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Jeremy Smith

@mrbeaks.bsky.social

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Freelance entertainment journalist. Credits: /Film, AV Club, Fangoria, New York Magazine, Polygon, Salt Lake Magazine, Thrillist, Variety, Yardbarker and so much more! Cleveland Cavaliers Fan/Sufferer. I've been to Prague.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 5d

Once again, I implore my fellow journalists to stop calling WATERWORLD a flop.

Kevin Costner's Most Infamous Box Office 'Flop' Wasn't The Disaster People Think It Is - SlashFilm

Waterworld is often referred to as a massive box office flop that kicked off Kevin Costner's fall from commercial grace, but the truth is more complicated.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1h

Drew Struzan's movie poster for Joe Ruben's DREAMSCAPE.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote about Drew Struzan, a beautiful dreamer.

Drew Struzan, The Greatest Movie Poster Artist Of All Time, Has Died At 78 - SlashFilm

Drew Struzan, a titan in the world of illustration and movie poster art, has passed away. If you have a favorite movie poster, he's probably responsible for it.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1h

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health

Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 5h

I was in the audience for this. Only time I got to see the man perform. He was a god.

BET 2012 - D'Angelo

YouTube video by RW - Black Music

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you for your service.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 23h

It bothers me because I try very hard not to be a pest with my contacts, but this motherfucker operates with impunity. I try to be polite and deliver interviews that I'd want to read if I were a 16-year-old kid. This is evidently anathema.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 23h

I know someone who had to drive to his place to pick up a check. He greeted her at the front door with his dick dangling out of his robe.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you, BJ. But I think we can both agree that the Hardy Boys should've fucked more.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Dreiser's SISTER CARRIE and AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. These are not pleasant reads, but the prose and profound level of detail will make you want to write carefully and empathetically.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a writer, read outside the genre you write in, and read old stuff. Partly this expands your horizons but mostly it gives you stuff to rip off without anyone noticing.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

It would probably a good thing for *every single elected Democrat* to reiterate this. Ditto liberal celebrities. They need to show up, too.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Faicco's The Italian Special Sandwich — Faicco's Italian Specialties on Bleecker St. in Greenwich Village.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

This is a bummer. Interviewed Keira several times, and she was so refreshingly candid. This is rehearsed bullshit. As with the comics who performed in Riyadh, just say you straight-up did the gig for the cash.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Probably unrelated. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Not me, evidently!

An image of a Bluesky post that upset Jaime from a user who I have either blocked or been blocked by.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Have they ever covered DeBarge?

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

The Lions' window is closing. Spend the draft capital and make it happen.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Go get Myles. I want him in Minnesota, but he needs the fuck out of Cleveland.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

1984 and 1989 were my years.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Came out the same day as GREMLINS 2. I'l give you one big guess as to which one I saw first.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

It's a beautifully crafted film. Vittorio Storaro behind the camera. Tracy is an aging detective who resists a sexual nuclear bomb in Breathless Mahoney. It's Beatty realizing he'd rather be a dorky dad than a movie star. God, I love this film.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

And, y'know, these reporters are all her fucking friends.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

I just can't accept that Diane Keaton is gone.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Accepting necessary hierarchy requires trust, and also LEADERSHIP-- and we don't have it. This is not sustainable. I hope a Next Step happens in these valorous, loving, courageous nascent communities we are building.

Which is happening. I see history getting made. We shall overcome.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

It feels like such a mild infraction nowadays. I became a Vikings fan after Haslam, a ghoul, signed Watson.

I promise I'll stop bothering you, but have you seen ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER? Your shows generally acknowledged the existence of guardrails, but they're gone now. Where to from here?

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