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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1h

Quick question: If the Republicans are right, and someone is paying millions and millions of us to protest, and has done it hundreds of other times, and they STILL can't figure out who's funding us, aren't they way too stupid to hold office?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13h

Here's Diane Keaton at Warren Beatty's AFI tribute, talking about a perfect (no exaggeration) scene in Reds--taking the mystique out of filmmaking and then putting it right back in, in just two minutes. She was exquisite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_RS...

Diane Keaton on making REDS with Warren Beatty

YouTube video by American Film Institute

www.youtube.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17h

Even a stopped clock, etc.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21h

Need something to reboot your Sunday?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E81c...

Joan Jett Mary Tyler Moore Theme (LOVE IS ALL AROUND)

YouTube video by Silver Eagle Audio

www.youtube.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21h

"...an even better finish!" That's where you were going, right? RIGHT?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22h

"So...I read it."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 23h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

I followed up Shoot the Moon with the first half of Reds, a movie that I loved the first time I saw it and have loved on every revisiting. To bed now, savoring one of the great Act I curtains in cinema history, the hat on the chandelier. Solidarity to all who did the same tonight. Part 2 tomorrow!

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

There's a stretch of late-'70s/early-'80s movies--An Unmarried Woman, Interiors, Kramer Vs. Kramer, Starting Over, Shoot the Moon--in which male screenwriters and directors attempted to reckon with divorce as a kind of national trauma. Shoot the Moon feels like one of the most personal.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight I watched a Diane Keaton movie I hadn't seen in decades, Shoot the Moon (easily rentable on various services). She's so remarkable as a mother of four watching her marriage break up--she goes from crushed to liberated to uncertain to furious to resolute in a completely idiosyncratic way.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

If HBO Max aired Tilda on a double bill with The Miraculous Year, their 2010 pilot about a Sondheim-like Broadway composer, with Kathryn Bigelow directing Norbert Leo Butz, Frank Langella, Hope Davis, and Patti LuPone, it would be the most 🏳️‍🌈 event of the TV year.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

By the way: Isn't it time somebody released (or leaked) Tilda, the HBO pilot that starred Diane Keaton as a Nikki Finke-like gossip columnist? Also with, I believe, Elliot Page, Wes Bentley, Jason Patric, Sanaa Lathan. 2011, many cooks inc. Bill Condon, at least two versions.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

I don't argue with anyone who won't watch a Woody Allen movie; it's a personal choice, different for everyone. But Diane Keaton is a big reason I almost never say "[Movie X] is dead to me." My argument isn't "Separate the artist from the art"; it's that movies are never just one person's legacy.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

This is so smart and dead-on. The contrast with SVU (which I would argue still has vigor and cast chemistry and story energy and a POV) is striking. I would love to see what a team of writer-producers who get what made the old episodes work and are not Dick Wolf lifers could do with the show.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

The way he ACCELERATES toward that hole. Sherman is living his best life.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 3d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus" might be the most astounding seven words any NYC mayoral candidate has ever spoken.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 3d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

It's true! Springsteen and Dylan have biopics! Where is Cash's biopic? I mean yes, there is a very famous one and it won an Academy Award but nevertheless, my point stands, notwithstanding the fact that it does not, is what I'm trying to say.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 3d

wtaf are you talking about

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

This administration is a dull-minded, paranoid, gullible old man surrounded by twenty cranks, thousand-year-reich zealots, and single-issue lunatics, all with phones, running around saying, "Show him this! He'll like this! Make sure he sees this!"

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

This is accurate. "I will never change my mind about anything and will reject as false any information that might cause me to" is a core part of MAGA identity.

brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 3d

Legit don’t think there’s anything Trump could do to drop below like 39-40% approval.

He could crash the economy AND have the military shooting people in the streets and he’d still poll at like 39.9% lol

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 4d

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

One good rule for a veteran writer: Break your own rules ruthlessly. I don't do profiles and rarely write about theater, so when T asked me to do a deep dive into the life & work of David Henry Hwang, naturally I said yes! Huge thanks to DHH for his time and openness. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...

How David Henry Hwang Remade Theater in His Own Image

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

When was the last time Trump was interviewed solo on-camera by a non-servile journalist? Because it's starting to feel like that may not happen again. The risk of him being publicly challenged about factual basic information--like, "Portland is not burning"--is too great for his handlers to permit.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

I'm going with Hallowe'en, because the later films do every bad thing that a franchise can do: Reiterate the original, add unnecessary backstory, undercut the first film with new mythology, go backwards, leap forwards, retcon, cut all ties to the original, re-establish those ties...Burn 'em all.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 5d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

He's so cognitively garbled that I can't guess what he means at the end, when he says freedom of speech "is always something I felt strongly about, but it never passed the courts."

At this point, it's important for Democratic politicians to raise questions about his brain function every single day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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