Daddy-O with the Pants Ups songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLnH...

Goodfellas

this week’s cover by Till Lauer

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Director Stephen Frears and Writer Donald E. Westlake’s neo-noir crime thriller ‘The Grifters’ starring John Cusack, Angelica Huston, and Annette Bening opened nationwide in the US on this day in 1991 💸 🪦 💼 #OTD "𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝙸 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔!"

Le Monde's cartoon of the day, by Marco De Angelis.

submitted to me: a photo of a border patrol agent retching and spitting after they gassed themselves by mueller park in minneapolis yesterday

Detail from Green Lantern 76 (1970), by Denny O’Neil, Neal Adams, and Frank Giacoia. #MLKDay

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Finally: Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez joins Eddie Muller to introduce the film noir classic SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS ('57) at our TCMFF x 92NY pop-up festival on January 31st.

100% this!👇

@eddiemuller.bsky.social Just got the email that the 92nd St Y is having the TCM Pop Up on 1/31 announcing Ben & Alicia. Any chance you are coming? There had been hints

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

After January 6, 2021, Congress passed a law requiring the Capitol display a plaque recognizing the brave Capitol police officers who defended us. The Trump Administration has made sure It's nowhere to be found. Posting it here in remembrance. #NeverForget

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Context: This is from Daredevil #283, written by @annienocenti.bsky.social and drawn by Mark Bagley. Captain America is on edge because of accidental exposure to an elicit drug that has bonded to his Super-Soldier Serum (see "Streets of Poison" by Mark Gruenwald and Ron Lim).

@tcmparty.bsky.social Thanks for all the fun, trivia & insights while watching The Thin Man movies. I never get tired of watching them all

@tcmparty.bsky.social In the novel Nick's last name "Charles" is an Americanization of his Greek surname and has no Sycamore Springs boyhood. As a result I resisted it. But over time I've grown to like it because I think it has an excellent plot. Also Edward Brophy is back in full comic mode.

A continuity issue with Shadow. Nick & Nora must be back in San Francisco (Traffic ticket on the Golden Gate?; Sam Levene back as Abrams👍) Why are they living in a hotel & not the mansion from After The Thin Man? Did they sell? More nitpicking than anything #TCMParty #ShadowoftheThinMan

Bert Roach whom Nick feeds drinks to get info on Phil Church in Another Thin Man also played the party guest who wants to call Ma in the original. #TCMParty #AnotherThinMan

Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man

Both the manic & the serious Robin. The best film to show his range as an actor

Headline du jour www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

The Shining

Maybe, just maybe, if the FBI counterterrorism desk hadn't been retasked to chasing abuelitas, somebody might've followed up on the tips...

Meet two heroes of our times.

#NoirvemberChallenge. Thanks for all the fun with Challenge @ladykdesigns.bsky.social Day 30 Favorite Noir Ending. The ending of The Third Man can never be topped. Altman acknowledges its iconic nature with his parody of the scene in The Long Goodbye. It is also a sin for which I can't forgive.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 29 Favorite RKO Noir. Impossible to choose one. Excluding Out of the Past, My Top 10: 10. Born to Kill 9. They Won't Believe Me 8. The Narrow Margin 7. The Hitch-Hiker 6. The Seventh Victim 5. They Live By Night 4. Murder My Sweet 3. Angel Face 2. Cross-Fire 1. The Set-up

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 27 Noir with Food. Flaming Cherries Jubelee from Raw Deal. Ugly & frightening setting the film's tone.

Wanna see what a real traitor looks like? Here you go. Witkoff is advising Russia how to get they want at the expense of both the United States and Ukraine.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 26 Favorite Neo-Noir The Gold Standard

Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 25 Noirs on a boat. Without question The Breaking Point starring John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter & Juano Hernandez. One of the best films on Micheal Curtiz' resume (which says a lot). It should be more widely known & admired.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 24 Favorite Noir Film poster. This is a bad picture of the Murder My Sweet poster that hangs on my living room wall. It was given to me by very dear friends. How can it be anything else but my favorite

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 23 Noir Scene Stealer. Charles McGraw. Whether he was a supporting player (The Killers, T-Men, Blood on the Moon) or lead (Narrow Margin, Armored Car Robbery, Roadblock) he commended the screen. 👇From Armored Car Robbery

#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.