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(tap for more) A woman with red hair, wearing a black dress, is seated at a dining table with a dish of huge shrimp in front of her. She's looking at someone with an imploring, wide-eyed expression. Catherine O'Hara, born on this day in 1954 (d. 2026), as Delia Deetz in a scene from the film BEETLEJUICE (1988) Tags Filmsky moviesky MOVIES films botd happy birthday Hollywood legends comedy genius rip

Good morning.

#BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

Photo of Catherine O’Hara

Remembering 💔
Catherine O’Hara
on her birthday

#botd March 4,1954
and gone too soon💔

She brought us joy.
#Actor #comedy

Catherine O’Hara

#filmnoir #filmsky #moviesky #tcmcruise

“I should’ve booked the TCM cruise.”

Michèle Morgan w/ Robert Cummings
The Chase (1946)

Opinion | The Nation Faces a Crisis. Colleges Have a Unique Role to Play.

A powerful and remarkably timely piece by the president of @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social Michael S. Roth on today's @nytimesoped.bsky.social page.

The Nation Faces a Crisis. Colleges Have a Unique Role to Play. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe by Earl Leaf at the Los Angeles premiere of How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Observe the birth of the modern police procedural in Jules Dassin’s “The Naked City,” restored via the Criterion Collection. From modern programs like Lucifer, The Flash, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Blue Bloods to more classic ones like Law and Order, The Mod Squad, and Hill Street Blues, each of these procedural variants ow…

3/3/48: Jules Dassin's The Naked City
Landmark NYC procedural
More:
@spectrumculture.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2021/04/26/r...
Sragow on Goldstein doc: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@elmntsofmadness.bsky.social: elementsofmadness.com/2020/09/07/t...

Opinion | Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won.

Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...

This is an encapsulation of his entire heads-I-win-tails-you-lose world view.

Alfred Hitchcock (1965)

Ellen Barkin by Ruven Afanador (2009)

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Kelly Reichardt and Laura Herring both turn 62 today.

Cartoon by Tommy Siegel

Trump On Fence About Attending Ayatollah’s Funeral WASHINGTON—Carefully weighing the implications of his presence at a particularly tense moment in relations between Iran and the United States, President Trump told reporters Monday that he remained on...

“If I go, I think it’ll really make me look strong, like I’m fully in charge of this whole operation,” said President Donald Trump

Something tells me there's a few willing war profiteers--Musk, Bezos, & Co.--who'd be more than happy to provide jets, maybe even rocket ships, for a price.

somethings never change

“My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humoured; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.”

W. H. Auden, St. Marks Place, New York, March 3, 1960. Photograph by Richard Avedon.

Reed wearing a hat, sunglasses & a leather jacket with studs

Remembering Lou Reed in his birthday 🎂
📷 Oliviero Toscani, December 21, 1973

“Lou Reed was our generation’s New York poet, championing its misfits as Whitman had championed its workingman and Lorca its persecuted.”
- Patti Smith

No one has ever looked so good drunk driving and gotten off so easily. $2 #TCMPARTY

Workers loading a neon "Damaged" sign onto the back of a truck

Walker Evans
West Eleventh Street, New York, 1928-30

#TCMparty #northbynorthwest #filmsky

TIME FOR A DRINK

Fanboy confession: so I'm at a restaurant out on Long Island, attending a high school a cappella competition featuring my son's group on Saturday evening, and who should walk in but one of my all-time favorites #IsabellaRosselini, as if I'd conjured her up myself?! And, no, I did not utter a word.

Happy Kurt Weill's birthday!

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Monday

The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry.
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Black and white close-up of the director’s face, against the white background.

Jean Renoir by Richard Avedon
Beverly Hills, May 11, 1972

Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner

#tvsky #filmsky #booksky

Happy birthday, Laraine Newman

A malignant narcissist in the deepest of delusional states.

Good morning and happy Monday to everyone. What kind of shithole country can fund a war instantly but debates funding education and healthcare?

Laraine Newman sitting up in bed talking on the telephone while Fred Willard looks on. Saturday Night Live, 1975

#tvsky #filmsky #booksky #SNL

Laraine Newman #BOTD w/ Fred Willard
Saturday Night Live, 1975