Marcia Biederman

Author of The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill; Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England and other books. Abuser of interlibrary loans.

[Marcia Biederman @MSBiederman]

@Noirchick1 Noel Neill, but I doubt she was one of WW2’s most popular pinups. According to IMDb, many of her wartime film roles were minor or uncredited. Also, her name is not the only one linked to the role of Lois Lane. Trick question.

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@manuthebest58 I don’t know which one is more gorgeous.

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@SusanBEdelman @NYCSchools It’s great to see @SusanBEdelman continuing her outstanding work via Substack, with @nytimes even giving her credit for breaking this story.

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@ridethepastlane @MichaelTroyan1 I loved her in The Mating of Millie, especially when she ducked into her bedroom to change into something sexy while her date (Glenn Ford) awaited her, tried on various outfits and hairstyles, then emerged in the same suit she’d worn when she went in.

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@queens_parents @FDNYchic @NycRetirees @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani @MayorsPEU He has not. Good grief, indeed!

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One more skeleton and Graham Platner will have enough to open a medical school.

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@C_Sommerfeldt Excellent analysis. Thanks, @C_Sommerfeldt

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@LukeRodriguez75 Trying to be divisive. This doesn’t benefit anyone.

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@haaretzcom The question and the choices weren’t clear.

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@NYCerInExile And some of us have names that not everybody recognizes as Jewish. I once had a co-worker who began a rant by saying, “I hope you’re not Jewish,” to which I quickly replied, “Yes, I am,” but she ignored that and launched into her offensive anecdote anyway.

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@Noirchick1 As a kid, I managed to watch it dozens of times even before the VHS era because WPIX in NYC often showed it twice a day for a full week as part of its “Million Dollar Movie” program. You stopped this scene too soon but thanks.

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@DannyDrinksWine Somehow when I look at Gregory Peck in this scene, I’m not thinking about the director.

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@RachelSFink There have been stories like that before, about teenagers charging to do
work shifts. Nannies even worse.

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@daniela__127 I live nearby but never joined. I feel especially bad for the older “no” voters who were eligible to retire from the obligatory work shifts because they already put in so much labor.

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@afalkhatib Thank you for this and for all you’ve said and endured.

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@TheDarkPages She was terrific in the film Breaking Away. If you haven’t seen it, you’re in for a treat. Watch for the scene near the end when she removes her husband’s pocket pen holder.

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@Noirchick1 There’s a great recent bio of her, Queen of the West, by @KaminskiTheresa

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@jacobkornbluh Thank you for this, Jacob.

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@NYTimesPR @mehdirhasan The word of the moment is “deeply.” Deeply reported. A sure sign of insincerity.

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@InnaVernikov He’s an embarrassment. What does he think “prolongs” means?