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Gregg Chabot
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Screenwriter REIGN OF FIRE

Used the Heimlich to save a man from a choking death at a German restaurant even though a slapdash tracheostomy with a fork would've been more dramatic

Swiftie Dad
This thread is hilarious. I'm dying.
I gotta say, I’m seeing the most Live Laugh Love women I went to all girls high school with in Ohio posting anti-ICE Instagram reels and demanding people pay attention to the threat of fascism
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Cruise is a savvy reader with great taste who can distinguish a good screenplay from a bad one. Give him 100 scripts and he'll identify the two that shine. This skill (among actors) is more uncommon than you think.
What's your non-scientology Tom Cruise Hot Take - and is it hotter than "THE LAST SAMURAI is a Top 5 Cruise movie" or have we finally all caught up?
a man with a ponytail and a beard is sitting in front of a group of men
Alt: Ujio nods in respect to Nathan Algren in 2003's THE LAST SAMURAI
media.tenor.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Talent isn't rare. Throw an apple & you hit someone with talent. Perseverance? rare. Work ethic? exceedingly rare; the willingness to grind. Being able to endure the scorn, rejection & privation a life in the arts dooms you to in the United States is unicorn-scarce. But talent? Talent is everywhere.
August 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Honored to play in #SFB15. Thank you to the great @scottfish.bsky.social for inviting me back.

Thank you @allanhepworth.bsky.social for manning the traffic control tower in the blue skies and ‪@joshadhd.com‬ for his essential Scott Fish Bowl Tool.

Tried a "F--- them QBs" draft.

Go Travis Go!
July 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I need a 2-minute video edit of Big Mike's patented, soaring, high-flying catches (they almost always ended in spectacular crash-landings) set to Carly Simon's Nobody Does It Better.

Magnificent valor. It was an honor to watch him play.
Sources: Veteran WR Mike Williams has informed the Chargers that he plans to retire, walking away after eight seasons, with two eclipsing 1,000 yards.
July 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Some great ones but Denise Gough (Dedra in Andor) clears em all
#EMMY nominations — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Patricia Arquette, Severance
Carrie Coon, The White Lotus
Taylor Dearden, The Pitt
Julianne Nicholson, Paradise
Parker Posey, The White Lotus
Natasha Rothwell, The White Lotus
Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus
July 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Just saw Superman. Was gonna do a whole bit about it walking in. That’d be a disservice. It’s an important piece of work and I’m not joking. I don’t even like superhero movies. Sprint to see it. Bring your kids and explain it to them. James Gunn had a time machine when he made it.
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Unusual and perhaps precedented for a sports movie, the hero athlete's signature "play" is to cheat.

Roy Hobbs with a corked bat.

Rocky Balboa intentionally punching Apollo Creed in the balls in rounds 5, 7, 10, and 15.
F1 fits into Martin Scorsese's idea of "theme park cinema," not just because it tries to feel like a rollercoaster, but because the point isn't to watch it. It's to buy into the brand of F1.
F1 The Movie transforms the sport into just another piece of intellectual property
F1 The Movie transforms the sport into just another piece of intellectual property
www.avclub.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
My NYT Reader's Choice ballot. An off the cuff list of ten daring films that I won't ever stop thinking about.
June 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thank you ‪@scottfish.bsky.social and ‪@ryanmc23.bsky.social‬ for inviting me back to play in #SFB15.

Scott's pioneering idea to integrate charitable contributions with the fantasy football industry redirected a river. ‪@fantasycaresorg.bsky.social‬
June 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I wrote about STARMAN for the Roger Ebert site.
"There is a period for the fledgling fanatic during which even the thought that there could be bad movies was ridiculous heresy. I hoped I never got so old. When I watch Starman, I never did."

@mangiotto.bsky.social on his history with STARMAN for its 4K release:

www.rogerebert.com/dvd-blu-ray/...
How to Be Human: A Personal Response to John Carpenter’s “Starman,” Now in 4K | DVD/Blu-Ray | Roger Ebert
John Carpenter's Starman is now in 4K. Walter Chaw reveals how much this special movie means to him.
www.rogerebert.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content".

In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.

www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
After Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold | KQED
A state festival awarded top honors to ‘REDACTED,’ which ruthlessly lampooned district officials.
www.kqed.org
February 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children.

...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.

My latest in @thenation.com
Parenting In the Age of Trump
Like Sarah Connor, the heroine of the Terminator movies, Elie Mystal is trying to figure out how to prepare his children for the dystopian future.
www.thenation.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Write new worlds. Write beautiful places. Write angry people. Write imaginary beasts, futile quests, broken hearts, lifelong injustices, mysteries, love affairs, lost children, newfound purpose. Write anything that allows you to escape or heal or vent or rage or explore or reconcile. Write 🖤
February 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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If you don't want to be accused of racism, don't vote for a fucking racist, this isn't exactly rocket science my dudes

thehill.com/homenews/cam...
GOP pollster says Trump voters ‘tired’ of being accused of racism
Republican pollster Frank Luntz said on Friday that President Trump’s voters are “tired” of being accused of being sexist and racist. In a discussion about Trump’s remarks linking diversity, equity…
thehill.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Mr. Graff is a gifted writer and public speaker. It's still mortifying that he had to step up and write this as a reference sheet for US media (but here we are and it's getting worse by the hour).
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Every news thing now is like “law enforcement agency dissolved: all power to Zod!” and then the Dems posting “iron workers have been the backbone of American industry for 100 years, and now tariffs are breaking our promise to them”
January 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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The simple exhaustion of being lectured daily by the literal dumbest people you've ever seen in your life about how the problem with our society and government is a lack of competency.
January 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
January 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I did this artwork about Elon's love of nazis 2 years ago (you can see it on my Instagram and FB timeline - July 2023). On the right side is somebody who plagiarized my art. Lots of thieves out there. If you see the one on the right, report it. Thanks.
January 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Dying in a mental asylum in 2004 because I went back in time to tell people that The Apprentice would lead to the end of medical research, the Civil Rights Act, and birthright citizenship.
January 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM