Writer. Film historian. Movie maker. won a couple of awards. Member Philadelphia Film Critics Circle.
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Well, thanks @BenMank77 for a short cry this morning…
Kathy Bates says she was sure she never thanked her mother in her Misery Oscar speech, then the interviewer showed her the tape
"She gave up her retirement because I was born so late in life to them."
"When I won the Oscar for Misery, she said, I don't know what all the excitement about, you didn't discover the cure for cancer."
"Why did I think I didn't thank her?"
"Because she should have had my life."
"I wanted her spirit to come into me and enjoy everything I was enjoying because of what she'd given up."
Her mom's whole review of the Oscar was that she didn't cure cancer, and Kathy still believed she had shorted her that night. Then she watches herself thank her mom at home, right there in the speech. Some people never stop trying to pay their parents back. You can hear it in how quiet she gets at the end.
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New Film Scribes podcast is up with @danthefan sitting down for a chat with THE CYCLE director Jordan Downey.
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Respectable opening for a low budget horror flick. Strong WoM and CinemaScore should help it over the next couple of weeks.
Expect usual suspects to move goalposts…
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Trump's Monumental Arch is an affront to the sacred burial grounds at Arlington Natl Cemetery, according to Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents northern Virginia
There are two federal legal challenges seeking to halt construction of Arch
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the definitive musical piece about Mona Lisa has already been made but thanks anyways Sir Lord ALW
Andrew Lloyd Webber reveals his new Mona Lisa musical will be 'fully open' in London by next autumn whatsonstage.com/news/andrew…
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Well, if you want an accurate depiction of the spy created by Ian Fleming, then:
According to a number of Ian Fleming's original 007 novels, James Bond was 6 feet tall and slender, with blue-gray eyes, a "cruel" smile, vertical scar on his right cheek, and looked like 1940s-50s actor/songwriter Hoagy Carmichael.
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This probably hits hard if you failed history in high school.
Hitler was a far-Right fascist whose party was named the National Socialist German Workers' Party to attract working-class voters.
Then he banned the Social Democratic and Communist parties, and sent socialists and communists to concentration camps.
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The mystery actor
The four finalists for James Bond are:
• Callum Turner
• Josh O’Connor
• Jack Lowden
• Mystery Actor
Final screen tests are set to take place next week.
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This is a wonderful offer — ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM is such a good movie.
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Very cool that Spike Lee made it to the game after selling a monorail to Springfield
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I got the Covid vaccine. Now five years later, I need new tires for my car. 🤷♂️
Kids, did I ever tell you about the time the chitari invaded the city but Uncle Barney thought it was an elaborate game of laser tag?
Theory:
Maria Hill is actually Robin Cherbotsky from How I Met Your Mother. They exist in the same universe.
It's why she traveled the world so much as "an anchor" but yet nobody ever knew who she was (common plot point). She had previously changed her identity as well.
It's also why she was so proficient with a firearm and seemingly always landed back in New York - despite consistently pushing any potential relationship away .. "because of her career"
