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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 43m

Is there anyone who didn’t meet Jeffrey Epstein? Starting to wonder if that was where people went whenever they told me they were busy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

The ex-PM confirms he met Epstein in 2002, six years before the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah. That's his Sellers movie

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 9h

The other tragedy is bar JFK and Nothing but Trouble, in film, we never really got to see the versatility he showcased on SCTV.

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The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 9h

And he once made a film with Dick Emery, Peter Cook, Mickey Rooney and Delroy Lindo.
Find the Lady - it's shit.

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 9h

Said brother allegedly dated another waitress who I fancied. Still think she was bullshitting.
Same guy played Ian McShane's role in the Roots remake, hence me doing a baffled impression of Bob Mortimer's John Lovejoy to her.

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The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 9h

Proof that Linehan is our greatest writer.
We won't be quoting other Irish gender realist writers in the same way.

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 9h

They did a TV show. All I remember an ep set in Ireland but shot in Canada with a former local pizza bar waitress' brother and Lynne Griffin off Black Christmas and Strange Brew as an Irish mammy

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The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 11h

He had several. Melody of Love, or 'the Polish one'

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 11h

#totp SCTV were obsessed with his song Melody of Love which is a reworking of the same schlager song Peters and Lee anglicised as Don't Stay Away Too Long. He didn't like the lyrics so wrote his own partly Polish ones.

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 12h

Looking back at Harry Potter, Dudley Dursley's favourite TV show is The Great Humberto. Is this some ref to Soprendo? See, these are the questions I really want to ask Joanne?

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 13h

Looking at 90s horror films I haven't watched (a LOT, especially the big major studio ones)
Reminded I've never seen Night Angel.
Look at the cast.
And I'm like, 'YESS! ROSCOE LEE! Bring it on!'

Letterboxd for Night Angel, highlighted the name of venerable African-American thespian par excellence Roscoe Lee Browne

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 14h

She's Illeana Douglas' double. Like that's not a man, I'm sorry.

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Megan @mesoho.bsky.social · Aug 11

BTW I'm not outing anybody here. Both these things have long been discussed in the public domain.

Vinnie themself has refused to confirm or deny rumours preferring instead to "retain an air of mystery" which is entirely their perogative. But with genuine respect, they physically present femme

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The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 15h

That's my uncle. He doesn't believe I have long covid.
He's anti-vax, claiming the vaccine damaged him too, rather than admitting he probably got covid along the way.

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The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 16h

It almost feels like a British show (mostly shot at Pinewood, but you'll have scenes shot in England set in Canada (the presence of Boa a tipoff), then scenes shot in Canada set in England, or scenes shot in Norway set in England)

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 16h

I am fascinated by the uncanniness of Canadian shows of that era. Ever seen their attempt at a miniseries, the British co-pro A Man Called Intrepid, made for NBC, with Michael York, David Niven, Barbara Hershey in brownface and plenty of Canadian-based actors and yer Shane Rimmers and Bruce Boas

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The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 16h

Ah, it's not exclusively Canadian.

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The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 17h

@danmckee.bsky.social @franticplanet.bsky.social what I was talking about

Dark Shadows News @darkshadowsnews.bsky.social · 17h

Kino Cult are releasing a selection of Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis’ horror and literary adaptations on Blu-Ray, celebrating some of the classic stories reimagined for Dark Shadows.

Classic Monsters features Jack Palance in Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: amzn.to/3IEaNzt

Dan Curtis Blu-Ray collection from Kino Cult.

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 17h

As an Irishman, I often feel I'll say one and then the Brits will say
, 'that's shite'.
Kenneth Mars in Yellowbeard.

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 17h

This interview with Tonatiuh - god his/their experience of gender sounds very like mine. archive.ph/1cULb

archive.ph

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 17h

He did star in a Yorkshire TV drama (albeit coproduced with CBS and starring Courteney Cox), Till We Meet Again.

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 18h

Starred Michael York, Courteney Cox, Mia Sara, Lucy 'Lolly' Gutteridge, Hugh Grant in his Phoenix Buchanan era, prime Rentabrits Charles Shaughnessy (son of Pete Walker's pal Alf), Maxwell Caulfield, his wife Juliet Mills, plus Barry Bostwick AND Bruce Boxleitner, back to B5.

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 18h

What's funny is he was cast as a Brit in a late 80s CBS-Yorkshire TV co-production, Till We Meet Again (not to be confused with We'll Meet Again).

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The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 18h

They used to have to get Irish folk to slightly less bad American accents (see Joe Lynch, Harry Towb and Ray McAnally's careers)

The Killing of Sister Gore-ge @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social · 18h

I often wonder how is the Wizarding World's relationship to say the Fortean Times?