Matthew Sorrento

NOIR CITY MAGAZINE 44 is out now -- I have a double #bookreview on Patrick Keating's Film Noir and the Arts of #Lighting (Rutgers UP) and @sheribiesen.bsky.social ‘s Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style (Columbia UP): www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymaga... #filmnoir #filmsky #tcm

When a 50s star headed into the New Hollywood like a bullet

Silver spoons, and non-stop McNugget binging

My first exposure to Groucho, when I caught reruns on basic cable in the early 90s. I laughed non-stop, soon seeking out the early Bro. films….

@earlenes.bsky.social

YouTube video by OutOfFocus.TV The Trashwomen Live full set Burger Boogaloo 2016 with John Waters and Traci Lords

#JohnWaters and #TraciLords introduce #surfrock trio #TheTrashwomen www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0v...

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

Donnie Donuts McDrumpf

MovieFanFare had a great article about Dwight Frye (“Man with 1000 Watt Eyes”) that’s sadly no longer up – need to dig into the Int Archive….

Chaney is a treat – the lead in a recent production of Deane and Balderston’s play at #RitzTheatreNJ did a nice tribute of Chaney Jr.

Buster Keaton in "Film" - BOTD

"Undocumented in the U.S. South: How Youth Navigate Racialization in Policy and School Contexts" by Sophia Rodriguez

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#Immigration #Undocumented #Education #Children #Politics #South

Death by Laughter | Columbia University Press Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would ha... | CUP

Next on the shortlist: Maggie Hennefeld's Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema

Congrats Maggie and @columbiaup.bsky.social (also again!)

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Sallie Martin, Mother of Gospel Music Author: Kay Norton

Happy #GospelHeritageMonth!

In-depth & powerful, Kay Norton's SALLIE MARTIN, MOTHER OF GOSPEL MUSIC tells the story of one woman’s role in shaping the music and business of Black gospel.
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@earlenes.bsky.social

A post from Dan Rather (@DanRather): The reality is we have a sharp partisan divide in this country. And that divide is largely over reality.

This is true.

New on FilmInt Online – George Toles’ on BALL OF FIRE:

“Expressive objects abound in the world of Ball of Fire...a door becomes more charged with significance if we are led to assume that the room behind it contains an armed criminal….”

#filmsky #hollywood #stanwyck

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Just outside the entrance to Reno’s Nevada Museum Of Art 🩵

#art #cairn #statue #human #humanity #grief #eastcoastkin #photography #stones #truth

The author of FOXFIRE publishes a novel called FOX – intriguing….

Monster Bash (Williams, 1998) – at @burythehatchet.bsky.social Axe Throwing, Cherry Hill, NJ #pinball @pinballmap.com #horror #universalmonsters

Never finish a paragraph without it. ✔️

Liquified Aglio e Olio

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

‘The Genius’

Ray Charles was born today in 1930. 🎤 🎹 ❤️

When Jaws Premiered; or, the Hottest and Coolest Weekend on Record - FilmInt.nu By Gary D. Rhodes. The great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open.” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) Friday, June 20, 1975. Newspapers report the assassination of mob boss Sam “Momo” Giancana...

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