Michael Atkinson

Film critic, The Village Voice; film studies prof, LIU-Post; author of seven books including HEMINGWAY CUTTHROAT (St. Martin's).

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Wild no one ever mentioned: "For over twenty years, Betty was not included as one of the vitamins. However, after a grassroots campaign and the results of a Bayer telephone poll came in favor of including Betty, the character was added to the lineup in 1995..."

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Reviewing
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@jessicakiang @BilgeEbiri The way I've already forgotten THE INSTIGATORS and HIT MAN.

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@elonmusk just figured that out

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Long live Peter Porcupine
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Kevin Smith: why bother?
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And Zapruder Reconsidered: https://t.co/WpDsTD5K9I

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Caligula! https://t.co/bHth4qd7lf

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New Erice: https://t.co/QCCCXK2XHQ

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@Mack_SAnarchy @strangedarlingx @willafitz @KyleGallner Hey A, any idea how to contact Sunrise Films, re: HOARD? Reviewing in the US

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@LingoUnbound Well, I think "hate" is here to stay, sorry.

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As a kid, every time I thought of KISS singing Rock N Roll All Night, party every day, etc., I'd think, what, dressed like that?

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AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS should've come before SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN. Then there'd be the trilogy capper, OK, THAT'S ENOUGH SCREAMING.

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And FERRARI:
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Reviewing THE SETTLERS; c'mon, it's January!

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Preferring Trump to Biden going forward is essentially preferring a lobotomy to a hand shake.

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My year-end sum-up in the VV, enriched with doomsday hints and plenty of rhetorical questions: https://t.co/XGAWX5mKV9

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Today in Film History!: As remembered by fans, and reenacted (!) in David Cronenberg's CRASH, self-mocking sex bomb Jayne Mansfield dies in a car crash on the road from New Orleans (1967). She was not, as rumored, decapitated, but her head was mostly crushed. She was 34.

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Today in Film History!: Today would have been the 107th birthday of one Catherine Cappa (1912), later Catherine Scorsese, mother to Martin and irrepressible figure in her son's movies, from his first shorts to Casino (1995), and including, unforgettably, GoodFellas (1990).

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Today in Film History!: Arcana headtrip: MOMOTARO: SACRED SAILORS, the first Japanese animated feature AND a black-&-white WWII propaganda film starring cats as soldiers, is released (1945). Japan surrendered less than five months later.