Katherine

Though I scroll right past the AI results in browser searches, I can't help noticing how poor these algorithms' reading comprehension is.

I'm also very tired of the framing "Some readers say..." or "some sources claim". That's actively unhelpful 😣

“One of the great actors of our time" — Al Pacino

In a life shortened by terminal lung cancer, he starred in just five films — The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter — three winning Best Picture Oscars.

John Cazale #botd

Green Dildos and Fragile Egos: Misogyny’s Latest Play in Women’s Sports A crude stunt at a WNBA game with green dildos shows how misogyny hides behind “humor” to demean and distract women at the top of their game.

"No matter how skilled, strong or accomplished women become, they can still be reduced to a sexual punchline."

Pictures from the 1920s

1925: American singer, actor, athlete and civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1898 – 1976). (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

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As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Glenda Farrell Talks Again; Mayor's Job Gets Worrisome Movie Actress, Blamed For 'Everything' As Official By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22-(UP)-Glenda Farrell, who is hesitant about talking to the press because she nearly always talks too much for her own good, took a chance today-and talked. She told about the long years that her son, Tommy, remained nine years old, She told about her thousands of relatives. She told about all the complaints she was getting from citizens of North Hollywood about the condition of the streets. She even told about how hard it was to travel with a face like her's. So if you'll promise not to hold it against her-because she's an he okay girl and one of the few really frank ones in town-we'll set down what she had to say about the private life of Glenda Farrell. Miss Farrell considered first the sad plight of Tommy, the boy who remained an infant as long as he could stand it and finally rebelled. "For years and years," she said, "Tommy officially was nine years old. This didn't bother him at first. but pretty soon he went to high school and started getting interested in the girls. This was natural enough, but here he was, only nine. He finally came to me and said, 'Mother, when can I be my age?' There wasn't anything I could say. Tommy ceased being nine. He's 16." As for the relatives, they're something of a problem. Miss Farrell's father had 12 brothers and sisters. Her mother had nine. "And I've simply got thousands of uncles and aunts and cousins," she said. "I love them all, but out at my house there's a swing session going on nearly all the time." The neighbors don't complain about the noise. They don't dare. Miss Farrell is the official mayor of North Hollywood, Calif. "It's an honorary job," she said, "It began as a sort of a gag, but it didn't end up that way." Miss Farrell constantly is receiving kicks about the street paving, the condition of the sewers, and the size of the property taxes...

“Torchy Runs for Mayor” (1939) was inspired by Glenda Farrell’s real life 1938 run for Mayor of North Hollywood. She won the honorary job, which soon became more real when many citizens took her title seriously.

Here’s an interview from January 1939 where she briefly discussed this

#TCMParty #SUTS

Nor was this all.

Kids don't have rights at all.

Wonder where or how a professional organization will say something or step in or just continue as if this isn't a flagrant violation of user rights.

'It' (1927) and The It Girl, Clara Bow | Bright Wall/Dark Room On-screen, Bow's remarkable strength of personality was enough to win her everything she desired. In life, it wasn’t enough to ensure happiness or agency.

"On-screen, Clara Bow's remarkable strength of personality was enough to win her everything she desired. In life, it wasn’t enough to ensure happiness or agency."d

Norma Shearer #botd began her movie career not in front of a camera but playing the piano at silent movie theatres. After a few small parts, she caught the attention of MGM. Nominated five times for an Oscar, she won for her starring role in The Divorcee in 1930.

The devaluation of skill, experience, and expertise is a crisis across cultural journalism right now--it's being felt profoundly in theater. It's great that anyone can post a review, but that does not, even in the smallest way, replace what's being thrown away.

Norma Shearer, August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983.
1927 photograph by Edward Steichen.

Louise Bourgeois, In Her Studio

The author with a Moomin doll on her shoulder.

Remembering Tove Jansson on her birthday 🎂
With a Moomintroll doll in Helsinki
📷 Lehtikuva, 1954

"If I could live it all over again, I'd do it completely differently. But I won't say how."

Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney break the fourth wall (briefly) in Dorothy Arzner's MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932).

I revisited Dorothy Arzner's MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932) for Sylvia Sidney's birthday.

There's a moment during the wedding scene where Fredric March and Sylvia look right at us, as if to say, "Yup. She's actually marrying this fuck up."

Powerful social commentary without a word spoken. #FilmSky

there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid

In just a few minutes on August 8, 1969, Iain Macmillan took six photos of the Beatles outside EMI's London studios for the now iconic cover of their album Abbey Road. "The one eventually chosen was number five, which was what I wanted stylistically."

How Dare We Not: On the Feminist Future of Care As Medicare and Medicaid turn 60, defending care is not just a policy fight—it’s a feminist demand for dignity, democracy and survival.

As Medicare and Medicaid turn 60, defending care is not just a policy fight—it’s a feminist demand for dignity, democracy and survival.

San Francisco Film Preserve: Black Lightning San Francisco Film Preserve is hosting their first ever in-person screening this International Dog Day! In celebration of the wonderful canines in our lives, they have programmed a fabulous duo of…

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Film restored by San Francisco Film Preserve with the generous support of David Stenn.

#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #BlackLightning #ClaraBow #SilentFilm #FilmRestoration #RoxieTheater #InternationalDogDay

100 years in the making…Clara Bow’s first moment in BLACK LIGHTNING — unseen for a century — is finally here.

🎥 Restored. Radiant. Ready for the Roxie Theater on August 26. Watch the clip. Grab your ticket. Be part of history. #FilmSky #ClaraBow #SilentFilm #SanFranciscoFilmPreserve

At least two people detained in S.F. by ICE today. How many more? A 25-year-old Colombian woman and a 41-year-old Salvadoran father among those detained, held in San Francisco's ICE office

At least two people were detained in S.F. by ICE Thursday, a 25-year old Colombian woman and a 41-year-old Salvadoran father among them.

It's unclear how many more people are being held with them.

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quick reminder: if someone refers to people as "illegals," they're probably incredibly racist

"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories.

EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.

Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.

The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men

Also too: if your school complies with white supremacist demands, you are not getting a good education. You are instead being indoctrinated into a white supremacist conception of the world, which will fail you because it is based on lies and bigotry.

#OtD 7 Aug 1890 legendary American labour organiser, feminist and socialist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born. She played a leading role in the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union. Learn more about women in the @IWW in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

Mitchum & Greer in a clinch, perfectly lit. She’s wearing a long black dress & has a gun in her hand. He’s in a trench coat & hat and knows he doesn’t need to worry about the gun.

Ernest A. Bachrach's fabulous portrait of Robert Mitchum & Jane Greer in Jacques Tourneur's great film noir Out of the Past, 1947.

gen ai is a fascist project.

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