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Ben Schwartz
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Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, Air Mail, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: Dara Kaye WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09
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So, he’s a mass murdering demon, but the scariest thing about him -- he doesn’t gaf about your pronouns.
the image is a headline from variety showing actor robert englund discussing his character, freddy kruger. the text reads: "Robert Englund on the Enduring Appeal of Freddy Kruger: 'An Unrepentant, Politically Incorrect Villain With a Dose of Personality'"
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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And Trump and has pics of Boebert blowing her pilates instructor at "Wicked!"
The image is a screencap of an aaronparnas tweet that says: "BREAKING: Per the NYT, Trump's lobbying effort of Lauren Boebert has failed. She will not pull her name from the Epstein petition."
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Q: Jack and Harry Warner's orig. WB studio made great crime, western, musical, and adventure movies, but except for Looney Tunes, not great comedies. What's the best comedy WB ever made? It can't be "The Incredible Mr. Limpet."
The image is of Don Knotts and Carole Cook as Bessie Limpet.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The image is from the Sonora Desert scene of "Close Encounters," where an elderly Mexican man with a half-sun burnt face tells the story of the alien space craft that hovered over his house and left give WW2 fighter planes on his property. He describes the encounter in Spanish, and one of the translators tells François Truffaut: "He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him."
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Trump looks like Lenny after he petted the bunny rabbit too hard.
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The image shows Phil Hartman playing Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer on SNL.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The image is Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton), who was re-elected after the events of the first JAWS and appears as the mayor in JAWS2.
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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"Careful with that 007, it's a double habanero Subway Mexicana Beef Crunch with a point blank delivery like a brick through a plate glass window."
November 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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The image is a screencap from my story, with a quote that reads: "If Zaslav and the board don't sell to Skydance, there's no reason not to be optimistic about his prospects for reviving Warner Bros. as the kind of film studio it was during its heyday. If he wants to sit at Jack Warner's desk, he would do well to pay heed to what Warner said when he cashed out and left that desk in order to retire to Palm Springs: "You're nothing if you don't have a studio. Now I'm just another millionaire."
November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I've lived long enough to see Cameron Crowe turn into Stephen Fry.
the image shows alec baldwin and writer-director cameron crowe, who now looks a lot like stephen fry.
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Andrew Cuomo, 1989.
The photo is of John Turturro as Pino in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing."
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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let’s go!
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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good morning
The image shows the cover of the 1967 issue of the French film magazine “Cahiers du Cinema” devoted to Jerry Lewis.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Nope, it's not Gatsby. It's Tom Buchanan that Trump uses for his lifestyle model.
The image is text from "The Great Gatsby," dialogue between Tom Buchanan and Nick Carraway: "Civilization's going to pieces," broke out Tom violently. "I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read 'The Rise of the Colored Empires' by this man Goddard?" "Why, no," I answered, rather surprised by his tone. "Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved."
November 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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The image is from "The Blues Brothers" when they're stuck in traffic by a Illinois nazi march and Jake says "I hate Illinois Nazis."
November 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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New @thenation.com Piece Dropping Monday!
The image is a b&w screenshot from from "Sweet Smell of Success" of a newspaper truck delivering copies of the "Globe" newspaper. On the side of the truck are the eyes of Burt Lancaster behind horn-rimmed glasses with the ad copy: "Go With the Gobe! read J.J Hunsecker The Eyes of Broadway"
October 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Please contact French authorities if you see these men:
The image shows three well-dressed criminals from a Jean-Pierre Melville heist movie, "Le Cercle Rouge"
October 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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the image is a tweet of trump saying, "I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent....." at 3:46 AM · Jun 23, 2020
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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grow up. it was a stupid joke said in a private empire chat. get off his back.
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Hayden had quit the party in 1946, but Dixon smeared him anyway. I can totally hear Hayden using that line in "Strangelove" as Jack D. Ripper. "Mandrake, the Communist way is the only of life ... women naturally sense the power of my pamphlets. I do not deny them my pamphlets."
The b&w image shows a nervous Peter Sellers as Captain Mandrake and Hayden as the insane Air Force General Jack D. Ripper with his arm around Mandrake in "Dr. Strangelove."
October 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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HUAC stooge/gossip columnist George Dixon claims Sterling Hayden's PUA game for DC socialites was asking why they weren't communists. “The Communist way is the only way of life,” Hayden allegedly said, before handing the ladies pamphlets. I guess when you look like Hayden in '47 you don't need game.
The b&w image is of a shirtless Sterling Hayden in a gym, holding a medicine ball.
October 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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The image shows one of the final scenes from "The Hunt for Red October" when the Russian ambassador is asked "Andre, you've lost another submarine?" The caption here reads: "You've found another young republican nazi?
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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no dice, hostess. you have once again failed to terrify me.
October 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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this is both trump vindictively weaponizing our justice dept to take revenge on a political enemy and the world’s biggest *womp womp.*
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Give her credit. It worked.
the image shows two pictures of actress Megan Statler waling into the Emmys and on her purse is a taped sheet of paper with the word CEASEFIRE! taped to it.
October 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM