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i’m cranky and i’m a crow.
books, movies, music, and a few other things make me less cranky.
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Frank Fenton, Joseph Cotton, Katharine Hepburn, Van Heflin and Shirley Booth in “The Philadelphia Story” (1939). Anne Baxter also appeared in the play.
December 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
now playing: #thekey, 1934.
#williampowell #ednabest

a version of 'tale of two cities' set in ireland.

🎥: youtu.be/ez1brCYAgKA?...

#drama #romance #filmsky
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
picture of me and the staff who operate my bluesky account
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
post your model of positive masculinity
December 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
#charade, released on this day in 1963.

"the best #hitchcock film he didn't direct."

#audreyhepburn #carygrant #waltermatthau

🎥: www.imdb.com/video/imdb/v...
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
what i'm wearing to the #bluesky christmas party
#filmsky
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
now playing: #thekennelmurdercase, 1933.
#williampowell #maryastor #asta

although they share no scenes, william powell and asta appear in this picture, more than a year before the thin man (1934) series began.

#whodunnit #mystery #filmsky
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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#booksky #newspaper #newssky #filmsky #racism

On December 3, 1847,
Frederick Douglass established the abolitionist newspaper, The North Star,
in Rochester, New York.
December 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
me watching my newsfeed everyday now.
December 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
give me a minute, i can come up with more than 11.
11 sexiest butches in TV and film history
We could all use more butch representation in our lives!
www.pride.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
i had that dream again
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
that cancelled tv show i'll never stop thinking about
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
#oscarwilde 's only grandchild investigates the “atom bomb” of the oscar wilde #scandal
Oscar Wilde’s Only Grandchild Investigates the “Atom Bomb” of the Oscar Wilde Scandal
125 years after Wilde’s death, Merlin Holland comes to terms with his family’s complicated history in After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal.
www.vanityfair.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
i had that dream again.
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
day 30 #noirvemberchallenge
best #filmnoir ending: #notorious

from the bedroom, the stairs, the car lockout, the call to alex, to the lone walk back to face his fate...

youtu.be/w5Kt0Ud5jr8?...
Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious - Final Scene
YouTube video by Betty Cominotti
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 5:50 AM
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
what actor would you watch in anything, no matter what?
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM