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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · Jun 21

A while back I put some thought into doing a book about the 60s & 70s NYPD "Seven-Ups" unit and its depictions in films—the fact that Frankenheimer did his Popeye-heroin-withdrawal FC II movie instead of some of the real stories about Egan and Grosso and Nunziata and Papa and Matthews is a bummer.

Eddie Egan, inspiration for Popeye Doyle

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · Oct 3

Amazing thread, especially for those with an interest in the NYPD of the 1960s/1970s. (I've been down a rabbit hole, having just read the 1981 book PAPA'S GAME, about the evidence-room theft of the French Connection heroin)

𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 ℝ𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕘 @ashcanpress.com · Aug 7

I'm going to share the weird William Friedkin story that's been stuck in my head almost my whole life. Some folks know this, I guess. But it always blows people's minds.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 10h

This is a great essay; read it!

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23h

Blast from the past: a piece I did in 2006 about a trio of notoriously ultra-violent, politically reactionary movies from 1971: The French Connection, Dirty Harry, and Straw Dogs

MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 23h

10/7/71: The French Connection (D Friedkin/DP Roizman)
w/Hackman, Scheider, Rey
More:
@pulpcurry.bsky.social: crimereads.com/50-years-rea...
@kphipps3000.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/the-french-c...
We favor, but @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social w/must-read dissent: www.slantmagazine.com/film/caveman...

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 10h

Charlotte Dada - Don't Let Me Down [Ghana - Highlife/afro-soul] 1971 - Really nice cover
https://redd.it/36vtal
https://youtu.be/RjVW4aQ4JB8

Charlotte Dada - Don't Let Me Down [Ghana - Highlife/afro-soul] 1971 - Really nice cover

youtu.be

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J. Gonzo @jgonzo.bsky.social · 10h

Cover I did recently (Custom-lettering by me too)

Joe Schmidt @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social · 12h

Very proud to announce our newest NYC’s Civics for All Comics Group comic Historias de Resistencia #2: Blowouts: The Sal Castro Story by @henrybarajas.bsky.social @louiechin.bsky.social Gab Contreras & @jgonzo.bsky.social Download a FREE copy here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 22h

it was/is the honor of 1,000,000 lifetimes to be included on this reading list.

QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 23h

Gary Panter's Hippie 60's Movement Before It Was Replaced By A Dancing Bear Reading List from Crashpad (2021). I spy @bourgwick.bsky.social's HEADS on there.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 18h

That's the feast that the whiskey priest may yet have to forego!

Henry Fonda in The Fugitive, based on The Power and the Glory

Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 18h

Well I've been plowin' behind the mule, son
A-pickin' cotton all day long

Yes, I've been plow-ow-in'
Pickin' cotton all day long

I said lordy baby
Let's do the fucking news

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 4d

(Lenny Breau in a very Lee Underwood mode here.)

Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 4d

Orson Welles directing the opening of TOUCH OF EVIL in Venice, California, 1957.

Source:
https://theasc.com/articles/cop-gone-wrong-touch-of-evil

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 4d

Transcendent.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn3X...

Lenny Breau with Beverly Glenn Copeland: Duets and LB Solo on CBC TV's 'Music to See' Toronto 1971

YouTube video by The Lenny Breau Archives

www.youtube.com

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 4d

Photo from the set of THE KILLERS!

Always blows my mind a little to see color photos from the sets of black-and-white classics.

Frank Vatel @frankvatel312.bsky.social · 4d

Where I grew up, the newsstand had old men, cigars, and Hustler. This is why nobody stays in Ohio.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely! Makes for an interesting double-header with Night Moves.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 4d

Sold! I was a big fan of Three O'Clock High as a teenager.

I don't think I've seen Heaven's Prisoner's, either, so thanks.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 4d

no matter what you think of THE DROWNING POOL, I don't think anyone—cast, crew, whatever—could ever have a better consecutive run of films than this. (I say this in full recognition of John Cazale's achievement.)

(Gordon Willis, cinematographer)

The Parallax View
The Godfather Part II
The Drowning Pool
All the President's Men
Annie Hall

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking of renting FINAL ANALYSIS (never seen it) just for the Jordan Cronenweth photography. (Also in its favor: I don't think I've ever witnessed a boring Eric Roberts performance.)

Any thoughts?

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 4d

We are the product

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 4d

Are you paying us? Where?

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 5d

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5d

this should be a much bigger story

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 5d

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.

www.wabe.org/family-says-...

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 5d

1971 was considered a year of crisis for the American free press. And yet here's the New York Times celebrating CBS for blowing the whistle on the military-industrial complex. CBS President Frank Stanton stood up to a subpoena.

Where are those institutions at now?

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 5d

Any writers finding that other (non Macmillan) publishers failed to register book copyrights?

Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social · 22d

Authors Have Questions — And No One Is Getting $3,000 A Book; But Macmillan Will “Make…Whole” Those With Overlooked Copyright Registrations
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/09/auth...

Authors Have Questions - And No One Is Getting $3,000 A Book; But Macmillan Will "Make...Whole" Those With Overlooked Copyright Registrations - Publishers Lunch

Writ large, the Anthropic settlement is a huge win for creators, comprising both the largest copyright infringement settlement ever as well as a rare victory over the marauding tech companies that hav...

lunch.publishersmarketplace.com

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 5d

"scrappy news site" gtfo

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 5d

still think it’s weird when full articles about court cases don’t include names of judges, prosecutors, defenders.

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 6d

This is some real Brock Vond - Guy Lee Goodwin shit.

Sara Kropf @sarakropf.bsky.social · 7d

In this case, a federal grand jury refused to indict on gun possession charges.

Undeterred, DC USAO goes to a LOCAL grand jury in DC (local) Superior Court and get the LOCAL GJ to indict on FEDERAL charge.

Superior Ct has separate grand jury process from DDC. They are different courts!
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