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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 1h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Jeff Smith @blueskyjeffsmith.bsky.social · 1h

What was it like playing a dead body for most of a movie? Lee Ving, who played Mr. Boddy in Clue, explains it with total sincerity. And it’s somehow both funny and fascinating.

#Clue #LeeVing #BehindTheScenes #ClueTheMovie #ClueDocumentary

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 1d

Get People Who Advocate for Columbus Day to Identify Spain on a Map Challenge.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus? The director of The Goonies and Home Alone?

Jim Downey on Conan O’Brien’s podcast asking “Jeffrey Epstein? The New York Financier?”

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 1d

This profile of Anakin Skywalker, titled “Don’t Bet Against the Emperor’s Favorite New Jedi,” is so good, and I can’t believe people don’t like it. Go ahead and ratio me, I dare you.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of these stories assume The Free Press is a business success. but is it? they generate a ton of subscription revenue but they spend so much that they needed to raise $15M last year. we can't see the financials, but there's a good chance that the operation is a money pit.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't they suffered enough?

Headline from CNBC News:

Politics:

Trump will greet Israel hostages 'in person' after Hamas releases them from Gaza, Vance says

[Sun Oct 12 2015, 12:55pm EDT]

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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."

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 3d

Rowling spends all day on Twitter attacking trans people and siccing her followers on them. She threatens anyone in the UK who criticizes her with lawsuits. This is not your grandpa saying, "I don't know about this transgender thing." This is extreme hate from a person who revels in harming others.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 3d

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: i don’t think most people are aware of just how extreme Rowlings views and actions are

Decider @deciderdotcom.bsky.social · 3d

Keira Knightley was "not aware" of 'Harry Potter' boycott when she joined audiobook cast for JK Rowling series: "I'm very sorry"

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5d

My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.

New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile debuts tonight on The Onion's YouTube channel at 7 p.m. ET.

Finally somebody will release some dang Epstein Files if you know what I'm sayin'!!!

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 5d

Feeling pretty good about my "Bill Burr has always sucked" take.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 5d

This is the clearest sign yet that Democrats are winning this argument. Nobody is going to buy this desperate B.S. I’m honestly surprised, but the Democrats have managed to back Johnson into a corner.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 6d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Folks, it's happening.

We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 7d

When you're so masculine you can't walk up a broken escalator and you whine about it for a week.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 7d

Trump official to Fox News: America has entered ‘era of real masculinity’ thanks to president’s ‘muscular leadership’

Trump official said America has entered ‘era of real masculinity’

www.independent.co.uk

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 7d

There is no way a four run lead is big enough for this dodgers bullpen to not make barfy immediately

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 7d

Red Sox, bring Señor Octubre home!

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 7d

Enrique Hernandez of the Dodgers in an “I hardly want pants” shirt

John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone rich people hate this much must be fantastic.

Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 7d

This is purely about stopping Mamdani.

Philip K. Dick Trickle @pkdtrickle.bsky.social · 7d

Why does The View give so much of a damn about who is mayor? They don’t do this for other towns. It’s weird.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 7d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 8d

A while ago @adamrothman.bsky.social tweeted "As a historian, I think things are going to get worse before they get even worse than that" and I think about it every day.

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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 8d

As reported by @ifbookspod.bsky.social, The Free Press ran exactly one story when Melissa Hortman was assassinated. After Charlie Kirk was assassinated, it created an entire new section of its website on the murder, with multiple articles and op-eds. That's who Bari Weiss is.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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