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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

In loving memory, Charles M. "Chuck" Jones.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

ISNT IT OBVIOUS? Republicans can't win elections so they try every dirty slimy trick they can to get control without votes -- like Trump trying to steal the Presidency with spurious, idiotic lawsuits. REPUBLICANS DON'T JUST HATE DEMOCRATS; THEY HATE DEMOCRACY.

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Tom Shales

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8 years

@THR They're bringing out the heavyweights, folks!

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@BettyBowers @ltlantnee Go, Shepard! Takes guts to say what you said. So few reporters with guts working in television today. TOO FEW!

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@RealTomShales

9 years

@barbara_gaines1 Jesus BG, I'm dumb; knew u were cute, clever, didn't know you were BRILLIANT -- Please accept my heartfelt heart feeling.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

8 years

@GeorgeTakei We needed her among us -- Her irreverent wit was a gift to her and to all of us

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

@shaunpcassidy Watched J.Cassidy in COLUMBO earlier today. He was damn good -- elegantly slimy as the guy whodunit. Written by Steven Bochco, directed by Steven Spielberg. Howz THAT for a pair of Stevens?! I know this is anything but news to you, but I watched based on what U had texted.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Bless you for the good work you do. Preservationists are heroes of our time, like nature photographers & first responders. I'm a last responder myself but then I got uhhhh -- bone spurs in my foot. Yeah that's it.

Trapped by Television

@LouLumenick

4 years

@RealTomShales Virtually all Poverty Row films from the 1930s, and the vast majority from the 1940s have been in the public domain for many years. Many survive because safety prints were struck for early TV. @UCLAFTVArchive has restored a few but most are badly in need of restoration.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

God bless Chris Elliott, a truly original thinker. I miss his presence and his nuttiness.

Schitt's Creek

@SchittsCreek

5 years

And now, a poetry reading from ~the~ Chris Elliott. #SchittsCreekGivesBack

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

Great show, brilliant host, best & brightest of all the political humor on television, it’s the only daily entertainment program I never miss. I’d go so far as to say it’s worth suffering thru Trump for the whacks that Meyers & Co. take at him —almost. Almost. #SethMeyers

Seth Meyers

@sethmeyers

6 years

Five years ago @LateNightSeth debuted with guests Amy Poehler and train enthusiast Joe Biden. Thanks to everyone who has watched and to our incredible staff for making each day a joy.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

Too late. Too late for all of us. We've given up. Trump led us into terminal hopelessness.

Jon Cooper 🇺🇸

@joncoopertweets

3 years

BREAKING! President Biden has reunited an additional 100 children separated at the border by Donald Trump with 350 more in process! Who else thinks this should be a BIGGER story in the media? ✋

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

One story I heard, perhaps apocryphal, is that Frank showed up for shooting but when he found out the movie had to be done twice --for anamorphic & for standard ratio -- he bowed out & went home. He seems all wrong for the part anyway.

Shaun Cassidy

@Shaunpcassidy

5 years

@RealTomShales Agreed. “Carousel” is my favorite R&H score, and unfortunately Henry King was a old, staid silent film director when he took the helm of the movie (Sinatra was originally slated to play Bigelow, by the way.) But Fred Zinnemann did masterful work on “Oklahoma”.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

Oh, Doc Pop? ( @DrPopCultureBG ). Did u ask re Norm Macdonald? I haven't felt up to the task. Loved his work & dealing with him on the Miller-Shales SNL book (which included Ohlmeyer mess). 'Have been watching Classic Norm all week, will write something (for what it's worth) soon.

Furley PR

@Furley_PR

4 years

@DrPopCultureBG Dr Pop- Will you please follow TV critic and good guy @RealTomShales

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

Norman Lloyd had a fabulous life. Dangling from the Statue of Liberty's arm was all in a day's work. I only met him once but always hoped there'd be another time. He was full of fascinating stories. And I'm willing to bet that even at 106 he was still fascinated with life.

RetroNewsNow

@RetroNewsNow

3 years

Norman Lloyd, Actor in ‘St. Elsewhere’ and Hitchcock’s ‘Saboteur,’ Dies at 106

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

I've said it before & I say it again, God bless Dan Rather.

Dan Rather

@DanRather

4 years

There is a sad irony that the same elected officials who refused to listen to science, who mocked public health, who minimized the coronavirus, are desperate for science to bail out their negligence (which has led to unnecessary death and suffering) with vaccines and treatments.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

@wmferrall @MysterySolvent William, Moi Aussi re "300-lb man." In fact I scaled 340, maybe even touched the hem of 350 (Now 240). Still I didnt fit the Big Fat Slob profile as DJT does. Potentially Good News: letting oneself go to that extent signals surrender & lapse of self-esteem. Let it be, let it be!

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

Looking great, it is a pleasure to state. Congratulations on the Sirius gig. Siriusly (ugh) !

Shaun Cassidy

@Shaunpcassidy

5 years

12PM Eastern/9AM Pacific (and all weekend) you can hear me burning up vinyl (while tossing back NyQuil) in a special two hour show on @SIRIUSXM @70sOn7

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

7 years

@BetteMidler Happy BetteDay Beautiful. Remember how mad u got when I said I giggled at "the dying swan" ballet? How could I?! And remember when I turned up to intvw u again, heavier by several lbs & U said, "'Been living the good life I see!" I will love u forever. FOREVER.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

Jeez what a nice thing to say. Have I maybe got the virus & don't know it, & you feel sorry for me?! (Just LOL'ing around, I hope). If I praise you now, it will sound like... yes... quid pro quo! But I am a fan & that's that. And I'll meet you on the other side of The Plague....

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

5 years

@RealTomShales Tom you’re a national treasure. Miss your stuff in the WaPo. Hope you’re hanging in there

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

JOHNNY disliked Bob Hope intensely, and feared he would follow in Hopes footsteps -- living only for work & money & having virtually no close friends. That's what he told me.

Mike McCann

@MikeMcCannRadio

4 years

@mmalkoff Have them discuss Johnny's reverence for the comic legends a generation before him: Hope, Burns, and of course, his hero, Jack Benny.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

#NBCNightlyNews is easily the BEST of the Big 3 network evening newscasts-- highest news density, least bullshit. ABC has the most glitz & best-looking correspondents, & CBS still does the news circa 1965. That's the way it really is, folks, & I won a Pulitzer.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

@LouLumenick Were U on TCM with Osborne? I'm not asking 'cause I was -- especially since I fucked it up so badly -- but what a great man he was. Non Sequitur: Fave obscure musical: "Youre a Sweetheart" w/Alice Faye & -- Walter Winchell?! I knew him near end of his life. Dreadful man....

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

@DrPopCultureBG "...not my penis!"

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Come on #CNN . get some anchors who can handle, and possibly cut off, that lying sack of shit J Hogan Gidley. He lies with the proficiency of his loathsome boss. Lying is their only area of competence. Fine qualification for public office. KEEP GIDLEY OFF TV.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Of all the comics & alleged wits joking about @realDonaldTrump , the inarguably great @LateNightSeth (Meyers, on NBC) has easily the highest batting average. Always, always makes me laugh out loud (even in bed, where sadly there ain't much else to do).

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

Sally Field, 75?! Terrific in many a movie, she brings her own glow to the screen. I was in a scene with her on HBO's "Larry Sanders Show," yet we never met. My loss.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

With all due respect, ladies, please shut the fuck up.

Jason S. Campbell

@JasonSCampbell

5 years

Diamond & Silk are speculating coronavirus deaths are being inflated to make Trump look bad

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

8 years

@twhiddleston @Coops_tv . Anton Yelchin, dead??? That is HORRIBLE news. What a brilliant future he had. Truly gifted; this is devastating.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Don, creaky old geezers like me are thrilled to be remembered at all, much less with approval. SO! You haven't always agreed with me?! And you have the NERVE to call yourself my biggest fan? Oh; U never said anything like that? Well, no hard feelings, Punk! And -- thank you.

Don Giller

@thedonz5

4 years

@RealTomShales Oh yeah — I’ve read your work. High praise though not in 100% accord. But my respect for your insights has never wavered. And your SNL book is seminal. It’s an honor to “know” you.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

8 years

@barbara_gaines1 Thanks for liking my tweet. As for that ex-big job in television: you still are big (in stature); the jobs got smaller.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

7 years

Lovely tribute — and Great footage of Chuck dancing down the hall....

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Charlie Chaplin. but actually it was Mrs Chaplin; she couldn't get Charlie to come to the [hotel room] door. For many years, he was the most famous person on the planet, partly because his movies surmounted all language barriers.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

America absolutely adored him, for 50+ years. HIs comedy was without a hint of the bitterness or acidity so common today. He was an icon to treasure.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

REPLAY! Replay !!! NOT "reply"! Love you, dear old @DrPopCultureBG !!!

DrPopCulture

@DrPopCultureUSA

3 years

@RealTomShales There are several great podcasts that reply old Jack Benny radio episodes. @buckbenny @ThisDayBenny @NostalgiaDigest

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Would someone PLEASE give @DrFauci a coughdrop?!? Especially if he's going to continue appearing on television 37 times a day?!!

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

I like it because I didn't have to do much writing. It's mostly in the words of those who created SNL. And btw, if one of them should strike u as dull, hop on over to the next witness or to a new string of anecdotes. (If u love the show, tho, I doubt you'll be bored).

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

I may have weighed more than Sting & Shandling put together; later lost 65 pounds. But it was a huge kick to rub those elbows, and have a dressing room with flowers from Garry in it. (I came back from taping to find one of the producers eating my candy -- schmuck!).

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

IF @Dickens were alive today: "It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times." Or maybe, "It was the worst of times; then they got even worse." Sorry to be negative but this Millenium sucks.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

Always thought "Carousel" had the better, richer score (than Ok! Or maybe all R&H shows) but Carousel the movie was directed by one of the bland Fox regulars whereas Ok! was directed by Fred Zinnemann; made big difference ....

Shaun Cassidy

@Shaunpcassidy

5 years

@RealTomShales Agreed on G in Oklahoma, but confess I was mining Carousel.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

Goooooooo Shaun!

Lisa Foxx/Radio Hostess w/the Mostess

@DJLisaFoxx

5 years

Ohhhh hot damn!!! Guess who was ROCKIN THE 🔥🔥🔥 in #Vegas on #ValentinesDay !!!!! @shaunpcassidy 😃😃😃🥂 SOOO FUN!! @NBCNewAmsterdam @iHeartRadio 🤗🤗 #teenidols

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

7 years

@Danseeking Weird how pubic hair encircles shaft like ivy embracing a pillar at Harvard

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

My Bobby Vinton story: When I interviewed B.V. for the Post, Ben Bradlee (the Supreme Court on such matters) demanded an edit; Bobby's observation that Poles make love "with their socks on" had to go. Seriously! Ben's reason, as always: "It's a family newspaper." How I miss him.

Guywriter

@guywriter

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@ThatEricAlper Mr. Lonely by Bobby Vinton "Letters, never a letter I get no letters in the mail I've been forgotten, yes, forgotten Oh, how I wonder, how is it I failed"

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Stupid me, I missed it (your birthday). But I remain a faithful more-than-fan, one who hopes you forgive him, or at least remember him, & had a super great day.

Dana Delany

@DanaDelany

4 years

Thank you ALL for your wonderful bday wishes. I love being a senior citizen! Pizza, wine, Funny Girl and a shot in the arm. What could be better?! Grateful to be alive. A sloppy wet kiss to you all. 💋

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

7 years

@GeorgeTakei @attn YAY! AS AN INFIRM OLD GEEZER SICK & TIRED OF GEEZING, AT LEAST ON DRY LAND, I HEARTILY EMBRACE THE WHEELCHAIR & THAT AINT EASY, FOLKS!

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Well, that was the 1st time an "acceptance speech" reminded me of the shower murder from "Psycho." However many horrors there are to dread about 4 more years of #DonaldTrump , the worst include enduring more of his lousy, dreary, lie-filled SPEECHES. Help us, please, O Lord!

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

I wanted to tell people who love good television that here was a program they probably would enjoy & should think about sampling. I never wrote that crap about "here's a MUST-see." As far as I'm concerned there are no must-see's. But damn good stuff.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

WILLARD SCOTT, America loved you. And you earned it. You kept the adjective "jolly" alive. It's almost extinct now. I was always glad to see you, Willard, and of few people can that be said by anybody.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

NOT JUST "FALSEHOODS" -- THE USUAL OUTRIGHT LIES. Don't do Trump the favor of hiding his bullshit in euphemisms. He is a threat to our beautiful republic -- a crook & a traitor -- who should be escorted to the border (ANY border) & deported.

Robert Farnham

@FarnhamRobert

4 years

@realDonaldTrump MSNBC producers gave up on televising Donald Trump’s highly-touted South Lawn rally on Saturday afternoon, ending coverage after only seven minutes with host Alex Witt pointing out that the president was spewing a series of falsehoods.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

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@S_C_Parsons @MarkHarrisNYC “Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue.” SORRY, BUDDY, it’s been done = GREEN ACRES absurdist surrealist sitcom with Eddie Albert & Eva Gabor......

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

My sister Mary & I tormented our father into buying us a color TV; on Sunday nights we'd tune to NBC, "the all-color [RCA-Owned] network" & ooh & ahh over the opening credits to "Disney" & "Bonanza," wondering how fabulous it must all look multi-hued. Poor Dad, but it worked.

DrPopCulture

@DrPopCultureUSA

3 years

Do you recall when Color Televisions were introduced? Did your family ever own a Black & White TV Set? #television

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

I helped save “Cheers” from cancellation & was 1 of the critics who convinced Brandon Tartikoff not to kill “SNL” when ratings tanked. Critics aren’t always negative snoots. Good ones encourage quality as passionately as they deride crap. And Lou, you know that from experience.

Trapped by Television

@LouLumenick

4 years

@RealTomShales You're too modest, Tom. You championed then-obscure films like THE LAST FLIGHT (one of my faves, intro'd it at a museum and on TCM) in your wonderful essays for AFI's "American Film Heritage.''

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

8 years

@Hermann250 @billmaher lotsa luck turning this fucked-up, Puritan, crazy-ass country around

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

@TheEllenShow So sad to see Hotel Bel-Air on list. I used to consider it my drop-in sanitarium. Can’t afford it now anyway. I may as well reveal I once found HALF A DEAD RAT on the patio outside my room. TRUE. I’d like to serve Filet of Rat to that fat fuck Sultan of Brunei.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

That infomercial for the TimeLife collection of Robin Williams comedy Hijinks is currently the most entertaining half hour on TV, one of the sweetest ads ever. Profits probably go partly to pay off old debts, or maybe his ex-wives want still more alimony. But god, he was funny.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Happy #July4th . Really happy if @BarackObama had been legally able to seek a 3rd term like FDR. Obama was (& is) as admired as @realDonaldTrump is hated. We could walk tall & confident; civil rights would be safe, & the White House wouldn't harbor a traitor. America, Great Again!

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

Of all the TV shows that air, or ever aired, none springs surprises more surprisingly than "Saturday Night Live." Glorious example: young Andrew Dismukes' "Update" piece a week ago in which Bongo the psychic Octopus (stay with me) was to pick the winner of a Sunday football game.

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@RealTomShales

3 years

Imagine -- a singing-and-dancing frog! I'll make A FORTUNE!!!

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6 years

@RealGilbertACP @RealGilbert @Franksantopadre @fantle I saw Buddy Ebsen in Hollywood once, eating lunch alone at Musso & Frank Grill, the counter. Grim. For much of his life, he was bitter & nasty about Jack Haley getting the Tin Man part in WIZARD OF OZ instead of him. He’d even avoid referring to Haley by name, the old crank.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

7 years

@RealGilbertACP @gdub1972 @wpix REMEMBER CHUCK FOR HIS MAGICAL PERFORMANCE IN ROBERT ELLIS MILLERS FILM “THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER” (FROM THE CARSON McCULLERS NOVEL). AND HIS TOUR DE FORCE IN “THE PROJECTIONIST.” God bless you, Chuck, and the beautiful work you left us.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

8 years

@BuzzFeed It meant something to Biden, you horse's ass

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@RealTomShales

8 years

@peggymyers8 @BetteMidler Not nearly nasty enough

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

@scbydoo240 @jessismiles__ @imtarynriver @ChrisEvans SNL did NOT mock the victim in this sad, sickening case. Our sad, sickening president did that. #BADBrett #BrettKavanaugh #Kavanaugh

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

"The 405 meets the 101." Wonderful Southern California reference. You must be as great a dad as she is a daughter.

Shaun Cassidy

@Shaunpcassidy

4 years

Daughter just sent me her first script and could a father be more proud? No. Not possible. Without even reading I know I’m going to be floored ‘cause her heart and brain have no dividing line; they’re the 405 meets the 101. All drive and hope and possibility, without the delays.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

Turtle? McConnell always looks to me like maybe he tried to swallow a frog — but it got stuck halfway down amid a hopeless tangle of lies.

Jeffrey Mason

@Whocares111684

6 years

Mitch the turtle McConnell needs to be charged with obstruction of Justice!

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

The 8-year-old daughter of a sports couple said she hopes for the day when "the world feels better." There were many highlights, including tender harmonies brought to the National Anthem by "The Chicks" & Joe Biden's solid speech. I watched all of it & will remember much of it.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

Thank you -- I think. Perhaps it has added nostalgia value now -- a reminder of the simpler beginnings of what is now a complex empire. Production values have increased 100 x what they were -- but the earliest casts put the current cast to shame. O Pioneers!(W.Whitman)

Michael Davis

@MichaelDwrites

5 years

Finally reading the @RealTomShales #SNL oral history in hardback my best friend gifted to me nearly 20 years ago. Rescued from the shelves, it is a welcomed escape in these dire times.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

O The Angst !

Cobi

@CobiMusic

3 years

𝓢🖤𝓷𝓰𝓼 𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓼 It’s here! So thrilled to finally share this album of music with the world. I hope it find you wherever you are 🖤.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

So brilliant, and his feature films have highlights equally hilarious. I love and adore him.

Sergio Rodríguez

@Sergiofordy

5 years

Six of a Kind, 1934, directed by Leo McCarey. W.C. Fields as Sheriff John Hoxley. “Pool” scene. #McCareyWeekend

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Michael -- the director in the booth isn't getting much choice of shots. And that poor (red-headed) model! This reminds me of a great bit Jerry Lewis did once with cameras surrounding & trapping him in a kind of video nightmare....

Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

4 years

NBC’s first working full-color studio, 1952, Colonial Theater, New York (demolished 1977):

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@RealTomShales

8 years

@BeschlossDC God how I love these pictures, Michael. Every post of yours is a dream, often a beautiful one, a beautiful dream of yesterday

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

TRUMP IS ALREADY CALLING IT A HOAX AND DEMANDING A RECOUNT ....

Michael Starr

@StarrMSS

4 years

Golden Globe predictions: Who we expect to win in 2021 via @nypost

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

Early Tues, Shelley Winters died from drowning as Mrs Rosen in “Poseidon Adventure”(HBO) & at night she drowned again in “A Place in the Sun”(TCM). 2 decades separate the performances but each was a brilliant heartbreaker from a prodigious pro — the kind we’ll “never see again.”

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

I'm usually right on this kind of thing, as with Tom Cruise decades ago: WILL POULTER is going to be a big big big big STAR. He's zooming up fast, despite taking a part in hysterical hulu trash "Dopesick." Poulter has keen comic instincts, deep sensitivity, & dynamite eyebrows.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

ONE OF THE 10 WORST SNL EPISODES E V E R. Will someone tell me what dull fat clod Jonah Hill possesses that might be mistaken for talent? Why were 4 or 5 dead-weight performers carried over to this season when the bell tolled for them a year ago? Thank God for Kenan Thompson.

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@RealTomShales

4 years

Wow Rita Moreno looks, not surprisingly, GREAT.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Everyone knows that; and Lorne never claimed to have hired Eddie. And Yet -- there IS a connection. See "Live from NY" by James Andrew Miller (and, oh yeah, me. Not trying to sell books; borrow a copy).

Mill Burray

@BillMwmurray

4 years

@SNLinReview Lorne Michaels didn’t hire Eddie Murphy.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

HES FOLLOWING HITLER's PLAYBOOK. Trump is a thug supported by thugs. His loutish performance at the "debate" was equivalent to the Reichstag fire set by Hitler's Nazis in 1933. Hitler blamed Communists-- for everything -- & Trump blames "leftists." Biden? He is HOPELESSLY NAIVE.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

I wasn't a baby quite but I did show both pilots to a small group of friends & asked them which had best chance of becoming a hit. They all said Chicago Hope. I said "Wrong! Its ER.". I was soon proved right & knew I was born to be a critic....

TVMoJoe

@TVMoJoe

5 years

I was a baby TV critic in 1994, when CHICAGO HOPE and ER both premiered 25 years ago this week. I liked both shows, but ER was easily my favorite. Gonna tweet some of my review, which took the form of a "scalpel-to-scalpel comparison" (I was making lists long before BuzzFeed!)

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

Great to hear Actual Beautiful Music on SNL again: Paul Simon, a veritable bridge over troubled waters himself. Terrific show hosted by Seth Meyers. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

@TVMoJoe I loved them with all my heart. Met Fran. Still have a signed letter from Burr. Oh and I am broke. Wish I were gone & Burr still with us.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

@thedonz5 I love that there are folks following you who want to know when the first Hal Gurnee timekiller aired. Etc! You know I'm sure that Hal was Jack Paar's director back in the Pleistocene (?) Age. Probably the best, most inventive director of a talk show ever.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

What?! @jasonsudeikis ?! Wow how did they ever land HIM? Must've snatched him from a bus stop on Santa Monica Blvd between unsold pilots.

Breck

@fightingfinn

4 years

@AppleTV So deserving. @jasonsudeikis and the amazing cast of @TedLasso made me feel happy again especially Juno Temple, @hanwaddingham @brendanhunting @brettgoldstein Thank you! 😘 #TedLasso

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

8 years

@ClassicShowbiz I've always dreaded & assumed that I'd live out my last days there. Like Ratso Rizzo, tho he lived in abandoned bldg.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

As I recall NBC’s SOUTHERN AFFILIATES destroyed Nat “King” Cole series (& also screamed bloody murder when Petula Clarke touched Harry Belafonte during a special). The South, yech. Bobby Rivers, correct sir!

Bobby Rivers

@BobbyRiversTV

6 years

The lack of a sponsor was due to racism. The star was black. Nat Cole was a great singing star too.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

Sad. "Dr." @DrewPinsky popping up on Fox to take baldly pro-Trump view on the spread of Corona & the lousy job Administration has been doing to save lives. "Dr." Pinsky just another whore trying to boost his "brand." Too bad the whole country can't file a mass malpractice suit.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

JAY SANDRICH was a quiet giant -- a largely unsung master of a rare talent, directing TV comedy to make it not just good but sometimes great. I met him only a couple of times but he was easy to know & disarmingly unpretentious. And his humanity was obvious in his work & his art.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

As the appalled professor who uncovers a vicious murder in "ROPE."

DrPopCulture

@DrPopCultureUSA

3 years

Jimmy Stewart starred in four different Alfred Hitchcock movies, all filmed within a decade. Which is your favorite? #popculture

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

7 years

@barbara_gaines1 @lizadonnelly @kateclinton @GloriaSteinem @MarshaWarfield @babette_sm @janinebrito @DeAnne_Smith @ReneeSantosLA @erinfoleycomic @BisHilarious @DGComedy Charming as all get-out

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

Since you seem affiliated with the gang that celebrates it, you'll agree that some of the greatest TV scripts ever done were by Nat Hiken (& Neil Simon, et al) for the Phil Silvers show which went by various names. Some of same talent also thrived on "Car 54, Where Are You?".

Tasha Henderson

@TashJoi_708

3 years

What are tv shows that all comedy writers should watch?

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

That's a face of HATE not love. Derangement not compassion. Egomania not piety. Thats some sick shit there, that is -- and scary. A loony to lead a mob, not a man of God with a message of peace. Not even close.

Bill Maxwell

@Bill_Maxwell_

5 years

That should do it😂 Kenneth Copeland. "COVID-19, I blow. The wind of God. On you."

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

3 years

Okay maybe Conan was "too good for" television (tho I hate that phrase) but where else could he be put? 'Wouldn't have made much of a movie star. Couldn't have sung "Pagliacci." Conan & TV were stuck with each other but lucky us that they were. I wish I'd paid more attention.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

Ike was so much smarter than he was given credit for ( remember his warning about the military-industrial complex?). Smug snobs at Ivy League schools mocked him but compare him to what we have in the White House now. The WH has become the real virus incubator.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

5 years

It "makes sense"? A nice thought but in the current climate, making sense ain't worth a dribble of spit. Seems like we've entered not the Twilight Zone but the "Bizarro World" that Jerry & friends used to worry about on "Seinfeld." All bets involving sense & sanity are off.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

“We’re not letting anybody in.” — President Idiot, who thinks of our country as his private club, and he’s the one with domain over the velvet rope. DUMP TRUMP; he’s not a funny clown, he’s a monster. He’s Nero. #Caravan #BlackFriday2018 #DonaldTrump #ClimateFriday

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

Beginning of a Love Affair.....

Lady D's Legs

@Lady_Ds_Legs

6 years

The cast & crew celebrating the 10th anniversary of China Beach. Photo courtesy of Dana Delany for the book "China Beach: a book about a tv show about a war". #DanaDelany #Tbt #ChinaBeach

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Playing the Cryptkeeper on revival of HBO's "Tales from the Crypt."

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

4 years

Where have you poor sad fools been the last 4 years while the malicious idiot in the White House lied & cheated & dumped on America? You missed the attack on peaceful protesters? The 1,000 warning signs of creeping fascism? You're either stupid beyond belief or simply traitors.

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Tom Shales

@RealTomShales

6 years

J.McG very funny sparring with Granny on “Beverly Hillbillies” once. Don’t know if he ever played it but would have made a great “Ruggles of Red Gap.” Gilbert, I think your source may be wrong on “Midnight Cowboy.” Wasn’t it look-alike Barnard Hughes who played part?

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