Duke Haney 🇺🇦

Actor, screenwriter of bad movies, author of hopefully better books, including "Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland."

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@otherppl There was once a "Know Nothing" political party in the US. Literally that was the name, and effectively it has been reincarnated more than 150 years later.

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I love this film precisely for location shots like this one. It's my second favorite Kubrick after Paths of Glory.

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@LeighMike87 Surely what was then called a wolf.

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RIP Mitzi Gaynor, a stellar (as they say in showbiz) triple threat, here with a colleague whom I regard as pure cinema in human form.

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@FrankMalfitano I saw this on TV as a little kid. My whole family watched it. We all loved it. I didn't know who Cagney was then, nor Raoul Walsh, but when I did learn who they were, my childhood reaction to Strawberry Blonde made complete sense to me.

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An all-time fave TV bit for me. Hey, allow me a little levity in a world gone utterly mad where it's not utterly stupid.

[Jo Coyne @Jopolkadot]

📷©️ Harry Gruyaert

NYC
1985

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@noirbeachshack Boy, was that film prescient. We all live in the village of the damned in the digital age.

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@HorseRacingPoet I would like to think that Tom Hanks and Marilyn Monroe would never be at the same party if it were even possible.

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Once, at a party, someone mentioned Walt Whitman to Marilyn Monroe, who said, "Oh, I just love his chocolates."

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@TheCinegogue It isn't "crazy" in the slightest. The early 20th century was a more fertile, inventive period in the arts generally than the early 21st century by leagues, but people are afflicted overwhelmingly by now-ism and oblivious to what predates them.

[Setanta Books @setantabooks]

Fred Herzog

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@martydownunder4 @JustineBateman Does no level count as a level?

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@ronrule Intelligence has declined in proportion to the rise of the internet. That's what happened.

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@Mytee_Quinn @briantylercohen @AdamSchiff I hear you, but we do what we must -- and I would say we must in this case.

[Bruce Lee @brucelee]

Bruce and his library 📚

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

Selwyn, 42nd Street, 1955

William Klein

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I'm way behind others in that I only recently, finally saw Wake in Fright. It's a tough watch -- traumatizing, some would say -- but masterful, and I can't imagine anyone attempting such a film in today's milieu.

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@FrankMalfitano Historical perspective is moribund generally. People live in the perpetual now -- that is, what happened in the last 12 hours, at most.

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@noirbeachshack It's a tribute to MM that she engenders such empathy in this, her death scene, even though her character is a two-timing would-be husband killer.