Eric Fettmann

Note to my followers: Having finally retired, I will no longer be actively tweeting and have drastically cut the list of those I've been following. Thanks all, and please don't take personally. Catch you on Facebook.

@DefiantLs He likely can't win either a Dem or GOP primary, but remains popular with PA voters. Best move would be to run in the general as an independent.

He's halfway there already.

@For_Film_Fans Actually, it's in the original play by Jean Anouilh.

“Your body was an empty desert madam which duty forced me to wander in alone.” BECKET (1964) This is writing, this is delivery of that writing. #PeterOToole #EdwardAnhalt

@DannyDrinksWine A gorgeous film with an equally gorgeous score by Ennio Morricone.

Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" (1978) wasn't a commercial success: its box office gross of $3,446,749 was only slightly more than $3 million, the amount it cost to make the film. Charles Bluhdorn, who ran Gulf + Western, the parent company of Paramount, was so impressed with the movie that he offered $1 million for Malick's next project, no matter what the movie was. Malick accepted—even though he was worn out. However, since Malick was exhausted and bruised after filming "Days of Heaven", he retreated to Paris with his girlfriend, Michie Gleason. It took 20 years for him to make his next film, "The Thin Red Line" (1998). ("Thirty-Three Years of Principal Filming", Bilge Ebiri, NY Mag, 2011 & "The Runaway Genius: Behind Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line", Peter Biskind, Vanity Fair, 2010)

@SquarePegDem So when the city is the landlord, ongoing maintenance costs justify hefty rent increases?

Incompetent, incoherent, or hypocritical? Take your pick. NYC housing is doomed.

@StoliarSteve That $2,500 is the equivalent of $28+k today. Not bad for a 13-year-old.

Melinda Marx's contract for the April 1960 "Bell Telephone Hour" version of "The Mikado." She played Peep-Bo - one of the Three Little Maids and the ward of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, played by her dad. Groucho had to co-sign the contract, because she was 13 at the time.

@buitengebieden Ish Kabibble. IYKYK.

What would you name this dog? 😅

@tonywendice1954 I met her once in the mid-'70s backstage at -- of all places -- a United Jewish Appeal telethon. For some reason, Shelly Winters was not happy to see her.

I could tell you a story or two encountering her at a couple of events over the years but I'm afraid I'd be bursting too many bubbles.

@ianmSC Los Angeles is the city of miracles.

I don't really get this. Assuming Karen Bass stays at 35%, even if Spencer Pratt drops from ~30% to 20% in the remaining votes, Raman would still need 101,708 out of 322,000 remaining, and she only has 119,809 out of the first 525k votes

@RoseElla1234 Great film, but it's a lot more fictionalized than it claims to be.

The film is based on the real-life escape from Stalag Luft III during World War II and remains one of Hollywood's greatest war films. Featuring legendary stars Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough. 🎬 The Great Escape (1963)

@SquarePegDem @lawler4ny At least he ain't from my part of Jersey.

@lawler4ny Yeah, my party is ass.

How in the hell has a defense witness in the 1993 WTC bombing, with ties to Al-Qaeda been nominated by the Democrats to serve in Congress? If elected in November, Congress should fully investigate his ties to terrorist organizations and determine whether he is fit to serve.

@SquarePegDem There is nothing about that "coalition" that even hints at diversity.

Terrist simps are horror movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" pod people taking over Congress.

@shipwreckedcrew Two of the people on that list were vastly overrated.

Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley and Dan Rather would like a word. All those guys were liberal, but they were ALL -- without an exception -- better than anyone who has been on the show the past 20 years. Leslie Stahl was a joke when she arrived.

@HenMazzig I'm sure there must be plenty of "Juden sind hier nicht erwünscht" signs in Bavaria left over from the '30s.

“Jews are not allowed to stay with us” Israelis who tried to book a room at a hotel in Bavaria through travel app Booking were shocked to receive a blatanly antisemitic message. Following a complaint they filed, the hotel was removed from the platform. German authorities have launched an investigation into the incident. Banning Jews from your establishment isn’t about politics. It’s pure hate.

@Dailymeoww1 Which explains the smirk on her face.

A cat in New Zealand was secretly living between two different homes for nearly five years, and both families thought the cat belonged only to them. One family named the cat Ollie, while the other knew her as Cleo. The cat regularly moved between both homes without raising suspicion, receiving food, attention, and care from each family. When the families found out, they genuinely felt like they had been used by a cat. Hahaha, I wonder what it feels like to be used by a cat 🤣

@JonathanTurley Paul Krugman is living proof that some Nobel Prizes are vastly over-rated.

Former NY Times columnist Paul Krugman: “We really need to do a thorough purging of the United States...We need a deMAGAfication…similar to de-Nazification." Nothing like a good cleansing of the populace to make things right for America's new Jacobins. jonathanturley.org/2026/02/04/rag…

@flapprdotnet Followed closely by Whoopi's declaration that if she doesn't go to a hospital or get sick during any given year, her health insurance premiums should be refunded .

Never forget that in March 2020, Whoopi Goldberg said "I'm hoping Dr. Jill becomes the surgeon general... she's a hell of a doctor." Her co-hosts then uncomfortably explained Jill Biden had doctorate in Education, not a medical degree. All time retard moment.

@ArthurLHerman Not to mention the sadly forgotten Sad Sack, which originated during WWII and continued afterward.

People talk about the virtues of the peacetime draft. One of the most lasting was inspiring an entire genre of military comedy: No Time For Sergeants, Sgt Bilko, McHale's Navy (despite WW2 setting), Gomer Pyle USMC, and the immortal Beetle Bailey.

@nicolegelinas The problem is Curtis -- and the fact that there is no longer a functioning Republican Party in NYC (or State, for that mater) capable of finding genuine candidates.

The problem isn't Curtis but the vacuum that lets Curtis thrive personally in these attempts.

@RedWavePress Those GOP governors of Massachusetts were all very liberal.

Bill Maher: “What are the chances of California electing a Republican governor?” Kevin McCarthy: “Very slim.” Bill Maher: “Exactly.” Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Massachusetts did it many times. You know why? You can't get bluer than Massachusetts… So, it's not an impossible thing.” Kevin McCarthy: “The top two system the top two system has failed us.” Bill Maher: “Blue states with Republican governors are the most popular because they're in a blue state, so they can't be Ken Paxton. But they're not crazy woke.” “Why can't the whole country do this?”

@MyronMagnet @dlondonwortel But Lichtman's Bakery was the center of the universe.

@dlondonwortel In the days when there was a Party Cake, Cake Masters, or Babka: The Cake Delicious on every corner of Broadway, which ran from Rosenbloom’s Deli to Steinberg’s Dairy Restaurant to the Tip Toe Inn.

The Upper West Side of the 1970s: aged holocaust survivors and tweeded intellectuals kibbitzing of childhood adventures in pre-war Poland or the Lower East Side while the hypermodern greater city around them crumbles into fiscal crisis. I savor its vanished aura like fine wine.