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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1h

Jack Kirby: "I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness."

MARK: So the capacity for great good and evil is inherent in everyone?
JACK: Of course. I was dating my wife at the time Hitler was coming on, and I did this editorial cartoon which showed Neville Chamberlain patting a boa con-strictor, and the boa had a bulge called Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain had just given Czechoslovakia to Hitler, okay.
And the boa had Hitler's mustache. I showed it to my boss at the syndicate and he says, "How dare a 19-year-old like you do a cartoon like that? What do you know?" I says "Well, I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness." And Hitler wanted more and more until there was a face-off.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 6h

LOL “Live Free or Die” New Hampshire, the Florida of New England

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

Which is, of course, why ICE is trying to deputize local police to do their work for them: the notorious 287(g) agreements.

But if you have a good sense of what US pop density looks like, you'll see that outside of FL, LOTS of ppl live in green (terminated) or blank (never had a deal) areas.

Map of 287g agreements. Red and orange are hard to tell apart, and not a fan of circle size to distinguish things here, but it gets the point across. Source: https://www.ilrc.org/practitioners/national-map-287g-agreements

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 6h

This is such a fantastic story I never tire of re-reading.

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11h

It’s Roger Moore’s birthday
Here’s a classic anecdote about the great man to cheer you up on a damp Tuesday.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

It would be cool if they would go through the motions of impeachment

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

Chuck cheesing a hideously undercooked burger is 😙👌

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

What. A. Dress. Sweet Lord

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that’s THE IRON ROSE

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

If @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social ever went under, the citizens of Chicago would totally do something like this

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

Goddammit, Clint

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

This is Barbara Bach erasure

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

Alphabetically improbable!

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

This scene gave my wife the courage to become a singer

Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 2d

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

😢😭

Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 2d

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck yeah, Clint

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus. Diane Keaton. RIP to a legend who managed to carve out a lifelong career in an industry that frequently robs women like her of dignity and status once they hit 40.

Diane just threw on a turtleneck and said "fuck you, I'm still going."

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

O dear Diana

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton had an amazing career, but this, to me, is her best scene, and also Beatty's best as a director.

And hey, now that we're talking about it, Reds is a movie screaming for a revival.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Mt...

Reds - train station scene

YouTube video by sniem

www.youtube.com

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

Amen, man

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton at The Schwab’s Pharmacy counter in 1983.

Farewell to one cinema's greatest legends Can’t believe we’ve lost her. Such a shock. Rest in peace Diane Keaton. “La-dee-da, la-dee-da” forever.

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 2d

"She is the dream actress that every director should have." —Gillian Armstrong

Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975

Black and white shot of Diane Keaton in a tank top with her hands behind her head. I like this photo for its simplicity; you can feel her personality.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

I am wrecked. Worse than losing Redford.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

Goddamn right.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago connex make the world feel small

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

*he got to know him, sheesh

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

So it turns out David Black was pastor at my dad’s church for a few months and got to know him

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