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Lauren Facall
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"Prejudice, hate and discrimination make money. It's a racket just like prohibition racketeers. How? Membership dues, subscriptions, merchandise. They live on fear by making people feel rage toward people different to them. The profits can climb into millions."
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The day 30,000 white supremacists in KKK robes marched in the nation’s capital
Unlike Sunday's expected rally of white nationalists in the nation's capital, the Klan was enthusiastically welcomed by white Washington in 1925.
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"She's lucky to have a Mother like you. Everyone has a mother like me. You probably had one, too."

"You don't know how a family can surround you at times. Do you never get away from your family? No. You have your family, I have my Nagel."

Max Ophüls' The Reckless Moment (1949) #ChristmasNoir
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"You're alone. But you don't mind that. You're a loner. That's the way it should be. You like it that way."

"It's Christmas and everyone is on that goodwill kick... so maybe they'll leave you alone."

#ChristmasNoir
Narration written by blacklisted Waldo Salt (1961)
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December 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
"An insurance investigator arrives in a small town to look into the report of a suspicious death, deemed suicide, but when he fails to verify any of the questionable police evidence a dark mystery unfolds." Stars #FilmNoir Dennis O'Keefe (+ writer), William Bendix and Barbara Briton.

#ChristmasNoir
December 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
3 December 1985 – Amanda Seyfried, 40, US actress.

Mean Girls (2004) * Big Love * Twin Peaks * Mamma Mia! * Jennifer's Body * Dear John * Letters to Juliet * Red Riding Hood * Les Misérables * Lovelace * Ted 2 * Mank (OscarNom) * The Dropout * The Testament of Ann Lee * Long Bright River (2025)
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
3 December 1968 – Brendan Fraser, 57, Canadian-US actor.

Encino Man (1992) * George of the Jungle * The Mummy Trilogy * Gods and Monsters * Bedazzled * The Quiet American * Crash * Journey to the Center of the Earth * No Sudden Move * The Whale (Oscar) * Killers of the Flower Moon * Brothers (2024)
December 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
3 December 1960 – Daryl Hannah, 65, US actress. Neil Young ​(m. 2018-)

The Fury (1978) * Blade Runner * Splash * Legal Eagles * Roxanne * Wall Street * Steel Magnolias * Memoirs of an Invisible Man * Grumpy Old Men * Attack of the 50 Foot Woman * Kill Bill * A Closed Book * Sense8 * The Now (2021)
December 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
3 December 1857 – 1924 Joseph Conrad, (Józef Konrad Korzeniowski), 66, Polish-born UK novelist.

Film Adaptations: #Hitchcock Sabotage (1936 novel Secret Agent) Outcast of the Islands (1952) * Lord Jim (1965) * The Duellists (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979 based on Heart of Darkness) Secret Agent (1996)
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
2 December 1968 – Lucy Liu, 54, US actress, producer.

Ally McBeal (1998–2002) Payback * Charlie's Angels * Kill Bill * Shanghai Noon * Chicago * Lucky Number Slevin * Watching the Detectives * Marry Me * Man with the Iron Fists * Elementary * Southland * Why Women Kill * Prescence * Rosemead (2025)
December 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
2 December 1925 – 2013 Julie Harris, 87, US actress. Five Tony Awards.

Broadway debut (1945) Member of the Wedding (Broadway 1950 + 1952 film OscarNom) * East of Eden * I Am a Camera * Requiem for a Heavyweight * Victoria Regina * The Haunting * Columbo * Knots Landing * The Lightkeepers (2009)
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
2 December 1923 – 1977 Maria Callas, (b. Kalogeropoulos), 53, (Heart Attack), US-Greek soprano, actress.

Born in #NYC to poor Greek immigrants in 1923, she became opera’s greatest diva on stage and in life. Her performances of Puccini's Tosca among the greatest of all time.
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Maria By Callas | Official US Trailer HD (2018)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics
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December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
2 December 1894 – 1948 Warren William (Krech), 53, (Multiple Myeloma), US actor.

Three on a Match (1932) * Cleopatra * Imitation of Life * (First actor to play Perry Mason 1934-36) * Madame X * The Lone Wolf Films (1939-42) * The Wolf Man * Strange Illusion * The Private Affairs of Bel Amir (1947)
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
2 December 1947 - Arabs' 'riot' response to #UnitedNations Partition Plan to create #Israel giving over half of #Palestine away to a demographic who in 1922 were 11% of its population, and owned less than 7% of the land. 8 Jews, and 6 Arabs were killed.
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UN Partition Plan, 1947
Highlight - Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba - On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 recommending the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states (along with....
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December 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
"Honey, what's happened to you? I'm in love - crazy in love! With a man that pushes you around the way I wouldn't push a cat around. You leave Johnny out of this! With your looks and figure you could get any man you want! Sure! But there's only one I want."

Millie Ray & Johnny (Scarlet Street 1945)
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
1 December 1961 – Jeremy Northam, 64, English actor.

The Voysey Inheritance (1990 Olivier Award) A Village Affair * The Net * Emma * Amistad * Mimic * The Winslow Boy * An Ideal Husband * Happy, Texas * Gosford Park (as Ivor Novello) * Enigma * The Tudors * Cypher * The Crown (2016–17 Anthony Eden)
November 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
1 December 1951 – 2023 Treat Williams, 71, (Motorbike Crash), US actor, private pilot.

Grease (Broadway 1972, as Danny) * The Eagle Has Landed * Hair * Prince of the City * Deep Rising * Substitute * 127 Hours * Everwood * White Collar * Blue Bloods * Chesapeake Shores * Feud Capote vs Swans (2024)
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
1 December 1940 – 2005 Richard Pryor, 65, (MS/Heart Attack), US stand-up, actor, writer. 5 Grammy Awards.

Wild in the Streets (1968) Lady Sings the Blues * Uptown Saturday Night * Silver Streak * The Wiz * Stir Crazy * Superman III * Harlem Nights * See No Evil, Hear No Evil * Lost Highway (1997)
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
1 December 1926 – 2018 Allyn Ann McLerie, 91, Canadian-US actress, singer, dancer. George Gaynes ​(m. 1953 d. 2016)

Where's Charley? (Broadway + film) Calamity Jane * They Shoot Horses Don't They * Reivers * The Cowboys * Jeremiah Johnson * Way We Were * All the President's Men * Thorn Birds (1983)
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
1 December 1923 – 1987 Dick Shawn, (b. Schulefand), 63, (Heart Attack), US comedian, actor.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) * Penelope (1966) * The Producers (1967) * The Happy Ending (1969) * Evil Roy Slade (1972) * The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (1964-86) * Maid to Order (1987)
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
30 November 1969 – Marc Forster, 56, German-Swiss filmmaker.

Everything Put Together (2000) * Monster's Ball * Finding Neverland * Stay * The Kite Runner * Quantum of Solace * Machine Gun Preacher * World War Z * Hand of God * Christopher Robin * A Man Called Otto * White Bird (2024)
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
30 November 1943 – Terrence Malick, 82, US filmmaker.

Three Oscar Nominations: The Thin Red Line (1997 Director + Adapted Screenplay) * The Tree of Life (Director 2011)

Badlands (1973) * Days of Heaven * The New World * Knight of Cups * To The Wonder * Voyage of Time * The Way of the Wind (TBA)
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
30 November 1937 – Ridley Scott, 88, English filmmaker, production design

Oscar Nominations: Thelma & Louise * Gladiator * Black Hawk Down * The Martian

The Duellists * Alien * Blade Runner * Kingdom of Heaven * RKO 281 * American Gangster * Prometheus * All the Money in the World * House of Gucci
November 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
30 November 1920 – 2005 Virginia Mayo, (b. Jones), 84, US actress.

Jack London (1943 with Michael O'Shea m. 1947 his death 1973) The Princess and the Pirate * The Best Years of Our Lives * Flaxy Martin * White Heat * Backfire * Captain Horatio Hornblower * Murder, She Wrote * Man Next Door (1997)
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
30 November 1835 – 1910 Mark Twain, (b. Samuel Clemens), 74, US novelist, critic.

The Prince and the Pauper * Million Pound Note * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn * The Mysterious Stranger * A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
November 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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🇵🇸 International Day for Palestine 🇵🇸

A fragile ceasefire isn't enough. There must be an end to Israel's occupation, an end to arms sales, an end to Apartheid

🇵🇸National March for Palestine
🗓️ Saturday 29 November
⏰ Noon
📍 Central London

🚍 Book your coaches now!
October 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
29 November 1954 – Joel Coen, 71, US filmmaker. Frances McDormand ​(m. 1984-)

4 Oscars: Fargo (Director and Screenplay) No Country for Old Men (Director and Screenplay)

Oscar Nominated: O Brother, Where Art Thou? * A Serious Man * True Grit * Bridge of Spies * The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM