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The Last Movie I Watched...

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004, Dir.: Xan Cassavetes)

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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Xan Cassavetes’ Z CHANNEL: A MAGNIFICENT OBESSION (2004, TCM) ends with Z Channel programming director Jerry Harvey’s favorite love song, “What’ll I Do,” played over a montage of scenes from films he programmed and, in many cases, saved from obscurity. It’s the perfect ending to a two-hour love letter to one of the first pay cable stations. From 1974 to 1989, the network won a devoted following in Los Angeles with an eclectic mix of classic, contemporary and obscure films. It achieved a golden era under Harvey, from 1980 until his death in 1988. A film fanatic, he created imaginative festivals, bringing back forgotten works, including those by famous directors, and pioneering in showing directors’ cuts of such films as HEAVEN’S GATE (1980), THE WILD BUNCH (1969) and ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984) that had originally been butchered by production companies. When Harvey championed current films like SALVADOR (1986), he even influenced the Oscars, helping the until-then-forgotten picture pick up nominations for Best Actor and Best Screenplay. There are wonderful film clips sprinkled through the picture, which otherwise is mostly a talking heads documentary as co-workers, friends and filmmakers remember Harvey and the channel. Cassavetes is a sensitive interviewer and gets some great memories out of people. Occasionally, she overindulges them, and they go into lengthy production stories that really have nothing to do with the Z Channel. But when it hits, which is most of the time, the film is a testament to the power of movies as an art form and the impact of the people who love them.

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Behind the scenes photos featured in Vulture's WWDITS set visit and final season preview!

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Caroll Spinney and Harvey Monster

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Rewatched this movie yet again...

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Up next on my 80's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...Batman (1989) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #actionadventure #comicbookmovies #superheromovies #batman #thedarkknight #thejoker #BruceWayne #VickiVale #harveydent #MichaelKeaton #jacknicholson #kimbasinger #MichaelGough #ripmichaelgough #PatHingle #rippathingle #jackpalance #ripjackpalance #BillyDeeWilliams #robertwuhl #jerryhall #BobKane #DC #dccomics #detectivecomics #traceywalter #charlesroskilly #vintage #vhs #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas6thannual80sfest

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I know, I know. Y'all have been waiting for this.

Updates on the Most Attractive 90s Musician mini-game (it is no longer mini nor a game): Ed O' Brien jumps to fourth place. Brian Molko makes his debut on the list, kicking Thom Yorke out of the rankings. Stone Gossard and PJ Harvey enter the top ten; congratulations!

Vote here.

Don't forget to vote in the main tournament either!

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Husband / one night stand/ best friend: Jerome edition

HUSBAND- Husband- Norman Phiffier (who’s minding the store 1963)

I love Norman so so so so much he’s a sweetheart and a hard worker and loves his woman, this is one of my favorite movies of Jerome’s and Norman is an absolute smoke show. That black jumpsuit ??? Are you kidding me with that???????

Gif from @make-a-little-mischief

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One night stand - Buddy love bc Uh (the nutty professor)

hi this is obvious. 5 will get you 10 buddy love was a complete FREAK IN THOSE SHEETS and I’m here for it . Like are you kidding me with this guy?? Get ready love, I’m riding you into the sunset

Gif from @jerrylevitch

Best friend - I really really want to choose julius kelp because I love julius to the end of time but I already mentioned the nutty professor so I’m going to choose Harvey miller (the caddy)

He’s adorable and loving and Deans character was a huge douche to him in that movie and I would not only be his best friend but his wife and f*** toy 👊🏾👊🏾💕

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I was tagged (a very long time ago) by @empiregrotesk to name check my Top 9 Favourite Musicians. A very difficult task but here we go with the memories of my past…

Paul Weller (The Jam/The Style Council), Mick Jones (The Clash/BAD), Jerry Dammers (The Specials), Richard H. Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire), Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Barney Sumner (Joy Division/New Order), Björk (The Sugarcubes/Solo), PJ Harvey, Autechre (Rob Brown + Sean Booth).

As always, feel free to join in (or pass a comment)…

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21 years ago today Looney Tunes: Back in Action released in theaters!!!

I don’t care what anyone says this movie was funny!!!😆😆😆

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is there a The Fantasticks fandom out there?

I need to talk to people about this show 😭🙏

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“I Am What I Am”

i have been absolutely obsessed with the song “I Am What I Am” ever since seeing that it’s the last song on the Ted Lasso season 3 playlist last week. i’m a super, but very recent, fan of Broadway — i was raised on old movie musicals and so there’s a lot of Broadway standards i’ve never heard before. it’s fun to keep “discovering” music all the time. i’ve watched a ton of versions of this in the past week. there’s George Hearn from the original cast (x), there’s Harvey Fierstein (x) in a revival (he also wrote the libretto of the original show!), and even Shirley Bassey (x) who does a really wonderful soaring version that i could totally see Hannah doing.

but here’s my favorite so far, a video of Walter Charles performing the whole last scene of Act 1. he replaced Hearn in the original cast. Like this is fucking powerful™️

i don’t know how the Ted Lasso creators are going to eventually use it, and the speculation in my head is a whole other ted x trent fandom situation on its own — but i’m really glad i got to experience this song so completely this week. it’s really beautiful and resonant right now in this fucked up world as i’m sure it was in the early 80s when it first appeared. ♥️✌️

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The WWDITS Season 6 trailer is here!

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October 1943. While the fate of Golden Age Batman characters caught between the demimonde and respectable society was typically regeneration or death, regeneration was possible, particularly in stories published in the period between 1940 and 1945. The most dramatic example was Two-Face, who, as most Batman fans are aware, was a handsome district attorney whose face was scarred by acid. (His real name in his three earliest appearances was Harvey Kent rather than Harvey Dent.) In his third appearance in DETECTIVE COMICS #80, after being jailed several times for his crimes, Two-Face comes to his senses after accidentally shooting his former fiancée Gilda (who fortunately survives), turns himself in, and helps Batman apprehend the other members of his gang. Then:

Dr. Ekhart, a famous "European specialist," had been mentioned in Two-Face's first appearance in DETECTIVE COMICS #66 as one who might be able to repair Harvey's face, but Harvey and Batman had found that Ekhart had been sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis while visiting his brother in Germany before the war. While Ekhart is never shown on-panel, the subplot about his imprisonment and escape ties Two-Face's story to the war, and to wartime hopes of a better world after the physical and moral scars have healed.

This regeneration lasted a surprisingly long time in the comic book. Harvey appeared next in a 1948 story in BATMAN #50, which confirmed that he and Gilda had married and he had eventually returned to the practice of law. There were several false Two-Faces (including Paul Sloane, an actor scarred by a romantic rival while filming a TV reenactment of Harvey's transformation in a 1951 story in BATMAN #68), but it wasn't until an explosion in a 1954 story in BATMAN #81 undid his plastic surgery that Harvey resumed his Two-Face identity. Although the latter story was definitely part of Earth-1 continuity, E. Nelson Bridwell apparently felt strongly that the Golden Age Harvey never returned to crime, which is why Bridwell showed an unscarred Harvey Kent at the 1955 wedding of the Earth-2 Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle in the "Mr. & Mrs. Superman" story in THE SUPERMAN FAMILY #211:

I think Bridwell had a point, honestly.

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Detective Comics #580 (1987) by Mike Barr, Jerry Bingham & Anthony Tollin