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the thing i respect about social media is its intrinsic power to let me hate someone all over again for the very first time.

Michael Pennington, who played Moff Jerjerrod in Return of the Jedi, has sadly passed away at the age of 83. May the Force be with you, always.

Two Boots Pizza in the East Village is leaving its longtime corner at Avenue A and 3rd Street after lease talks stalled. Owner Phil Hartman says they’ll stay in the neighborhood, with a new location in the works. The current shop will close at the end of May. 📷 @Joy_of_photos

Happy earth day to you Happy earth day to you You woke up in an Arby’s And you’re covered in blood Please continue to enjoy Arby’s

Happy 50th Birthday to Keri Russell!

I want to be very clear about what is happening. Media and the freak left have decided that Jewish children in America are valid military targets if it helps the cause of eliminating Israel.

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Falling Down (1993)

Terribly sad about Tom Noonan passing. In casting Manhunter I auditioned about 10-15 actors in New York when Tom walked in the door and said, “I don’t want to talk. I just want to read.” He read and it was magical. We worked closely. I based Dollarhyde less on the novel’s character and more on a convicted killer whom I met and with whom I corresponded who was doing life in Vacaville. I took Tom into that world and he made it his own. It was an automatic to cast Tom in a wheelchair as Kelso in Heat. He did so much more fine work, but it was as the battered child become a killer adult - both alive in the same bottle - that projected the range and deep soul of this so acute and committed artist. Rest in peace, Tom.

H.R. Giger in 1979 wearing sunglasses he designed

BLADE RUNNER concept art by Syd Mead.

I’ve today learned that my dear friend James Van Der Beek, with whom I worked with on The Rules of Attraction, who has been a pillar of strength to me and my family during the hardest of times, passed away last night. I knew he was fighting a terrible battle with courage and compassion, and I’m blessed that we had just recently had a very philosophical and existential phone conversation. I have never known anyone else quite like him, and rarely felt so close a working connection, and my heart is broken at the loss, and my thoughts and prayers are with his wife and children. God bless you, James. I love you forever.

“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.” I read NAKED LUNCH when I was around 16 or 17 and never looked back. William Burroughs isn’t such a direct influence on my work anymore but he’s all over my first novel, METROPHAGE. Happy birthday, El Hombre Invisible.

"you want a prediction about the weather, you're asking the wrong phil. i'll give you a winter prediction: it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life."

Catherine’s knowledge of humanity was always at the center of her comedy, no matter how absurd the character or loopy the material. She could play heartless because she was warm, brainless because she was brilliant, careless because she truly cared. Everyone loved her and everyone learned from her. This is a deep loss.

Syd Mead design for TRON (1982)

Life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Syd Mead's concept for Deckard's bathroom in BLADE RUNNER.

Mayor Mamdani’s first day in office and he’s managed to get condemned by <checks notes> the U.S. Holocaust Museum.

- Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

The fucking years flip by like pages off a cheap calendar.