A new book has come out, first of its kind, that describes a revolutionary group I was in, in the 70s.

It’s time to exhale, but this won’t be easy.

Whoever Wins....They Also Win

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win.

These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

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every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

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More movies could benefit from a werewolf break

Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

...huh

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The big one he turned down is the Burt Reynolds role in Boogie Nights, because he admitted to PTA that he couldn't see himself as anyone but Diggler - which is not QUITE as conceited as it sounds, given that the role might as well have been written for the younger him

I keep meaning to see Rules Don't Apply, though - I'm sure it's a train wreck, because how could it not be, he'd been working on it since the early 70s, but it sounds like an interesting one

In fairness, it was already willingly dead by that point, because he had stopped acting in stuff he wasn't producing or directing, and he wasn't doing that much - the list of roles he turned down is ten times as long as the ones he didn't

I don't think it's a big one, even by Beatty standards, but they're out there!

I haven't seen it, so my only thoughts are how it relates to the Clinton era 'what if the president was horny' microgenre bsky.app/profile/elec...

Believe it or not, it has a cult following in Film Buff Land

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From ILX just now: "D’Angelo’s “Sometimes it Snows In April” is a double heartbreaker now" -- and this is true. This is really true. Sorry for Fallon at the start, but if you haven't seen this, you need to.

Malcolm X, Amadeus, Capote, I'm Not There, Love and Mercy, and all the Alexander/Karaszewskis

The trades both gave it the classic 'say what you want, looks like boffo box office' review

This album is an all-time “sure did boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked” experience.

the real thing about Fahrenheit is that it tells you which temperatures are unfair. if it's 15°F out that's cold, sure. but if it's -15°F, that's unreasonable and you deserve sympathy. likewise heat above 100°F automatically makes a story pitiable. that means it's more than 100% hot.

hackers associated with the nation of iran have launched a sophisticated attack targeting me seeing cool pictures

Which WAS technically bipartisan, since it was something the conservative and pro-business wings of the Dems could sign off on

The same thing of course happened on the other side too — the origin of the modern Conservative Movement was a "bipartisan" effort to fuse northern pro-business conservative Republicans with southern dixiecrat racists.

That somehow shifted to "liberals need to work with conservatives" which doesn't make sense because there's nothing to work on together if you don't share goals or values. Mid-century "bipartisanship" was considered important because the parties of that era were only loosely ideological!

The "we need bipartisanship!" thing originally began not as a call for liberals to work with conservatives but for liberal northern Republicans and liberal northern Democrats to work together to advance liberal policies in an era where conservative Dixiecrats dominated commitee chairmanships etc.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

Doctor Doom appears at Tony Stark’s funeral and after a huge record scratch on the soundtrack we dolly zoom in on a blue Kelsey Grammer who says to the camera “Well… THAT just happened! See you December 18 (winks)”