Aspirin can reduce the risk of cancer - and we're starting to understand why The 4,000-year-old drug, most commonly used to treat pain, prevents certain tumours from forming and spreading across the body – findings that are already changing health policies.

Interesting article about benefits from taking aspirin.

Classic Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds was BOTD in 1932 and died at 84 of grief one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher in 2016. I wrote about Reynold's overlooked acting chops here:
www.talkhouse.com/bruce-labruc...
@talkhouse.bsky.social

Terrific interview by Brian Saur @bobfreelander.bsky.social

More Beaudine! We chatted with Author James L Neibaur about his book Directed By William Beaudine: An Overview. This interview gives more context to the big tribute happening in April at the @newbeverly.bsky.social
& @videoarchivesclub.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Loved every minute of both episodes!

Video Archives Cinema Club, April 2026 Programming for Quentin Tarantino’s Video Archives Cinema Club at Vista Theater in Hollywood, April 2026. *This list also includes titles shown in April 2026 at the New Beverly Cinema as part of its t...

4,290 MINUTES of William Beaudine.
71.5 hours worth of movie viewing from just one director.

That's what we're getting from Quentin Tarantino's Vista Theater Cinema Club AND @newbeverly.bsky.social this month-- 62 titles spanning from 1923 to 1958!

#letterboxd #moviesky #filmsky #tcm

New Episode! QT returns to talk about a director he loves: William Beaudine. He highlights some of his favorites as well as the tribute he’s doing at @newbeverly.bsky.social & Video Archives Cinema Club in April:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

This April we present a retrospective dedicated to director William Beaudine, including silent film masterpieces with live musical accompaniment, sparkling pre-code gems, and rarely-seen treasures! Plus, swashbuckling classics, The Whole Bloody Affair, midnights, matinees & more!

I’ve been trying to keep up with QT’s Beaudines AND following your Letterboxd entries. THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY is a favorite so far. VOODOO MAN a delight. So many more to see!

Some new @letterboxd.social faves for the month long tribute to director William Beaudine at the @newbeverly.bsky.social

Long before today’s ruling, we knew social media was harming our young people. Teens, parents, advocates, even casual observers begged tech and elected leaders to take action.

While we applaud this decision, we have more work to do to protect young people online and support their mental health.

Mortlake Mortlake

Just picked up Mortlake, a new novel by Adrian Lavelle — about the Renaissance occultist John Dee (who invented a language just to talk to angels?)

The first chapter title made me laugh: "The Exorcism of Ann Frank". Should be good!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT44S11N

#booksky #historysky #books

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make clear you're part of The Resistance to this regime’s brutality at home, pathetic ineptness, perpetual lying & their illegal war in Iran. ✊https://app.sosha.ai/s/39HA7UDd

Me too, like in a constant row of calls— the AI spam bots went wild!

When Matt Taibbi lost his podcast partner & soul bro Walter Kirn in a surly divorce, a vacant spot opened. Diving deep into the grifter dumpster, he has dredged up Michael Tracey to make podcast magic. Yes, the grubby beardo who once claimed a 78 year old Maxine Waters went Cobra Kai on him.

Thank God for the rigor of NYT and others who combed through footage of the girls’ school bombing in Iran. After Karoline Leavitt, who looks more like a mendacious milkmaid every day, insisted it was “propaganda” the US was responsible, sloggers revealed more.

tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...

Trump's Wild War Game If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump’s second administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair of oversized Florsheim shoes.

If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump’s administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair of oversized Florsheim shoes.

tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...

I'm trying to figure out which documentary I'm less interested in seeing, the one about Seymour Hersh that came out on Netflix or the upcoming one about Lorne Michaels that will debut only in theaters for a target audience of ghosts and dust bunnies.

Wealth inequality in this state is working exactly how it was designed to—for those at the very top.

The question isn't whether our leaders are concerned. The question is whether they have the lived experience to understand the urgency needed.

I love that Barbra Streisand’s torrid love song for EYES OF LAURA MARS (1978) was just played during the YSL winter 26 show in Paris. @barbrastreisand.bsky.social

#filmsky #moviesky #barbrastreisand #ysl

We've had enough of leaders who are bought and paid for. It's time for a leader you know only works for you.

“What Netanyahu wants is one thing. What other parts of the state of Israel want is another.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on why he believes PM Netanyahu’s warmongering is partly influenced by the upcoming elections in Israel. More on Fresh Hell.
tinabrown.substack.com/publish/post...

Things $400 million could actually fix:
- Health coverage for 40k Californians
- Literacy screening for every K-2 student
- 10,000 acres of coastal wetlands
- 5,000 homes for the unhoused
- Replace our fleet of aging Calfire bases

Things it doesn't fix:
- A billionaire's need for attention.

Fontaine as madwoman. Directed by Sam Wood. Gorgeous photography, sets and costumes.

"Ivy is not really a cruel girl, just a lass who loves nice things." -- James Agee, TIME review of IVY, July 7, 1947.

Excellent film starring Joan Fontaine.

#moviesky #filmsky #tmc #letterboxd

Lesbian thespian Marjorie Main, one of the great Hollywood character actresses, known for her "Ma Kettle" roles, was BOTD in 1890 & died in 1975 at 85. Ms. Main, a staunch Republican, had a long term romantic relationship with Hollywood character actress Spring Byington

“Dead Tom’s Dead! Long John shot him!”

Happy 30th Anniversary to MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND

I recognize one's a better writer than the other but I miss Elizabeth Wurtzel more than I miss David Foster Wallace.

It’s like people are getting all their new tech ideas from watching the most dystopian episodes of Black Mirror.

Can we PLEASE stop doing stuff like this?

www.perplexity.ai/page/startup...