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Robert Shields @rshields37.bsky.social · Nov 29

Today’s mood.

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Robert Shields @rshields37.bsky.social · 8h

-30- to my Tuesday and good night from the boys. Please be kind and be safe.

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 22h

Oct 14th - Cocaine using, hungover airline pilot, Captain Whip Whitaker awakes during a mid-flight nap to find his plane going into a steep dive. Unable to regain control, he inverts the plane, before correcting it and making a controlled crash landing.

📽️📅 Flight (2012)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Flight" (2012): First, an airplane is captured in mid-flight against a cloudy sky flying upside down. Second, a woman in a red blazer stands at a podium in a conference room, with a large screen behind her displaying a man speaking; the subtitle reads "Friday, October 14th." Third, the same woman is visible at the podium, with the subtitle reading "did you consume any alcohol or ingest any chemicals or drugs."

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Robert Shields @rshields37.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers: back page edition.

Robert Shields @rshields37.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

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Robert Shields @rshields37.bsky.social · Nov 29

Today’s mood.

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Robert Shields @rshields37.bsky.social · 1d

-30- to my Monday and good night from the boys. Please be kind and be safe.

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Robert Shields @rshields37.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile on that slender riotous island ...

Floral Park man on a quest to visit all 126 LIRR stations

He has made it to 110 of the LIRR's 126 stations, most recently crossing Deer Park and Brentwood off his list.

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 2d

The Frank Rosenthal Show, August 27, 1977, with guest Frank Sinatra, taped live at the Stardust.

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 2d

Based on The Madwoman of Chaillot by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, as adapted by Maurice Valency, the plot follows the eccentric Countess Aurelia and her struggles against the straitlaced authority figures in her life.

Angela Lansbury won the Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical in 1969.

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 2d

1970

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 1d

Oct. 13, 1925: Lenny Bruce, the standup comedian whose daring, irreverent and expletive-laced commentary brought him numerous arrests, is born (as Leonard Schneider) in Mineola, N.Y. After his death at age 40 his esteem as a social satirist and free-speech fighter grew.