C. Christopher Hart
@cchinoregon.bsky.social
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this... Oregon! Creator, writer, and actor on podcast audio drama Exoplanetary. 26th Century style icon. Dog and Cat person. {he/him}
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The Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Blu-Ray has his audition tape. He does two takes, one with a single snort, the other with more snorting than is reasonable. Brilliant gambit.
Dylan Baker is a sweet & humble man beloved by all he meets
Sometimes actors typecast as dead-eyed sociopaths are the loveliest people you'll ever meet and sometimes they are Kevin Spacey.
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Blu-Ray has his audition tape. He does two takes, one with a single snort, the other with more snorting than is reasonable. Brilliant gambit.
Still unparalleled.
House of Cards - Part Four (9th December 1990). "Oh Mattie, it gives me such pain to say this, but I don't believe you. I don't believe I can trust you".
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Still unparalleled.
When KILL BILL VOL 1 came out, I found it action packed and delightful. Then I was disappointed with VOL 2. Gave it another chance on DVD, had the same reaction. Not going to sacrifice an afternoon to watch it all pasted together.
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When KILL BILL VOL 1 came out, I found it action packed and delightful. Then I was disappointed with VOL 2. Gave it another chance on DVD, had the same reaction. Not going to sacrifice an afternoon to watch it all pasted together.
You have to think that will be it, though, right? The late night talk show is like the prime time variety show at this point.
Jimmy Kimmel informed employees on Monday that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” had been renewed for another year, extending the show through May 2027, according to two people familiar with his remarks.
Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC Deal Is Extended Through May 2027
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” became a flashpoint about free speech in the country after it was temporarily suspended this year.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
You have to think that will be it, though, right? The late night talk show is like the prime time variety show at this point.
I only follow dead celebrities. Read the Paul Myers John Candy book and following it up with Brian Jay Jones' Jim Henson book.
December 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I only follow dead celebrities. Read the Paul Myers John Candy book and following it up with Brian Jay Jones' Jim Henson book.
Oliver Queen: Golfs regularly with Bill Murray
Barry Allen: Hiding in Canada after exposure of his cult
Diana Prince: Running Italian resort with Cynthia Erivo and Etta Candy
Hal Jordan: Slipped on soap; still unconscious
Bruce Wayne: Joining the Netflix board
Clark Kent: Substack
Barry Allen: Hiding in Canada after exposure of his cult
Diana Prince: Running Italian resort with Cynthia Erivo and Etta Candy
Hal Jordan: Slipped on soap; still unconscious
Bruce Wayne: Joining the Netflix board
Clark Kent: Substack
Bugs Bunny - lives in Palm Springs/Berlin
Elmer - dead, shotgun 'accident'
Porky - imprisoned for animal liberation terrorism
Daffy - theatre critic substack
Foghorn - Braves front office
Yosemite Sam - magistrate, Borden County, TX
Pepé - writing biog of Leonard Cohen
Elmer - dead, shotgun 'accident'
Porky - imprisoned for animal liberation terrorism
Daffy - theatre critic substack
Foghorn - Braves front office
Yosemite Sam - magistrate, Borden County, TX
Pepé - writing biog of Leonard Cohen
remembering from my youth how "Time Warner" seemed like the embodiment of massive corporate American business power, like the Empire State building of companies. And look it now, scattered in pieces, diminishing more with each sale. "oh, how they come and go," as Nick Drake sang.
December 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Oliver Queen: Golfs regularly with Bill Murray
Barry Allen: Hiding in Canada after exposure of his cult
Diana Prince: Running Italian resort with Cynthia Erivo and Etta Candy
Hal Jordan: Slipped on soap; still unconscious
Bruce Wayne: Joining the Netflix board
Clark Kent: Substack
Barry Allen: Hiding in Canada after exposure of his cult
Diana Prince: Running Italian resort with Cynthia Erivo and Etta Candy
Hal Jordan: Slipped on soap; still unconscious
Bruce Wayne: Joining the Netflix board
Clark Kent: Substack
The better question was, "Why are there no black people on Friends?" The answer is, of course, "The black characters were on Living Single, the much funnier show that Friends plagiarized."
It's a show about American capitalism - the people who built it & drove it to its peak. To put Black people (for example) at the center of that would be a lie. They're in its orbit. Some, like Dawn, get closer than most. But it's a system designed to exploit them at the margins, so they stay there.
People talk a lot about the kinds of people not depicted on MAD MEN, how they're invisible or peripheral, but the show is about conformity, and those who choose it again and again through inaction or fear. Every absence is intentional.
December 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The better question was, "Why are there no black people on Friends?" The answer is, of course, "The black characters were on Living Single, the much funnier show that Friends plagiarized."
Friends.
Yeah, but you do have to call certain things evil, & it's not always obvious.
Swastika = evil
Kink = never evil for consenting adults
Popular art that encourages conformity, lazy thinking, creative parasitism, the notion that money equals success = evil, no matter how many people claim otherwise
Swastika = evil
Kink = never evil for consenting adults
Popular art that encourages conformity, lazy thinking, creative parasitism, the notion that money equals success = evil, no matter how many people claim otherwise
i think the inability to tell the difference between "i don't like it" and "i don't like it so i have to figure out a way to imply this thing i don't like is morally evil" is the most fundie thing i see people who are aren't technically fundie regularly do these days
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Friends.
Sort of like new music. Plenty of new music. Like some of it. Most of it is not for me.
This is totally true of me, too. I suspect it has something to do with me getting older. The new things that hit will also not be for me.
I will fully cop to being a “no cultural impact” guy who thought the sequels would be a disaster. But when the second went through the roof years later, I had to admit the more pedestrian truth that (while acknowledging the astonishing technical achievement) they’re just not for me.
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Sort of like new music. Plenty of new music. Like some of it. Most of it is not for me.
This is totally true of me, too. I suspect it has something to do with me getting older. The new things that hit will also not be for me.
I will fully cop to being a “no cultural impact” guy who thought the sequels would be a disaster. But when the second went through the roof years later, I had to admit the more pedestrian truth that (while acknowledging the astonishing technical achievement) they’re just not for me.
Still in use years after part 2 made $2.343 billion.
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is totally true of me, too. I suspect it has something to do with me getting older. The new things that hit will also not be for me.
Definitely happened. Clearly they made up.
Possibly apocryphal, but true in spirit: Spielberg offers Stoppard work on Jaws. Stoppard says no, sorry, I owe a play to the BBC. Spielberg says,
- Are you sure?, lot of money!
- Yeah, no, I owe them.
- Ah, well... when's it on TV?
- It's for radio.
@csvich.bsky.social
- Are you sure?, lot of money!
- Yeah, no, I owe them.
- Ah, well... when's it on TV?
- It's for radio.
@csvich.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Definitely happened. Clearly they made up.
Sentimental Value is that rare film that deals with deeply complex, troubling issues, yet earns an unexpected ending. A genuine, warm work of art.
🚨| Tráiler de #SentimentalValue, dirigida por Joachim Trier.
- Protagonizada por #RenateReinsve, #IngaIbsdotterLilleaas, #StellanSkarsgård, #ElleFanning y #CoryMichaelSmith.
- Protagonizada por #RenateReinsve, #IngaIbsdotterLilleaas, #StellanSkarsgård, #ElleFanning y #CoryMichaelSmith.
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Sentimental Value is that rare film that deals with deeply complex, troubling issues, yet earns an unexpected ending. A genuine, warm work of art.
Me too, Bones.
December 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Me too, Bones.
The cat was the greatest part of Caught Stealing, a film I enjoyed. At a certain point in the film, I leaned to my partner and said, "I'm disappointed he didn't turn into Peter Capaldi this time." 🤔😅😔
According to Darren Aronofsky, the cat in Caught Stealing, called Tonic, is one of the best actors he's worked with. Tonic would always give them what they needed or respond to the scene in ways that made it better 🤔
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The cat was the greatest part of Caught Stealing, a film I enjoyed. At a certain point in the film, I leaned to my partner and said, "I'm disappointed he didn't turn into Peter Capaldi this time." 🤔😅😔
It's certainly not me.
We like what we like & respect where it's due, but if you ask me the criteria for World's Greatest Playwright is 'Who has pushed the form most?' While Beckett was alive it was Beckett, then it was Pinter, & since his death it's been Caryl Churchill.
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It's certainly not me.
In an act of deep-cut revenge, Heathcliff played Garfield. Such a bitter cat...
Gumby's film LASAGNA: A BRENTWOOD STORY - in which Garfield is reportedly tried, convicted, & put to death for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson - has been suppressed by legal troubles since 1997
November 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
In an act of deep-cut revenge, Heathcliff played Garfield. Such a bitter cat...
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Dennis Potter won't say no to Dr Who (Daily Herald, 30th November 1963)
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Dennis Potter won't say no to Dr Who (Daily Herald, 30th November 1963)
A screening of The Muppet Movie this afternoon. It remains a charming, lovely family offering, but it's also Henson's peak achievement. That final shot with every Muppet is a triumphant moment.
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A screening of The Muppet Movie this afternoon. It remains a charming, lovely family offering, but it's also Henson's peak achievement. That final shot with every Muppet is a triumphant moment.
I love Michael McKean, but it's kind of a shame Edie didn't get higher billing. Also, using Kevin Bacon & William Windom & giving them no lines is a Big Move. I think a person could watch the whole film with the sound off & get all of the story right, including most of Del's secret. It's that good.
Edie McClurg improvised the phone call. You know the one. Steve Martin’s speech was written, hers wasn’t. Hughes told her to make Thanksgiving plans. He was stunned how perfect it was & asked her how she did it. She said, ‘I do what you do, I take from my life.’
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I love Michael McKean, but it's kind of a shame Edie didn't get higher billing. Also, using Kevin Bacon & William Windom & giving them no lines is a Big Move. I think a person could watch the whole film with the sound off & get all of the story right, including most of Del's secret. It's that good.
Reading the Candy bio by @pulmyears.bsky.social Del was very toned down in the edit. It's worth noting that PT&A was edited by Paul Hirsch, who came up with DePalma, and edited Star Wars with Marcia Lucas. The edit is perfection and a big reason people will love that film forever.
Remember, Planes, Trains & Automobiles closed with a long speech by Del about his dead wife. It's right they cut it. The movie works better putting it in our imagination. The footage may or may not still exist. It wasn't released with the remaster. You can read it.. but still, can you imagine?
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reading the Candy bio by @pulmyears.bsky.social Del was very toned down in the edit. It's worth noting that PT&A was edited by Paul Hirsch, who came up with DePalma, and edited Star Wars with Marcia Lucas. The edit is perfection and a big reason people will love that film forever.
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Today is the birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. (Nov. 26, 1922-Feb. 12, 2000.)
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Today is the birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. (Nov. 26, 1922-Feb. 12, 2000.)
The one everyone wants to see will be part of the Christmas 2026 special. You don't make soup of the good bits.
The BBC released deleted scenes from the Disney+ era Doctor Who Season 2. Unfortunately, the one everyone wants to see isn't one of them... / #DoctorWho #NcutiGatwa #VaradaSethu #MillieGibson
The BBC released deleted scenes from the Disney+ era Doctor Who Season 2. Unfortunately, the one everyone wants to see isn't one of them... / #DoctorWho #NcutiGatwa #VaradaSethu #MillieGibson
The BBC released deleted scenes from the Disney+ era Doctor Who Season 2. Unfortunately, the one everyone wants to see isn't one of them...
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The one everyone wants to see will be part of the Christmas 2026 special. You don't make soup of the good bits.
Dick Van Dyke, everything about him, is a one-off. He learned by watching others, but he wasn't taught by those people. A star is natural, honest, and totally themselves.
I got a free ticket to the Mary Poppins musical when it came out. I liked it fine. Richard Eyre did it, & it uses a lot of old-time theatrical tricks. I forget who played Bert, I smiled, but this man was a trained dancer & he wasn't a drop on DVD, who TAUGHT HIMSELF TO DANCE & is just beautiful.
Mary Poppins came out when I was three. Those were the first British accents I ever heard. DVD’s will always be the gold standard for me of how to do it.
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Dick Van Dyke, everything about him, is a one-off. He learned by watching others, but he wasn't taught by those people. A star is natural, honest, and totally themselves.
It's his only remaining path.
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's his only remaining path.
You can feel ancient, too.
Whenever I want to feel old, I look up how many guests of the Muppet Show have died.
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
You can feel ancient, too.