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Movie Geek. Museum Aficionado. Author of the forthcoming, "A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnes Varda" (Norton, 2024)

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Reading the Hollywood memoir of writer/director #EdZwick is as enjoyable as watching one of his movies:
forward.com/culture/film...

12.02.2024 21:19 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sorry to learn that #WilhelminaWigginsFernandez, the soprano who had the title role in #Diva, has passed away, age 75.

07.02.2024 00:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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01.12.2023 16:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œRare indeed is the legal victory β€” in court or legislature β€” that is not a careful byproduct of an emerging social consensus,” wrote Sandra Day O'Connor in an essay quoted in today's NYT obit by Linda Greenhouse. Godspeed, Justice O'Connor.

01.12.2023 16:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"re-x" would read like "I kiss you again" in a text.

28.11.2023 17:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Music nerds have phonographic memories. Artists and movie geeks have photographic memories.
#BarbraStreisand has both of those, plus keen gustatory memories.

25.11.2023 16:52 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gloria Grahame is on @tcm at 8pm EST in The Bad and the Beautiful, Vicente Minnelli's delicious Hollywood expose. Kirk Douglas is the Bad, Grahame (who won a supporting actress Oscar) and Lana Turner are the Beauts.

22.11.2023 00:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#HarryBelafonte and #DorothyDandridge in #CarmenJones, an Americanized update of the George Bizet opera, Carmen. Airing on @tcm at 8pm EST.

20.11.2023 00:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tom Rothman, head of Sony's film division, tells The New Yorker that Ridley Scott, 86, director of the studio's #Napoleon, "is the single best argument for a second term for Joe Biden." Your favorite Scott film?

17.11.2023 00:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what a world without men looked like to painter Marie Laurencin: hyperallergic.com/854599/marie...

07.11.2023 14:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to tonight on @tcm, where the peerless #DonaldBogle will introduce the 1934 #ImitationofLife (that's Louise Beavers and Claudette Colbert at 8pm EDT and #IntruderintheDust at 10pm.

02.11.2023 00:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0