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LesSmarberry

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Random movie reckons. Mostly genre pictures, Gialli, French and Italian crime movies, horror from '30s-'60s. Occasionally going overboard in the Alt Text

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · Apr 15

Going to make this an ongoing thread on old TV movies, a form which I think is ripe for resurrection in the age of streaming

Starting off with 2 favorites, Murder Once Removed(1971) & Murder By Natural Causes(1979)

Both twisty thrillers featuring rich husbands, adulterous wives, & murderous lovers

A poster/VHS cover for Murder By Natural Causes. It comprises an illustration of a partially completed jigsaw of two of the movies' stars Katherine Ross & Hal Holbrook. One of the missing jigsaw pieces is vaguely gun shaped & pointing at Holbrook's temple

A poster/VHS cover for Murder Once Removed. It features a black & white image of two of the movies' stars, Richard Kiley & John Forsythe, standing side by side against a white background. They are wearing golfing attire & Kiley smokes a pipe

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 7h

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 3h

Here's a piece on 10 French Horror Films that I wrote for the BFI to celebrate their 4K UHD and digital release of Georges Franju's EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960) from 20 October
www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

10 great French horror films

From Eyes Without a Face to Raw, French horror trips the line between realism and the uncanny, and pushes into a realm of profound discomfort.

www.bfi.org.uk

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 6h

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, definitely a timing issue in part, lots of names too fresh off a long stint in gov. & most current 'party elders' uninterested or otherwise not an option

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 6h

But also, who else is there in the FG gene pool who would be doing better? Short of holding Enda at gun point to make him run

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 6h

The inventors of the VHS & Blu-ray formats awkwardly avoid your gaze

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 6h

Dunkin's serving drinkable black coffee in midtown with minimal faff band/or waiting in line, i.e. doing the Lord's work

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 7h

This is abuse! 🤣

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 7h

Used to travel to the US semi-often for work, & coffee shops couldn't cope with my name for some reason

"It's Les"
"Lee?'
"It's Les"
"Lars?"
"It's Les"
"Lew?"
"D'ya know what, it's Dave"

Which was fine, Dave got his coffee until one day...

"It's Dave"
"James?"
"Dave! DAVE! MY FAKE NAME IS DAVE!!"

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 8h

Did a talk today. Got introduced as Ryan. We had a little laugh about it, lots of apologies, etc. Then at the end of the talk, it was "Thanks for that, Roy." I actually find this very funny as it's been happening my entire life. 1/2

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 9h

Happy Birthday!

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 10h

(Adopts very very Bluesky voice)

But what does Nigel Farage have to say about it?

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 12h

Roy Marsden is one of my favourite actors, & I'm inordinately fond of his role as P.D. James's Adam Dalgliesh. But sweet mother of God as the series went on the man had some of the worst wigs ever committed to mainstream TV inflicted upon him

A screen shot from the Dalgliesh story 'Devices & Desires'. Roy Marsden walked along a deserted beach under a cloudless blue sky. The wig here (short, brushed to the side) is, in itself, not that offensive. However, when paired with the very early-90s oversized rugby shirt (in fetching red, purple & yellow stripes) that is apparently Dalgliesh's off-duty attire, it contributes to an essentially cursed image

A shot from the Adam Dalgliesh Chronicles. Roy Marsden stands on a boat in front of a body of water, wearing a navy blue grandfather shirt. A hairpiece resembling a soft bristled broom has been affixed to his head

In another piece of evidence that we live in an essentially merciless universe, the photo appears to have been taken on a particularly windy day

DVD cover for the Adam Dalgliesh Chronicles series boxset, featuring Roy Marsden in a black suit & tie superimposed over an image of a windmill.

He sports a hairpiece which resembles a brillo pad glued aggressively tight to his head, presaging the 'I didn't get hair-plugs, don't let anyone say I got hair plugs!' phenomena of unnaturally even hairlines associated with hair transplants

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

Citizen Smith would do numbers on here

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

TBH I don't even think it will

When "We're in favour of nice things (self- defined) & not in favour of not nice things (also self-defined)" is the sum total of your politics you don't have to sweat the details

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

Populists I agree with: Brave, honest, principled...

Populists I disagree with: [endless screaming]

There's a very weird idea that seems to be developing in real time of Presidency as a separate centre of power that exists to be captured

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

My main concern re the current President & his potential successor though has always been that if, in 7 or 14 years time, a right-wing populist got in & tried to ignore constitutional limits, then they would have legitimate precedents they could point to for doing so

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

I *think* Gov would try & take same tack as they have done to date, & just do their best to ignore some of the statements from the Áras. Whether that continues to be viable, yeah who knows

1st bit of controversial legislation that gets sent for signature? Again, not confident about the outcome

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

I think that's fair in substance but at the same time I think the only reason Connolly is a viable candidate at all is because he decided to interpret the constitutional limits of the office to his own liking, & a lot of people were fine with that because he's a good leftie

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 1d

Think they think she's Michael D 2.0

Wait, wouldn't that mean that Michael D also.......

a pikachu with a surprised look on his face .

Alt: a pikachu with a surprised look on his face .

media.tenor.com

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 2d

I remain outraged 🤣

Yeah the footage of The Beatles playing in Dublin is 'how was no one killed?' levels of insane

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 2d

Post was circulating last week re a sports field being torn up due to complaints from householders, & responses included 'they should be publicly shamed!'

My brother in Christ, their names are public, as the applicants to tear up a kids' sports field. Why exactly do you think they *can* be shamed?

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 2d

And performative too.

So you think people lodging objections to housing are arseholes

Ok, but can we legislate our way out of them being arseholes, or should we focus on things like planning courts to speed up the process or expect applications that are arsehole proof (comply with planning rules)

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 2d

I was outraged when I found out (as a teenager) that The Stones regularly stayed in my locality when they were in Ireland

'Here? The Rolling Stones came here? Why is everything so boring here then?'

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 2d

At the premiere of the restored version of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), I was on a panel discussion with Lucy Bolton, Wayne Drew, Melvyn Hayes, Mike Muncer and David Pirie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFcw...

Exclusive Q&A from The Curse of Frankenstein Premiere Behind the Scenes with Hammer Experts

YouTube video by Hammer

www.youtube.com

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LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d

Hard Times. And not the good Dusty Rhodes Hard Times

Fuck You Dickens

a man in a suit and tie is talking into a microphone with the words thats hard times above him

Alt: Dusty Rhodes delivers his iconic 'Hard Times' promo

media.tenor.com

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