Stephen Winer
@rowrbazzle.bsky.social
Former Writer for David Letterman, Robert Klein, Dick Van Dyke and The Disney Channel All New Mickey Mouse Club. Writer of film essays for The Criterion Collection
Written by AI -Asshole Intelligence.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoconvicted felon Peter Navarro, who now works in the White House again after serving a four-month sentence, goes on TV with the White House behind him to promote a new product that he'll personally profit from -- a book called "Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison"
When the Paley Center showed the previously lost kinescope of Horton Foote’s THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, Eva Marie Saint, who co-starred with Lillian Gish, introduced it. As classy and elegant in person as she was on the screen, she spent most of the introduction praising the play and Miss Gish.
Happy Birthday to the greatest comic artist in the history of film: Buster Keaton! (I had a poster of this image in my room from childhood until I was in my twenties.)
Today is the birthday of Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott and Spanky MacFarland. That’s a lot of funny for one day.
For #NationalSilentMovieDay, may I recommend Harold Lloyd’s hilarious THE FRESHMAN, available in this great Criterion edition for which I wrote the booklet essay? You can also see it on The Criterion Channel and read my essay at the Criterion Current.
Memo to Karl Rove: When you leave the door wide open, you don’t get to choose who walks through it.
Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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Today is the birthday of the great animation director Chuck Jones. I was lucky enough to know him slightly. One of the nicest things that can happen to you is that you meet your idols and find that they are everything you hope they'd be. Chuck Jones was all that and more.
Doesn’t it seem like Batman Day comes earlier every year?
Watched the video from Congress today and, frankly, Mitch McConnell has never looked better!
I’m not opening for Ed Sheeran either. Not that they asked.
It’s the birthday of one of America’s greatest humorists, who also became a first rate comic actor in movies, Robert Benchley!
Wow! Wherever you look on social media, absolutely everyone is not talking about the Emmys!
The RNC doing their bit to create new and better atheists.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.
This photo of Dyckman Street in Manhattan in 1933 shows an amazing program at the Loew’s Paradise in the Bronx. The feature is John Ford’s FLESH starring Wallace Beery and the live show features- wait for it - Burns and Allen, the Ritz Brothers and Edgar Bergen. If only my TARDIS wasn’t in the shop!
I imagine Bill Maher will have something pithy to say about Gloria Steinem this week. (I might be spelling “pithy” wrong.)
Now that I’ve got your attention, it’s Joan Blondell ‘s birthday! If you happen to have a print of CONVENTION CITY gathering dust in your closet, could you please walk it over to the Library of Congress? There might be some interest.
Don’t worry, Bill. When you die, there’ll be all the time in the world for the other news.
For Jack Kirby’s birthday, here is his excellent portrait of Rudy Giuliani.
This letter from 2020 featuring Natalie Harp turned up in my Facebook memories. It’s from Jimmy Stewart’s daughter and it shows how, even at that tender age, Natalie was already making friends.
variety.com/2026/film/ob... turns out the next 80 year old was not the one we hoped for either. There are worse things to say about an actor than “He was known for creating an iconic character” but Curry was a gifted and versatile actor who was always a pleasure to watch on film or on stage.
Tim Curry, ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Star, Dies at 80
Tim Curry, who soared to fame in the ‘70s as the flamboyant star of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 80.
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Today is the birthday of Walt Kelly, the creator of POGO and so much more. Not just one of our best comic strip artists, he was truly one of the greatest of all American humorists!
Today Hakim Jeffries met with Jared Kushner to discuss the future if Democrats take back the House, so if you thought that ANYBODY would do ANYTHING about ANY OF THIS after the election, you have your answer!
cordcuttersnews.com/after-71-yea... About time! I’m still waiting for my freaking Connie Francis album!
After 71 Years, Columbia House Closes for Good: The Mail-Order Giant That Defined a Generation Is Gone | Cord Cutters News
Columbia House, the long-running direct-to-consumer media retailer once famous for its mail-order music clubs, is set to shut down for good on September 15, 2026. After more than seven decades in oper...
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“I am dead…” “…You are not…” “…Inside…” “…yes…” (translated from the Swedish)
