Mark Devlin

Filmmaker 📽️ Mostly here for movies and lols. 🔫 🎮 🎧

[Mark Devlin @_in_fairness]

@ewenmind Stop overcutting these scenes. Just let them play!

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The Blues Brothers turns 46 today, and the behind-the-scenes stories are legendary.
Cars dropped from hundreds of feet over Chicago. Malls wrecked. Belushi crashing at a stranger’s house.
Just another day at the office for Jake & Elwood.
A behind-the-scenes Sting Cut.

[The Little Platoon @PlatoonPod]

"Adults should be free, but to protect childhood, every adult must upload their digital ID to the government and install spyware on their mobile devices so the government knows what they're doing at all times."

- a "Conservative" MP, apparently.

Proving once again that to be selected as an MP for any party, you must be either a liar or a dribbling moron.

[Mark Devlin @_in_fairness]

@MadamSavvy @mhdksafa I'm sorry, what? THAT turns off "any" sympathy you "might" have been willing to share? You are damaged goods lady.

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

On the day John Ratzenberger walked into an audition room in 1982, he had a plane to catch.

He had been living in London for nearly a decade — acting, writing, performing improv comedy across Europe with a two-man theatre group that had played to standing-room-only audiences for 634 consecutive shows.

He had appeared in small roles in some of the biggest films of the era: *Star Wars:
The Empire Strikes Back*, *Superman*, *Gandhi*, *A Bridge Too Far*

He was a working actor, but
nobody's idea of a household name. That day, he was in Los Angeles on a writing assignment, and his ticket back to London was already booked.
He had one audition before he left.
A new sitcom about a bar in Boston.

Both Ratzenberger and another actor, George Wendt, were reading for the same role — a minor patron named George who had a single line: "Beer!" It was barely a part at all.

But Ratzenberger wanted the work, so he went in, and the moment director Jimmy Burrows told him he was there to audition, not have a conversation, he felt the energy in the room go cold.

By his own account, all the blood rushed out of his body. He delivered a forgettable read. The casting director thanked him on the way out — the polite, final kind of thank you that everyone in show business learns to recognize.

He was almost through the door when something stopped him. Not calculation. Not strategy. Just the instinct of a man who had spent a decade doing improv and knew that the moment before you leave a room is sometimes the best moment you'll ever have.
He turned around.

"Do you have a bar know-it-all?"
The producers didn't know what he was talking about. So he told them. Every bar in New England, he explained, has one — some guy who acts like he has the knowledge of all mankind stored between his ears and is not even slightly shy about sharing it.

He had grown up around exactly this type: a man named Sarge at his father's regular bar, who could answer any question with absolute confidence whether he actually knew the answer or not. The room would ask Sarge the length of a whale's intestine and Sarge would shoot back: "Baleen or blue?" And somehow, everyone deferred to him anyway.

Ratzenberger launched into an improvisation right there — the Boston accent, the lean against an imaginary bar, the slightly too-long explanations of facts nobody had asked for. The producers watched. Then they laughed. Then they asked him to do more.

George Wendt got the role of the bar regular, renamed Norm Peterson. And the producers, convinced by five minutes of improv from a man on his way out the door, wrote an entirely new character into the show.

His name was Clifford Clavin. United States Postal Service.
Cheers debuted on NBC on September 30, 1982, to nearly catastrophic ratings — finishing 77th out of 100 shows that week.

The network came close to canceling it in the first season. But the show found its audience, and then it found a much bigger one, and then it became one of the most beloved television series ever made. It ran for 11 seasons.

Ratzenberger appeared in 273 of 275 episodes.
Cliff became the man at the end of the bar with the white socks and the questionable facts and the magnificent certainty — the guy everyone tolerated and secretly enjoyed, the kind of person every room has and everyone pretends to find annoying and would immediately miss if he disappeared.

Ratzenberger was nominated for Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986. By the time the show ended in 1993, Cliff Clavin was embedded in American culture as one of the great comic characters in the history of the medium. Cheers! 🍻

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

The facade of the Glassmaker’s House in Brussels, Belgium, designed by architect Ernest Delune in 1902.

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

Just Hugh Laurie eloquently destroying another clueless "journalist". What a perfect start to the week.

[Shane Corr ☘️ @Default69202648]

Some truths here😂

[Mark Devlin @_in_fairness]

@E40_brown Slop. Blocked.

[Mark Devlin @_in_fairness]

@lauren_w67 Sloppy edit. Blocked.

[Mark Devlin @_in_fairness]

@MobstersDaily Garbage edit.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Mossad booby‑trapped 21,000 communication devices with explosives, sent them to Lebanon through shell companies, and detonated them remotely — killing dozens (including children) and injuring over 3,400.

• The devices exploded in people's hands, on their faces, and in their pockets.

• They did it over two consecutive days.

• On day two, the explosives went off while Lebanese families were at the funerals of those killed the day before.

• The attack inflicted roughly 3,000 injuries in a single hour on the first day alone.

This terrorist attack was the largest simultaneous mass‑detonation in history by the number of individual bombs.

'israelis' joke about it to this day.

If you didn't boycott Apple for the Congo, boycott it now.

[Calum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⛐ @CalumRaasay]

While in Ireland, I stumbled across what might be the most beautiful church entrance I’ve ever seen. County Cork never ceases to amaze.

[Mark Devlin @_in_fairness]

@BilgeEbiri DUNKIRK is like watching paint dry. 💤

[Mark Devlin @_in_fairness]

@NewstalkFM "For some reason" 🤣🤣🤣
Gee, what on earth could it be? Why would anybody have a problem with Israel?

[Mark Devlin @_in_fairness]

@__RiseAgain__ Couldn't agree more. He wrecked the look of Terminator 2.

[Mark Devlin @_in_fairness]

@CinemaTweets1 Top row👌 Burn the rest 🔥

[Mark Devlin @_in_fairness]

@ValkyrieB70 @bensolis1 @GlobalBoxOffice @NextBestPicture

[Smartacus @fivestarmichael]

The reason everything seems so fake is because the working-class has been squeezed out of the music business, journalism, TV and movie production.

Some interesting introspection from Rick Beato.

Why Only Rich Kids Make It In Music Today