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Audio Dramas: LifeAfter, Steal The Stars, Give Me Away, Quiet Part Loud. Film: Horror At Gallery Kay, First Time Caller. Co-founder of Gideon Media He/him

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Mac Rogers
1 year
Got a quiet country house upstate, swing by if you want
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5 months
The whole turn against the Knives Out movies is so hilariously on-schedule.
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I'm not saying they made better movies in the 90s, but I feel like they did a better job of making crappy movies in the 90s.
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Everyone's saying this but "He couldn't fit a whole woman in his head" is SO good, it's one of the main things writing is supposed to do, create phrases that don't make literal sense but still articulate something you often perceive but never heard quite put into words before.
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4 years
It’s all of them.
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6 years
Has anyone actually *literally* thrown a book they disliked across a room?
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Obviously not that people can’t dislike KO and/or GO, just that there’s such a ritualistic sense of timing in how online consensus turns.
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1 year
Don't think this was the intention of the QT, but I'm dying at the implication that at the end of The Graduate one of them was The Thing.
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4 months
DOCTOR WHO EMPIRE OF DEATH SPOILERS “You’ve forced me to become the kind of guy who would kill you, Sutekh!” —guy who previously killed Surekh
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5 months
Still staggered that Chibnall thought it would be a great idea to take a steaming dump on the euphoria of this moment.
bro shows his eyebrows and stole the show
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1 year
I've definitely known guys like this, some of whom would totally consider themselves feminists, but at some deep level simply can't see women as being as *complete* as men. (Hell, I may be one of those guys, if I was I'd be the last to know.)
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4 years
I'd prefer to "love my enemies" by getting their children great education, accessible healthcare, and some sort of sustainable future.
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4 years
The cowardly media once again dancing around the word "vampires"
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6 years
"Kiernan Shipka" is a cool-ass name.
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6 years
I am now gonna bore the fuck out of you with a piece of writing advice from a William Goldman book that I use nearly every day.
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1 year
Beyond the manifold other reasons this is eye-meltingly embarrassing, I'm trying to picture sidling up to Taylor Swift like 'Hey kid, you want a few marketing pointers?"
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7 years
Ringwald writes better about problematic-yet-valuable art than a lot of people who do that for a living.
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. @MollyRingwald revisits “The Breakfast Club” in the age of #MeToo :
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Definitely not a fan of the rising strain of Doctor Who thought that’s basically “whee! anything can be anything and if you want the barest minimum of internal logic or dramatic parameters you’re a fussy nerd who only cares about rigid canon.”
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6 months
You’d never guess from film twitter that Alex Garland is not only not somehow in disgrace but is in fact riding high on a mostly well-reviewed movie and his biggest opening weekend ever.
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3 years
Chibnall’s belated discovery that emotional scenes between Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill should’ve been the spine of his era is borderline tragic.
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7 years
Seth Rogen cradles and protects James Franco. This is how it ought to be, despite what your gender studies professor says
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1 year
Interesting to see which "Bring Back Show X" fan-bases are the most tenacious. I sometimes like to check the replies under random Netflix tweets to see which shows people were demanding be uncanceled. Various shows came and went, but those Warrior Nun people always showed up.
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4 years
The Onion mocks Democrats orders-of-magnitude more effectively than the Babylon Bee.
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The Onion
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Amy McGrath Blows Remaining Campaign Funds On Lavish Concession Bonanza
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@PlanetofFinks I was amazed at how all three speeches were equally damning of Logan even though two of them were putatively pro.
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6 years
...when writing dialogue that involves one character interrupting or responding immediately to another (which is most of my dialogue), I always put the idea the second character is so abruptly responding to about 5 or 6 words **before the end of the first character's line.**
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7 months
Gotta say I love this whole "we actually want people to watch this" thing they're trying now, I'm into it
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A brand new trailer and 8 episode titles. This Sunday. #DoctorWho
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2 years
A standard complaint of tourists is that New Yorkers want everyone to walk too fast, but that’s not quite it. As someone who was a New Yorker for years, we want you to walk with *specificity.* We can steer around you if you’re slow, but not if you’re *vague.*
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People who walk down the street and somehow manage to be everywhere and nowhere at once with a certain kind of directional fecklessness & total lack of spatial awareness make me wanna start shoving bodies
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2 years
@Srirachachau @skinnyd0gs Dude could be making an absolute fortune on the Neeson circuit but he’d rather be slurping gruel in a rickety skeletal bio-chair, he’s the best
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8 years
A huge chunk of America just told women that nothing protects them, that there's no penalty for predatory behavior.
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Continues to be wild how transphobia just entirely swallows a person's life, drives their every interaction, corrodes every relationship. You're never just a person again, every second is focused on getting asinine digs in.
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Ari Drennen
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Anti-trans obsessives are absolutely addicted to public victimhood
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2 years
SEVERANCE makes a potent argument against typecasting. No one ever casts Turturro or Walken to play bashful sweetness, turns out they're absolute masters at it.
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4 years
I hope the Four Seasons Total Landscaping people get paid.
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8 months
The straight-up brazen lying from theoretically legitimate public figures about Glazer’s Oscar speech has been clarifying.
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1 year
In my view two things are true: Downey was superb as Tony Stark, and also it only required about 15% of his talent. I’m majorly stoked for the return of full-strength Robert Downey Jr.
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Darren Mooney
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The cast is uniformly fantastic, but the real revelation here is Robert Downey Jr. He’s described “Oppenheimer” as the best film he’s ever been in, and I don’t know if I’m willing to go that far, but it’s maybe the best Downey has ever been in a film. Phenomenal.
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6 months
Dying at this RTD quote:
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I would argue that the revelations of "The Timeless Children" (which I don't care for but acknowledge are canon) would be far more interesting to subsequently explore with living Time Lords for the Doctor to talk to about it.
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2 years
Why would I dial M for murder? I don't want that!
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6 years
Two afterthoughts: 1) I totally wasn't being disingenuous w/that first tweet; I expected this to be a pretty boring deep-in-the-weeds thread. I'm delighted it wasn't. 2) Maybe writing advice also works best when it's nuts-n'-bolts like this, rather than big global declarations.
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6 years
Those 5 or 6 words, to me, give the interruption a tiny-but-crucial extra bit of authenticity that suggests the characters are listening to each other, not reciting lines they've memorized.
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5 years
My concern about going axe-throwing is that there might be people there throwing axes.
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I hope Chibnall understands how crucial it is that we get to see Ace call the Thirteenth Doctor “Professor” at least once.
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4 years
I will NEVER let people enjoy things. If you're enjoying something, know that I'm closing in.
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4 years
The No, It's The Children Who Are Wrong Summit
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Tyler Pager
4 years
Scoop: President-elect Joe Biden is meeting tomorrow with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in Wilmington, Delaware, per people familiar. It will be the first in-person meeting between the three Democratic leaders.
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SCREENWRITERS: You’ll read a lot of stuff on here regarding hard and fast rules for formatting, but remember that what your script needs more than anything is a moment where a number 6 on a hotel door comes loose and flips down so it looks like a 9, leading to shenanigans.
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6 years
I may be telling on my modest circumstances a bit here; I live in a small apartment, and I can't think of a clear trajectory I could throw a book in without consequences.
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There's been in general an odd avoidance of the kind of arguments that were so valuable to establishing pairings like Nine/Rose, Ten/Donna, Twelve/Clara.
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Harbo Wholmes
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I really think we needed a moment during the Time Window scene where Ruby gets angry at The Doctor for going back to Ruby Road and not trying harder to find out who her birth mother is. Just feels weird how she has almost no reaction to it when it's her main driving force
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5 years
It's such a trip how things work out. If you were somehow able to know Bong Joon-ho's career in advance and you had to guess which film would be his mainstream breakout in America, you would absolutely pick "the Chris Evans sci-fi action movie that's in English."
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6 years
That's writing-advice at its best: lessons learned in the field, passed along in that spirit, and no one saying "You're not really one of The Elect if you don't do this." </end>
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If the hardcore 13 fans find this, before y'all give me the business, please know that I adored Whittaker's performance (and am a borderline Thasmin) but I didn't always adore the writing she was given.
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6 years
Interesting to note: anecdotally, from my mentions, the most common cause of book-throwing is "anger at the book being bad." But close on its heels is "dismay at misfortunes befalling sympathetic characters."
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4 years
Y'all talk about "there was enough room on that door" but this is what would've happened
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The way Kate Winslet tore into Leo’s soul in this scene. I was hurt for him.
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6 years
Several folks have confirmed for me that this was specifically from Goldman's memoir ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE. If this kind of thing is of interest to you, definitely get it and read the whole thing; this anecdote barely scratches the surface of the goodies therein.
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6 years
Now yes, technically this is Olivier's advice, not Goldman's. But Goldman was the one who took a bit of offhand Olivier craftsmanship on set, absorbed it as a piece of writerly advice, and put it in a book so many other writers could benefit from it.
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11 months
If you can come up with a scene this fun in the early part of your episode it almost doesn’t matter how good the rest is, people will still feel like they had a good time.
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Bad Wolf Archives
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1 BRAIN CELL DUO RETURNS TOMORROW
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1 year
To my mind, acknowledging at the end that Kazan is a great director twists the knife further, making it impossible to write off Welles as jealous or a generalized hater. It focuses all the attention on the pertinent charge.
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The greatest of all time followed the hater's code, so should everyone
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8 years
Don't @-@ me.
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2 years
I honestly didn’t think the song could possibly pay off all this buildup. I was wrong.
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please read this and then listen to the song. you are not prepared for the song
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I keep having to remind myself that "Moffat's Caves Of Androzani" is not remotely a reasonable place to set my expectations for next week's episode.
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4 years
Sex scenes are absolutely vital. Any film without a sex scene has failed creatively.
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If elected officials are this goddam scared of their own police departments then we've lowkey *been* under martial law.
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I love how the conservative MO is to sneer at actual danger (viruses, climate change, easily acquired assault rifles) and quake in terror at fake danger (Halloween drugs, walking down the street in a major city).
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4 years
Super-important reminder, and something Democrats might avoid if they can allow themselves to not be the genteel party for once. The line has got to be: "While we pray for the recovery of all who are suffering, nothing could be more emblematic of his deep failure of leadership."
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Carole Cadwalladr
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A reminder to all Americans that the net effect of our prime minister catching COVID-19 was that it prompted a surge of patriotic support. From which he emerged with renewed popularity. Which enabled him to tear up key functions of the state
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5 years
YOU ARE OPTICS THE OPTICS COME FROM *YOU*
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5 years
On substance, Democrats got what they wanted: that Mueller didn't charge Pres. Trump because of the OLC guidance, that he could be indicted after he leaves office, among other things. But on optics, this was a disaster. #MuellerHearings
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Goldman agreed immediately, and thought so much of this request that he put it in a book many years later. I think it's great too, indicative of what a natural listener Olivier could be as an actor. Ever since I read that...
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4 years
They need to get Billy Dee to intro each episode in front of a roaring fire with a cognac and a big book of his memoirs: "Ah yes, where were we? Now, this the time I..." <fade to Glover at the holo-craps table>
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You have to turn into a monster to get paid. You have to become a person you don't recognize. You have to be ready to send daily, increasingly agitated emails to some poor underling who has nothing to do with why you haven't been paid yet because that's the only email you have.
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Brooklin Nash
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Freelancers: what did you have to learn the hard way?
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2 years
Refreshing to finally see an entertainment company focus on franchises.
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The Hollywood Reporter
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“We’re going to focus on franchises,” David Zaslav said. “We haven’t had a #Superman movie in 13 years. We haven’t done a #HarryPotter in 15 years. The DC movies and the Harry Potter movies provided a lot of the profits for Warner Bros”
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5 years
If weed is just about to become a middle-aged hobby like olive oil or kayaking there's a lot of people we should probably let out of jail.
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6 years
Holy shit. If you’re a playwright who self-produces you owe this guy more than you owe Shakespeare. RIP.
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6 years
THIS IS A LIST OF MULTIMILLIONAIRES WHO ARE STILL WORKING ALL THE TIME I AM LOSING MY FUCKING
@nytopinion
New York Times Opinion
6 years
We live in what is rapidly resembling the cultural equivalent of Bikini Atoll. Each day, it seems, a new person is 'deleted': Tim Allen, Roseanne, Shania Twain. And now, Kanye.
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The whole civility tack is part of a wider attempt to treat institutional violence as somehow more respectable than individual violence.
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6 years
Well, based on my mentions, a lot of people, it seems! It's still so hard for me to picture. I've definitely gotten mad at books, no doubt, but the most I've done is throw them onto the sofa next to my thigh.
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6 years
My whole adult life I’ve taken “then I threw the book across the room” to be a symbolic statement meaning “I strongly disliked it” but clearly I was wrong.
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2 years
God love Jeremy Irons, my man’s never gonna sleepwalk through garbage for a paycheck, he’s gonna bust his *ass* for that paycheck.
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Harris Dang-tasm aka Critic Maim
2 years
I highly doubt the new DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS film will be better than this.
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@EmmaTolkin I love how everyone specifically starts clapping when the kids are low enough that they wouldn't actually die if the whole system collapsed.
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4 years
It continues to be the wildest shit that a writer for an openly racist TV show had to resign for being secretly racist.
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Oliver Darcy
4 years
New: Fox News executives issue internal memo condemning the "horrific" behavior of former top Tucker Carlson writer Blake Neff.
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@samthielman Thanks a *lot,* critical race theory
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Just astounding how they screwed up what was gonna be the easiest money of 2025.
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Christopher Landon is no longer answering the #Scream7 call. The director has dropped out of the feature, following the exit of two of its leads
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6 years
You see this, you barbarians? CHOOSE LOVE
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@macwrites On the other extent, I think I pledged fealty to NK Jemsin's The Inheritance Trilogy. I legit hugged it when I was done.
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Buttigieg ends with “I think people are just bored of that sort of thing” (referring to Trumpian rhetoric) and I think there might be gold there. “Boring” could be the next “weird,” like “aren’t you just sick of this guy, don’t you wish you could turn on the TV and not see him?”
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Acyn
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Buttigieg: Of course they are trying to say he is too far-left. If it was Manchin, they would be saying the same, it is all they know... If you think making sure everyone in Minnesota had paid family leave is too far-left, vast majority of Americans think that’s a good idea
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4 years
Post-it notes all over his office and car: "Don't say it"
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Mediaite
4 years
Papa John's Founder Rejects Charges of Racism By Revealing He's Been Working for '20 Months' to Get the N-Word Out of His Vocabulary
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6 months
For context this happens at the beginning of act 3 of a slam-bang action movie. It's kind of wild and electrifying to watch the biggest star in the world come as close as he feels he safely can to directly criticizing his government.
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It's amazing the degree to which Weird Al, on paper, is a six-month flameout novelty act, but in practice is more of a perennial than like 70% of the artists he parodies. Like nobody who heard "Eat It" (even if they were laughing) would think "that guy will be beloved in 2022."
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8 years
YOU CAN'T DO COMEDY. YOU"RE BAD AT IT. JUST BE AN ORDINARY NON-COMEDIC SHITHEAD.
@GovMikeHuckabee
Gov. Mike Huckabee
8 years
9th Circuit spends 3 days looking for copy of Constitution, can't find one anywhere in CA, and rules on immigration anyway.
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I goddam love Steven Moffat.
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"Seventy minutes, no intermission."
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7 years
Marvel: “Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history.” Me:
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1 year
Why don't we just wait here for a little while, Elaine... see what happens?
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I know they just posted the wrong link, but the symbolism is incredible.
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He explained that by rearranging the line this way, his character would have a second or two to process the word "bank" and plan his response while Scheider was saying "sooner or later." That way he could cut the pause and respond immediately like Schlesinger wanted.
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2 years
Why can't anyone rich just be rich and shut the fuck up?
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
2 years
“Dilbert” creator says his reputation is ‘destroyed’ after racist rant
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Does anyone actually go to Quinnipiac University, or is it just a sweatshop full of child pollsters?
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3 years
Look up the name of the director of the legendary 1974 softcore erotic film EMMANUELLE.
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Eric Michael Garcia
3 years
What is a fact that sounds like a shitpost but is 100 percent real?
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- Fuck around - Find out - Freshly enlightened by finding out, vow to fuck around no more - As time inexorably advances, memory of finding out dims - Homogeneous social circle extols theoretical virtues of fucking around - Fuck around
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Mac Rogers
1 year
Despite my already extensive admiration for Jeff Bridges I would not have guessed at his ability to land a perfect Norm Macdonald-style wisecrack, delivery and all.
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Josh Horowitz
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This is an amazing joke. Perfectly delivered. And no one at the table seems to have gotten it. 😬
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2 years
GodDAM y’all I never had anything like this
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Clay McLeod Chapman
2 years
MAC & ME WROTE A PODCAST FOR MONKEYPAW AND NOW IT’S GOT A BILLBOARD IN TIMES SQUARE #quietpartloud #quietpartloud 🎧🎧🎧 #monkeypawproductions #jordanpeele #spotify @macwrites
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5 years
There is no upside to moderate centrism because right-wingers will see literally anything coming from a Democrat as hard communism. They're lost, they're gone. We might as well just try to get things we want.
@keithboykin
Keith Boykin
5 years
Reporter @EmmaVigeland : Do you think Joe Biden is a socialist? Trump supporter: Yes. Reporter: How would you define socialism? Trump supporter: I define socialism as when you bring down your own country, your own race, because he’s not black. 🎥 @TheYoungTurks
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I mean that particular horse can no longer even be seen from the barn, might as well have fun
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Variety
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Meghan McCain Rejected 'Dancing With the Stars' Three Times Because 'I Want to Run for Office at Some Point' and 'Don't Want to Publicly Humiliate Myself'
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