Lou Aguilar

Novelist, screenwriter, and Culture War correspondent.

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My new @amspectator column on the banal device of race and gender swapping in Hollywoke fare. https://t.co/ctYhfKZlfA

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@larksmom @tcm You got more people on your side than I do, Jan.

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@tcm just ran a trailer for Grand Hotel between showings of The Maltese Falcon and Double Indemnity. I never got - and by now never will - the appeal of Greta Garbo.

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There’s a bit in my new Mark Slade mystery, The Camelot Trail (out this fall), where Slade, trying to get a femme-fatale out of his system, takes a page from Fred McMurray in Double Indemnity: “I dropped by a bowling alley at Third and Western and rolled a few lines.”

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@Christophe37461 @tcm Always a renewed pleasure. Man, that guy and Chandler could write. I model my Mark Slade –Neil Cork mysteries on their stuff.

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Tonight primetime on @tcm, The Maltese Falcon followed by Double Indemnity. Good thing I finished my writing for the evening.

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@BookstoreThor @tcm All three required.

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@elonmusk @John_Reddick @GadSaad I would love to write a movie about the Spanish Civil War depicting the sheer evil of the Loyalists side, but I’ve always known Hollywood and the Left would balk at it.

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@oxley264 Unsung masterpiece.

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@EricLDaugh Sure, once it became the Save Susan Collins’ Senate Seat Act.

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@ScottMcCreaWest Agreed. Tropic Thunder and Taken runners up.

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@MPotkanek @ScottMcCreaWest Ha. Something like protect women, never kick a dog, and never shoot a man in the back.

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@ATRightMovies High and Low
Man on the Roof

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@ThatBobMadison Absolutely correct. First half brilliant. Second half a total melodramatic mess.

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@ScottMcCreaWest Agree again. Plus he helped develop Sean’s indelible Bond persona, apart from directing him.

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Watching the end now. And they give Stapleton one more ham scene at the end.

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@TCM_Party. Van Heflin deserved the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Airport, not Hayes. Maureen Stapleton overacting as usual.

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@ScottMcCreaWest Make Bond a womanizing tough guy again.

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@jaradon2 @tcm Yes, but a little over the top as usual.

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Watching Airport on @tcm for the first time in maybe 40 years. I know Helen Hayes won the 1971 Best Supporting Actress Oscar but she’s the worst thing in it. And her long scene early on slows the movie to a crawl.

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@tsteele93 I’m in it. Sitting right behind William hurt during Holly’s speech at the beginning.