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Eddie Selover

@eddieselover.bsky.social

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VP of Comms, executive coach, TED speaker. I write about storytelling, spiritual adventuring, politics, and movies. My biography of Basil Rathbone coming next year from UPK. ♊️🦄🍸

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 1h

I have always loved this movie, which on paper has very little going for it but still captures lightning in a bottle, so to speak. This and The Mad Ghoul are Universal's best horror films of the 40s in my opinion, better than some showier names.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 2h

Nice, ending with the money shot.

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 14h

He's NSFW

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 18h

Almost like a tiara, if that wasn't something nobody ever heard of.

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 20h

Also yes, as you say, really weird!

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, me me, I'll take this one:

Because you're old and obese and bald, and we hate you!

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 20h

Wow, gorgeous. Thanks for sharing this.

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 1d

Wow

paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 1d

Can I interest you in a bridge?

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since I first learned about Giovanni da Verrazzano, it's befuddled me why he wasn't chosen as the Italian explorer the USA celebrates. He has a cooler name, actually explored what would become New York, and, by all accounts, didn't commit genocide.

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 1d

Oh you know I will.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Be there. Saturday, October 18th.
www.nokings.org

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

More than a decade ago, I sat down with @marcmaron.bsky.social in his garage to tape something new called a podcast. This time, he came to me to record his last episode.

We talked about the power of conviction, decency in an age of division, and the true story of America.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 1d

"A few days ago the world was a place that included Diane Keaton. Now it’s a world that does not. Hence, it’s a drearier world."

Woody Allen, from a sweet, loving tribute in The Free Press. It's clear, as he said in ANNIE HALL, that he "lerved" her a lot.

www.thefp.com/p/woody-alle...

Woody Allen Remembers Diane Keaton

In The Free Press, Woody Allen remembers Diane Keaton. “When we first met,” he writes, “I thought she was so charming, so beautiful, so magical, that I thought: Was it possible to fall in love so quic...

www.thefp.com

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 2d

Antifa never looked better.

teamrickandilsa.bsky.social @teamrickandilsa.bsky.social · 2d

#Notorious #TCMParty

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 2d

Right, she defended him ("relentlessly"? really?) because he DIDN'T marry his adopted daughter and DIDN'T assault his other daughter.

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't seen anyone mention Diane Keaton's remarkable performance as a self-involved pseudo intellectual in MANHATTAN (yeah I know why). But this is Woody Allen's best film, and a great example of Keaton playing a character who switches between light and dark.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 2d

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton
1946 - 2025

What a great actor. Reds, The Godfather, Shoot the Moon, Looking for Mr Goodbar, Crimes of the Heart, Interiors, Play it Again, Sam...

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair, 2016

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely! The whole thing hangs on Kerr and she's magnificent. Redgrave is too, setting everything up at the start.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 3d

It has been restored, and the restored version was on the criterion channel for a couple of months. It looked incredible.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 3d

A gorgeous performance in a heartbreaking movie.

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 3d

See Shoot the Moon and Mrs. Soffel asap. She's phenomenal in both.

And yes to the rest of this. 💔

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, and she demonstrated the same fearless lack of vanity in two other masterpieces: Shoot the Moon and Mrs. Soffel.

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 3d

Ugh.

Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 3d

Certain celebrity deaths are harder to process than others because the person in question was so full of life and creativity and originality that you just assume it's never going to end.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 3d

I was privileged to cohabit with Bertie, the world's smartest and sweetest dog, for 15 years. And for 17 years before that, with Leo, a pirate prince among cats. I've loved few people as much as I loved these two gentlemen.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 3d

This is Diego blessing Mother Aya at a ceremony in Pisac, 12 years ago. I'd been near the edge a few times before, but this was the first time I strode right toward it, unafraid. Just as the universe can be seen in another person's eye, so the Goddess may be found inside a two-liter plastic bottle.