It's not too late to remind dear old Dad that he could still stand to learn a thing or two (and also help keep Sallie in kibble).
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It’s de-sha-vu all over again!
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
If this endless rerun tell us anything it should remind us how important is is to not let communist or far leftist have too much power..it is a de-sha-vu nightmare..yes democrats perspective is nessesary but this is what you get when it's out of control..the right can be bad… Show more
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Time’s running out, and I assure you he doesn’t want another tie.
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It's not too late to remind dear old Dad that he could still stand to learn a thing or two (and also help keep Sallie in kibble).
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Not to be confused with Yetta Marmelstein, whose middle name is spelled T E S S Y…
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If autocorrect doesn’t keep forcing “Tessie” on me when I’m talking to , I’m going to get really steamed.
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Ron DeSantis couldn't beat
Never mind.
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Desantis: “I just signed legislation saying teachers are not allowed to demand pronouns from the kids. I had Disney come down on me and fight me on that. We stood our ground on that, and we beat Disney.”
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The one in the upper left who looks like Richard Deacon?
I think it might be Richard Deacon.
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“MSNBC makes fun of me.”
Everyone makes fun of you, Clem.
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me: Hey, I found something I like.
people I really don't want to hear from, ever: You should be watching this other thing, not the thing you're watching.
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Having exhausted Acorn's limited supply of Poirots and Marples, I have found my way to Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, so I guess my viewing is sorted for the next few weeks at least.
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It may also be true that when the restored version of the film was shown at the Castro in San Francisco, the marquee read:
Ken Russell's Uncut Boy Friend
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People in their twenties and thirties should no more have heard of an actress who hadn't worked their entire sentient lives than people my age should know who, say, Luise Rainer is. Or Katharine Cornell. Some people become wisps of memory.
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Many years later, reading nonfiction on the subject of Elizabeth I, I learned to my delight that that the series's staging of the queen's bizarre dying days, including the finger in the mouth, was true to history.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Plummer was performing at the Globe and Ms. Jackson was doing High Kabuki.
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The one thing I remember vividly about that Macbeth is that the banquet scene was staged so that every time the ghost of Banquo was suddenly, simply there at the table, in a different spot, the whole audience shrieked.
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I seem to recall a story from back in the era when you could just make stuff up and no one would call you on it that Glenda Jackson's cameo in The Boy Friend was to fulfill a contractual obligation and was largely if not entirely unwilling.
But that sounds.........fishy?
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Glenda Jackson had one of the great strange careers--actress, very much not actress, recommitted actress--in all of film and theater. Her fans may have felt deprived of those middle years, but she did exactly what she wanted, the way she wanted. RIP to, as they say, a real one.
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Replying to @selfstyledsiren
For anyone who’s not seen Glenda Jackson in a Golden Age of Hollywood song and dance routine……
(I know Morecambe & Wise are virtually unknown in the US but they were *the* show to appear on in the UK in the 70s) twitter.com/eric_ernie_col…
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Based on the novel The Abbess of Crewe, dashed off by Muriel Spark in one of more utterly wackadoo moods!
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BTW I'm happy to report that Elizabeth R, which I rewatched not all that long ago, completely holds up.
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I also recall a conversation, after a family outing to see her in Three Tall Women, about why it's not unwise for older women, no matter how vibrant they are, to wear flats onstage instead of heels.
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It was not unamusing, on my way to London to see her in Lear in 2016 for her first time onstage in a quarter century, to explain my excitement to younger and savvy colleagues who had never so much as heard of her.
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I saw Glenda Jackson onstage five times, starting with Rose back in 1981 and then her Lady Macbeth (with her and Christopher Plummer in two completely different plays), Lear in London, Three Tall Women, and Lear in NYC.
It was always an event.
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Lila Kedrova, Torn Curtain?
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1967:
“I’ll plant my own tree
And I’ll make it grow
My tree will not be just one in a row
My tree will offer shade
when strangers go by
If you’re a stranger,
brother, well so am I!…”
Which actress, what film?…
“I’ll plant my own tree
And I’ll make it grow
My tree will not be just one in a row
My tree will offer shade
when strangers go by
If you’re a stranger,
brother, well so am I!…”
Which actress, what film?…
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I can't take my eye off that rodent with the ears. Also the picture on the wall.
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Congressman George Santos on the Adam Schiff Sham:
"We must preserve the integrity of the U.S House of Reps. and censure Adam Schiff today."
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He was a giant of our profession, and what a career.
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Good.
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NYT: "You see it's a complex image because the US government is bringing charges against him and so the backdrop of the flag is multilayered and somewhat ironic..."
MAGA: "Behold my patriotic god king and president for life who has the Stars and Stripes always above him!"
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I'm not seeing the downside.
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I give this version credit for navigating between being a bitchfest (though not quite at the Elizabeth-Kim level, as I recall it) and having a true and weighty sadness at its core, and keeping it all together.
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Watching the Julia McKenzie The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side last night (nicely done, and touching, with excellent Lindsay Duncan and Joanna Lumley performances) reminds me that I haven't seen the Angela version since it came out (and I don't recall that it was esp. good).
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The president should padlock the seamy joint and stuff their "wannabe" down their collective throat.
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An important point!
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Replying to @BCDreyer
I'm not a historian (obvs), but opting for "pre–Civil War" has the advantage of letting you use that en-dash-as-hyphen that we editors love so much.
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