Yet again proving that Seb Gorka is the Marty Eisenstadts of Dr. Strangeloves.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Deputy Assistant to POTUS Sebastian Gorka: "Everybody is obsessing with the price of gas -- this is much bigger than the price of gas. Think about what would happen to the price of gas if those missiles were nuclear tipped. The idea that you're experiencing problems would be absolutely incomparable"

Is Corner Bakery the new Cava?? Fast casual bribe takers need to know.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d ago

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

I wrote about how it’s time to bring the dramatic “damn” back to movies and TV. I have found a character solemnly saying “damn” is way more powerful than any amount of f-bombs can produce

Bring Back The Dramatic Movie 'Damn'

A couple of weeks ago I rewatched Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. I unabashedly love this movie. It is somehow both a great Star Trek movie and a Star Trek movie that non-Star Trek fans like. Over the ...

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What’s to worry about? The Hollywood trades that cover all these networks are all owned by a different family-owned monopoly: Penske.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4d ago

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

Proud to say Adam West stood behind me in line at opening night of Palm Springs International Film Festival 1994 where Buddy Rogers (star of Wings - first Oscar winner) was in attendance. I recognized West’s voice and turned to see him.

The 70s Guy@stevenw888.bsky.social · 6d ago

Born 19 Sep 1928, actor Adam West. Of all the Batmans, he is definitely my favourite. Producer William Dozier cast West as Batman in the tv series in part after seeing West perform as the James Bond-like spy Captain Q in a Nestlé Quik commercial. The Batman series ran for 3 years. #AdamWest

example #72,526 of certain people not knowing how to interpret art ew.com/director-say...

Paul Verhoeven says ‘Starship Troopers’ is about ‘Nazis’ after President Trump suggests military uniforms inspired by film

Director Paul Verhoeven said that his film ‘Starship Troopers’ is about ‘Nazis’ after President Trump cited the movie as an inspiration for new Space Force uniforms: ‘I don’t know if this president is...

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Very different context, but I had to chuckle. We’ve got a line in upcoming film Atomic Fondue about the pilot: “No radiation barrier in the cockpit. He’ll be dead in a week.”

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · last wk.

A 12-ton lead-and-rubber-shielded cockpit with windows 10-12 inches thick protected the flight crew from the otherwise lethal amount of radiation emanating from the reactor hanging in the bomb bay. Special large water bladders installed aft of the cockpit also absorbed the deadly radiation.

Hmm, sequel to Atomic Fondue?

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · last wk.

* Victims sold separately

Proud to say I once got Mr. Jones a “goddamned ham sandwich!” while I was a PA for one day on reshoots of VOLCANO. To be fair, he wasn’t truly mad at me as much as he was at the craft service guy who asked me too many questions about what kind of ham sandwich Mr. Jones wanted.

@fravery.bsky.social · last wk.

Tommy Lee Jones is 80 today.

I’m going to channel Indiana Jones and say this belongs in a museum, not a millionaire’s or billionaire’s private collection. So if there’s anyone out there that can make that happen, you have 10 more days (September 24). After 18 bids, bidding now stands at $205,700. But it will surely go higher.

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 3w ago

The handwritten logbook by Captain Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot on the Enola Gay’s top secret mission to destroy Hiroshima in the world’s first atomic bombing, is up for auction again (bidding is now at $125,545). It includes Lewis’s immediate reaction: “My God what have we done?” tinyurl.com/yc3efkmz

RIP Bob Mackie, genius.

Yes, and… there are over a dozen great film festivals in the Caribbean which rarely get any coverage in the trades. Some of my favorite festival experiences seeing diverse films and meeting amazing filmmakers have been in Barbados, Trinidad, Bahamas, Belize, etc.

bootsriley.bsky.social@bootsriley.bsky.social · 2w ago

There are 750 screens in the film market labeled "the Caribbean". A majority Black audience and Black-led films do well there. Not tracked by Box Office Mojo or The Numbers. Should be listed under "international". If tracked, it'd prove Black-led casts to be more lucrative & we'd get more.

Reads like a Citizens' Council newsletter bragging about how they got a black school principal fired.

Devin Burghart@dburghart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today, the Heritage Foundation, the org behind Project2025, took credit for driving Lonnie Bunch out the Smithsonian Institution. Bunch was the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. But sure, tell me again how it’s not about racism.

Congrats!!!

Scott Bateman@scottbateman.bsky.social · 3w ago

My new film 5002 Space Aliens is now on Amazon and AppleTV! Add it to your watchlist and watch the trailer now, then watch the movie this weekend at your leisure. Over 5000 space aliens are dying to meet you! You’ve never seen a movie like this before. Links in comments. #filmsky

Great ad. Populist Independent ex union leader Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social vs Republican incumbent son-of-a-billionaire Pete Ricketts, from their first debate in the Nebraska Senate race yesterday.

Dan Osborn@osbornforne.bsky.social · 3w ago

New Pete Ricketts drinking game just dropped. Please drink (and vote) responsibly.

I named an Air Force character Healey in our upcoming film Atomic Fondue as an homage to Bill Daily’s character. One day, this will be immortalized on our IMDb trivia page.

Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · 4w ago

Bill Daily's breakthrough role was Major Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie. Here with Larry Hagman as Major Anthony Nelson in a Season 4 episode, "The Biggest Star in Hollywood", which aired Feb. 24, 1969. With Gary Owens, Judy Carne & Arte Johnson as themselves.

But did they make Atomic Fondue with it??

Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

"Lucy Hunts Uranium" on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, with special guest Fred MacMurray. The show aired on CBS January 3, 1958. If I remember correctly, Fred breaks out his saxophone in this episode. What a trouper!

1930s Editorial Cartoon

“Nic gets hit by a bus, there’s no National Treasure 3. If I get hit by a bus, there’s probably a National Treasure 3. Welcome to Hollywood.” - I can relate :)

weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · last mo.

hey, look at my local paper getting the Nicolas Cage scoops

Read this important thread. And realize yet again how monstrous is Mike Johnson

Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · last mo.

In 2025, about a month after the US strikes on Iran, Speaker Mike Johnson met with Israeli PM Netanyahu. Johnson issued a public statement about the meeting. But I just found out more about it...

#OTD in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. The ADA established landmark civil rights protections for people with disabilities and continues to shape the fight for accessibility, inclusion and equal opportunity. #TheMarchContinues

What about #Nixonmaxxing???

CNN@cnn.com · 2mo ago

“Maxxing” is an online trend applied to advice for aspects of health including sleep, diet and fertility. But much of this maxxing advice can be unhelpful or unhealthy or go against the steady, personalized changes many experts recommend. https://cnn.it/3RqOhyo

Same with movies! On our film 18 ½, fully 75% of DVD sales were to libraries!

Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I also think a lot of people genuinely don’t know what a significant percentage of book sales *tend to be from libraries* Libraries PAY MONEY FOR BOOKS

This audio on repeat is amazing. Needs some music!

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2mo ago

INTIMIDATION FAILED The FBI showed up at reporters’ homes. During dinner. Demanding they reveal confidential sources. Not because the story was false. Because it embarrassed Trump. Now the DOJ is backing down and withdrawing the subpoenas after getting hammered in court.

The perfect gift for any self-respecting #Nixonmaxxing dorm room for the fall (Or ironic non-Nixonmaxxers out there.) An original theatrical poster of our film 18½ : www.movieposters.com/products/18-...

18 1/2

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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2mo ago

The kids are “Nixonmaxxing”: More than half-a-century after Watergate, conservative youth are discovering the aesthetic, and adopting the attitude, of the late president. 🔗 www.wsj.com/politics/ric...

I hope that means they’re all watching our film 18 ½!!!

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2mo ago

The kids are “Nixonmaxxing”: More than half-a-century after Watergate, conservative youth are discovering the aesthetic, and adopting the attitude, of the late president. 🔗 www.wsj.com/politics/ric...

Now that the World Cup is over, FIFA can quit wasting time on soccer and return to its primary role as the home of the FIFA Peace Prize.

ProPublica: Trump's FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and fellow Republican commissioner Olivia Trusty received pricey gifts valued at tens of thousands of dollars from Paramount while the company had deals pending before the commission.

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...

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Senator Kennedy: Are you and trump friends? Blanche: “I’m his lawyer. I was his lawyer.”