Reading the Hollywood memoir of writer/director #EdZwick is as enjoyable as watching one of his movies:
forward.com/culture/film...
               
            
            
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            Sorry to learn that #WilhelminaWigginsFernandez, the soprano who had the title role in #Diva, has passed away, age 75.
               
            
            
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            โRare indeed is the legal victory โ in court or legislature โ that is not a careful byproduct of an emerging social consensus,โ wrote Sandra Day O'Connor in an essay quoted in today's NYT obit by Linda Greenhouse. Godspeed, Justice O'Connor.
               
            
            
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            "re-x" would read like "I kiss you again" in a text.
               
            
            
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            Music nerds have phonographic memories. Artists and movie geeks have photographic memories. 
#BarbraStreisand has both of those, plus keen gustatory memories.
               
            
            
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            Gloria Grahame is on @tcm at 8pm EST in The Bad and the Beautiful, Vicente Minnelli's delicious Hollywood expose. Kirk Douglas is the Bad, Grahame (who won a supporting actress Oscar) and Lana Turner are the Beauts.
               
            
            
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#HarryBelafonte and #DorothyDandridge in #CarmenJones, an Americanized update of the George Bizet opera, Carmen. Airing on @tcm at 8pm EST.
               
            
            
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            Tom Rothman, head of Sony's film division, tells The New Yorker that Ridley Scott, 86, director of the studio's #Napoleon, "is the single best argument for a second term for Joe Biden." Your favorite Scott film?
               
            
            
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            This is what a world without men looked like to painter Marie Laurencin: hyperallergic.com/854599/marie...
               
            
            
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            Looking forward to tonight on @tcm, where the peerless #DonaldBogle will introduce the 1934 #ImitationofLife (that's Louise Beavers and Claudette Colbert at 8pm EDT and #IntruderintheDust at 10pm.
               
            
            
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                                            Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Author, SCOUNDREL and THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN. 
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