#NoirvemberChallenger Day 21 Noir Films outside USA. Any noir by Jean Pierre Melville. Also Nine Queens, the South American con man noir, is so brilliant that you will watch it time and again even after you have dazzled by its plot twists on first viewing

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 20 Favorite Gambling Scene -- Bob in the casino at the end of Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur. Everything goes wrong but everything goes right. Beside I childishly love to hear people say "Bob" with a French accent

Vertigo

The baby in Batchelor Mother gives the all-time, unbeatable performance by a toddler in the history of movies

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 19 Favorite Boxing Noir. You can't beat the elegant simplicity of The Set-Up, a straight ahead moving story with great characters told in a real 90 minutes. Great performances by Ryan & Totter (breaks your heart in the arcade) & supporting cast. Best staged fight on screen.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 18 Noir MacGuffin. Brain can't get passed the obvious -- Falcon & Kiss Me Deadly. May not be the best MacGuffin but it's in one of my favorites. The jade necklace in Murder My Sweet.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 17 Favorite Duo. Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake Unmistakable Chemistry in This Gun for Hire, The Glass Key & The Blue Dahlia (Greene, Hammett & Chandler) Runners-up: Lorre & Greenstreet; Mitchum & Russell (hard to believe they only made 2 movies together)

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 16 Noir that should be better known. Odd Man Out directed by Carol Reed. Overshadowed by Third Man but is a brilliant man on the run noir. Starring James Mason supported by a great cast esp. Kathleen Ryan as the girl who loves him

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 15 Film Noir character you'd trust the least with a secret Cobby in The Asphalt Jungle (on the left) 👇or Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success or George Peatty in The Killing especially if Sherry wanted to know.

The Fisher King

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 14 Noir Mount Rushmore Mitchum, Stanwyck, Bogart and Robert Ryan

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 13 Favorite low Budget B Film Noir Gun Crazy produced by the King Brothers with $400K budget on a 30-day shoot. The definition of a B movie that is still spun gold

#Noirvember Day 12 Sexiest Film Noir. Gilda. Even with one of the exotic & erotic love triangles in any classic Hollywood film, the match is lit with these two minutes plus of film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMel...

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 11 Favorite Bar scene or cocktail The Pearl Diver from The Blue Gardenia Anne Baxter with noir stalwarts Richard Conte, Raymond Burr and Jeff Donnell (one of her three noir appearances along with Sweet Smell of Success and In a Lonely Place)

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 10 Favorite Gloria Graham noir Debby in The Big Heart edges Laurel of In A Lonely Place by a whisker. Debby as "a sister under the mink" sparkles. BTW METV+ tonight ran an episode of Burke's Law that featured Gloria. The show cast many classic film stars as suspects

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 9 Favorite Dan Duryea Noir. After much consideration, I'm going with Criss-Cross. Slim is a real murderous b@st@rd

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 8 Favorite Film Noir line. John Garfield as Charley Davis in Body & Soul "What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies."

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 6 -- Coolest Character Jef Costello (Alain Delon) in Le Samurai

Day 4 #NoirvemberChallenge Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole. As good a prediction of modern mainstream media as you'll find. giphy.com/gifs/thecool...

It's three years today. Sweetie, I miss you and I love you

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

"A fantabulous night to make romance 'Neath the cover of October skies" Our time is running out to have a Moondance www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kfY...

Current f****** mood

I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.

You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman - Carole King

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

An aspiring tyrant in the making… Stephen Miller was always a POS. Here he is in high school, already looking middle-aged, giving a student government speech: “Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up our trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?”

Sadly, Local Hero has a rabbit.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I love that joke

Here’s my cliff notes summary of Pete Hegseth’s big military address today

Most interesting part of the speech—a familiar MAGA tirade—was the audience reaction. Didn’t hear a single person applaud. Generals and admirals sat silently during this political lecture from a former National Guard captain. The right reaction.

Anyone shocked? I am dreading the call that's coming from my MAGA mother telling me again how wonderful Dr. Oz is and how stupid I am for listening to my doctor. Sigh

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

77 years ago - Gardner Fox was bang on.

Heat, then Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Chinatown Tampopo Eat Drink Man Woman

The Fabulous Baker Boys. Grusin's music & Michelle's sultry singing

Lovers and Other Strangers

#Booksky A Song For Katy Shayne. Jim Fusilli, former music for WSJ, writes an intertwined story of a musician whose career murdered in her prime & a critic whose career abruptly ends due to corporate bean counters. A well plotted mystery that celebrates music & bemoans the death of journalism

Fisher King

Happy Heavenly birthday Sweetie. I wish you were here to spend the day with old friends, cohorts & cronies. It would be so much more fun with you. Miss you, love you

Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…

A reporter breaks down on air.

with sidekick

Catch-22