, at Christmas, in 1187

I grew up watching him on Airwolf, his face already a mask of various abuses and plastic surgery, but I loved him and he’s truly great in BIG WEDNESDAY

😯

Hooooly shit

Rik Mayall, gone too soon

My wife just now: „Make *that* disappear, Blaine!“

LEAVE TEDDY ROOSEVELT ALONE

I‘m rooting for the Bostoo Yook Yarters from now on. Go Yarters!