Melissa

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Writer. VCFA WCYA alum. One day some little fat girl in ohio could be the next Mozart & make a beautiful film on her father's camera-corder -Francis Ford Coppola. rep @LindaRandom she/her

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I happened to turn on the TV this morning just in time to see Fred and Ginger dancing to "Night and Day," and it hit me like a brick: Beauty and grace helped people get through the worst of the Depression and a war. Arts and culture are more valuable now than ever. 📷

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STELLA DALLAS (1937) Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley. Dir: King Vidor 12:45a ET (9:45p PT) After divorcing a society man, a working-class woman tries to build a better life for their daughter. 1h 46m | Drama

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Guy literally had secrets in his bathroom, selling them to foreign nationals. Calls people to steal votes. Sends a mob to keep himself in office. This country pissing all over its history to bend over backwards for this guy? This is the guy we bring down the whole experiment for?

now watching FAYE

what a day to watch NETWORK

my only take is that now I have Unworthy of Your Love stuck in my head

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Claudette Colbert in Photoplay, April 1934 — “For her night life, Claudette discards feminine frills and dons tailored pajamas. But don't let the attire fool you! Claudette isn't going to sleep. This is the way you'll see her in ‘It Happened One Night’

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I live every day stunned that the guy who killed more Americans than anyone in history besides Jefferson Davis AND attempted a violent coup on national television AND suborned US foreign policy to his own electoral interests badly enough to get impeached for it AND

I get why this is the case, but it’s so wild that one million Americans died of COVID because of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, and it’s not even remotely an issue in this election. What a country!

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Ten months ago, I joined with three other women to demand an investigation into allegations the City of Beverly Hills colluded with extremists to keep an abortion clinic out of the city. We found evidence of multiple meetings & a quid pro quo deal www.yahoo.com/news/beverly...

How Beverly Hills became an unlikely battleground for the future of abortion rightswww.yahoo.com The campaign by an antiabortion group to block the opening of a specialized clinic in Beverly Hills may offer a playbook for similar efforts in other cities and states.

watching CHINATOWN at 9am, as one does

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

I don't have a dad anymore so I'm finding the prospect of picking out a new smart tv absolutely beyond me

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Mae West, 1934

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Eva Marie Saint #botd and Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront (1954).

Right before my dad's stone setting last December, a bunch of graves were defaced in Cleveland, too.

This fucking sucks. www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/u...

176 gravestones at 2 Jewish cemeteries vandalized, FBI investigating | CNNwww.cnn.com Nearly 180 gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries in Cincinnati have been vandalized, according to the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati and the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.

as it turns out, living the role of The Best Friend in "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" doesn't get any easier the second time around

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anyway, is everyone good and mad now? fucking stay that way for the next five months, there will be more aggressions and indignities and insults to come. staying mad as hell about it is how we won in 2020 and it's how we'll win in 2024.

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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.

Justice Sotomayor, in conclusion.

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A huge winning message for the Democrats is "you will not have to think about this guy ever again"

Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.

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And in LA a Jewish-led spy ring took down the Nazis trying to infiltrate the movie business and murder Louis B. Mayer, William Wyler, and a bunch of other prominent Hollywood Jews while the FBI was focused on Communists. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Pulitzer Finalist ‘Hitler in Los Angeles’ Optioned by ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Producer (Exclusive)www.hollywoodreporter.com Chris Bremner is attached to adapt the true story of how an amateur spy ring foiled Nazi plots in Hollywood, including one to assassinate Charlie Chaplin and other stars.

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If there is anything resembling an afterlife, I hope right now, somewhere, Jessica Walter is happily shrieking “Gene Parmesan!”

Martin Mull, comic actor of ‘Clue,’ ‘Roseanne’ and ‘Arrested Development,’ has died

Martin Mull, Comic Actor of 'Clue,' 'Roseanne' and 'Arrested Development,' Dies at 80www.thewrap.com Martin Mull, best known for his roles in "Clue," "Roseanne" and "Arrested Development," died Thursday at age 80.

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oh, DAMN. Not Martin Mull.

I just passed a raccoon eating garbage from the trash can in Central Park followed by a man wearing a T-shirt with Justin Timberlake’s mug shot on it

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I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years. And one thing that's always helped when things look bleak is the knowledge that there is ALWAYS something practical you can do to help make things better -- whether through electoral politics or other kinds of service. For example...

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BREAKING -- New York Public Library for the win! After a massive public backlash, NYC's libraries are getting their funding back -- and will be open on Sundays again. Take a bow, folks -- WE did this.

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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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Right Wing Christians : we need u to remove this version of Anne Frank's Diary and Maus on account of them being antisemitic and violent

Texas school district pulls Anne Frank’s diary after right-wing group’s complaintwww.timesofisrael.com Superintendent removes 676 books, including seminal texts about Holocaust and antisemitism, amid calls from conservative activists

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:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

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There's a statue of Edwin in Gramercy Park!!