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Ran into true Hollywood royalty today: 2001’s HAL 9000, he looked great
Sad to learn Pac-Man's life took such a depraved path.
Bakshi’s LOTR and the Rankin/Bass Hobbit movies provided ample nightmare fuel for me as a child.
Ralph Bakshi's gorgeous, rotoscoped, and incredibly dark animated version of THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978) was, at times, like a nightmare to my 9 year-old self. I had particular problems with the creepy Nazgûl, especially during this famous scene...
Starship Troopers (1997): Arachnid Warrior Bug, animatronics testing by Amalgamated Dynamics
watching people you love and respect cutting corners to keep creative pace with an idiot machine, starve themselves to keep pace with a new, more impossible ideal, it is overwhelmingly sad some days and no one is truly immune to it
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
A Celebration of Orson Welles’s Frozen Pea Commercial Outtakes
I never let a July pass me by without revisiting the infamous 1970 bootleg audio of Orson Welles attempting to record voiceover narration for advertisements for various foods, beginning with frozen pe...
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I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
a real advertisement from a 1939 issue of McCall's telling women to put listerine on their heads for dandruff.
It's really sad that people don't seem to care about the struggles of mutant families that live in the dessert. With GPS, no one ever turns down the wrong road anymore. How are these families supposed to eat? I've started a new organization, The Hills Have Hearts, where for just $1 a day...
Denise Okuda behind the scenes of STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991)
them: you’re always so calm and measured how do you do it? me:
overheard this lady at the hotel ask her family if the elevators on the bottom floor "also go up"
Imagine being so ashamed of having an overdue library book.
A book found bricked in a fireplace is returned to an Australian library, 150 years overdue
A book on Greek antiquities has been returned to an Australian public library about 150 years late, with water damage from years bricked into a fireplace.
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At 19 years of age, Alex Toth landed work for the Green Lantern book. During this, he became very ill and stressed about deadlines. His mother called the offices and he soon received this letter.