I miss David J Skal so much. He would be THRILLED by this news! youtu.be/Ur_AeEAX2Qs

Anita Loos by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1932. #botd

This is so much fun, and a big treat for Douglas Sirk fans. It makes you think about directors who are sophisticated and curious, and how that might show in their work.

DW Griffith and Robert Harron having lunch, circa 1918.

And the Market Manipulation again today !🤬

Landscape by Johannes Flintoe at the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. It is viewed through a peephole with a lens to give a stronger sense of perspective- this kind of attraction was called a cosmorama. Flintoe had several exhibitions of his cosmoramas in the 1820s and 1830s in Christiania (now Oslo).

Irene Rich, Matty Kemp, and Will Rogers in DOWN TO EARTH (David Butler, 1932)

MAGA: "We should be more like the Founding Fathers". George Washington: [Mandates smallpox vaccination in 1777 for the Continental Army, helping win the Revolutionary War] Hegseth: "Not like that!"

Watch how swiftly fake quotes get attributed to “S. Drimmer” now. Thing is, this is exactly what ChatGPT was designed to do. Namely, jackhammer the grounds of truth beneath our feet. Whether the product is “good” or not is irrelevant. Its purpose is to remove people from acts of discernment.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

Director Ida Lupino on location for “The Trouble With Angels” (1966). #IdaLupinoDirecting

Hey, give BART credit for coming up with slogan that 1) disses local rival. 2) at same time, pays tribute to local rival by connecting BART to Dodger’s nickname origin story of boys nimbly dodging public transport tram cars & horses in the heyday of Brooklyn streets before cars took over. Well done!

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

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Note RFK Jr. said he believes. Science is not a belief system. It deals with substantiated objective facts. That remark demonstrates what is wrong with the Trump administration and America. And as I'm thinking about it we can include the history of the world. #science #healthcare

It’s April 15 and time for my yearly post about how the Star Trek crew could’ve saved the Titanic- lokkeheiss.com/2022/04/15/h...

Vought is the primary architect of the "extremist and authoritarian" Project 2025. Project 2025 is a blueprint for an authoritarian, Christian nationalist government that would decimate individual freedoms.

@cemeterytourguide.bsky.social if you can’t be at the tiki bar in Glendale…

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

Gloria Jean and W. C. Fields during production of Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941).

Commercial exhibition of motion pictures began #OTD in 1894. The first Edison Kinetoscope parlor opened in New York City w/ 10 different (very) short films, viewable at individual stations. Price: 50 cents for all 10 movies — equivalent to about $20 today. #FilmSky

Cornel Wilde, Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino in the excellent noir thriller, “Road House” (1948)

hollow extraction class pseudo-journalistic artifice helps distract the soggy plebs from the fact that corruption has hollowed this country out like a dollar store fake chocolate easter bunny

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

Monday *William Castle ~ movie theatre marquee for 🎬 Homicidal (1961)

Louise on the cover of Das Magazin, February 1929. She’s dressed for the Cologne street festival — aka “the crazy days” — a mid-February annual event.

‘Ladyhawke’ was released on this day 41 years ago! (April 12, 1985) Directed by Richard Donner. Screenplay by Edward Khmara, Michael Thomas, Tom Mankiewicz, & David Peoples. Starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood, Alfred Molina, & more. #OTD #OnThisDay

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war. Art of the deal, baby.

#Edwards1000SixtiesMovies 342/1000: X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES IMO, this sci-fi horror film may just be among the top 10 movies starring Milland. Brilliant visual effects, created long before CGI was born, depict how Milland's character's ultimately disastrous X-ray vision perceive things.

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I should rewatch this. I don't remember this scene. #BOTD Jean-Paul Belmondo, an actor who almost always gives me joy.

It’s called Bakody’s sign & is pathognomonic if you have the arm over the head on the side that’s affected. But there’s probably not an emoji for just one arm over your head.

If you are staying at The Magic Castle FOR #TCMFF, you may want to check in with them tomorrow. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/f...

there's just no way that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords could be even half as bad as this

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

In veterinary school, you learn (half-jokingly): “Never let any pet die before they've first had the benefit of massive doses of steroids.” Maybe that’s what Trump is getting every month!

Steve Cochran, Ida Lupino and Howard Duff in a scene from “Private Hell 36” (Filmakers, 1954) — a crime drama which Lupino also co-wrote. Don Siegel directed.

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Cherry blossoms in Japan.

Patrick McGoohan and Walt Disney team up for a Technicolor story of smuggling, revolution, and adventure. youtube.com/watch?v=KAUn...

Ida Lupino, fashion photo for Paramount, 1935

Had the pleasure of seeing this in nitrate at Rochester a couple of years ago… the picture starts great, and then instead of trying to explain things, just slams on the gas. A great Easter film!

Hospital Decides Cancer-Sniffing Leopard More Trouble Than It’s Worth

Jean Harlow by Ted Allan, 1936.