Eddie Selover
@eddieselover.bsky.social
Writer, communications exec, coach, speaker. Topics mostly movies, storytelling and spiritual adventuring. My biography of Basil Rathbone coming next year from UPK. ♊️🦄🍸
My James Bond continuation/reboot suggestion: Film the Fleming novels in order. Set them in their proper period, after WWI, filmed in B/W, and leave in the non-PC sexism, racism, etc. Like MAD MEN, they can serve as an indictment of that era's assumptions, but still be glamorous, stylish, and fun.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My James Bond continuation/reboot suggestion: Film the Fleming novels in order. Set them in their proper period, after WWI, filmed in B/W, and leave in the non-PC sexism, racism, etc. Like MAD MEN, they can serve as an indictment of that era's assumptions, but still be glamorous, stylish, and fun.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 12: Sexiest Film Noir.
Can there be any other choice than GILDA? Despite the censors, we know exactly what we're seeing: the world's hottest nympho breaking up a Dom and his butt boy, followed by some furious bisexual hate f*cking. The Dom's name? Ballin.
This movie. Wow.
Day 12: Sexiest Film Noir.
Can there be any other choice than GILDA? Despite the censors, we know exactly what we're seeing: the world's hottest nympho breaking up a Dom and his butt boy, followed by some furious bisexual hate f*cking. The Dom's name? Ballin.
This movie. Wow.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 12: Sexiest Film Noir.
Can there be any other choice than GILDA? Despite the censors, we know exactly what we're seeing: the world's hottest nympho breaking up a Dom and his butt boy, followed by some furious bisexual hate f*cking. The Dom's name? Ballin.
This movie. Wow.
Day 12: Sexiest Film Noir.
Can there be any other choice than GILDA? Despite the censors, we know exactly what we're seeing: the world's hottest nympho breaking up a Dom and his butt boy, followed by some furious bisexual hate f*cking. The Dom's name? Ballin.
This movie. Wow.
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Chavez in Venezuela discovered that they didn’t need to shut down the “fake media” but instead buy it and use it as a legitimizing tool. So the rich cronies just bought every media. It’s a playbook, nothing new, just new to you
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Chavez in Venezuela discovered that they didn’t need to shut down the “fake media” but instead buy it and use it as a legitimizing tool. So the rich cronies just bought every media. It’s a playbook, nothing new, just new to you
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
Really, after 10 years of this, I'm done with pieces explaining how awful he is, or what he's destroying. Unless you have a workable idea for what to DO about him, or how to actively make things better, kindly stfu.
* Key word there: "workable." I don't want your unicorn wish list either.
* Key word there: "workable." I don't want your unicorn wish list either.
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Really, after 10 years of this, I'm done with pieces explaining how awful he is, or what he's destroying. Unless you have a workable idea for what to DO about him, or how to actively make things better, kindly stfu.
* Key word there: "workable." I don't want your unicorn wish list either.
* Key word there: "workable." I don't want your unicorn wish list either.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 11: Favorite bar scene in a Noir.
IN A LONELY PLACE. Few films "get" L.A. so well, particularly the bar scenes—Bogart's natural habitat, where he goes for business, hookups, friendship, and the booze that unleashes his violent self loathing. Every place is a lonely place.
Day 11: Favorite bar scene in a Noir.
IN A LONELY PLACE. Few films "get" L.A. so well, particularly the bar scenes—Bogart's natural habitat, where he goes for business, hookups, friendship, and the booze that unleashes his violent self loathing. Every place is a lonely place.
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 11: Favorite bar scene in a Noir.
IN A LONELY PLACE. Few films "get" L.A. so well, particularly the bar scenes—Bogart's natural habitat, where he goes for business, hookups, friendship, and the booze that unleashes his violent self loathing. Every place is a lonely place.
Day 11: Favorite bar scene in a Noir.
IN A LONELY PLACE. Few films "get" L.A. so well, particularly the bar scenes—Bogart's natural habitat, where he goes for business, hookups, friendship, and the booze that unleashes his violent self loathing. Every place is a lonely place.
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
Richard Burton was so amazingly good in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and (slightly less so) in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA that I can forgive him for the rest of his ghastly career.
He also gets points for nailing the essence of Lucille Ball in his hilarious diaries. I love the guy, basically.
He also gets points for nailing the essence of Lucille Ball in his hilarious diaries. I love the guy, basically.
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Richard Burton was so amazingly good in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and (slightly less so) in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA that I can forgive him for the rest of his ghastly career.
He also gets points for nailing the essence of Lucille Ball in his hilarious diaries. I love the guy, basically.
He also gets points for nailing the essence of Lucille Ball in his hilarious diaries. I love the guy, basically.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 10: Favorite Gloria Grahame noir.
She was never more likable than in THE BIG HEAT—so it's that much more upsetting when something awful happens to her. Our emotions about Grahame being ruined lift this movie out of its cops-and-robbers class; it becomes a real tragedy.
Day 10: Favorite Gloria Grahame noir.
She was never more likable than in THE BIG HEAT—so it's that much more upsetting when something awful happens to her. Our emotions about Grahame being ruined lift this movie out of its cops-and-robbers class; it becomes a real tragedy.
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 10: Favorite Gloria Grahame noir.
She was never more likable than in THE BIG HEAT—so it's that much more upsetting when something awful happens to her. Our emotions about Grahame being ruined lift this movie out of its cops-and-robbers class; it becomes a real tragedy.
Day 10: Favorite Gloria Grahame noir.
She was never more likable than in THE BIG HEAT—so it's that much more upsetting when something awful happens to her. Our emotions about Grahame being ruined lift this movie out of its cops-and-robbers class; it becomes a real tragedy.
I found the finale very moving. Really sweet, talented people.
ICYMI: Left in #TheGreatBritishBakingShow season 16's tent of puddled mousseline and other broken dreams are Aaron, Jasmine, and Tom. Who do you think will win?
Who will be Bake-Off’s winner? Its 5x star baker?
Left in #TheGreatBritishBakingShow season 16's tent of puddled mousseline and other broken dreams are Aaron, Jasmine, and Tom. Who do you think will win?
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November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I found the finale very moving. Really sweet, talented people.
Well this sounds pretty sick and grotesquely dangerous... but in happier news, Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly much happier in her new minimum-security prison.
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Well this sounds pretty sick and grotesquely dangerous... but in happier news, Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly much happier in her new minimum-security prison.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 9: Favorite Dan Duryea noir.
SCARLET STREET (1944) is about a pimp, a whore, and a sad little husband. The NYT didn't like it, but praised Duryea's original, gleefully scary work as the pimp, saying he made "a vicious serpentine creature out of a cheap, chiseling tinhorn."
Day 9: Favorite Dan Duryea noir.
SCARLET STREET (1944) is about a pimp, a whore, and a sad little husband. The NYT didn't like it, but praised Duryea's original, gleefully scary work as the pimp, saying he made "a vicious serpentine creature out of a cheap, chiseling tinhorn."
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 9: Favorite Dan Duryea noir.
SCARLET STREET (1944) is about a pimp, a whore, and a sad little husband. The NYT didn't like it, but praised Duryea's original, gleefully scary work as the pimp, saying he made "a vicious serpentine creature out of a cheap, chiseling tinhorn."
Day 9: Favorite Dan Duryea noir.
SCARLET STREET (1944) is about a pimp, a whore, and a sad little husband. The NYT didn't like it, but praised Duryea's original, gleefully scary work as the pimp, saying he made "a vicious serpentine creature out of a cheap, chiseling tinhorn."
Some brilliant points here.
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Some brilliant points here.
Make sure your beer vest is secure before assisting others.
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Make sure your beer vest is secure before assisting others.
Amen.
A brutal, precise, and delightful dismissal.
Politicians like Cuomo are a relic of the past. (Did I want to title this one “Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out”? Yes, I did.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Amen.
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I picked a hell of a time to attempt to live in a state of zen
October 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I picked a hell of a time to attempt to live in a state of zen
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 8: Favorite line in a film noir.
"She tried to sit on my lap when I was standing up."
~ Bogart's Philip Marlowe explains to his client Gen. Sternwood that yes, he has met the General's infantile nympho daughter.
Typically great wisecrack from the amazing Jules Furthman.
Day 8: Favorite line in a film noir.
"She tried to sit on my lap when I was standing up."
~ Bogart's Philip Marlowe explains to his client Gen. Sternwood that yes, he has met the General's infantile nympho daughter.
Typically great wisecrack from the amazing Jules Furthman.
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 8: Favorite line in a film noir.
"She tried to sit on my lap when I was standing up."
~ Bogart's Philip Marlowe explains to his client Gen. Sternwood that yes, he has met the General's infantile nympho daughter.
Typically great wisecrack from the amazing Jules Furthman.
Day 8: Favorite line in a film noir.
"She tried to sit on my lap when I was standing up."
~ Bogart's Philip Marlowe explains to his client Gen. Sternwood that yes, he has met the General's infantile nympho daughter.
Typically great wisecrack from the amazing Jules Furthman.
Like Key lime pie in 2-strip Technicolor.
...
Baja Blast pie.
Taco Bell. What is this madness. That color is so.
Very.
Baja Blast pie.
Taco Bell. What is this madness. That color is so.
Very.
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Like Key lime pie in 2-strip Technicolor.
Okay Steve, you may look like a week-old sack of roadkill fished from a vat of Jeppson's Malört... but I gotta say you know how to sweet talk a guy.
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Okay Steve, you may look like a week-old sack of roadkill fished from a vat of Jeppson's Malört... but I gotta say you know how to sweet talk a guy.
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Oh my God y’all.
OH MY GOD.
Go see the Korean comedy-thriller NO OTHER CHOICE as soon as you possibly can. I will be floored if it doesn’t win Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards.
I have not laughed this hard in a movie in years. Without hyperbole, this film is a masterpiece.
OH MY GOD.
Go see the Korean comedy-thriller NO OTHER CHOICE as soon as you possibly can. I will be floored if it doesn’t win Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards.
I have not laughed this hard in a movie in years. Without hyperbole, this film is a masterpiece.
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Oh my God y’all.
OH MY GOD.
Go see the Korean comedy-thriller NO OTHER CHOICE as soon as you possibly can. I will be floored if it doesn’t win Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards.
I have not laughed this hard in a movie in years. Without hyperbole, this film is a masterpiece.
OH MY GOD.
Go see the Korean comedy-thriller NO OTHER CHOICE as soon as you possibly can. I will be floored if it doesn’t win Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards.
I have not laughed this hard in a movie in years. Without hyperbole, this film is a masterpiece.
#NoirvemberChallenge
I don't wanna be That Guy, but SPELLBOUND—despite its Dali designed dream sequence, which is indeed very cool—is not a Film Noir.
I don't wanna be That Guy, but SPELLBOUND—despite its Dali designed dream sequence, which is indeed very cool—is not a Film Noir.
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge
I don't wanna be That Guy, but SPELLBOUND—despite its Dali designed dream sequence, which is indeed very cool—is not a Film Noir.
I don't wanna be That Guy, but SPELLBOUND—despite its Dali designed dream sequence, which is indeed very cool—is not a Film Noir.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 7: Favorite film noir dream sequence.
"A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom." Dick Powell, the best Marlowe, gets beaten and drugged in MURDER MY SWEET. His dream is scary as hell and Powell's sweaty vulnerability when half-awake makes it worse.
Day 7: Favorite film noir dream sequence.
"A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom." Dick Powell, the best Marlowe, gets beaten and drugged in MURDER MY SWEET. His dream is scary as hell and Powell's sweaty vulnerability when half-awake makes it worse.
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 7: Favorite film noir dream sequence.
"A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom." Dick Powell, the best Marlowe, gets beaten and drugged in MURDER MY SWEET. His dream is scary as hell and Powell's sweaty vulnerability when half-awake makes it worse.
Day 7: Favorite film noir dream sequence.
"A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom." Dick Powell, the best Marlowe, gets beaten and drugged in MURDER MY SWEET. His dream is scary as hell and Powell's sweaty vulnerability when half-awake makes it worse.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Here's how to turn it off.
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I'd like to tattoo this image on the forehead of every single jackass who whined about Biden's supposed cognitive issues.
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I'd like to tattoo this image on the forehead of every single jackass who whined about Biden's supposed cognitive issues.