Chris Yogerst

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles WASHINGTON—Despite the president’s sagging approval rating overall, a Gallup Poll released Tuesday confirmed that Donald Trump’s support remained overwhelmingly strong among working-class American ped...

This really just nails it. theonion.com/trump-still-...

“Freedom of opinion is a farce unless factual information is guaranteed and the facts themselves are not in dispute,” wrote philosopher Hannah Arendt in her 1954 essay “Truth and Politics.” This line has been ringing in my head for some time and its relevancy grows daily.

That’s so awesome! I think that 1993 experience was my first and only drive-in film. I should change that!

Drive-in theater that was still around in the early 1990s where I grew up. Saw Jurassic Park there.

Way ahead of it's time...

Terrifying

Books to Help Us Make Sense of the (Dis)Information Age My list of favorite books that have aged terrifyingly well in the (dis)information age

Resharing some favorite books that shed insight into the disinformation age. With #MediaLiteracy an essential survival tool these days, here are some books that have aged incredibly well. Come for Plato's Cave Analogy, stay for Hannah Arendt and company...

A Man Without a Country: On Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America” | Los Angeles Review of Books Chris Yogerst reviews Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided.”

While Chaplin did pursue women much younger (eww, I know), he did not go after minors. Many stories were gummed up to sink him because the right wingers couldn’t pin him as a commie. Scott Eyman’s book on Chaplin breaks it all down. Here is a review I wrote: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-ma...

Such an incredible speech!

Just gonna set this here. If you haven't seen it. Now's the time.

Why You Need to Watch The Great Dictator (1940) "The film never should have been made" -paraphrasing film critic Jimmie Fiddler

For all the interest in The Great Dictator, I just published an intro I recorded for a screening of the film at the University of Kentucky in 2021. Laughing in the face of fascism is a power we all have. Give it a look! (sorry my eyes are closed in the preview) substack.com/home/post/p-...

Happy to help! It’s aged incredibly well (for better and worse)

Wow. Absolutely perfect (sadly…)

Oh, this is perfect! Thanks for sharing.

Just gonna set this here. If you haven't seen it. Now's the time.

I've been soooo behind...I need to catch up on Alicia's chat with Brandon on Front Row Classics. A fantastic podcast!

PS - Mitzi's writing is always a joy to find in the archives.

Here is a selection of photos of my grandmother Mitzi Cummings for her Photoplay Magazine column with a dazzling array of Classic Hollywood stars. As a niece of Louis B. Mayer she had remarkable access to film sets & actors. I think she dearly wanted to be an actress and was certainly as beautiful.

....I mean, it's hard to argue with that right now. Some major shit needs to go down to reverse this. Just not sure what that is (all answers are terrifying).

Right…not much to see here… 😁

Hollywood history is similar, plenty of guys who sucked (great podcast title BTW). Though, that does make the good ones shine brighter. Still, too many assholes.

Oklahoma to Roll Out 'America First' Test for New Teachers The state's Superintendent, Ryan Walters, says the test will ensure teachers arriving in Oklahoma align with its values.

The assertion of “common sense” here is laughable. They are doing in OK what the GOP is pushing in WI. Implementing Christian Nationalism.

When I think about why to fund #PBS, I always think about the decades of amazing documentaries they've produced. Any new topic one wants to learn about, PBS has a solid documentary to serve as a starting point. Beyond that, having a five-year-old daughter, PBS has excellent children's programming.

That tracks! Edison, Ford, so many assholes.

Postman and Powers suggest we “reduce by at least one-third the amount of TV you watch,” which sounds similar to those today reminding us to cut back on digital content. “Remember: TV news does not reflect normal, everyday life,” a sentiment as true today in the digital landscape.

The Paranoid Style is evoked by a combination of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.” Sound familiar today? Every time I hear about chemtrails, or politicians controlling the weather, or Jewish space lasers, I think back to the Paranoid Style.

Boorstin wrote that “an image is synthetic: it is planned, created especially to serve a purpose, to make a kind of impression.”

For Le Bon (1895), a crowd is made up of three main components —

a sentiment of invincible power that leads to unrestrained actions

contagion (as in it spreads quickly)

a state of fascination, as a group hypnotized by a leader

“Freedom of opinion is a farce unless factual information is guaranteed and the facts themselves are not in dispute,” wrote philosopher Hannah Arendt in her 1954 essay “Truth and Politics.” This line has been ringing in my head for some time and its relevancy grows daily.

Books to Help Us Make Sense of the (Dis)Information Age My list of favorite books that have aged terrifyingly well in the (dis)information age

Resharing some favorite books that shed insight into the disinformation age. With #MediaLiteracy an essential survival tool these days, here are some books that have aged incredibly well. Come for Plato's Cave Analogy, stay for Hannah Arendt and company...

Excited to dive into Scott Eyman’s latest! He’s pretty much the last one still getting classic Hollywood biographies published in the trades.