Ellen O'Neill
@mapeel.bsky.social
Creative Director, VP The Paley Center for Media. Tweets personal. Of Swiss, Norwegian, German, & Irish/Belfast ancestry. I owe all those immigrants everything https://mapeel.blogspot.com/2007/02/thomas-hardy-and-titanic.html
"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts" #AllthePresidentsMen meets #LawrenceofArabia #TCMparty
February 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts" #AllthePresidentsMen meets #LawrenceofArabia #TCMparty
The Schiller short is actually "Don't Look Back in Anger." Morris misspoke--Look Back in Anger is the original John Osborne play--and it's been repeated. Adding "Don't" in 1978 put a whole different spin on it--no anger. #SNL50
February 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The Schiller short is actually "Don't Look Back in Anger." Morris misspoke--Look Back in Anger is the original John Osborne play--and it's been repeated. Adding "Don't" in 1978 put a whole different spin on it--no anger. #SNL50
As has been noted, the kid as a peculiar idea of what's common knowledge. He allows what to me are unknown chemistry terms, like that that solution thing; but not a simple music term like INTROIT. #nytspellingbee
February 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
As has been noted, the kid as a peculiar idea of what's common knowledge. He allows what to me are unknown chemistry terms, like that that solution thing; but not a simple music term like INTROIT. #nytspellingbee
Caught up w #SaturdayNightMovie, now on a mission: when Billy Crystal gets in a taxi we hear: "Long Island, Massapequa Park." WTF. [At the least he's frm Long Beach.] Would LOVE to know why Jason Reitman Gil Kenan wrote this throwaway line @sepinwall.bsky.social @jasonlynch.bsky.social #SNL
January 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Caught up w #SaturdayNightMovie, now on a mission: when Billy Crystal gets in a taxi we hear: "Long Island, Massapequa Park." WTF. [At the least he's frm Long Beach.] Would LOVE to know why Jason Reitman Gil Kenan wrote this throwaway line @sepinwall.bsky.social @jasonlynch.bsky.social #SNL
Happy New Year to the Hive! I never like the chemistry class bees, and the --EEs that I always forget because they are so odd, but it's always enjoyable. #nytspellingbee
December 31, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Happy New Year to the Hive! I never like the chemistry class bees, and the --EEs that I always forget because they are so odd, but it's always enjoyable. #nytspellingbee
Flight from LaGuardia to Key West delayed an hour, perfect time to finish #MurderUndertheMistletoe @RevRichardColes
December 29, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Flight from LaGuardia to Key West delayed an hour, perfect time to finish #MurderUndertheMistletoe @RevRichardColes
Midtown #NYC between Christmas and New Year's--not for the faint of heart! I was going to take a last 2024 stroll down 5th Avenue, but I gave up.
December 27, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Midtown #NYC between Christmas and New Year's--not for the faint of heart! I was going to take a last 2024 stroll down 5th Avenue, but I gave up.
#MerryChristmas! I'm enjoying the WPIX #Yulelog, I am exactly who it was made for: "Created in 1966 by Fred M. Thrower, president & CEO WPIX as a televised Christmas gift to those residents of New York who lived in apartments without fireplaces." The soundtrack from the 1960s is priceless
December 25, 2024 at 2:44 PM
#MerryChristmas! I'm enjoying the WPIX #Yulelog, I am exactly who it was made for: "Created in 1966 by Fred M. Thrower, president & CEO WPIX as a televised Christmas gift to those residents of New York who lived in apartments without fireplaces." The soundtrack from the 1960s is priceless
I had a tour of the NY Explorer's Club last month. The conquest of Everest is one of the 5 famous firsts, and they have Hillary's ice axes in pride of place.
December 10, 2024 at 12:34 AM
I had a tour of the NY Explorer's Club last month. The conquest of Everest is one of the 5 famous firsts, and they have Hillary's ice axes in pride of place.
#GWTW was first shown on TV on NBC in 1976 on 2 nights. Hard to explain what a BIG, BIG deal it was.
My family did not watch TV together, but we gathered to watch it on a small TV to experience it, like it was the moon landing. I vividly remember the TV Guide cover #TCMParty
My family did not watch TV together, but we gathered to watch it on a small TV to experience it, like it was the moon landing. I vividly remember the TV Guide cover #TCMParty
December 2, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Today is #AdventSunday, beginning the 4 weeks before Christmas on the church calendar. People mix that up w the 12 Days of Christmas, which are the 12 days between Christmas & Epiphany on January 6.
Forget the theology, it's the 12 days OF Christmas-- OF Christmas #justsayin @bcdreyer.social
Forget the theology, it's the 12 days OF Christmas-- OF Christmas #justsayin @bcdreyer.social
December 1, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Today is #AdventSunday, beginning the 4 weeks before Christmas on the church calendar. People mix that up w the 12 Days of Christmas, which are the 12 days between Christmas & Epiphany on January 6.
Forget the theology, it's the 12 days OF Christmas-- OF Christmas #justsayin @bcdreyer.social
Forget the theology, it's the 12 days OF Christmas-- OF Christmas #justsayin @bcdreyer.social
I'm loving #Kaos, wildly creative telling of Greco Roman mythology. Killer cast & soundtrack. They filmed "Crete" in the Plaza de Espana in Seville, the go-to location for imperial-ness. It was the English Army headquarters in Cairo in Lawrence of Arabia. You can see it on the general city bike tour
November 25, 2024 at 3:10 AM
I'm loving #Kaos, wildly creative telling of Greco Roman mythology. Killer cast & soundtrack. They filmed "Crete" in the Plaza de Espana in Seville, the go-to location for imperial-ness. It was the English Army headquarters in Cairo in Lawrence of Arabia. You can see it on the general city bike tour
I did not see this back in the day, but it sent me down a rabbit hole of nostalgia for my Spirograph.
November 22, 2024 at 3:05 AM
I did not see this back in the day, but it sent me down a rabbit hole of nostalgia for my Spirograph.
I stayed in the Royal School of Church Music within the Close last year for a week-long polyphony workshop. It was wonderful. And I took the tower tour to see inside that beautiful spire.
November 19, 2024 at 10:45 AM
I stayed in the Royal School of Church Music within the Close last year for a week-long polyphony workshop. It was wonderful. And I took the tower tour to see inside that beautiful spire.
I'm a fan of the TV series, I have the poster. I met an American Benedictine monk yrs ago in Solesmes. We traveled together fr yrs, which I wrote up as travelogue & I named that monk Cadfael (though it's all true). Sharing 1 because it is literary (Dumas makes an appearance) tinyurl.com/ysuw56er
November 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM
I'm a fan of the TV series, I have the poster. I met an American Benedictine monk yrs ago in Solesmes. We traveled together fr yrs, which I wrote up as travelogue & I named that monk Cadfael (though it's all true). Sharing 1 because it is literary (Dumas makes an appearance) tinyurl.com/ysuw56er
Wonderful Saturday NYT crossword clue #nytxw:
Subject of New York City's first public statue of a woman (1915).
I know this cuz I live down the block frm her off of Riverside Drive. SPOILER: It's Joan of Arc. Joan's plinth was recently renovated & there was a lovely ceremony
Subject of New York City's first public statue of a woman (1915).
I know this cuz I live down the block frm her off of Riverside Drive. SPOILER: It's Joan of Arc. Joan's plinth was recently renovated & there was a lovely ceremony
November 16, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Wonderful Saturday NYT crossword clue #nytxw:
Subject of New York City's first public statue of a woman (1915).
I know this cuz I live down the block frm her off of Riverside Drive. SPOILER: It's Joan of Arc. Joan's plinth was recently renovated & there was a lovely ceremony
Subject of New York City's first public statue of a woman (1915).
I know this cuz I live down the block frm her off of Riverside Drive. SPOILER: It's Joan of Arc. Joan's plinth was recently renovated & there was a lovely ceremony
His statue on the State Capitol grounds in Nashville, Tennessee.
November 15, 2024 at 2:10 PM
His statue on the State Capitol grounds in Nashville, Tennessee.
I am singing the sublime Rutter Requiem tomorrow on the Upper West Side. If you are anywhere in the area, you really will want to experience this, immense balm for a horrible week @johnrutter.bsky.social
November 9, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I am singing the sublime Rutter Requiem tomorrow on the Upper West Side. If you are anywhere in the area, you really will want to experience this, immense balm for a horrible week @johnrutter.bsky.social
Half listening to the Murder, She Wrote on StarzTV while I do the Saturday clean. Episode is "Coal Miner's Slaughter." There's a young woman in trouble blah blah blah. I don't recognize her. But then that voice-- that voice. It can only be 1 person-- it's Megan Mullally! @tvmojoe.bsky.social
November 9, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Half listening to the Murder, She Wrote on StarzTV while I do the Saturday clean. Episode is "Coal Miner's Slaughter." There's a young woman in trouble blah blah blah. I don't recognize her. But then that voice-- that voice. It can only be 1 person-- it's Megan Mullally! @tvmojoe.bsky.social
I work in midtown, right near Rockefeller Center. NBC brights the atmosphere #KamalaforPresident
November 6, 2024 at 2:49 AM
I work in midtown, right near Rockefeller Center. NBC brights the atmosphere #KamalaforPresident