Phil Bacharach
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Government communications, film critic, recovering journalist, doppelganger of (REDACTED)
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Michael Warburton
3 days ago
After seeing BRYAN CRANSTON in ‘Breaking Bad’ - ANTHONY HOPKINS sent this wonderful email to the show’s star full of admiration for Cranston's performance, claiming it to be the best acting he'd ever seen.
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It really annoys me that “restive” means, essentially, “restless.” Until “festive” is redefined as “unfestive,” this inconsistency bugs
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“The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.” —H.L. Mencken
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For two days running, I’ve heard “Dark Side of the Moon” coming from my 18-year-old son’s room. Although I’ve never played Pink Floyd for my kids, I’ll take it as a parenting win. Bonus point: I’m 99% sure he’s listening to it sober.
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"We must be free not because we claim freedom but because we practice it." —William Faulkner
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Why are my Facebook reels overrun with AI slop of Mr. Rogers & Marilyn Monroe that I invariably click and invariably hate myself for watching? Is this what meth is like?
29 days ago
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." —Aldous Huxley
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Hey, fellow Oklahomans: Go outside! Fall finally arrived!
about 1 month ago
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“To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, be responsible or be respectable.” – Oscar Wilde
about 1 month ago
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RiotGrlErin
about 2 months ago
the grim reaper driving a taxi full of meats and cheeses makes it a death cab for charcuterie.
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Looking for lesser-known 21st century horror movies to stream this month? (say yes) I’ve got recs in this month’s Oklahoma Gazette…
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Spooky streaming - Oklahoma Gazette
As any horror aficionado knows, October means Halloween is around the corner — wearing a hockey mask and holding a butcher knife, no doubt — and that means we have a good excuse to load up on scary mo...
https://www.okgazette.com/arts-culture/spooky-streaming/
about 2 months ago
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For 20+ years, my favorite coffee mug has been grrreat. I guess there’s only so many times you can grab a tiger by the tail. …
about 2 months ago
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Movies Silently
about 2 months ago
As with AI "authors" and "artists" all I can say is what a sucker! See, AI is about eliminating the middle man and these people don't realize that they are the middle man up for the chop. Why go to Paramount or Warner or Disney for an AI movie when you can go to the AI company?
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Heading into week 3 of (non/covid) virus from hell. Congestion, sore throat, cough. I know it’s been going around. Anyone know if it, you know.. ends?
2 months ago
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Reel Indigenous Podcast 🪶🦭
2 months ago
Redford was a true supporter of Native narrative sovereignty, giving wings to the artists we celebrate on our podcast. Good journey, sir. And now a super keen story about him from Sterlin Harjo.
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“If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.” —Harriet Tubman
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“Disrespect is the weapon of the weak.”—Alice Miller
2 months ago
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Just curious if I’m the only one: When you find yourself in Walmart wearing the same T-shirt as someone else, do you feel sudden camaraderie? Or are you one of those people who don’t own an AC/DC shirt?
3 months ago
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in case you care…
cutting-2-the-chase.com/2025/09/03/1...
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10 best opening credits sequences 1980-present
10. Zombieland (2009) 9. Casino Royale (2006) 8. Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee discovered Rosie Perez on a New York dance floor when he was casting for Do the Right Thing. Her moves here, cou…
https://cutting-2-the-chase.com/2025/09/03/10-best-opening-credits-sequences-in-movies-1980-present/
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In case you had a burning desire to know my take on the 10 best opening titles in movies (before 1980)
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10 best opening credits sequences before 1980
Giving credits where credits are due (see what I did there?) has changed dramatically in cinema over the years. While 20th century offerings generally ran their main titles at a picture’s start, mo…
https://cutting-2-the-chase.com/2025/09/03/10-best-opening-credits-sequences-before-1980/
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Kai Ryssdal
3 months ago
Tell me the president doesn’t understand the economy without telling me the president doesn’t understand the economy.
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Let’s talk about my favorite baseball movies…
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10 best baseball movies
Hollywood has long found the innate drama of baseball to be irresistible, as it’s that rare team sport with the additional draw of being a showdown of individuals: pitcher and hitter. Baseball fans…
https://cutting-2-the-chase.com/2025/08/22/10-best-baseball-movies/
3 months ago
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“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.” —-Author Jonathan Franzen, who turns 66 today
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Bill Kristol
3 months ago
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
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Heres a brief
@okgazette.bsky.social
piece from yours truly on a pair of sci-fi classics playing this weekend in OKC…
www.okgazette.com/arts-culture...
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Getting spacey
Rodeo Cinema Stockyards has quality sci-fi this weekend for the thinking person
https://www.okgazette.com/arts-culture/getting-spacey-13433856
3 months ago
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My
@okgazette.bsky.social
column on my favorite films so far for 2025 (that’s the year we’re in)…
www.okgazette.com/arts-culture...
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Back in business
Now that we are more than halfway through the year, it’s time for the requisite listing of 2025’s best films — so far.
https://www.okgazette.com/arts-culture/back-in-business-13422555
4 months ago
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Fun with numbers: # of times I’ve read “Moby Dick”: 0 # of languages I can speak: 1 # of times I’ve watched “Trainwreck: Poop Cruise” on Netflix: 3
4 months ago
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"These are all our children. We will profit by, or pay for, whatever they become." —James Baldwin
4 months ago
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“I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.” -Charles Bukowski
4 months ago
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Yashar Ali 🐘
4 months ago
I will never get over the fact that this woman was once a respected 60 mins correspondent!
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“I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.” —the great cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who turns 77 today
4 months ago
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Because you all deserve to know!
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10 most memorable dances in non-musicals
Dance was an integral part of motion pictures long before Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers tapped their way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers. In 1894, Thomas Edison shot footage of Ruth S…
https://cutting-2-the-chase.com/2025/07/14/10-most-memorable-dances-in-non-musicals/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLjqYhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHn0M1x6WmoAk3smwnA3AfllFEfdmh381Pckd3flLczY4BPhG5UKaMx_fu8vP_aem_p6lpThWWPd8stPCZicVLiw
5 months ago
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“Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau, born on this date in 1817
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Movies and summer: They go together like ramma-lamma-lamma-ka-dingity-da-dinga-dong. In this month’s Oklahoma Gazette, I regale you with my top summer-centric films…
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Summer flicks
These 10 streaming movies are ideal for summer.
https://www.okgazette.com/arts-culture/summer-flicks-13318292
5 months ago
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“It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.” —Moliere
5 months ago
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“The first draft of anything is shit.” —Ernest Hemingway, who died 64 years ago today, dispensing some very valuable advice about writing
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OKC cinephiles, the deadCENTER Film Festival kicks off today. On this, its 25th anniversary, I offer a few movies worth checking out (via Oklahoma Gazette), but there are many, many more you should see..:
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deadCENTER picks
Dig into cinematic goodness.
https://www.okgazette.com/arts-culture/deadcenter-picks-13236152
6 months ago
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Dropped off my son at school for his last day as a junior. Got a bit dusty-eyed. I don’t know if you’ve heard this before, but good gosh, the years go fast.
6 months ago
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My thoughts on some movies currently in theaters, including SINNERS and THE SURFER, for Oklahoma Gazette
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Sizzling and surfing
Misericordia, Sinners and The Surfer are playing in theaters now.
https://www.okgazette.com/arts-culture/sizzling-and-surfing-13150334
7 months ago
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“Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.” —Soren Kierkegaard, born on this date in 1813
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“There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat.” — the great writer Terry Southen, born on this date in 1924
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“The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.” —Milan Kundera
7 months ago
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My Oklahoma Gazette review of a remarkable NatGeo docuseries (also streaming on Hulu & Disney) on the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
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Remembering the bombing
A new streaming docuseries details the horror and legacy of the Oklahoma City federal building bombing.
https://www.okgazette.com/arts-culture/remembering-the-bombing-13031795
8 months ago
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“The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke & insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.” —Milan Kundera, born 96 yrs ago today
8 months ago
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." —Aldous Huxley
8 months ago
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McSweeney's
8 months ago
"Thank you so much for taking the ONE TIME I messed up at baseball and turning it into an incredibly long poem. What a wonderful use of your creative faculties. You seem like a very chill person."
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Casey “At the Bat” Responds to That Mean Poem About Him
Fellow residents of Mudville, It’s me, Casey Gershowitz, or as I am now known to everyone, “Casey At the Bat.” In the two months since I struck out...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/casey-at-the-bat-responds-to-that-mean-poem-about-him?utm_content=buffer24984&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association
8 months ago
We join our colleagues in
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in condemning the attack on NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal.
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BlueUnikorn
8 months ago
Declaration of Independence: “…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
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If there is better TV than “Adolescence” in urgency, importance, writing, acting, filmmaking, character complexity & emotional punch, I cant think of what it could be. Cannot recommend this enough
8 months ago
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