The Box Office Guy

Movie lover & former columnist for Fantasy Movie League with WAY too much useless pop culture knowledge. Defender of movie theaters.

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I think I finally found the movie that could get people back in theaters:

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@schwarbombz Leave. You won’t be missed.

#Dodgers

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@sacbee_news An irrelevant newspaper shilling for an irrelevant franchise.

Do you also have a savage Mike Brown column ready in case the Knicks lose game 2?

[Adam Schiff @AdamSchiff]

Let’s be honest about what this is:

A blatant attempt to cast doubt in our election results, and a phony pretext for Trump to act illegally in the midterms.

California has safe and secure elections. And it takes time for every vote to count.

It’s called democracy, Donald.

[Xavier Becerra @XavierBecerra]

Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. He lost California by millions of votes in the 2024 election, and now he's trying to undermine confidence in our elections because he’s a repeat loser here.

Sorry Donald, the voters decide who leads California. Not you.

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@RpsAgainstTrump This would be one of the biggest downgrades in the history of television.

So I’m not surprised that the disastrous Bari Weiss would actually consider this.

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@AdamSchefter A bit of life advice.

If you ever encounter anyone who believes in the Madden Curse and/or the Sports Illustrated Cover jinx: just walk away.

That person is a moron and has nothing to add to society.

[Rex Sorgatz @fimoculous]

No exaggeration — I've watched every episode of 60 Minutes in the past 30 years. I have a few observations... 👇

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@PMastersMusic @HunterBiden I’d give it a rest Patsy. That drug addict just bitch slapped you and yet you keep digging an even deeper hole for yourself.

Why Patsy? Who hurt you?

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@JimmyTraina A historically overrated team. Beneficiaries of the NYC media hype bump.

They were only there because 1) Michael Jordan decided to take a baseball sabbatical and 2) Hue Hollins handed game 5 of the 2nd round to the Knicks.

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@ChrisCillizza Are you kissing Bari Weiss’ ass to get a job at CBS? This is pretty pathetic. Scott Pelley has integrity in spades whereas you don’t appear to have an ounce of it.

No wonder everybody on the Tony Kornheiser Show hates you.

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@adamcarolla He has more integrity in his pinkie than you have in your entire existence.

Enjoy those alimony payments Ace Man.

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@CNN Does she deserve another term? No.

Is she a superior option to Spencer Pratt? Yes.

Will the majority of L.A. voters hold their noses in November and reelect Bass in a landslide? Certainly.

We can do better. But we’re getting what we deserve…

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear @ScottPelley

Thank you.

Thank you for standing up when it was inconvenient.

Thank you for standing up when it cost you a job you loved.

Thank you for standing up to power and for trying to save a landmark news program.

Thank you for your INTEGRITY.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

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@Variety Not all heroes wear capes. I’m proud of Scott Pelley for standing up to this recent nonsense.

Bari Weiss was handed the crown jewel of TV journalism and she fucked it up.

For someone so unqualified her arrogance is astounding.

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@BetMGM No Mookie Betts? No Kawhi Leonard?

Just another unserious, hastily put together list…