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Don’t you trust me? Who trusts anybody?

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“My mother says this world’s a garbage dump. And we’re just the flies it attracts. Maybe she’s right. But when I sing, the smell doesn’t seem so bad.” INSIDE DAISY CLOVER (1965, Robert Mulligan)

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The Birdcage (1996) dir. Mike Nichols

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"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…"

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Charlie Chaplin Jr - a photo he inscribed to Marilyn Monroe in 1947.

“To Marilyn/With sincerest/hopes that you/become a/great actress. /Feb 28, 1947/Charlie Chaplin, Jr.”

In his book “My Father. Charlie Chaplin” 1960 (page 320) he writes:

“There was one young girl I brought up about this time who especially impressed my father. She was just about my age, twenty-one, an appealing little obscure starlet by the name of Norma Jean Dougherty who was under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox”

“Oh, she’s a beauty,” Dad used to tell me. “What a figure! I admire your taste, son, very much”

Dad liked to converse with Norma Jean. I don’t know what they talked about, but I know he did most of the talking, because she was always so in awe of him.

“She does have a way of speaking, doesn’t she?” he would tease me afterward. And then he would mimic Norma Jean!“ “Charrrllieee,” he would say in that wispy voice that has since become famous, “what are we going to do tonight?” One day she announced: “Well, Charlie, my name now is Marilyn Monroe.

They both died young, she at 36 (1962) from an alleged suicide & Charles Jr at 42 (1968) of a pulmonary embolism, thought to have been exacerbated by a long time battle with alcoholism.

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Coleen Gray and Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley (1947) dir. Edmund Goulding

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THE HOLDOVERS (2023) dir. Alexander Payne

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Manipulation of emotions is a key to MAGA world view. Every good thing Biden delivered was met with 'lets go Brandon' immaturity. Every Trump indecency is denied to enable a double standard.

The MAGA unseriousness will destroy what generations have built.

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Before Biden dropped out I sat at the dinner table and said explicitly that I was terrified of a Harris candidacy because this country hates women and I didn’t think I would see a woman get elected president in my lifetime…and then I got caught up in the momentum and the joy and thought maybe…maybe…but no, I was right the first time, this country just viscerally hates women. We saw it in 2016 and we saw it again yesterday.

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"I'm a dead man, Anna. Nosseross told me that. He told me. He said, 'You've got it all… but you're a dead man, Harry Fabian.' Mary said it too. She said it. She said… 'You're killing me, and you're killing yourself.' Oh, Anna, the things I did. The things I did..."

Richard Widmark as Harry Fabian Night and the CIty (1950) dir. Jules Dassin

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FAVORITE CLASSIC FILM PERFORMANCES 

HUMPHREY BOGART & LAUREN BACALL as Philip Marlowe and Vivian Rutledge in THE BIG SLEEP (1946) dir. Howard Hawks

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ANN BLYTH in MR. PEABODY AND THE MERMAID (1948) — dir. Irving Pichel

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Doctor Who Rogue