The Deal That Could Destroy Hollywood - The American Prospect Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. would be a huge blow to filmmakers and film lovers alike.

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True, True!

Or, paraphrasing the immortal words of
Phoebe Waller-Bridge ....

"She looks like a pencil."

Just saw the third production in our neighborhood in two weeks. I think things are picking up around LA, and I cannot be happier, even if it makes it harder for me to find a parking spot on front of my apartment. More film crews in our streets! Up with local productions!

Dinner Dinner .... Chicken Marsala Winner!

Just in .... "Best Unproduced Short Script" at the ...

Hollywood International Golden Age Festival for ...

STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY 101

LFG!!

Yes, "The Gunner" was one-of-one when he was calling the games and always gave Roberto his flowers.

Here's my favorite photo of Roberto, as this is where he was in his purest selflessness, teaching the youth.

But he did it not by talking down to them, but by humbly kneeling and talking to them!

True! So True!

The Post-Gazette & the Press were politely snarky to Roberto, from '55 through '72.

Made fun of his mangled English often and seldom
gave him respect because he was too "outspoken."

As a beer vendor, one day I spoke to Roberto in my mangled
Spanish, and he treated me as an equal!

Write on!

Not only Jackie but dozens more who followed him ....

Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron to name just two.

Always incensed over blatant racism, Roberto marched with MLK while Hank received over 5,000 pieces of hate mail as
he neared and passed Babe Ruth's home run record.

Mark Rufalo warns Congress against the Paramount-WBD merger:

"You don't have to watch 'Citizen Kane' or read '1984' to understand that the concentrated oligarchic control this merger represents is a threat to a free press, an informed populace & democracy itself."

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"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." ~ Baseball legend Jackie Robinson #Jackie42 #Widsom #MLB #History #JackieRobinsonDay

Mark Ruffalo, Glenn Close, Ben Stiller, Jane Fonda, John Cusack, Kristen Stewart, JJ Abrams, Katie Phang, John Leguizamo, and over a thousand actors, writers, directors, journalists, producers, composers, and Hollywood executives have signed a letter against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger:

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'The Pitt,' 'I Love LA' and Stewie-Starring 'Family Guy' Spinoff to Receive California Production Tax Credit Dan Harmon's "President Curtis" and Jimmy Kimmel's competition show "Schooled!" will also be shot in the Golden State

Congrats to the crews behind The Pitt, I Love LA, and all the other projects receiving California’s robust production tax credit. This program brings filming back to CA and LA! (1/2)

Write on!

Remember it well ....

As the US and Vietnamese negotiators took 2 friggin' weeks to decide on the size of the negotiating table in Paris while 250 US military men and women were dying each week!

Write on!

But don't forget the FALL GUY .....

Amaze!

Amaze!

Amaze!

Love this photo of this lovely, hugely talented couple.

MEL BROOKS & ANNE BANCROFT

📷 by Douglas Kirkland

Amaze!

Amaze!

Amaze!

Write on!

From 1892 to around 1920, electric cars were all over the U.S.

This woman below is plugging in her EV in Cincinnati in 1912!

Air pollution and oil wars could have been greatly diminished if we could have sustained these green machines!

Spec Script Deal: "Ram". Writer: Chris Bremner. Genre: Action Comedy. Buyer: Netflix. By my count, this is the 11th spec script deal in 2026. There were 3 spec script deals year-to-date in 2025. www.patreon.com/posts/spec-s... #Hollywood #movies #screenwriting #scriptsky

‘La Noche de las Librerías’ - NIGHT OF THE BOOKSTORES’ - takes place in Buenos Aries every year.

200,000 people come out onto the streets & enjoy this incredible literary festival & buy books worth nearly $400million.

Write on!

Currently reading his book -- "Making Movies" -- and there are so many great stories like the Paddy one.

One of the salient lines in the book is how he and the actors watch the daily rushes together.

Then he compliments them by saying: "Good work. We're all making the same movie."

Exactly!

I'm waiting on TickPick.com to get their Olympic tickets as they have no service fees of any kind.

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Stephen,

Congrats, man!

You're halfway home nearing the 3/8 pole; stay in the pocket;
hug the rail; avoid any kickback; make sure Silky switches leads in the stretch and then burst home with a turn of foot!

Cheering you on!

Not surprising that 40% of Americans think that dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time.

A couple years ago, PEOPLE Magazine reported that 50%
of Americans think that Nicaragua is a Tropical Drink!

The irony of street artist Bansky is that he became famous by his creativity and by staying anonymous.

Until last week when Reuters spilled the tea.

Does it matter? Nah, as creativity doesn't have an expiration date.

Especially this one at the Regents Canal in London that he created in 2009!

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms ...

Smart!

Analog, physical, in person

This is the way

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Pedro Pascal, Madonna, Mark Ruffalo and More Demand ICE Facility for Children Shut Down, Sign Open Letter: ‘Children Belong in Schools. Not Detention Centers’ Madonna, Pedro Pascal, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo and more Hollywood names are fighting to close the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.

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Massive Merger Confirmed: Paramount And WBD Reveal Details Of $110 Billion Deal It’s official. Warner Bros. Discovery is selling itself to Paramount for $31 a share in cash. The companies unveiled their formal agreement on Friday.

“I believe strongly that the proposed sale of Warner Bros Discovery to Paramount (deadline.com/2026/02/mass...) will be disastrous for the motion picture and television business on many levels… to a massive loss of jobs, a dramatic increase in consumer prices…”

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Write on!

"Spinach-in-the-Popcorn" ....

Is my middle name.

On this day today in 1973, Roberto Clemente was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Write on!

How about ....

SEATTLE SOCKEYES?

Imo if Actresses want more and better roles and longer careers they need to put their weight when they have it behind female Directors

Margot Robbie & Nicole Kidman know

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