I think Rev. Jim on #Taxi was always working off the meter. You never once see him fill out a trip sheet.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore

#FilmSky are there any good articles I should read on the topic of genuine location shooting being replaced by CGI environments?

That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are

Used @bluemigrate.com to import my old Tweets. Very cool. Just fyi that old insults about "here" are in reference to Elon's litterbox and not Bluesky.

Skipping ahead to the what you can do about it chapter

me: why is there only one set of footprints Jesus: i can fly check it out (Jesus flies around) me: (Jesus lands) Jesus: anyway you were saying something about your cancer

Had a hilarious dream in which Oliver Stone announced he was directing a biopic of George R.R. Martin....starring Ethan Hawke as Martin.

Every time I or anyone else on here pitches some practical advice for resisting the second Trump administration, you see replies along the lines of "the omnipotent MAGA movement will easily swat this aside." I get people are freaked out, but learned helplessness is not especially useful.

My sister sent this to me and I thought what a fun thing to share I know it’s a little early, but we all need a little joy laughter, and just feel good stuff in our lives right now Here is a complete list of some Christmas movies to watch and where to watch them

Thanks so much to @TheOliverStone for promoting Richard Sale's Abandon Ship (1957) which I recently watched as a double bill with Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944). Surprisingly the unknown Abandon Ship was much more captivating and visceral to Lifeboat, one of Hitch's weakest.

The newest season of @RememberThisPod definitely spotlights some stinkers, but it's crazy to remember how so many movies in the 90s were for adults, about adults: working, fucking, interacting. Not wanting or having kids, even.

As one for 25 years, was happy to hear @TheOliverStone reveal he's vegetarian on #Rogan, despite predictable pushback from Joe. Overall in the ep, Stone seems to exude peace and #Ahimsa - a journey from decades of jousting, sometimes combative interviews.

I pop in here around once a week. Even on my Following page, I get right wing garbage pushed to my feed that I have never, and would never, follow. I've been force unfollowed from lefty accounts, tweets are no longer chronological and spam is everywhere.

Sure Spielberg's mom married his uncle, but @theoliverstone was raised in the 1950's by an openly gay male nanny who dressed like William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman to cope with PTSD from the Holocaust.

Ecstatic to finally find a good quality upload of my favorite @TheOliverStone documentary, Persona Non Grata, about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Aired on HBO in 2003. The version on YT was glitchy quality. https://vimeo.com/57254488

Really enjoyed @OwenGleiberman's Movie Freak for how perceptive and personal it was, as opposed to some other critics' memoirs. His 90s EW coverage was a huge influence on my taste in film.

Oliver Stone's 2022 #SightAndSoundPoll ballot (courtesy @WorldofReel): The Best Years of Our Lives/ Lawrence of Arabia / Dr. Strangelove / 1900 / Raging Bull / Mutiny on the Bounty / On the Waterfront / The Godfather / Avatar/ Citizen Kane.

Reading old PMs preparing for Twitter dying, @DavidLambertArt I hope you're doing well, you're awesome, I hope to speak with you again somewhere. ♥️

Oliver Stone's 'Talk Radio' Was Prophetic in Its Depiction of Outrage Culture https://collider.com/talk-radio-movie-oliver-stone/

What a gem I found on YT: Oprah episode from 1991 on #JFK. Watch how hard Oprah goes against that pro-Warren audience guy! @TheOliverStone doesn't say anything, just watches while O takes that guy to the wood shed. "Who are you?" 😂 https://youtu.be/Vmhtf8Sqzlk

What's the worst Mike Nichols movie and why is it Heartburn.

Never get tired of watching Terms of Endearment because of Debra Winger's absolutely phenomenal all-timer performance.

Crying with laughter at parody of @TheOliverStone's #TheDoors in #WEIRDTheAlYankovicStory. They even mimicked the Bob Richardson light from above cinematography.🤌

I love Private Benjamin and have seen it a gazillion times (rewatching now) but even as a kid I recognized how it goes off the rails in the third act.

Nice reconsideration of U-Turn. https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/u-turn-review-oliver-stone/

Currently rewatching M*A*S*H and season 4 particularly is as perfect as any series has achieved. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/arts/television/alan-alda-mash-anniversary.html?smid=tw-share

Yessss #Salvador is on the @PlutoTV 80's channel right now......

Warmest wishes to @TheOliverStone on his birthday. Thanks for making some of my favorite art, and changing my mind and heart through your work. ❤️

So fun trolling monarchists who worship the "good royals," like Prince Harry the Nazi with his history of racist slurs against middle Easterners, or Princess Diana who was born into nobility and once said Prince Andrew better not marry a "Black girl or a Catholic."

Didn't have time for the Stone rewatchathon this Sept for @TheOliverStone's bday, but did re-read his autobiographical novel #AChildsNightDream. Appreciated it more this second time around. The best passages remind me (in form & content) of Dorothy Richardson's Pointed Roofs.

People talk about the CGI on She Hulk, but I have not seen anyone mention the shoddy basebell CGI on #ALeagueOfTheirOwn on Amazon, which was glaring in several episodes.

Finally saw Baz Luhrmann's #Elvis and thought it was terrific. It's like Natural Born Killers as a music biopic.

Once in a while, the Youtube comment section comes up with a winner.

Hey @walgreens why did one of your pharmacists refuse a legal medication at your store in Lee's Summit, MO? https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/vkost6/i_had_a_miscarriage_on_wednesday_a_pharmacist_in/

Any relief today at my inability to get pregnant is tempered by me also being a woman married to another woman, whose marriage ceremony quoted Obergefell.

Best part of "Once Upon a Time in Queens" (@30for30) so far is when the group of @NYMets players get arrested for fighting in a strip club called Cooter's.

Love how you know the makers of the @30for30 Mets doc are from Queens because @TheOliverStone is credited as "Filmmaker from Manhattan." 🤣

Remembering when renting the multiple VHS tapes of the 1995 Branagh version of Hamlet saved my ass in school back in the day. I find Shakespeare impossible to read, it must be acted for me to understand any of it.

Re-reading this classic of film criticism. https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2013/01/09/film-crit-hulk-smash-hulk-vs.-tom-hooper-and-art-of-cinematic-affectation

Imagine going back in time and telling child me that someday Ice-T would spend 20 years playing a cop on mainstream TV while Will Smith is the first person who commits assault live on the Oscar stage.

Unless they're protecting you from actual physical violence, a partner who resorts to violence to "protect your honor" is a ticking time bomb and needs some therapy, stat.

Few things are better in life than an #Oscars show going completely off the rails. This is like the Moonlight gaffe all over again and also what I imagine folks felt in 1989 (I don't know, I was 8.)

If Zelensky appears on the Oscars, get ready for a bunch of comments about, "Well the war must not be going THAT badly, if he can waste his time on that!" It would be absolutely useless for him to do it (fuck off w/the "awareness" shit, as if the war isn't already the #1 story.)

Every Best picture tribute (70th Oscars). Interesting to watch and see which winners get a warm reaction: it's the "populist" pix (Driving Miss Daisy, Braveheart, Sound of Music) and not the "serious" ones (Schindler's List) https://youtu.be/pKeMPJn1RWo via @YouTube

My god, how long are the #PGAAwards going to last, six hours??

Realized today that I socially use coke (every few months) more often than I drink booze (almost never).

Syndney Pollack's The Firm (1993) is totally underrated. I never see it on lists of 90's classics and yet it absolutely is a pitch-perfect thriller with amazing actors in every role. Also Jeanne Tripplehorn....yowza. (Rewatching it on Hulu now, as I do every couple of years.)