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John Beifuss 〽️

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4 years

Finally, a movie promo item I saved has proved useful: from 2002, a 28 DAYS LATER face mask.

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Y’all see the full-page Ja Morant spread leading the sports section in today’s NYTimes?

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@mattzollerseitz I think about this all the time: all those wonderful and needy actors who don’t get voice jobs in favor of millionaire celebrities who kids don’t know anyway.

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damn the Trump news is so bad tonight that Fox right now is talking about Covid

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Ja Morant: I think it is true that nobody has brought this level of meteoric yet sustained positive national attention to Memphis since Elvis.

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Hey, here are actresses @Felissa_Rose (‘Sleepaway Camp’) and @Kellimaroney (‘Night of the Comet’), in the crowd, dancing to Ramones covers performed live at the Summer Drive-In during #JoeBobsJamboree

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4 years

White Station High School Class of 1966. Spartans!

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7 years

I watched BABY DRIVER with Carla Thomas:

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Fisher Stevens (Succession, Asteroid City, etc) at the Justin Timberlake show.

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Riley Keough, Lisa Marie, Priscilla, Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, all here now for the Graceland premiere of ELVIS.

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5 years

The NBC legal drama BLUFF CITY LAW *will* shoot in Memphis, starting in July. The official announcement should come later this week:

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4 years

RIP Mort Drucker, 91, Mad magazine's master TV and movie (mostly) caricaturist. His incredible art graced such classic satires as "Star Blecch," "Rosemia's Booboo," "Midnight Wowboy," on and on. A personal hero, and a major influence for so many...

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3 years

Elvis Costello & the Imposters (plus Charlie Sexton on guitar), tonight, at Graceland. (The highlight: a radically rearranged ‘Brilliant Mistake’ that segued into ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams.’)

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Here’s White Station senior Janay Kelley, winner of the grand jury prize at the @indiememphis Youth Film Fest tonight for her short KINFOLK, which makes use of witness reports gathered after the “Memphis Massacre” of 1866. A repeat winner, she won last year for DEATH OF HIP-HOP.

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4 years

Serious question: How many votes might Elizabeth Warren lose because people don’t notice the small ‘Race Continued On Next Page’ prompt at the bottom of the electronic ballot?

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2 years

The Lisa Marie Presley memorial service program.

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6 months

Justin Timberlake at the Orpheum now, showing his hometown and hometown hero Al Green some love, performing ‘Let’s Stay Together.’

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4 years

The gods have a sick sense of humor. This was supposed to be the first night of the Beale Street Music Festival - and the weather is absolutely gorgeous - and is supposed to remain so for the entire weekend.

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3 years

Today, Elvis Costello hand-delivered his new single to radio station WEVL, for its world airplay debut; tomorrow, he kicks off his 2021 tour across the street from the home of the first Elvis. Story here:

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4 years

Today would have been my mother's 90th birthday. Here's the book she wrote, published in 1985. Still definitive!

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3 years

Quite a title card.

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4 years

RIP Bryan Hogue, the film enthusiast who co-founded Memphis' Black Lodge Video, which remains one of the country's last surviving and premier 'curated' movie rental stores:

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5 years

No fiction writer of the past was able to imagine our current dystopia because it seemed beyond belief that the U.S. would elect as president an ignoramus criminal madman.

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5 years

Holy shit -- Trump falsely accuses Ralph Northam of saying he supports "a newborn baby [coming] out into the world, and wrap the baby, make the baby comfortable, & then talk to the mother & talk to the father and then execute the baby. Execute the baby!" Huge, angry boos.

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Something distasteful about a company spending thousands of dollars to send even nonentities like me free goods promoting the Oscar worthiness of a movie about economic deprivation.

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3 years

Memphis disc jockey Rick Dees promoting his 1976 No. 1 hit “Disco Duck.”

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2 years

now THIS is how you do blu-ray cover art

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4 years

Protester at Second and MLK, Downtown Memphis.

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2 years

@_katiestebbins_ If you click on the EW link, *all* the images look like that, even the ones not set in a Cenobite underworld. The project to make movies as unviewable as dialog has become unhearable continues apace.

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2 years

Did not expect Emo Philips to emerge as a 2022 hero.

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2 years

to those who toil long, lonely hours without thanks, let alone remuneration, to colorize vintage photos & film: please stop

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6 months

The T-shirts on the right sold out fast. (Here to cover Justin Timberlake’s one-night-only free Memphis concert at the Orpheum.)

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8 years

RIP Zacherle, 98, 'The Cool Ghoul,' on Phila and NYC TV, 1950s-60s; one of the first & most famous "horror hosts," with books, records, etc.

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5 years

This man died 50 years ago today.

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2 years

Bette Davis to James Cagney, JIMMY THE GENT (1934).

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4 years

He lived at the drive-in: James Lloyd, a Malco Theatres employee for 54 years, who lived above the concession stand at the Summer Drive-In, died Monday, two hours before his 84th birthday:

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2 years

This brilliant and beautiful 'Asian Elvis' photograph by Tommy Kha was removed from space dedicated to local artists at the Memphis airport. Expect this to become a national scandal - another embarrassment for Tennessee. Story here:

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@mistermoviespod

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4 years

Speculation is a fool's game. But the presence of this QAn*n slogan among those spraypainted on the walls of Graceland supports the theory that the vandalism was not the work of Black Lives Matter activists but of agitators seeking to *discredit* the BLM movement. But who knows.

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6 years

Wow: @memphisnews will have hired 21 new journalists by the end of the year, meaning that half the staff will be newcomers (to the paper, not to journalism). The hirings were mostly to fill vacancies. but that's a promising statistic that fills me with hope.

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3 years

Duh.

nina lee

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3 years

Who is a character that had roughly 15 minutes or less in a film but had a huge impact on it ?

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3 years

SPENCER with Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, a horror anthology from Nigeria, and a documentary on Kenny G are among the 40 or so features set to screen next month during the @indiememphis festival:

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2 years

Cultural vandalism: Presented today by @fathomevents , THE MUMMY (1932) was “enhanced” with distracting, ludicrously loud new foley (footsteps, rustling paper); worse, new music was added, so instead of sepulchral silence, Karloff’s resurrection was accompanied by loud music…

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2 years

Thousands of fans/mourners assembled on the north lawn of Graceland during the Lisa Marie Presley service, looking toward the mansion and the tent that contained the family/friend/celebrity mourners.

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6 years

The Mr. Rogers doc, WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, on Friday begins its ninth week at the Ridgeway. An astonishing run for any movie these days, especially a documentary.

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2 years

Memphis thriller writer Mark Greaney already sells lots of books. But he'll probably sell many times more after THE GRAY MAN with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling - a $200 million Netflix adaptation of Greaney's first novel - debuts this month:

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5 years

Barry Jenkins has selected @jameyhatley and Raven Jackson as the winners of the Indie Memphis Black Screenwriting fellowships:

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4 years

I typo’ed her name earlier. She is Jordan Dodson, 21, and she led the march with chants, orations, and recitations of the names of the dead for *three* hours.

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RIP James Drury, 85, frequent and popular guest at the longrunning, nostalgia-oriented Memphis Film Festival. Title star for nine seasons on TV's THE VIRGINIAN. Worked with Elvis (LOVE ME TENDER), Peckinpah (RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY), Robby the Robot (FORBIDDEN PLANET).

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4 years

Letter in today’s NYTimes:

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5 years

Raise your hand: Marc Cohn performs “Walking in Memphis” with Miley Cyrus during Miley’s four-song Facebook-sponsored surprise appearance at #BSMF19

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4 years

We have this year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

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who did this? 😂

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5 years

!!!! - Graceland to host a TWIN PEAKS convention, marking the 30th anniversary of David Lynch's show - most of the stars will be there:

'Twin Peaks' convention set for Elvis Presley's Graceland; here's what to expect

Elvis fans and David Lynch fans to converge in April convention at Graceland.

www.commercialappeal.com

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7 years

I feel like I've never been to a Grizz game where they weren't advertising an upcoming concert by the Foo Fighters.

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Sculptor Mike McCarthy and his Johnny Cash statue, in front of the church where JC and the Tennessee Two played their first professional gig.

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5 years

Black Lodge is back! Still a work in progress, but soft opening tonight - hundreds of movies ready to rent.

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4 years

Memphis author Sheree Renee Thomas is the new editor - and first person of color to be editor - of the revered Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, home for 70 years to Asimov, Clarke, Bradbury, Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King:

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7 years

Confederate statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis coming down in Memphis. Under cover of night, Christmas week. Smart. Now let's get to work on those Sam Phillips and Ida B. Wells replacements.

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5 years

Frankenstein, my favorite actor.

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RIP Jerome Wright, 74: crime reporter, editor, columnist. 50+ years a journalist - a passion for Memphis and newspapering.

Jerome Wright dies at 74: Veteran journalist had 'passion' for news and Memphis

Veteran journalist Jerome Wright had a passion for his Memphis hometown and a devotion to the watchdog mission of journalism that never wavered.

www.commercialappeal.com

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7 years

In 1973, David Bowie visited prof Dolph Smith at the Memphis College of Art, which today announced it is closing:

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1 year

visiting elon at home

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5 years

I heard that NYTimes Sunday magazine interview with Nicolas Cage was good so now I’m reading it and he just out of the blue quoted from one of my all time all time all time favorite movies so - mind blown

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4 years

Katharine Hepburn's birthday? Good time to bust out the lepidopterist aviatrix ensemble from CHRISTOPHER STRONG (1933).

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John Singleton was a significant presence during what now seems like a heyday of Memphis filmmaking. Craig Brewer, Al Kapone, others remember:

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Today's Memphis newspaper has a story about a restaurant called Homegirl Café, complete with address and hours of operation in a handy "If You Go" box. A complication is that the restaurant is in LOS ANGELES.

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Unlike other Netflix movies, Craig Brewer's DOLEMITE IS MY NAME *will* get a Memphis theatrical release, Oct. 4 at the Malco Paradiso, in recognition of Craig's hometowner status:

Malco to show Craig Brewer's 'Dolemite Is My Name' before its Netflix debut

Eddie Murphy biopic of "blaxploitation" star to get theatrical release before Netflix debut.

www.commercialappeal.com

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Hey y’all you can actually watch her with your real eyes. #MileyCyrus #BSMF19

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Robert Plant inducting Priscilla Presley into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

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3 years

Shameless: Already seeing talk of prayers from legislators who make it easier for Tennesseans to get access to guns and then make it harder for shooting victims to get treatment in hospitals crowded with the COVID patients the legislators discouraged from getting vaccinated.

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Those infantilizing words ‘wholesome’ and ‘innocent’ seem like a way to diminish Doris Day’s talent and influence. How about ‘smart,’ ‘sexy,’ ‘powerful’?

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3 years

"Keith Lee" trending again. I always expect it to be this legend.

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4 years

Georgia outcomes make you wonder what Mississippi might be like without all the voter suppression.

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Fans from across America, new songs, an homage to Al Green, a 'Succession' star in the house: a look at Justin Timberlake's "once-in-a-lifetime" hometown Memphis concert last night:

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What the world needs now in addition to love sweet love is very possibly Morgan Neville's documentary about a man whose life's work was a rebuke to incivility, cruelty, greed and - especially - the mistreatment of children. "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" opens Friday at the Ridgeway

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Carla Thomas at Memphis Film Comm party for the 30th anniv of start of principal photogrphy on MYSTERY TRAIN

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Here's why Mick Jagger met Jerry Lee Lewis in Memphis yesterday:

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If you use the term "China virus" you are the same caliber of pinhead that once said "freedom fries."

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@JackPosobiec .Imagine being so dopey you don't know the 'witches' were the innocents and the people who killed them the villains.

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All great, but the one that awaits rediscovery is BEAT GIRL - a switchblade slice of post-Elvis, pre-Beatles Britsploitation about a generation itching to lose its head (maybe literally, in a game of chicken on a train track).

edgarwright

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I’m excited to be screening the cinematic delights of… Beat Girl Belle de Jour Black Narcissus Blood and Black Lace Don't Look Now Persona Sapphire Seance on a Wet Afternoon The Earrings of Madame de... Check it out on the @criterionchannl very soon x

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Never understood the neglect. Place where we saw Dylan, Elvis Costello, Al Green, Ramones, John Fogerty, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Cheap Trick, Midnight Oil, Tom Tom Club, Blondie, Sex Pistols (reunion), the Cranberries, 10000 Maniacs, Crosby Stills & Nash, etc etc

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Possible new use for the Mud Island Amphitheater? The first step towards a new feasibility study is underway.

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Also, Shelby County *does* have the ability to and *has* in the past included two columns on its electronic ballot pages. So, this was unnecessary as well as confusing.

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Lisa Marie Presley (second from left), with daughter Riley Keough; mom Priscilla; Austin Butler; Tom Hanks; Rita Wilson - at Graceland, June 11, 2022.

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Malco, Indie Memphis are partnering on the "Indie Memphis Cinema" - devoting one screen full-time at the Studio on the Square to essentially create an art house cinema.

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John Singleton was in Memphis quite a bit, especially from 2004-2007, producing HUSTLE & FLOW and BLACK SNAKE MOAN. Always unpretentious, always friendly, always went the extra mile to be helpful, even to a reporter whose presence on set could be charitably described as redundant

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Memo to Fathom Events: If you don’t think the 2022 audience is sophisticated enough to handle unadulterated Boris Karloff in THE MUMMY of 1932, don’t book Boris Karloff in THE MUMMY of 1932.

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@kenvogel @JamesOKeefeIII @GinniThomas .

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Memphis' Verlinda Henning defeated the defending champion to win today's episode of "Jeopardy!"

Here's how Jeopardy! contestant from Memphis fared

Verlinda Henning of Memphis appeared on "Jeopardy!"

www.commercialappeal.com

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3 years

Mae West, BELLE OF THE NINETIES (1934). And this is in the first six minutes.

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Pre-code queen Dorothy Mackaill in LOVE AFFAIR (1931, no relation to the later McCarey film), one of the many rare Columbia releases suddenly available in pristine condition on Amazon Prime.

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Still wishing that movies still introduced their casts like this. (This example from THE MAN WITH TWO FACES, 1934.)

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5 years

Hey, did y’all know that Samantha Bee did a segment for her most recent show at @BarBQShop ?

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1 year

RIP Jennifer Biggs, longtime food reporter/reviewer and "gem," for The Commercial Appeal and The Daily Memphian:

Memphis food writer Jennifer Biggs remembered as 'a bright shining light'

Memphis food writer Jennifer Biggs remembered as a tireless, joyful, endlessly upbeat journalist who put real heartbeat into the food beat.

www.commercialappeal.com

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7 years

Props to Memphis wrestling fans: Lance Russell is trending right there alongside Jimmy Kimmel and Tom Petty.

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5 years

Haven't seen Todd Phillips' JOKER. But if you want a movie about a humiliated man who adopts the guise of a clown to ritualistically re-experience his public degradation before plotting violent revenge, may I suggest HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, with Lon Chaney? It's a masterpiece.

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I just got off a Zoom call with Steve Martin and Martin Short and I guarantee you as soon as I left the chat those two looked at each other and said "What in hell was up with that poor guy??"

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RIP Robert Osborne, @tcm (Turner Classic Movies) host for 20+ years. Added grace and class to a medium (cable television) in need of both.

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Don Bryant, with the Bo-Keys, doing the song he wrote for his wife, Ann Peebles, "I Can't Stand the Rain." What other NBA city has that for halftime entertainment?

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a) Super bummer that Cesar Rosas was ill and couldn’t be with Los Lobos tonight at BPAC. b) Super cool that Memphis guitarist Steve Selvidge was able to step right in and absolutely kill it.

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RIP Jack Parnell (father of SNL's Chris Parnell), one of Memphis' most popular deejays and a ubiquitous voice artist in the late '50s to early '70s heyday of rock n' roll radio and local TV:

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somehow never had noticed the coolness of the lobby of the Central Library

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