Classic Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds was BOTD in 1932 and died at 84 of grief one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher in 2016. I wrote about Reynold's overlooked acting chops here: www.talkhouse.com/bruce-labruc... @talkhouse.bsky.social

More Beaudine! We chatted with Author James L Neibaur about his book Directed By William Beaudine: An Overview. This interview gives more context to the big tribute happening in April at the @newbeverly.bsky.social & @videoarchivesclub. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

4,290 MINUTES of William Beaudine. 71.5 hours worth of movie viewing from just one director. That's what we're getting from Quentin Tarantino's Vista Theater Cinema Club AND @newbeverly.bsky.social this month-- 62 titles spanning from 1923 to 1958! #letterboxd #moviesky #filmsky #tcm

New Episode! QT returns to talk about a director he loves: William Beaudine. He highlights some of his favorites as well as the tribute he’s doing at @newbeverly.bsky.social & Video Archives Cinema Club in April: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

This April we present a retrospective dedicated to director William Beaudine, including silent film masterpieces with live musical accompaniment, sparkling pre-code gems, and rarely-seen treasures! Plus, swashbuckling classics, The Whole Bloody Affair, midnights, matinees & more!

Some new @letterboxd.social faves for the month long tribute to director William Beaudine at the @newbeverly.bsky.social

Long before today’s ruling, we knew social media was harming our young people. Teens, parents, advocates, even casual observers begged tech and elected leaders to take action. While we applaud this decision, we have more work to do to protect young people online and support their mental health.

Just picked up Mortlake, a new novel by Adrian Lavelle — about the Renaissance occultist John Dee (who invented a language just to talk to angels?) The first chapter title made me laugh: "The Exorcism of Ann Frank". Should be good! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT44S11N #booksky #historysky #books

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make clear you're part of The Resistance to this regime’s brutality at home, pathetic ineptness, perpetual lying & their illegal war in Iran. ✊https://app.sosha.ai/s/39HA7UDd

When Matt Taibbi lost his podcast partner & soul bro Walter Kirn in a surly divorce, a vacant spot opened. Diving deep into the grifter dumpster, he has dredged up Michael Tracey to make podcast magic. Yes, the grubby beardo who once claimed a 78 year old Maxine Waters went Cobra Kai on him.

Thank God for the rigor of NYT and others who combed through footage of the girls’ school bombing in Iran. After Karoline Leavitt, who looks more like a mendacious milkmaid every day, insisted it was “propaganda” the US was responsible, sloggers revealed more. tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...

If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump’s administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair of oversized Florsheim shoes. tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...

I'm trying to figure out which documentary I'm less interested in seeing, the one about Seymour Hersh that came out on Netflix or the upcoming one about Lorne Michaels that will debut only in theaters for a target audience of ghosts and dust bunnies.

Wealth inequality in this state is working exactly how it was designed to—for those at the very top. The question isn't whether our leaders are concerned. The question is whether they have the lived experience to understand the urgency needed.

I love that Barbra Streisand’s torrid love song for EYES OF LAURA MARS (1978) was just played during the YSL winter 26 show in Paris. @barbrastreisand.bsky.social #filmsky #moviesky #barbrastreisand #ysl

We've had enough of leaders who are bought and paid for. It's time for a leader you know only works for you.

“What Netanyahu wants is one thing. What other parts of the state of Israel want is another.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on why he believes PM Netanyahu’s warmongering is partly influenced by the upcoming elections in Israel. More on Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/publish/post...

Things $400 million could actually fix: - Health coverage for 40k Californians - Literacy screening for every K-2 student - 10,000 acres of coastal wetlands - 5,000 homes for the unhoused - Replace our fleet of aging Calfire bases Things it doesn't fix: - A billionaire's need for attention.

"Ivy is not really a cruel girl, just a lass who loves nice things." -- James Agee, TIME review of IVY, July 7, 1947. Excellent film starring Joan Fontaine. #moviesky #filmsky #tmc #letterboxd

Lesbian thespian Marjorie Main, one of the great Hollywood character actresses, known for her "Ma Kettle" roles, was BOTD in 1890 & died in 1975 at 85. Ms. Main, a staunch Republican, had a long term romantic relationship with Hollywood character actress Spring Byington

“Dead Tom’s Dead! Long John shot him!” Happy 30th Anniversary to MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND

I recognize one's a better writer than the other but I miss Elizabeth Wurtzel more than I miss David Foster Wallace.

Can we PLEASE stop doing stuff like this? www.perplexity.ai/page/startup...

I can't steel myself to listen to Ben Shapiro and his whiny rat-a-tat voice on The New Yorker podcast, hosted by Broadway legend Hal Linden.* If only there was an AI summation somewhere I could tap that would supply the salient "high points," if any. *[needs fact checking--ed.]

"Thank-you-very-much" (Elvis Presley voice)

The Jeff Bezos who bought the Washington Post was a different guy from the one who is allowing its destruction now. But oligarchs gonna oligarch. Read more on Fresh Hell about what’s really behind the bloodletting at the Post. tinabrown.substack.com/p/bafflement...

Fans of TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA (1985), MANUNTER (1986), or FEAR (1996) should enjoy this -- Craig MacNeil speaks with William Petersen. #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky #michaelmann #friedkin #manhunter

"Mia Farrow is a monster. xoxo Peg"-- Email to Jeffrey Epstein from his PR hack Peggy Siegal. Today the monster (who unlike her former boyfriend is not mentioned in Epstein files approximately 7,000 times) turns 81! Photo: @miafarrow.bsky.social with her mom, the divine actress Maureen O'Sullivan

HBD the lovely & talented Brooke Adams, BOTD in 1949, turning 77 today. She is more than game in the excellent early Nazi zombie entry "Shock Waves" (1977) & excelled in two 70's masterpieces, Malick's "Days of Heaven" (1978) and Kaufmans' "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)

Went to the Castro Theatre reopening last night to see a movie, and was very surprised to find myself thinking: "Could it be that all my worries were unfounded? What's happening here?!"

Grateful for the response to my latest Fresh Hell column, which recounts Jeffrey Epstein's panic over the stories we ran at The Daily Beast in 2010.

More movie fans should be in Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary's Patreon- they often drop in to talk about movies*. Great stuff! *(Many of the titles covered by @gcdb.bsky.social, @speederaserhead.bsky.social, @larrythek.bsky.social, @churchofqtpod.bsky.social, @pmbryant.com, @swdb.bsky.social etc)

Really enjoyed this @80000hours.bsky.social episode about the evolutionary origins of things like anxiety and depression. Some of each is healthy and useful, but both *none* and too much are quite bad! Some pharmas (or the wrong dosage) might take you there. 80000hours.org/podcast/epis...

When Donald Trump messes with our democracy, Californians fight back—and win.

One of my fave Hollywood stars, legendary, glamorous Ida Lupino, was BOTD in 1918 & died in 1995 at 77. She starred in 59 pictures & directed 8, a woman ahead of her time, a pioneer of social-message films, bypassing the traditional studio system 2 direct films on taboo subjects

"Woody Allen is mentioned 7000 times in the Epstein files. Is that, like, a lot?" (George Costanza voice)

yeah seems like a good choice!

Peter Attia was one of Epstein’s friends?? Insane.

“What’s happening at the dirty movie place?” Throughout February the New Beverly pays tribute to its previous era as the Eros, a theatre dedicated to erotic cinema from around the globe.

Won't somebody think of the poor billionaires whose bottled water isn't always perfectly chilled? www.city-journal.org/article/inhe...

I'm not one of those 'Cancel My Subscription' guys but Megyn Kelly's latest hate spew about Alex Pretti may be the Final Straw. If she wants to star in a remake of Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS that's her prerogative, but SiriusXM's platforming her is beyond the pale.

Another doofus pushing a Rahm Emanuel candidacy is Mark Halperin, who refuses to go away.

Alex Pretti spent his days caring for veterans as a nurse. And he died trying to protect his neighbors. Federal agents—funded by our tax dollars—murdered him. Americans deserve accountability. Congress exists to put checks and balances on the president. It’s long past time to act like it.

Absolutely horrified by the brutal killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. There is no justification, no excuse for a government to unleash this kind of violence on its own citizens. Those responsible must be held to account. This is not a partisan question, but a matter of decency and equal justice.

Really interesting to see that Doris Brynner's haute couture pieces (Mrs. Yul Brynner) by Cristobal Balenciaga, Givenchy and Valentino are being auctioned this month.

Season three of SHETLAND confirms that Calder and Tosh are the two worst detectives on TV, spending more time driving around and tepidly interviewing witnesses than cracking through the evidence. The rope, Watson, the rope is the key to this case, while they make their rounds like social workers.

Legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau, international superstar who worked w/ many of the great autuers - Bunuel, Malle, Fassbinder, Losey, Antonioni, Truffaut, Wenders, Richardson, Demy, Welles, Kazan, etc. - was BOTD in 1928 & died in 2017 at 89

California has a long, proud history of protecting its resources. But right now, the federal government is trying to handcuff our state agencies and strip away our ability to safeguard our own waters. In Congress, I stood up to Big Oil and won. Together, we'll do it again.

Jack Smith: "Trump was charged bc the evidence established he willfully broke the law -- the very laws he took an oath to uphold... After leaving office, Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago social club... highly sensitive natl security info was held in a ballroom & bathroom."

Gov. Newsom rocks. His Davos quote, “Trump is a T-rex. You mate with him or he devours you," is one for the ages.