Bryce Mitchell on Trump's White House UFC fight:
Our government is desecrating its role in society by entertaining sports. Our government is to protect and serve the people. Our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.
A very sad, but extremely fond farewell to the unforgettable Bud Cort, a welcome and magnetic presence in every film lucky enough to have him, not least the co-lead in, arguably, the cult film to rule them all; 1971’s ‘Harold And Maude’.
Not only is this beloved film a pitch perfect black comedy-cum-love story for the ages, but Bud Cort delivers one of the greatest looks to camera in film.
He was always fun to watch in any part big or small, some other films of his I enjoyed include 'M*A*S*H', ‘Brewster McCloud’, ‘Gas-s-s-s’, ‘Invaders from Mars’, ‘The Chocolate War’, ‘Heat’, ‘Dogma’ and ‘The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’ among many others that I implore you to list below. And if you haven’t seen ‘Harold And Maude’, rectify this tonight.
Keep breaking that fourth wall, Bud. We’ll miss you x
Seth Rogen pays tribute to Catherine O'Hara:
"Really don’t know what to say… I told O’Hara when I first met her I thought she was the funniest person I’d ever had the pleasure of watching on screen. Home Alone was the movie that made me want to make movies. Getting to work with her was a true honour. She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous… she made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it. This is just devastating. We’re all lucky we got to live in a world with her in it."
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The Beatles have a pillow fight at the Hotel George V in Paris in January 1964 , 1964. Photo by Harry Benson. The spontaneous pillow fight was a celebration after the band's manager, Brian Epstein, burst into their hotel room late at night to share the news that their song "I Want to Hold Your Hand" had hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. This was a pivotal moment, confirming their imminent breakthrough in America.
That milkshake scene in Pulp Fiction is iconic cinema — cool, casual, and unforgettable. A simple conversation turns legendary, defining Vincent and Mia’s effortless chemistry. Fun fact: the famous “$5 shake” wasn’t about the drink at all — it was Tarantino showing how style, dialogue, and attitude can make anything iconic.
🎬 Pulp Fiction (1994)
On this day, November 22, 1968, the double album The Beatles, a.k.a. #TheWhiteAlbum, was released. Thirty songs. No singles.
"I remember thinking in the ‘90s that The White Album had obviously become the blueprint. OK Computer couldn’t exist without The White Album, and I’m sure Thom [Yorke] would admit that. Radiohead went such an interesting way with almost compressing their melodies under all this experimentation, almost to the point of disguising how beautiful some of those melodies are. The Beatles did the same thing a generation earlier."
--#ElvisCostello
"The White Album is still the blueprint for me. It was all there — the songs, the ideas, the disciplined songwriting right next to the mayhem. The complete encyclopedia of rock and roll. It’s mind-blowing."
--#Bono
"The variety is incredible. You’re never more than one or two tracks away from something wildly different, yet still the feeling of the Beatles coming through. And also the diversions were as good as the meat-and-potatoes moments. The humor so present in a song like 'Rocky Raccoon' . . . just wildly diverse. What it did, I think, is it gave you credit for being a Beatles fan. That you could go this far with them."
--@CameronCrowe
#OnThisDay #OTD #TheBeatles #WhiteAlbum
Harrison Ford has released a statement:
"I don’t know of a greater criminal in history. He doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the sh*t out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a hand basket. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history," Ford told The Guardian. “He’s losing ground because everything he says is a lie. I’m confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies. But we have to develop the political will and intellectual sophistication to realize that we human beings are capable of change. We are incredibly adaptive, we are incredibly inventive. If we concentrate on a problem we can fix it most times.”
Sen. Slotkin: “I believe Trump is reshaping the country to hold on to power. Trump is following the same playbook as almost every authoritarian in history. The playbook is first, get elected to address legitimate issues…Once in office, surround yourself with people loyal to you, accumulate power and influence, and then start using it against your perceived enemies. But here's the kicker. There comes a time in every authoritarian playbook where you hit a tipping point. You accumulate so much power that you realize if you ever lose and your opponent gets elected, they could use that very power against you. So you hold onto it with everything you have. That seems to be Trump's approach right now.”
"It's a miracle they could hear themselves on stage. Between all the screaming, Ringo banging the drum kit, no monitoring on stage and the amps facing backwards, and yet they delivered flawlessly, both the playing and the singing."
"A reminder how important George's voice is in the vocal mix of The Beatles."
The Beatles performing 'All My Loving' live in concert at the Washington Coliseum on February 11, 1964.