Vince Keenan
@vpkeenan.bsky.social
Half of classic Hollywood mystery writer Renee Patrick @rpatrickbooks.bsky.social. Staff, NOIR CITY magazine. Cocktail enthusiast. Mets fan. Newsletter: Cocktails and Crime. https://vincekeenan.substack.com/
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Vince Keenan
@vpkeenan.bsky.social
· Nov 13
If we're making introductions: I'm one-half of novelist Renee Patrick @rpatrickbooks.bsky.social, the other half being my wife Rosemarie Keenan. In our books, Edith Head solves mysteries in Golden Age Hollywood. And I have a newsletter, Cocktails and Crime. vincekeenan.substack.com
On what happens to society when all of our vices are private. Also love this phrase: "those of us who use alcohol for its intended purpose—improving the company of others." www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
The Lonely New Vices of American Life
Booze is down and weed is up, and that’s doing something to us as a country.
www.theatlantic.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
On what happens to society when all of our vices are private. Also love this phrase: "those of us who use alcohol for its intended purpose—improving the company of others." www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
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The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
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NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A survey of books I've read aloud this year now that circumstances have forced me to stop, plus watching QUIZ SHOW with Ken Jennings. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-85...
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A survey of books I've read aloud this year now that circumstances have forced me to stop, plus watching QUIZ SHOW with Ken Jennings. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-85...
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lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
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Someone told Hal Linden that Lynda Carter was naturally going to be the hottest one in the group pic and he took it as a personal challenge.
BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS debuted #OTD in 1976.
ABC's winning team included (L-R) Robert Hegyes + Gabe Kaplan (WELCOME BACK, KOTTER), Penny Marshall (LAVERNE & SHIRLEY), Hal Linden (BARNEY MILLER), Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) + John Schuck (HOLMES & YOYO).
What a time to be alive. #ClassicTV
ABC's winning team included (L-R) Robert Hegyes + Gabe Kaplan (WELCOME BACK, KOTTER), Penny Marshall (LAVERNE & SHIRLEY), Hal Linden (BARNEY MILLER), Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) + John Schuck (HOLMES & YOYO).
What a time to be alive. #ClassicTV
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Someone told Hal Linden that Lynda Carter was naturally going to be the hottest one in the group pic and he took it as a personal challenge.
NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A survey of books I've read aloud this year now that circumstances have forced me to stop, plus watching QUIZ SHOW with Ken Jennings. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-85...
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A survey of books I've read aloud this year now that circumstances have forced me to stop, plus watching QUIZ SHOW with Ken Jennings. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-85...
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Join host @eddiemuller.bsky.social on Wed, Dec 17, at Oakland's historic Grand Lake Theatre for #NoirCityXmas We're presenting "I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes", based on the novel by master of suspense Cornell Woolrich. Tix: bit.ly/4oDzTOq
@tcmfans.bsky.social #filmnoir #noiralley #noirvember
@tcmfans.bsky.social #filmnoir #noiralley #noirvember
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Join host @eddiemuller.bsky.social on Wed, Dec 17, at Oakland's historic Grand Lake Theatre for #NoirCityXmas We're presenting "I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes", based on the novel by master of suspense Cornell Woolrich. Tix: bit.ly/4oDzTOq
@tcmfans.bsky.social #filmnoir #noiralley #noirvember
@tcmfans.bsky.social #filmnoir #noiralley #noirvember
Revisited this movie, which is somehow even more bizarre than I remembered, because, so help me, there's actually gonna be a VIDEODROME cocktail in A HELL OF A DRINK.
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Revisited this movie, which is somehow even more bizarre than I remembered, because, so help me, there's actually gonna be a VIDEODROME cocktail in A HELL OF A DRINK.
Rick Ellis nails what's behind the rich boys' AI obsession in his latest newsletter. toomuchtv.substack.com/p/too-much-t...
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Rick Ellis nails what's behind the rich boys' AI obsession in his latest newsletter. toomuchtv.substack.com/p/too-much-t...
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What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
Excellent night courtesy of @siffnews.bsky.social, revisiting QUIZ SHOW (1994) on the big screen introduced by none other than @kenjennings.bsky.social. Amazing how this Best Picture nominee, unavailable on Blu-ray, has been somewhat forgotten.
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Excellent night courtesy of @siffnews.bsky.social, revisiting QUIZ SHOW (1994) on the big screen introduced by none other than @kenjennings.bsky.social. Amazing how this Best Picture nominee, unavailable on Blu-ray, has been somewhat forgotten.
Sharing because of the quote, and because his costume for a high school celebration was a hero of the French Resistance.
“I like to be a gentleman. It’s important to be chic.”
After the Louvre heist, a photo of a dapper man became an internet sensation. Now we know who he is, what brought him to the Louvre — and why he typically reserves his fedora for weekends and special occasions. nyti.ms/47Co8C1
After the Louvre heist, a photo of a dapper man became an internet sensation. Now we know who he is, what brought him to the Louvre — and why he typically reserves his fedora for weekends and special occasions. nyti.ms/47Co8C1
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Sharing because of the quote, and because his costume for a high school celebration was a hero of the French Resistance.
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Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map
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Tatsuya Nakadai, who starred in films by Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Naruse, Teshigahara, Ichikawa, and Kinuyo Tanaka, has died at 92.
“The qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.” Chuck Stephens — www.criterion.com/current/post...
“The qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.” Chuck Stephens — www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Tatsuya Nakadai, who starred in films by Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Naruse, Teshigahara, Ichikawa, and Kinuyo Tanaka, has died at 92.
“The qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.” Chuck Stephens — www.criterion.com/current/post...
“The qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.” Chuck Stephens — www.criterion.com/current/post...
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I do think sports betting should be legal, but you should have to place bets in person with someone you are afraid will physically harm you if you don't pay up.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I do think sports betting should be legal, but you should have to place bets in person with someone you are afraid will physically harm you if you don't pay up.
Caught up with the latest THE LAST DRIVE-IN with @therealjoebob123.bsky.social and @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social. Gotta respect Joe Bob for pausing the debate on giallo movies to trash Philo Vance as a lousy detective character.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Caught up with the latest THE LAST DRIVE-IN with @therealjoebob123.bsky.social and @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social. Gotta respect Joe Bob for pausing the debate on giallo movies to trash Philo Vance as a lousy detective character.
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“A library is in a lot of ways a kind of civic symbol, a demonstration of a community’s commitment to itself. So what does it mean if that goes away?” said one librarian in Tieton, Washington, one of the rural small towns in the U.S. where keeping its library is untenable.
Federal Cuts, Immigration Raids and a Slowing Economy Hit Rural Libraries
Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“A library is in a lot of ways a kind of civic symbol, a demonstration of a community’s commitment to itself. So what does it mean if that goes away?” said one librarian in Tieton, Washington, one of the rural small towns in the U.S. where keeping its library is untenable.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...
Looking Back at Barbara Stanwyck’s Career (Clip) | The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...
One of the best movies of 2024 is FINALLY on a streaming service? Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong give all-timer performances. I've thought about this film a lot since I saw it last year.
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One of the best movies of 2024 is FINALLY on a streaming service? Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong give all-timer performances. I've thought about this film a lot since I saw it last year.
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Three newly restored French-language thrillers by the under-appreciated actor-director Robert Hossein arrive in a deluxe new Blu-ray set, Wicked Games: Three Films By Robert Hossein. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews the collection for TFH.
trailersfromhell.com/wicked-games...
trailersfromhell.com/wicked-games...
Wicked Games - 3 Films By Robert Hossein - Trailers From Hell
Gaumont’s restoration brings back a trio of French-language thrillers by the under-appreciated actor-director Robert Hossein. Two are Euro-noir takes on steamy pulp fiction crime stories costarring th...
trailersfromhell.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Three newly restored French-language thrillers by the under-appreciated actor-director Robert Hossein arrive in a deluxe new Blu-ray set, Wicked Games: Three Films By Robert Hossein. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews the collection for TFH.
trailersfromhell.com/wicked-games...
trailersfromhell.com/wicked-games...
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Always exciting when a David Goodis first edition comes through the shop. Absolutely stunning condition here 😍
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Always exciting when a David Goodis first edition comes through the shop. Absolutely stunning condition here 😍
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The problem with scammers and loneliness these days is that everything is digital, so the scammer never gets the chance to fall in love with a plucky local librarian and change his wicked ways. And forget about the implications of not even having to buy a bunch of marching band instruments.
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The problem with scammers and loneliness these days is that everything is digital, so the scammer never gets the chance to fall in love with a plucky local librarian and change his wicked ways. And forget about the implications of not even having to buy a bunch of marching band instruments.