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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 12h

Miss Merman says, "Give me two doubles"

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 16h

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 16h

@kategabrielle.bsky.social has *the best* Old Hollywood merch! I've got many of her witty pins & a "PSYCHO KEELER" sweatshirt.

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 17h

"The first major film noir directed by a woman, Ida Lupino"... and look how tiny her credit is.

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 18h

Cue the music:
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Hell 2 Da Naw

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 19h

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 19h

Blue Wave during the GOP-enabled longest shutdown in U.S. history...

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 22h

"Be glad that you are here" 💙
(Extra points, on this particular morning, for being such a beautiful shade of blue)

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’

“Be glad that you are here”

Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷

📷 Corning Museum of Glass

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The Corning Museum image shows a small, rounded cup made of deep blue glass. The vessel has smooth horizontal ridges around the body, a short cycindrical neck with outsplayed rim, and a concave base. Around the middle, there is a Greek inscription in a band around the circumference (EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI) It translates as ‘be glad that you are here’. Height 7 cm, diameter (max): 8.8 cm. The cup is displayed on a flat surface against a dark background.

Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 1d

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 1d

Good catch! And if memory serves, also features the contractually obligatory Shirtless Montalban scene (thanks to a squash game).

Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 1d

Day 4 — Film Noir Ahead of its Time:
#NoirvemberChallenge
OUTRAGE (1950)
Directed, produced & cowritten by Ida Lupino, it was one of the first Hollywood films to center on a rape survivor sensitively & nonexploitatively... even though the Production Code wouldn't allow use of the word "rape".

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 1d

My husband and I went to NYC on sabbatical/temporary contracts a couple of years ago; we loved it, too... But even though both of us had offers to stay, we decided to come home to Madrid. It really is a fantastic place to live!

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 1d

I live in Madrid, where we have our own breed of owner-operated convenience stores (called "chinos"), but bodegas--a Spanish word which for us means "wine cellar"--are definitely in a class of their own. When we spent 6 months living in Harlem, we got to know all kinds of bodega subgenres; iykyk.

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 2d

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 2d

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly different, indeed! The copy of the ad indicates that they rewrote the character as originally conceived after Harlow was cast... hard to imagine Garbo doing all those little physical comedy bits, or delivering all those gleefully dirty wisecracking lines.

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 2d

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 2d

This is the one.
#NoirvemberChallenge

Noir Beach Shack ♬ 🎞 @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 5d

#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember

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Noir Beach Shack ♬ 🎞 @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 5d

#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 2d

Day 3
#NoirvemberChallenge
The Film Noir That Made You a Fan:
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Incredible directorial debut, impeccable script, iconic cinematography, perfect cast. Saw it as a student at the Orson Welles in Cambridge, Mass. (playing a drinking game in the mezzanine) & was hooked for life.

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 2d

Spooky goats are also a delight -- those little kids are having so much fun!

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting to see the phrase "the talking screen"; assuming this is 1931 (the year before RED DUST was released), it was nearing the end of the period when "GARBO TALKS!" was still a selling point. Crazy to imagine her in the Jean Harlow role!

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 2d

Asked "who was your favorite dance partner", Astaire was always a gent (of course) & ducked the question but his memoirs "Steps in Time" made it clear that he really enjoyed dancing with Hayworth, who came up on the elegant nightclub circuit rather than Broadway or ballet, so was ideal for his style

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 3d

Can we agree that of all the Muppets, Sam the Eagle is the one most likely to say "Ceteris paribus"?

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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 3d

MOTHRA HAS ENTERED THE CHAT!
This is the content I'm here for, y'all ✨️

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