@NicholasStix @mikemoviez Thank you for including Ben Hecht, my father’s cousin.
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Marcia Biederman
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Marcia Biederman
@MSBiederman
Author of The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill; Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England and other books. Abuser of interlibrary loans.
Brooklyn, NY Beigetreten Şubat 2009
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@mikemoviez Mike David @mikemoviez
"Can you name the movie? 🤔"
His Girl Friday: Hawks, Hecht, MacArthur, Grant & Russell (1940)
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I unequivocally object to the Retiree Health Benefit Trust being used as a slush fund again. @nycretirees are in an affordability crisis imposed by the last Mayor that @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani has not addressed & the council hasn't either yet. I also fiercely object to the Unfunded Accrued Liabilities(UAL) being suggested & Pension Obligation Bonds(POB) which are also taxable. Think there's no risk? Look at Illinois & NJ. Who suggested this? Did not anyone learn that playing with retiree benefits has consequences? I guess after Seder & Easter - Retirees mobilize again. #refresher
citymeetings.nyc/meetings/new-y…
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@spring54494996 @CMCrystalHudson Don’t thank the wrong party. CM Crystal Hudson has never supported bills like Intro. 1096, to preserve the right of city retirees to Medicare plus a city-paid supplement. We asked for her support, and still do, continually. @NycRetirees
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The preliminary budget is our city's first draft of a plan to fund and execute vital city services for the year ahead. We must remain open to a full range of thoughtful solutions, including new revenue options like taxing the ultra-wealthy.
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@MichaelElsenRoo @AGZimmerman Thanks, Chalkbeat. So he’s accusing the council of asking for more time to reduce class size, when in fact he’s the one making that request. Don’t these misrepresentations bother anyone?
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Mamdani claims the council is asking Albany for "more time to reduce class sizes." But that ask appears nowhere in the council's budget response.
More here in a helpful primer on state of class size negotiations from @AGZimmerman: chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026/0…
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
New York City Council just released a budget proposal. Here's what New Yorkers should know:
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@KMFollett 365 Bedtime Stories when I was seven and The Three Faces of Eve when I was 13.
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I learnt to read when I was four and never stopped. One of my favourite childhood books was Noddy Goes to Toyland. When I was 12 I discovered James Bond. What about you? What book made you start reading?
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@HabourBookshop in Kingsbridge created this fantastic window display for my new book, #TheEveningAndTheMorning. It’s important to support independent bookshops, now more than ever. #BookshopDay #IndieBookshop
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@CindySinor The camaraderie. There were many other copies of Playbill left behind, but these two chose to share one.
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What strikes you most about this Norman Rockwell painting, "Charwomen in the Theater" (1946)?
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I’ve finished the re-write of my next book, The Deep and Secret Things. The next step is to send it to my editors and researchers for their comments.
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@BoylanRoger There’s an interesting bedroom scene in that movie.
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Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston, who co-starred in the 1958 western "The Big Country." Peck, a liberal, and Heston, a conservative, did not allow these differences to disrupt their friendship.
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How did multiple @nytimes editors look at this story and not ask what the “J” stood for?
Here’s a hint: It isn’t “Israel.”
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@MerriamWebster @jaxbra It’s “home in on,” no t “hone in on.”
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Not to be THAT dictionary, but…
It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
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@Bobby4Brooklyn @tomwatson @RossBarkan @Mets Too bad you don’t feel as strongly about loyalty to us NYC retirees, whom you used to support in our fight to preserve our health benefits. Didn’t see you in Albany last week when we lobbied for our bill. Regards, A Former Donor.
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Ross you make this point every year. It’s highly offensive to @Mets fans. Generational Brooklynites and others are Mets fans because of the Dodgers or Giants. You also associate with journalists and political class people who may feel pulled toward the underdog - ie the Mets. I bet if you hung out with recent transplants who live in Murray Hill or the Upper East Side and work for a big law, finance, or tech firm you will find a lot are Yankee fans.
To quote Curtis Granderson "true New Yorkers are Mets fans,"
Stop your obsession with hating on Mets fans.
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Walk the streets of Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Ridgewood, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights. Find a baseball fan who moved to NYC as an adult. Vast majority are Mets fans.
Sam Adler-Bell@SamAdlerBell
It used to be the Mets were dismissed as the schlubbly, uncouth, outer borough white-ethnic team, but Yankees fans, ever unsatisfied, bc of their own insecurities, had to figure out some new way to insist on their superiority, so they all started repeating this lazy bs
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Major upcoming book release for the old hollywood girlies
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@frontierism @daveweigel People don’t want to think about it. The same happened with the 1918-1920 flu pandemic. Very few references to it in popular culture. I recently looked into a 1903 typhoid epidemic in Butler, PA, which drew wide attention but was quickly forgotten.
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@modernhistory I Dreamed I Was Walking Around a Room in My Maidenform Bra.
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@petersterne @AmirKhafagy91 @JulieMenin @DC37nyc When Adrienne Adams was Speaker, DC37 successfully pressured her not to let a bill to preserve municipal retirees’ health benefits reach the floor. Few New Yorkers outside the public sector realize that DC37 wields more power than our elected officials.
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@AmirKhafagy91 @JulieMenin @DC37nyc They're calling on the mayor to support the bill but Menin isn't letting it get to the floor?
Zohran can't sign the bill unless the City Council passes it, right?
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Breaking news 🚨
Sources say that @JulieMenin has pulled the No More 24-Act after last minute pressure from @DC37nyc who opposes the bill.
This comes after home care workers rallied outside city hall demanding the mayor support the bill.
documentedny.com/2026/03/18/mam…
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@jrovner We strapped our transistor radios to the baskets of our bicycles.
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i grew up in the 1960s and 70s. we had transistor radios.
John Loeber 🎢@johnloeber
Before the ~1980s, there was no portable music player. You’d go running, rowing, cycling, whatever, for hours on end, in total silence, no sound other than your own thoughts. How did they do it? We will never know
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Two stunning actresses, similar in looks... who captures you? Hedy Lamarr or Joan Bennett?
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