I remember operating one of those quadruplex beasts when I was a videotape engineer at a local TV station in a previous century.

Sometimes the original is not safe even from its own creator. Chaplin tried to bury the original GOLD RUSH after releasing his quasi-talkie reboot.

It was John Wayne, of course.

Schumer will write a strongly worded letter, and then by God they'll be sorry.

Sure, but now ask them if they would vote for him again. Spoiler: an absolutely horrifying number of them will tell you that they would.

I met Beverly Bayne when I was a 16-year-old silent movie fan attending Cinecon 8 in 1972. She was one of the guests of honor at the con that year, along with Lois Wilson, Zena Keefe, and Leatrice Joy.

Per the U.S. Supreme Court, Donald Trump can do literally anything he wants, anytime he wants, as often as he wants, for any reason, or for no reason, without consequences of any kind.

I think it was Robert Heinlein who said "one should never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence."