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@virgosluttt @thefilmgoer My husband and I keep repeating Seth Rogan “count the rings”.

That moment in The Invite when Olivia Wilde says namaste I don’t think I have LAUGHED that loud in a theatre I had to force myself to shut up.

@normalmadeline OMG "count the rings".

I can’t remember the last time I laughed this hard in a movie theater? Omg.

@Novig I bet he's fun at parties.

A Norway supporter has gone viral for refusing to join the Viking Row after matches and says he won’t do it even if they lift the World Cup. “It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic.”

@netflix Excited!

Little House on the Prairie is gonna have you stressed out 😱

Tillman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@maxdubler You forgot pilot season.

People talk about how LA “doesn’t have distinct seasons” as though fire season, awards season, June Gloom, and March are all fake.

@emilyinvc My friends grandma lived to 108. The company lost money on her.

i learned yesterday that my grandpa has been thinking about getting a reverse mortgage. i sat in on an 8am call with the reverse mortgage lender this morning to hear the pitch. these guys are scammers/liars/ninth circle of hell. they were recommending he ditch his 2.875% traditional mortgage for a 7.6% reverse mortgage. plus pay $21,000 in closing costs/fees for the privilege of doing so. i told them it seemed like a bad deal, and they flipped out. the salesperson said, "if it's such a bad deal, why would i have one, plus my mother and father and brother, etc?" i said, "i don't know you so i can't answer. perhaps you're a fool and so are they!" he did not like that. i told the reverse mortgage people no + then told my grandpa that i'd start paying his monthly payment (~$2500) every month and recording it as a loan, at 6% interest compounding monthly, until he died. then i'd get paid out of the estate before the remainder went to his heirs (my mom and uncle). good or bad idea?

NORGE! NORGE! NORGE! 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴

@WarHappened Don't do it Franz.

It's a beautiful day in sun-drenched Sarajevo, whose inhabitants are ready to host prestigious guests: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, joined with his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, is about to take a pleasant drive through the city to kick off their official visit in the region.

@EmrickDoc69 She had the dress from the last engagement.

What the fuck man

@kylerhudson @thewaronbeauty Clearly you’ve never lived in PV.

Oh, darling, if only every American city could be Palos Verdes! One simply waves a wand, conjures several billion dollars in coastal real estate, herds out anyone who clips coupons or drives a pickup, and enforces zoning stricter than a Victorian chaperone. Geography, trade, and the working class? Mere trifles. How gauche of Detroit and Cleveland not to perch gracefully on multimillion-dollar cliffs while the help stays politely invisible. Truly, the national tragedy is that not everyone enjoys the luxury of being a gated postcard for people who’ve never balanced a checkbook. The rest of us will muddle along in our unphotogenic little lives. #moron #DumbAss

Why can’t every American city be beautiful like Palos Verdes?

@FreddyLA7 What happened to Ford?

Saying goodbye to our rental car. Thanks for the memories. You served us well.❤️

@DerekJStevens @FreddyLA7 @CircaLasVegas @USMNT @stadiumswim @LVCVA @CityOfLasVegas @VSiNLive @FSELV Freddy! Freddy! Freddy!

No trip to the States is legit w/out a trip to Las Vegas. Hey @FreddyLA7 how does this sound? I’ll send the @CircaLasVegas jet to pick you & friends up in OKC to attend our @USMNT Watch Party @stadiumswim 🇺🇸 vs 🇦🇺

Go Knicks!

@WolfofX I saw a tweet about her years ago and think of her often.

A 26-year-old Chicago real estate agent bought a box of unknown negatives at a thrift auction in 2007 for around $400. He took it home and found thousands of street photographs taken by a French-American nanny who had carried a Rolleiflex around her neck for forty years and shown her work to no one. She had lost the storage locker for unpaid rent. She died poor in 2009 not knowing her photographs were being seen. Vivian Maier is now considered one of the greatest American street photographers of the 20th century.

@candebsna @sfchronicle You are echoing my daughter’s experience. Her teachers were shocked she did not get into UCLA.

@sfchronicle My son was denied from UCLA and Berkeley 2 years ago. He had a 4.0/4.4, a 5 on AP BC ect, played basket and volleyball but was still denied. I guess they didn’t like his essay? Kinda a slap in the face for a 3rd gen CA taxpayer. His ACT was 35 superscore. Would that have helped?

More than five years after the UC system lifted its standardized testing requirement, a coalition led by UC Berkeley math professors argues the drop in students’ math levels is “severe.” sfchronicle.com/california/art…

@DannyDrinksWine @FilmTVLegends The more I read about Barbara Stanwyck the higher she climbs.

RKO had borrowed Marilyn Monroe from 20th Century Fox for Fritz Lang's "Clash by Night" (1952). In 1949, Monroe had posed for a N*de calendar. Fox had kept it under wraps, but RKO wanted to exploit that to promote the movie. They used it as PR. It was crushing Monroe who was already insecure and unstable. Barbara Stanwyck, who had posed for n*de portraits in her 20s, advised Monroe to defiantly own it and admit she did it to pay the bills. When Stanwyck was asked by the press to give an opinion on her co-star, she drolly said to the reporters, "When you have a figure like that, you don't have to act." Stanwyck also protected Monroe from Fritz Lang's constant belittling. During the filming, Monroe started arriving late on the set and couldn't function without her personal coach. Lang was so hard on Monroe that she vomited from anxiety before every scene. Her scene with Stanwyck took 26 takes, but Stanwyck didn't say a word. That put Fritz Lang in his place. Stanwyck would later admit that working with Monroe could be exasperating but there was no denying she had a magic that was obvious to everyone. ("Noir Alley", Eddie Muller, TCM) P.S: On this day, 74 years ago, "Clash by Night" (1952) had its limited release in the USA.

@SJRaphael And the embarrassment continued on national television.

#TeenTuesday 1995 - 14 yr old Ann Marie was not only embarrassed by her mother Laurie’s risque fashion choices but also by the sexy way she carried herself. So, in true Sally Show fashion, we gave her a makeover so she could cover up and still look classy. #sjr #redglasses

@GangsterCinema I worked on a movie he was in and one day at the end of production he was so out of it. The AD plopped him in the chair, shook him and keep tapping his cheeks to wake up. Stupid me I thought he was sick then someone said no it’s probably heroin. I was so angry. Lots of enablers.

At one point John Travolta was going to play Manny in Scarface, but they went with unknown actor Steven Bauer because they wanted someone who was actually Cuban. At the time, Bauer was a struggling actor being pigeonholed into becoming a soap star. He explains… "I left Hollywood because I wasn't getting really good roles, I was getting stupid roles in television, and I was like, "Fuck, I gotta get in." And I met Stella Adler, the great teacher, and she said, "Come to New York, darling, study with me. "You have to become an actor." So I went to New York. So I'm in New York for like a year, and at the end of the year, I'm starving - my agents in Hollywood think I'm absolutely nuts, and they're like, "You've gotta come home, or at least go in for a soap opera in New York, you have the right type, blah blah blah" And I'm like, "No, no, I'm not doing that." And they're like, "But you're gonna starve." And I go, "I'll deliver furniture." - So I was delivering furniture. And then on my last day, finally they come in, "We have a meeting for you. An audition for a TV movie, and maybe for another independent feature." And I go, "Okay." "So we'll get you the airfare and come home." - I go, "Okay, I'm coming home." So I'm in New York on that last day, and my manager calls me, she goes, "Wait, before you go to the airport. They're casting a movie with Al Pacino, it's called Scarface, and it's a remake of an old movie. And the second lead is a tall, handsome Cuban boy, who's fun, and that's you - It's to play his best friend." And I go, "Yeah, what shot do I have with that!?" And they go, "No, they want someone new. They want someone new." - So I go uptown… She (the casting agent) opens the door - and she goes, "Come in, come in, come in, come in. Sit down, tell me who you are. Tell me what you've done. Tell me what you're working on - You've done theater? - “Yeah”, and television? “Yes." “You speak Spanish?" - I go, "I'm Cuban." And she goes, "You're really Cuban!?" And I go, "Yeah." And she goes…“Hang on a second…" (Imitating phone dial) - Regular phone, no cell phones - “Yeah, yeah. Brian, I found your guy. Right in front on me! "I found Manny, I found Manny. I swear to God, you got to see him. Can you see him?...okay, I'll send him over” - click. She goes "Go down to - the Village on Fifth and Eighth Street. And go see Brian De Palma… I got in a cab, and there was so much traffic that I had to get out of the cab and run the rest of the way to the Village. Because I was stuck in traffic! And I was running out of money! I had no money left! So I run to meet him, and he opens the door, and he's very lackadaisical. He's very aloof, Brian. And he's like, "Mm….yeah, you look…yeah, I can see it…are you really Cuban?" I go, "Yeah, I'm really Cuban." "Can you really speak Spanish?" I go, "Yes!" And he goes... "Wait, I'm gonna call Marty Bregman. He's the producer. He's in LA." He calls Marty... "Marty, I have this kid. He's perfect…yes, he's Cuban…." He gets up and he goes, "Okay, go to LA. Go see Marty Bregman tomorrow. Go to his office. He'll give you a script, learn it, and in two weeks we'll fly you back here for auditions."…And I was like, "Fly me back? I didn't have enough, I couldn't pay my airfare…" And then I get home, and I tell my agents, and they say, "John Travolta's playing Manny." And I said, "Wait, John Travolta's playing Manny?" "Yeah." And I go, "No, no, no, no. They're telling me I have a good shot at it." And they go, "You're an idiot. And you believe everything you hear." …And they were fired, obviously (laughing). They work on Wall Street now… That’s really how it happened. I met Bregman, and Bregman said, "You're gonna do Scarface." Just like that in his office - And I said, "But, but, how do you know?" - he goes, "You're really Cuban, right?" And he goes, - "I don't want a star. I don't want a superstar. I don't want another star. I don't want a prima donna. I don't want any of that. You're gonna do Scarface.”

@LaInaMinute @EvanLovett I’m scrolling because I’m too nervous watching the Dodger game.

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