Michelle Forsythe

Native Californian. Animal lover. Liberal. Hitchcock film buff. Bibliophile. Anglophile. Cupcake lover. Crazy cat lady. #theresistance

[Petronella Wyatt @PetronellaWyatt]

Alfred Hitchcock, Kim Novak and James Stewart on the set of “Vertigo.” (1958). Hitch told Francois Truffaut that he disliked working with Novak. Vera Miles had been the first choice to play the female lead, but she had dropped out after becoming pregnant. Hitch found Novak too overtly sexual and earthy, and her practice of not wearing a bra irritated him. The director liked his stars to be “ladies” like Grace Kelly. One of the most famous clashes between the director and the actress involved the film's wardrobe, designed by Edith Head. Hitchcock insisted that Novak wear an elegant, nipped in grey suit for her character, Madeleine. The actress hated it, complaining that the heavy wool fabric was restrictive, and that she disliked the colour grey, saying it washed her out. Hitchcock became increasingly annoyed until he told her, "My dear, you’re going to wear that grey suit." Novak relented and said afterwards that she chose to use her physical discomfort as a way of conveying the inner tension and vulnerability of her character. Hitchcock left her alone for most of the movie, and blamed her for “Vertigo”’s failure at the box office.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

When Will Ferrell and Jeff Goldblum went live with SNL's "Space: The Infinite Frontier with Harry Caray" sketch, the first part was scripted and on cue cards for both actors, but halfway through, Ferrell started improv'ing insane questions and you can see Goldblum holding on for dear life answering them 😂 I forget how good this era of SNL really was

[Giggling Gannon @GigglingGanon]

This guy honestly thought he was the smartest person in the room, but the detective put on a clinic walking this criminal into a trap he could not escape from.

He walked into that interrogation room convinced he had committed the perfect crime—300 miles away from the scene, calm, polite, and confident that he was five steps ahead of everyone in the room. What 20-year-old Thane Ormsby didn’t realize was that the detective wasn’t just interviewing him; he was slowly tightening a net Ormsby had no idea was already cast.

​The rural community of Amity, Maine, was shaken by the horrific passing of 55-year-old Jeffrey Ryan, his 10-year-old son Jesse, and 30-year-old family friend Jason DeHaan. With Ryan’s vehicle stolen and torched miles away, the offender vanished into thin air.

Days later, an elderly acquaintance named Robert "Bob" Strout helped Ormsby burn evidence as well as slip out of state to Dover, New Hampshire, believing the distance would wipe the slate clean.

​When Maine State Police tracked Ormsby down, he played the part of the cooperative, philosophical intellectual to perfection. He casually quoted J.R.R. Tolkien, mused about "reasons" and how "even computers have delete keys," and spoke about the k!ller in the third person as someone cold and heartless.

He acted like an innocent bystander merely trying to help law enforcement clear things up, weaving a web of convenient stories: he barely knew the victims, only rode his bicycle to collect cans, and had only briefly visited the property weeks earlier.

​Watch how masterfully the detective handles this dynamic. Instead of coming in heavy-handed, the detective feigns ignorance, playing the role of a confused, simple investigator who just needs Ormsby’s help to "straighten out" minor details.

He lets Ormsby talk, draw diagrams of the property, and establish what he thinks is an airtight alibi.

​Then came the calculated masterclass in interrogation:

​First, the detective casually pinned down Ormsby on the smallest physical evidence—his bicycle tread patterns, where he parked, and the exact brand of cigarettes he smoked. Ormsby, still believing he was in control, adjusted his story on the fly, failing to see the breadcrumbs being recorded behind him.

​The decisive trap slammed shut on three simple glass bottles.
​Ormsby had repeatedly insisted he hadn’t stepped foot on that property since an alleged visit weeks before the incident, and swore he had never even met Jason DeHaan.

That’s when the detective dropped the hammer without ever raising his voice. He revealed that investigators had recovered three half-empty beverage bottles sitting on the counter. The house had been thoroughly cleaned by family members the day before the crime—meaning those bottles had only been there hours prior.

​Two belonged to the victims. The third held Ormsby’s fresh fingerprints and DNA.
​In a single move, the detective systematically dismantled Ormsby’s timeline, placing him inside the house with a man he claimed he had never met, moments before the tragic event occurred.

​You can see the exact moment Ormsby’s arrogant composure cracks. Realizing every lie had boxed him into a corner he couldn't talk his way out of, he asked for a break, broke down on the precinct steps, and returned to confess to everything—revealing a senseless, twisted fantasy where he treated the crime like a tactical assignment.

​Both Ormsby and Strout faced justice. Strout received four years for his role in aiding the cover-up, while Ormsby was sentenced to three consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.

​This was like watching Columbo for real as this detective played the part meanwhile he was in full control of the direction of the interrogation until the trap was sprung.

[Petronella Wyatt @PetronellaWyatt]

William Wyler wanted an unknown actress to be cast in "Roman Holiday" (1953). Hepburn got an appointment to meet the director and turned up wearing a blouse and slacks. Even before seeing her test, Wyler recommended that Hepburn be put under contract. But he still had to discover whether her personality translated to the screen before she could be cast as the princess. "I couldn't stay to make the test, so I arranged for one." He left precise instructions. As Wyler explained later, "a test is precarious. A good actress might make a very bad test, because of nervousness or whatever. So I asked the director to perform an old trick." Whoever was assigned should "conspire with the cameraman and the sound man to continue to run camera and sound after the scene ended, in the hope that the girl would not be aware of this." This would allow him to see her "completely relaxed." This piece of footage was the result, and won Audrey the part.

[Hayley Mills Pics @hayleymillspics]

Walt Disney (r) on set with the case of "That Darn Cat!" in 1965: Tom Lowell, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowell and Hayley Mills

[Giggling Gannon @GigglingGanon]

Predator caught with pictures on his PC due to stepdaughter blowing the whistle. While the case seems cut and dry, I personally can help but wonder if the stepdaughter set him up.

​In Cameron, Wisconsin, detectives with the Barron County Sheriff’s Department arrived at the residence of John Bradley after Microsoft flagged multiple automated CyberTips to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Illicit, disturbing files were actively being uploaded and routed through an IP address directly tied to his home.

​When investigators executed the initial search warrant and seized Bradley’s desktop computer, forensic analysts spent months peeling back the layers of the hard drives. What they found wasn't an accidental cache or rogue adware: analysts uncovered well over 100 illicit images and videos of underage children deliberately saved and stored across the system.

​When detectives returned to confront him, Bradley leaned hard into what seems like the classic "weaponized ignorance" defense. He admitted to using DuckDuckGo to browse pornography, but claimed he was baffled by the technology—insisting mysterious tabs opened on their own, sidebars moved inexplicably, and files must have somehow auto-saved without his knowledge.

​Two days later, detectives returned with a secondary warrant for written journals and spoke to his former stepdaughter, Heather. Her testimony pulled back another dark layer: she revealed she had previously reported him after spotting dark web activity and hidden files on that same PC. To me she seems like she knows a thing or two about computers right away talking about the dark web.

​Faced with undeniable digital discovery, the "accidental pop-up" narrative fell completely flat.
​ Bradley officially pled guilty to felony possession of child pornography. A judge handed down his sentence: 3 years in Wisconsin state prison, followed by 4 years of extended supervision, mandatory 15-year sex offender registration, and strict bans on unauthorized internet access or unsupervised contact with minors.

​While it's most likely justice was served, as I watched the questioning of the stepdaughter, I can't get out of my head that she admitted she had nowhere to go at times which is why she has stayed with him. But if she knew he was so bad why would be be there at all is my question. Also what if she downloaded stuff and reported him to get him out of the picture so she can stay in the house without him there. I'm prob way off, but I just did not get a great feeling listening to her side. Let me know if I'm way off in the comments.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

On Christmas Day 1929, Charlie Lawson, a tobacco farmer near Germanton in Stokes County, North Carolina, killed his wife and six of his seven children at their home.

Weeks earlier he had taken the family into town to buy new clothes and sit for a studio portrait, something a struggling farming family rarely did. That photograph survived and became the image attached to the case ever since.

Lawson shot his two youngest daughters near the tobacco barn, then shot his wife Fannie on the porch and his eldest daughter Marie inside the house. He killed the two small boys and the baby, walked into the woods behind the farm and shot himself hours later. The eldest son, Arthur, had been sent out on an errand and survived.

No note or explanation was found. A brain examination reportedly carried out afterwards found nothing abnormal. Relatives later suggested a motive involving his eldest daughter, but nothing was proved and accounts differ.

The farmhouse was opened to sightseers with the family's belongings left in place, and drew visitors for decades. A ballad about the killings was recorded in 1930 and is still performed. Arthur Lawson died in a road accident in 1945.

The most haunting photos ever taken: https://t.co/POrqRRccxc

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

The last footage of Harry R. Truman, a WWI veteran who refused to evacuate his lodge before the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980, sealing his fate beneath the volcanic debris along with his 16 cats.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

lol

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WOW! Josh Hawley was just asked about TWO separate alleged gay affair allegations.

THIS is what good journalism looks like!

[Petronella Wyatt @PetronellaWyatt]

Bette’s fury

Bette Davis with the irresistible Franchot Tone in the 1935 film “Dangerous”. Tone played an architect who tries to reform an alcoholic and down on her luck actress, portrayed by Davis. (Bette won her first Oscar for her performance.) During filming, Davis developed a crush on her intellectual, sophisticated and patrician co-star. She told a friend,” He’s so elegant in every way and is the first man I’ve met who would recite poetry to you after sex.” The actress fell deeply in love as the production progressed. Tone’s gentlemanly manners and innate kindness made it difficult for him to tell her that he was uninterested. The truth was that he was having an affair with Joan Crawford, then considered one of the most desirable women in Hollywood. Bette began to suspect there was another woman when Tone started arriving on set with lipstick stains on his shirt collars. Being Bette, she had a tantrum and demanded to know his lover’s identity. When Franchot confessed it was Joan, Bette was enraged. She had disliked Crawford ever since Jack Warner had remarked that he wished Davis “looked more like Joan”, making her painfully insecure about her looks. Worse, Tone was infatuated with the glamour queen and hoped to marry her. One night, Bette deliberately made Franchot drunk and succeeded in getting him in into bed. Mortified, he leapt up before the sexual act could take place. Davis was a woman scorned, and a scene in which her character screams abuse at his required no acting on her part. Poor Franchot struggled on, increasingly miserable. He married Joan Crawford later that year. The incident only made Davis’s dislike of the actress worse, and during the filming of “Whatever happened to Baby Jane?” (1962) she told Joan she had had an affair with Tone, which was a lie.

[Giggling Gannon @GigglingGanon]

Abusive husband had no idea that his soon to be ex-wife was recording his outburst on the family.

​In Long County, Georgia, bodycam footage captures two separate calls to the same home—unfolding roughly a year apart—as a mother tried desperately to keep the peace while waiting on a drawn-out divorce.

​In the earlier incident, deputies responded after her estranged husband, Nick, shoved her and threw items across the room, striking her arm with a vape. Even then, the couple had spent a long time waiting on their divorce hearing. Nick already had a record of threats and battery charges, but the mother admitted she had stopped calling 911 for months out of fear that Child Protective Services might take her children.

When deputies arrived, she was terrified that pressing formal charges would permanently strip her kids of their father, leading the deputy to give her a blunt reality check: sacrificing her own physical safety wasn't protecting her children.

​Fast-forward roughly a year later, and the situation had reached a breaking point. Nick had previously spent months banned from the property on an ankle monitor, but after completing court-ordered anger management classes through the VA, his restrictions were lifted.

With no final divorce decree in place and his name still on the property, he moved right back in, sleeping in a separate room while the friction escalated.

​Deputies were called out once again after Nick began kicking the lower kitchen cabinets during an argument and hurled a heavy cooking pot. This time, the pot didn't just hit his wife—it glanced off their young son, Connor, leaving visible marks and sending the boy into tears.

For the mother, that was the line: you can do whatever you want to me, but not the kids. She had her phone running to capture audio evidence of the altercation but no video.

When she went to call the police, ​Nick took off in her car with her wallet and cards. Later when he tried to return he noticed deputies were standing outside documenting the scene, he then drove right past the house.

He was instantly pulled over and taken into custody on Battery – Family Violence charges. Despite claiming he was "just cooking dinner" and had only had two beers, Georgia is a state-led prosecution jurisdiction, meaning charges move forward regardless of victim consent.

​With a fresh battery charge involving a child and an immediate violation of his prior pretrial bond, his access to the home finally came to an end.

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

A CNN investigation finds a Republican candidate in Minnesota once trashed her own state. She denies ever saying it, but @KFILE shares what he found.

[Jennifer Jenkins @Jenkins4Florida]

Republicans in the House cancelled the last two weeks of session to avoid a vote on releasing the remaining Epstein files about men in power who raped little girls.

You don't give a shit about safety of women.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BERNIE SANDERS: Trump claims we pay the lowest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Wow! Is the president telling the truth?

FDA NOMINEE HEIDI OVERTON: There has been immense progress--

SANDERS: Do we pay the lowest prices like the president said? You just told us you are gonna stand up to him

OVERTON: Senator, we have seen---

SANDERS: Is it true?

OVERTON: *more dissembling*

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

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Trump on Howard Stern bragging about walking into the Miss Teen USA Pageants.

You know what to do.

[The Tonight Show @FallonTonight]

.@johncusack made a one-handed foul ball catch at a @Cubs game! ⚾ #FallonTonight

[AnthonyAndrews @anthon7yandrews]

Putin knew Trump was a racist, vengeful asshole and staged the Ritz Moscow hotel room scene, because he knew Trump would love seeing prostitutes peeing on the bed Barrack & Michelle Obama had slept in on a Presidential trip to Moscow. He also taped it. It’s pretty simple to see.

[James McCartney @JamesMcCartney_]

Mum, happiest of birthdays to you for what would've been your 85th birthday. You were born in New York back in the day and grew up at 4 Dolma Road - Scarsdale, to your parents who I'm sure would have been overjoyed with their first girl. You made my life amazing 🧡🧡🧡

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Jesus Christ, it's literally all of them.