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joshuavjohnson.bsky.social joshuavjohnson.bsky.social @joshuavjohnson.bsky.social · May 3
The Amos & Eddie scene from the Color of Money is still one of my favorites of all time. The man’s been delivering monologues on another level from the start.

Pauline Kael, who wrote an unfavorable review: “…except for a brief, startling performance by the 25-year-old black actor Forest Whitaker.”
Forest Whitaker & Paul Newman in Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money (1986)
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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He’s in it for like 5mins but it may be the best 5mins anyone was on screen before they became a star.
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I'm no film buff but goddamn do I love me some Color Of Money!
Various shots from Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money (1986)
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

this happened! this is a thing that happened!
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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(given the dates here) Perhaps, the man who wrote & directed Space Bear, conscience of it or not, returned to an earlier mold of Ben mere days after the debacle of TROS was set upon the world - b/c even Tristan asks the question of his father "Did I damn everybody around me as well as myself?"
• Alison Roman (Dec 25, 2019): “Legends of the Fall is Little Women but with men happy holidays” • Karina Longworth (Dec 25, 2019): “Have not seen the new Little Women. When Beth dies, does Jo scream ‘GODDAMN YOU GOD!?!??!!!!’? (Sorry, I recently watched Legends of the Fall.)”
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Ben Solo looks upward with a devastated expression, face streaked with dirt and a scar across his cheek. Tweet Text: "“because even if he could that would not recreate the woman whom the rain had beat against until her long black hair had swung against his legs.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Ben Solo stands on a barren, pale battlefield with sheer cliffs behind him, looking out toward the horizon after Luke vanishes. Tweet Text: "“But he was well past simple notions of vengeance and perhaps grief had coarsened and poisoned him to the point that he knew there was no evening the score with the world…”
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Two hands reaching toward each other in warm, golden light, fingertips just touching. Tweet Text: "“And in the moonlight from the window, he saw her standing at the foot of the bed. He reached for her hand and after a while, she joined his deep and dreamless sleep, wound about each other with all loneliness faded at last from the earth.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Close-up of Ben Solo's face, illuminated in dim light, eyes red and expression troubled. Tweet Text: "“Tristan had in his fever achieved that state which mystics crave, but he was ill-prepared for; all things on earth both living and dead we're with him and on the same proportion.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Ben Solo is shown in profile, gazing out a window with a pensive expression, dim light reflecting off the glass beside him. Tweet Text: "“For Tristan, the dead were on deck and in his cabin he drank, despite his fever, and heard their footfalls. He heard them and even saw them. He did not know what was delirious sleep or delirious waking so that both his waking and sleeping dreams were soul chasers.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Ben Solo stands alone, silhouetted against a massive starship hangar window, looking out at ships and machinery. Tweet Text: "“In his waking dreams he had seen the gates of hell and wanted to walk through them and God alone knows what held him back one midnight when he perched naked on the bowsprit like a gargoyle with the warm spray of the ocean cooling him only a little…”
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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A scene showing Ben Solo staring forward intensely, with Rey’s face faintly superimposed beside him. Tweet Text: "“Some of our strangest actions are also our most deeply characteristic: Secret desires remain weak fantasies unless they pervade a will strong enough to carry them out.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM