#Margaret Sullivan

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The choice for president has seldom been starker. On one side is Donald Trump, a felonious and twice-impeached conman, raring to finish off the job of dismantling American democracy. On the other is Kamala Harris, a capable and experienced leader who stands for traditional democratic principles. Nevertheless – and shockingly – the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have decided to sit this one out. Both major news organizations, each owned by a billionaire, announced this week that their editorial boards would not make a presidential endorsement, despite their decades-long traditions of doing so. There’s no other way to see this other than as an appalling display of cowardice and a dereliction of their public duty. At the Los Angeles Times, the decision rests clearly with Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the ailing paper in 2018, raising great hopes of a resurgence there. At the Post (where I was the media columnist from 2016 to 2022), the editorial page editor David Shipley said he owned the decision, but it clearly came from above – specifically from the publisher, Will Lewis, the veteran of Rupert Murdoch’s media properties, hand-picked last year by the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos. Was Bezos himself the author of this abhorrent decision? Maybe not, but it could not have come as a surprise. All of this may look like nonpartisan neutrality, or be intended to, but it’s far from that. For one thing, it’s a shameful smackdown of both papers’ reporting and opinion-writing staffs who have done important work exposing Trump’s dangers for many years. It’s also a strong statement of preference. The papers’ leaders have made it clear that they either want Trump (who is, after all, a boon to large personal fortunes) or that they don’t wish to risk the ex-president’s wrath and retribution if he wins. If the latter was a factor, it’s based on a shortsighted judgment, since Trump has been a hazard to press rights and would only be emboldened in a second term. [...] Some news organizations upheld their duty and remained true to their mission. The New York Times endorsed Harris last month, calling her “the only patriotic choice for president”, and writing that Trump “has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest”. The Guardian, too, strongly endorsed Harris, saying she would “unlock democracy’s potential, not give in to its flaws”, and calling Trump a “transactional and corrupting politician”.

Margaret Sullivan at The Guardian on the cowardly abdication of the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times by refusing to endorse a Presidential candidate (10.25.2024).

The egregious and cowardly actions done by both the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times deciding to sit out the Presidential endorsements process this election is craven and cowardly, as both papers were set to endorse Kamala Harris (D). Even the New York Times, for all their faults, got it right by endorsing Kamala Harris.

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Adrienne Ames-Margaret Sullivan "La fugitiva" (Woman wanted) 1935, de George B. Seitz.

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THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Cast: Margaret Sullivan, James Stewart. Frank Morgan, Felix Bressart, William Tracy, Joseph Schildkraut

Genre: romantic comedy

Two employees at a general store are constantly butting heads while being enamored of their respective pen pals.

This movie started me on the path to watching older movies. Back when we had cable, I was literally just flipping through the channels looking for something to watch and there was something super charming about this black and white movie that made me stop. I'm pretty sure it was James Stewart's demeanor in this movie. I would binge a bunch of his other movies after - including The Mortal Storm which stars him and Margaret Sullivan again as its romantic leads.

The fact that this movie is considered a top tier romcom is validating. And of course, because Hollywood is gonna Hollywood... it would be later adapted into "You Got Mail" starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. This time with AOL inboxes instead of a PO box. I believe it's considered a 90s romcom classic but I'm partial to The Shop Around the Corner because of the shop atmosphere. And that both of the main characters are from humble beginnings (and not part of a mega bookstore chain, yanno?).

I think it's a well-done "enemies to lovers" trope because they never get too nasty with each other just for the sake of some drama or to delay the romance. And when they get real snarky, it makes it hit harder. When Klara tells him he has a hand-bag instead of a heart (because he's the shop assistant and takes his job seriously) that bit of dialogue was brutal.

Miscommunication and misunderstandings are typical romcom fare, but I feel like Shop doesn't rely on it as much as '90s romcoms. I feel like they've essentially just dismissed each other based on first meeting, in a work environment (which is an important note), so it took some time to realize the qualities in each other that actually matter. And what misunderstandings occur was pretty much intentional on Kralik's part and was incredibly amusing.

The ankle scene! Haha. Burned into my memories and makes me wish for a pair of sock garters of my own.

Because of its genre, the viewer knows it's going to deliver a happy ending where the leads get together but watching them warm up to each other is satisfying. It doesn't feel predictable because of its attention to details.

Beyond the main characters, the supporting cast is great. The shop is lively, it's not overly idealized and syrupy. I do like the friendship between Pirovitch (played by Felix Bressart) though. Hugo Matuschek, the shop owner (played by Frank Morgan), goes hot and cold on his employees due to personal things at home. As much as I will say on that without spoiling things. Let's not forget the brown-nosing co-worker Ferencz Vadas (played by Joseph Schildkraut). His lines are perfectly two-faced or backhanded. Like you're so sure he insulted you, but you can't call him out on it! With that you got your set up for a workplace comedy-drama.

Interesting bit: Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart were friends off screen which probably helped the on-screen chemistry. It's also believed that Stewart was head over heels for Sullivan. She was married to Henry Fonda and the three were all pals (though they divorced years prior to this movie). She and Fonda were lefties while Stewart was a republican. So that dynamic is definitely interesting. I don't remember the source, but supposedly Fonda and Stewart had such a heated argument once that they had to swear off talking politics! Sullivan herself was also known for getting pretty heated. When she heard that a writer was gonna get fired because of his left-wing views by an anti-communist director, she blew up on said director. Even one of the founders of MGM was scared of her. Her life was rough going as she got older, pretty tragic. But I won't get into that here.

"You treated me like a dog." "Yes, but instead of licking my hand, you barked."

"There might be a lot we don't know about each other. You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.”

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Hiring McDaniel – a powerful election denialist who joined then president Donald Trump in pressuring voting officials not to certify the 2020 election – was like putting a standing chyron on the NBC Nightly News: “Lying is rewarded here.”

Margaret Sullivan

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Everyone loves to hate the Oscars. But here’s why I’ll be watching | Margaret Sullivan Events like the Oscars are rare examples of monoculture in a pop-culture world increasingly fractured into tiny splinters“Ooh, the Hollywood issue!” was my first thought on pulling the glossy new Vanity Fair magazine – timed to this Sunday’s Academy Awards – from my mailbox.Then came my second thought: “Who are these people?”Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/06/oscars-academy-awards-pop-culture-margaret-sullivan

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Silent Hill characters I ❤️ and don't

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Margaret Sullivan at American Crisis:

The opinion section of Sunday’s New York Times is covered with those all-too-familiar red MAGA caps — 42 of them, in seven columns, six rows deep. Evoking the iconic Andy Warhol artwork of Campbell soup cans in 1962, it makes quite a statement. So does the headline. “This Is the New Establishment,” it declares. And the first of several sub-headlines goes further: “MAGA is who we are now.” Really? It’s not who I am, and, dear subscribers, I suspect it’s not who you are either. And you don’t have to be a registered Democrat — I am not one — to feel that way. More than 69 million Americans — those who voted for Kamala Harris — would likely agree that they aren’t ready to join that club, even though Donald Trump got more than 73 million votes.

I’m also not too interested in the post-election blame game. The lead headline on the Sunday Times’s print front page: “Democrats Sift Through Rubble, Seeking Answers” According to various theories, Trump won because Harris was a lousy candidate, or because of the proliferation of dude-bro podcasts, or because incumbents globally are being tossed out of office, or because misogyny and racism are rampant in America, or because of the right-wing media bubble led by Fox News, or because the cost of groceries hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels. Carole Cadwalladr, writing in the Guardian, warns that we now exist in a new, scary world of disinformation ruled by tech oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. I could go on, but let’s not. There is much to learn from all of this, and by all means, let’s do so.

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It’s really important for pro-democracy Americans not to throw up their hands and to consider this a lost cause. As the big thinkers on totalitarianism, including Hannah Arendt, have consistently written, isolation and despair are fertile ground for autocracy.

Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian and author of “On Tyranny,” said this on MSNBC after the election: “Freedom means you decide who you are, and then when things change around you, you continue to be that person. And in so doing, you do constructive work. You set an example for other people. You meet new people who are also trying to remain themselves.” I was impressed by Elizabeth Warren’s urging to her fellow Democrats. She wrote in Time magazine: “Fight every fight in Congress. We won’t always win, but we can slow or sometimes limit Trump’s destruction. With every fight, we can build political power to put more checks on his administration and build the foundation for future wins.” And she has advice for non-politicians: “We all have a part to play. … Whether it’s stepping up to run for office, supporting a neighbor’s campaign, or getting involved in an organization taking action, we all have to continue to make investments in our democracy — including in states that are passed over as ‘too red.’ The political position we’re in is not permanent, and we have the power to make change if we fight for it.”

Margaret Sullivan has some valuable insights on how to move forward from last Tuesday’s soul-crushing loss to Donald Trump.

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#OTD in Irish History | 22 November:

1773 – Lord John Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, is born in Dublin. 1830 – Justin McCarthy, politician, novelist and historian, is born in Cork. 1869 – Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Fenian, contests and wins a Tipperary by-election in abstentia, but is declared ineligible as a convicted felon. 1912 – Birth in Dublin of poet, dramatist and lawyer, Donagh MacDonagh, son of…

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Vicky (Dana Sparks), Angela (Jane Wyman), Emma (Margaret Ladd), Maggie (Susan Sullivan) et Melissa (Ana Alicia).

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Ill be honest out of all my old Hollywood invested years, i still dont know who Margaret (O) Sullivan is

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Ruddigore 第一夜 Mad Margaret和Despard Murgatroyd的对话，但他们之后的二重唱似乎乐谱丢失了😂

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Title: The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England

Author: Margaret C. Sullivan

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2007

Genres: nonfiction, history, classics

Blurb: Every young lady dreams of a life spent exchanging witty asides with a dashing Mr Darcy, but how should you let him know your intentions? Seek counsel from this charming guide to Jane Austen’s world. Its step-by-step instructions reveal the practicalities of life in Regency England, including sensible advice on how to behave at your first ball, ride sidesaddle, decline an unwanted marriage proposal, improve your estate, throw a dinner party, and much more. Offering readers a glimpse into day-to-day life in Jane Austen’s time, this is the perfect companion for fans of her novels and their film adaptations, complete with detailed information on love among the social classes, currency, dress, and nuances of graceful living.

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President Gerald R. Ford Signing the Proclamation on Women's Equality Day 1974 in the Cabinet Room

Collection GRF-WHPO: White House Photographic Office Collection (Ford Administration)Series: Gerald R. Ford White House Photographs

This photograph depicts President Gerald R. Ford seated at the Cabinet Room table signing a proclamation on Women's Equality Day 1974. Standing behind him are Representatives Yvonne Brathwait Burke (D-California), Barbara Jordan (D-Texas), Elizabeth Holtzman (D-New York), Marjorie S. Holt (R-Maryland), Leonor K. Sullivan (D-Missouri), Cardiss Collins (D -Illinois), Corinne C. Boggs (D-Louisiana), Margaret M. Heckler (R-Massachusetts), Bella S. Abzug (D-New York), and Shirley Chisholm (D-New York).

The representatives wear the colorful prints of the 1973’s.  Bella Abzug wears her characteristic wide brimmed hat.