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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 14m

David Sinclair
@davidasinclair

Fifteen minutes of movement a day can extend lifespan by three years. Longevity starts with a daily walk

Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 17m

Infatuated w Delores Del Rio since adolescence,Welles finally met del Río at Darryl Zanuck's ranch in 1939.They married but his infidelities led to divorce. The same thing happened w Rita Hayworth.

Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 39m

reflex response&skin color. She called it the Apgar Score.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 39m

In Columbia-Presbyterian’s maternity ward,Virginia Apgar saw newborns die within mins of birth bcs doctors had no way to judge wch babies needed help 1st. So 1 morning in 1952,she grabbed a pen&paper&designed a 5-point test measuring heart rate,breathing,muscle tone,

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 49m

Don't let Trump see this

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 1h

"This has been such a crummy year. And now, Diane Keaton gone at 79."

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 1h

Teenagers at a party in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1947, snacking on donuts and drinking Coca-Cola between dances.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 1h

'Today, if I had to do it all over again, I'd stay somewhere down in my own class, which was 170 pounds, light heavyweight. I wouldn't be fighting those big bums that weighed two pounds less than a horse.'
- Gunboat Smith

Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 1h

“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.”

—Henry Miller

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 1h

You never know what you're getting at the market.

Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 6h

''She's off the center,not a regular homogenized individual.She's got a funny slant on life to begin w,&it makes you want to be funny when you're around her. If you have trouble talking to her,that's your fault. We ham-and-egg it pretty good."--Jack Nicholson

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 6h

"We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk."
-Thomas Moore

Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 6h

Couple walk in snow, ca 1955 © Saul Leiter

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 6h

Anna Magnani and friend

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 6h

Court: National Guard troops sent to Illinois by Trump can stay but can’t be deployed for now apnews.com/article/nati...
What is this--Trump in a legal defeat always appeased?

Court: National Guard troops sent to Illinois by Trump can stay but can’t be deployed for now

National Guard troops sent to Illinois by President Donald Trump can stay in the state and under federal control, but can’t be deployed to protect federal property or go on patrol for now, an appeals ...

apnews.com

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 6h

Court: National Guard troops sent to Illinois by Trump can stay but can’t be deployed for now apnews.com/article/nati...
What is this--Trump in a legal defeat always appeased?

Court: National Guard troops sent to Illinois by Trump can stay but can’t be deployed for now

National Guard troops sent to Illinois by President Donald Trump can stay in the state and under federal control, but can’t be deployed to protect federal property or go on patrol for now, an appeals ...

apnews.com

Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 7h

Otto Dix.
Lady with Fox Boa. 1925
A statement about animal killers.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 7h

By chance I came by an old post of mine.

Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 7h

“Sinatra's idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn't know it, but he'd be better off if it were the other way around.”
- Humphrey Bogart

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 7h

Oscar winners pose w their statuettes at the Academy Awards presentation April 3, 1978, frm left: Richard Dreyfuss, best actor for“The Goodbye Girl";Charles H. Joffe, best picture for “Annie Hall";Diane Keaton,best actress for “Annie Hall"; presenter Jack Nicholson.(AP Photo)

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 7h

"Madame" depressingly shows us some unlikeable characters rich,adulterous, snobbish,unempathetic but also show us by chance a maid who has soulfully transcended herself by experiencing a cruel love.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 8h

Really? Qatar gets its own air force facility inside the United States? Why?
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
I am in shock that Washington would approve a deal letting Qatar, Hamas’s #1 financier, open a Qatari Air Force facility on U.S. soil.”

Really? Qatar gets its own air force facility inside the United States? Why?

When Trump is fighting the "enemy within" America and kicking out anyone who can't prove they belong here?

open.substack.com

Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 8h

Diane Keaton, the iconoclastic and left-of-center Oscar-winning film and fashion icon, has died, according to a family spokesperson who shared the news with People magazine. She was 79 years old. Further details about her death were not made available

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 8h

youtu.be/yX-OkV_2z8A?t=55
Janis

TO LOVE SOMEBODY by Janis Joplin

YouTube video by cavettbiter

youtu.be

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 8h

“The Graduate”, 1967. Dustin Hoffman, Katherine Ross. With box office receipts of just over $104 million, this was the highest grossing movie of 1967. By the third year of its release, "The Graduate" was the third highest grossing movie of all time, to that date.

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